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 _______________________________________________________________________ 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