jerrys@umiacs.umd.edu (Jerry Sobieski) (06/01/90)
The University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies is sponsoring a one day workshop entitled: Massively Parallel Computing - Applications, Algorithms, and Architectures The University of Maryland has an active program of research in many aspects of massively parallel computing; much of this research is experimental in nature, with the experiments being conducted on the campus's 16K processor Connection Machine II. This machine was provided to the campus by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and is used not only by University researchers, but also by scientists and engineers from government, industry and other universities. The purpose of the workshop is to bring these people together, along with representatives from other organizations that have strong interests in parallel processing. The workshop will consist of short talks from current users of the machine, along with presentations describing the architecture and software environment of the Connection Machine; we also hope to be able to present information about some new products to the marketplace that compete with the Connection Machine. The workshop is scheduled for Thursday June 7, 1990 at the College Park Campus outside Washington, D.C. This will be a good opportunity for those of us in involved in high performance parallel computing to meet and learn from one another's experience. We hope that your organization can participate in the meeting. Please let us know by June 4 if you or another representitive of your organization plan to attend. If you would like additional information, contact: Johanna Weinstein UMIACS Univ of MD College Park, MD 20742 301/454-1808 or johanna@umiacs.umd.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- MASSIVELY PARALLEL COMPUTING: APPLICATIONS, ALGORITHMS AND ARCHITECTURES Thursday June 7, 1990 8:30 - 9:00 Registration and Coffee 9:00 - 9:10 Introduction Larry S. Davis -- Director, UMIACS 9:10 - 9:30 Presentations by Vendors-- Active Memory Technology, Inc. 9:30 - 9:50 MASPAR 9:50 - 10:10 Thinking Machines Corp. 10:10 - 10:40 Matthew Evett -- U of MD "Symbolic Artificial Intelligence on the Connection Machine" 10:40 - 10:50 Coffee Break 10:50 - 11:20 Howard Elman -- U of MD "Solutions of Elliptic Partial Differential Equations" 11:20 - 11:50 Dipak Ghosal -- U of MD "Characterizing Parallel Program Behaviors: An Experimental Study" 11:50 - 12:15 Larry Davis -- U of MD "Computer Vision" 12:15 - 1:15 Lunch 1:15 - 1:45 Jim Darling, Johns Hopkins Univ, Applied Physics Lab "Computing Non-linear Poisson Equations" 1:45 - 2:15 Jim Ballas -- Naval Research Lab "Visualization of the Weight Structure of a Connectionist Network" 2:15 - 2:45 Michael Mascagni -- National Institutes of Health "Monte Carlo Multigrid Methods" 2:45 - 3:15 Judy Devaney -- National Inst. of Standards and Technology "Simulating Micro-lightning on Massively Parallel Machines" 3:15 - 3:45 Francis Sullivan/Isabel Beichl -- NIST "Robust Parallel Triangulation" 3:45 - 4:30 Demonstrations -- Path Planning, Computer Vision, Computer Graphics 4:30 - 5:30 Wine and Cheese Reception -- Domain: jerrys@umiacs.umd.edu Jerry Sobieski UUCP: uunet!mimsy!jerrys UMIACS - Univ. of Maryland Phone: (301)454-1808 College Park, Md 20742