geraint@prg.oxford.ac.uk (Geraint Jones) (01/13/89)
[ Found on comp.sys.transputer --- Steve ]
TRANSPUTERS, UNIX, and FUTURE SUPPORT ENVIRONMENTS
an occam user group workshop
University of Kent at Canterbury
(Tuesday, 21st February 1989, 10.00--17.00)
Aims: To hear from leading suppliers of software support tools for
transputer systems about their current and future plans. The technical
backgrounds to the various compromises that have been chosen will be
presented. It will be an opportunity for users to question those
decisions and influence future ones. INMOS, MEiKO, Parsys, and
Perihelion (plus some others) will be attending.
Questions: How close to ``industry standard'' UNIX can we get with
transputers? How important is this? How ``inter-operable'' will be
transputer support environments from different sources? How
``inter-operable'' will be these environments with existing services on
SUNs, VAXes, etc...? What ``industry standard'' tools (like X-windows)
will be available? Can the INMOS TDS be opened up to other suppliers
of tools? Should multiple transputers be used to support the
computational load required by sophisticated user-interfaces and tools
in the next generation of support environments?
Programme: Formal presentations will be made in the morning session.
Participants will be divided into smaller ``working groups'' in the
afternoon. Informal short presentations may be made there, but the aim
will be to thrash out the issues on a particular topic and produce an
outline report. The reports from each working group will be written up
later (by the chair -- volunteers are sought!) and published in some
form.
Participants: Active participants in this workshop are sought. Do not
come just to listen! The size of the workshop will be limited to about
forty. A fee of L15 [fifteen pounds sterling] will be charged to cover
lunch and administration.
``Sponsors'': This workshop is organised by the UNIX SIG and Operating
System SIG of the occam User Group. It is also part of a series of
workshops and courses being planned through the EC's COMETT programme
entitled ``Training for transputer Technologies''.
Contact:
-------For further details, accommodation, etc please contact:-
Dr P.H. Welch Tel: 0227 764000 x 7695
Computing Laboratory Fax: 0227 762811
University of Kent Telex: 965449 UKCLIB
Canterbury email: phw@uk.ac.ukc
Kent, CT2 7NF
To apply: Please write to Dr P. Welch and enclose either a cheque for the
fee (made payable to UNIKENT) or an official order form.
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COMETT is the European Community Action Programme for Education and
Training for Technology
TRANSPUTER is a trademark of the INMOS Group of Companies
UNIX is a trademark of AT&T Bell Laboratories in the USA and in other
countries