erck03@castle.ed.ac.uk (J Wexler) (09/07/90)
EDINBURGH PARALLEL COMPUTING CENTRE FIRST ANNUAL SEMINAR
Monday 24th September 1990
James Clerk Maxwell Building, The King's Buildings, University of Edinburgh
Progress at one of Europe's major centres of concurrent computing.
Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre - an interdisciplinary focus for
parallel computing - involves research groups within the University of
Edinburgh, with industrial partners and academic users throughout
Europe. It enables and supports the exploitation of parallelism in all
kinds of problem-solving. Activities include research into the
fundamentals of parallelism, development of support tools, parallel
supercomputing services, consultancy, training and user support, and
industrial liaison. Services include a 400-transputer Meiko Computing
Surface, providing nationally networked multi-user access, two AMT
Distributed Array Processors, and a new Computing Surface of 64 i860
nodes, targeted on "Grand Challenge" problems of science and
engineering.
The Seminar provides an overview of the Centre's activities and
facilities, and presents a selection of research projects in science,
engineering and artificial intelligence. It is open to anyone with
interests in the development and application of parallel computing.
The seminar begins with the formal opening of the Edinburgh Parallel
Computing Centre by Sir William Mitchell, Chairman of the Science and
Engineering Research Council. The keynote speech will be given by Bruce
Boghosian of Thinking Machines Corporation.
The seminar fee is #55. This includes admission, lunch, refreshments, and a
Directory describing system, utilities and application developments within the
EPCC and its user community. There is no charge for industrial affiliates or
registered academic users of the Centre's services.
Accommodation is available in the University's Pollock Halls.
We can provide accommodation for several days in advance of the
meeting, for the convenience of those who are also attending the 13th
Technical Meeting of the Occam User Group, which takes place in York
shortly before the Seminar, on Tuesday-Thursday 18/20th September.
Contact for more information:
J.Wexler@uk.ac.edinburgh
For bookings:
CEP Consultants Ltd
26-28 Albany Street
Edinburgh EH1 3QH
Great Britain
phone: +44 31 557 2478 / 031 557 2478
fax: +44 31 557 5749 / 031 557 5749
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Programme
08.30 Registration and coffee
09.30 Opening of the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre:
Sir William Mitchell, FRS, Chairman of SERC
Sir David Smith, FRS, Principal, University of Edinburgh
09.40 Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre status:
D.J. Wallace, M.W. Brown and D.B. Mercer
10.30 Coffee
11.00 Keynote speaker - Bruce Boghosian (Thinking Machines Corporation)
11.50 S F Reddaway (Active Memory Technology): Parallel data transforms
12.10 Duncan Roweth (Meiko): Computing surface software environments
12.30 Lunch and demonstrations
13.50 to 17.00, in three parallel streams:
Applications
Lyndon Clarke: Molecular graphics
Peter Thanisch: Theorem-proving using speculative parallelism
Tom Stiemerling: Simulating a shared-memory multiprocessor architecture
Dominic Tildesley: QCD on i860s; a UK Grand Challenge
Mark Smith: Neural nets for oil-well facies determination
John Collins: Database searching on the DAP
Mark Cross: Mapping commercial CFD codes onto Transputer systems
Greg Wilson: Reports on 1990 summer student projects
Tools and methods
Neil MacDonald: Linda/Prolog
Neil Skilling: Simulation tools for parallel computers
Steve Booth: Performance programming for i860s
Matthew White: Cellular automata on Transputers: the CAPE environment
Nick Holliman: Constructive Solid Geometry
Frank Mill: Genetic algorithms for process planning
Mike Norman: Multicomputer graphics
Demonstrations