geraint@uk.ac.oxford.prg (Geraint Jones) (08/08/88)
The next meeting of the oug will take place at the Boldrewood Medical Centre of the University of Southampton. Accommodation for those who require it will be provided at the Glen Eyre Hall of residence. Glen Eyre is approximately ten minutes walk from the Boldrewood Centre. The meeting starts at 11:00 on Monday the 19th September 1988 and finishes at 15:30 on Wednesday the 21st September. Special Interest Group meeting have been arranged for both Monday morning before the meeting itself and Tuesday evening, after dinner. There will be extensive facilities for demonstrations, exhibitions and book stalls. There will be a conference dinner on the Monday evening. Registration will take place on Monday morning from 9:00 until 11:00. The first set of SIG meetings will take place at 9:00 to 10:30. Delegates wishing to attend the SIG meetings on Monday morning, or those who have a long way to travel, may wish to stay overnight on Sunday. Registration on Sunday will be possible at the Hall of Residence. A provisional programme is shown below: Monday morning SIGS: UNIX, Formal methods, Networks, Numerical Methods, Hardware Tuesday evening SIGS: AI, Learning, Graphics, Operating systems The provisional list of papers to be presented is: A Concurrent Approach to the Towers of Hanoi W D Crowe, P E D Strain-Clark Fast Prototyping of Architectural Designs using Transputers D Skillicorn The meaning and implementation of PRI ALT in occam G Barrett, G Jones, M Goldsmith, A Kay Virtual Memory Management for the Transputer P J Bakkes Simulation of Gas Pipeline Networks M Patel, P Bentley, C Hughes CDL A Distribution langage for HELIOS C H R Grimsdale The Retention of occam Semantics by Dynamic Switching on Multi-Transputer Machines P Jones GECKO: A graphical Tool for the modelling and manipulation of occam software and transputer hardware topologies M Stephenson, O Boudilet Randomised Routing: "Hot Potato" Simulations X M Qiang, S Turner The Computing Tower: a supercomputer for Real-Time simulation of Continuous systems P Van Rentergem Mapping a Process Network onto a Processor Network F C M Lau, K M Shea The Application fo Transputer and occam to an Industrial Energy Control System A Sinclair A State-of-the-Art Radar Pulse DeterLeaver S P Turner, R D Beton A preprocessor to augment the description of occam processes H Ohara, H Iizuka An extension to the Processor Farm using a Tree Architecture S A Green, D J Paddon An occam2 Implementation of Prolog and its Preliminary Performance K Zhang Techniques for Rendering Solid Objects on an INMOS Transputer Array P Dew, N Holliman, D Morris, A de Pennington A prototype simulator output movie system based on parallel processor technology N Charmichael, D Hewson, D van der Vorst There will also be a panel session and a user group business session. The meeting will be closed by an INMOS management update given by Peter Cavill, Director Microsystems Products. It is anticipated that attendees will receive a copy of the proceedings of the meeting at registration. The non-residential option for registration is aimed at those delegates who wish to travel daily to the meeting. This does not include eveining meals or the conference dinner. The number of people attending the conference has been restricted to a maximum of 300 residents and 50 non-residents. Places will be allocated in order of receipt of the booking form. THE DEADLINE FOR BOOKING IS WEDNESDAY THE 31st AUGUST. There is car parking space at both Boldrewood and Glen Eyre. A map of the area including directions will be sent with the registration confirmation letter. There will also be a free bus shuttle service to/from the Central Station, on Sunday evening, Monday morning, and Wednesday afternoon, for those who wish to travel by train. Please complete the booking form below and return it to The Administrator OUG TM9 Transputer Support Centre Unit 2 Chilworth Research Centre Southampton SO1 7NP United Kingdom together with your remittance. Payment should be in the form of a cheque drawn in sterling and made payable to THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON. If you require to be invoiced, please tick the relevant box. Non United Kingdom attendees MUST pay by means of a cheque or money order made out in sterling. All prices include Value Added Tax. All bookings will be confirmed in writing, together with detailed travel arrangements. Enquiries should be addressed to the staff of the Transputer Support Centre, Telephone 0703 760834 (international +44 703 760834). Please tick the relevant boxes, tear off and return. If you wish to set up a demonstration, please tick the box and you will be sent the details. (Prices shown in pounds sterling.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To be returned before 31 August 1988 Name: Non Residential [ ] L30 Residential [ ] L85 Address: Sunday dinner [ ] L 6 Sunday night [ ] L14 Cheque enclosed payable to THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON for L_____ OR I enclose a purchase order; please invoice me [ ] Special dietary needs; details specified on a separate sheet [ ] Tick here to be sent details on setting up demonstrations [ ] Signature Date