gupta@prlhp1.prl.philips.co.uk (Ashok Gupta) (09/20/90)
HIGH PERFORMANCE
AND
PARALLEL COMPUTING
IN LISP
Nov 12-13 1990
Twickenham, U.K.
A EUROPAL Workshop
Sponsored by
The British Computer Society Parallel Processing Specialist Group
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Production quality Lisp systems are fast approaching the performance levels of
applications developed in the more mainstream languages. Implementations of
Lisp span the spectrum of available hardware platforms - from p.c.'s to
workstations & dedicated Lisp machines through to multi-processor, parallel
computers.
This conference brings together
researchers working on developments in compiler technology,
hardware design, systems and algorithms
users of high performance Lisp systems in research & industry
and vendors of high performance Lisp systems and applications.
The programme has a truly international flavour with submissions from USA,
Japan, U.K., Germany, France, Israel & South East Asia, and consists of keynote
and invited speakers, contributed papers and a panel session.
Hear about parallel Lisps for a range of SIMD & MIMD architectures including
environments and applications on the Connection Machine, Transputer arrays,
the new 256 processor EDS machine being developed under ESPRIT-II, and more.
Topics covered also include models for parallel computation (Linda and Timewarp)
and their implementation, concurrent OOP, automatic partitioning of Lisp code
for concurrent execution and parallel debugging.
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Keynote Address
Ten Ideas
Richard Gabriel (Lucid Inc. & Stanford Univ., USA)
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Session 1 - Distributed Systems
Parallel Lisp for a Distributed Memory Machine
C. Hammer and T. Henties (Siemens AG, W. Germany)
Sharing Data Structures in a Distributed Lisp
J. Piquer (Ecole Polytechnique - INRIA, France)
Experiences with Lisp and Distributed Systems
David DeRoure (Univ. of Southampton, UK)
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Session 2 - Shared Memory Systems
SYMPAL and its Optimising Compiler
Yariv Aridor & Dr. Shimon Cohen (Tel-Aviv University, Israel)
Scheme-Linda for the Meiko & Symmetry
Ulf Dahlen (Univ. of Linkoping, Sweden)
&
Neil MacDonald (Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre, UK)
- Title to follow -
Kelly Murray (Top Level Inc., USA)
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Session 3 - Implementations & Delivery
Generation Scavenging GC on Distributed-Memory Parallel computers
Hanpei Koike and Hidehiko Tanaka (University of Tokyo, Japan)
The Future of Futures (or, How Futures Can Be Implemented Efficiently
on Stock Hardware)
M. Radlhammer (Siemens AG, W. Germany)
Linda Meets Lisp
D. Hutchinson (U. Bath, UK)
Delphi: A Toolkit for Debugging of Parallel Lisp Programs
H. Ilmberger and Dr. S. Thuermel (Siemens AG, W. Germany)
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Session 4
PolyScheme - Semantics for a Concurrent Scheme
C. Queinnec (Ecole Polytechnique - INRIA, France)
Automatic Partioning for Concurrent Execution
S. Kalogeropulos (U. Bath, UK)
A Data Driven, Direct Execution Architecture for a Parallel Lisp Dialect
W.F. Wong et. al (National University of Singapore)
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Panel Discussion
How Can Parallel Lisp Succeed in the Market-Place ?
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Session 6 - Models for Parallel Computing
Implementing Timewarp Using Lisp and Linda
D. Hutchinson & J. Fitch (U. Bath, UK)
Concurrent Object Oriented Programming in Lisp
J. Padget, R. Bradford & J. Fitch (U. Bath, UK)
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Session 7 - Applications
PARKA : An A.I. Application on the Connection Machine
Matthew Evett & James Hendler (UMCP, USA)
Parallelising an Expert System Application
Jim Aragones & Benjamin Zorn (Boulder, Colorado)
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Closing Address
What Price, Parallel Lisp ?
George K. Jacob (Franz Inc., USA)
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Programme Committee :-
Professor John Fitch University of Bath, U.K.
Jeff. Dalton A.I. Applications Institute, University of Edinburgh, UK
Ashok Gupta Philips Research Laboratories, Surrey, U.K.
The delegate fee for this two-day event is :-
250 (pounds sterling) + 15% V.A.T.
[less 150 (pounds sterling) for all registered academics]
A copy of the Proceedings will be issued to all contributors and delegates.
For opportunities of sponsorship and other details please contact the Conference
Organiser :-
David Lloyd
Applied Workstations Ltd.,
The White Cottage, South Holmwood, Dorking, Surrey, U.K., RH5 4NA
Phone:- (+44) (306) 889485 Fax:- (+44) (306) 741293
Or email your postal address to gupta@prl.philips.co.uk, if you would like a
copy of the Conference Brochure to be sent to you.
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