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[ I took this off comp.sys.transputer.  Since occam and INMOS represent
  a working parallel system, I thought it might be of interest.
	-Steve
]

||      Extracted from an SERC Engineering Computing Users' Group circular,
||      this is probably only of interest to UK readers...
||     (for curious readersoutsiude the UK, the Science and Engineering 
||      Research Council is the mechanism by which H.M.Government funds 
||      Research in Universities and the like, the DTI is the Government's 
||      Department of Trade and Industry. Who knows what that does.)

        SERC/DTI Transputer Initiative
        Engineering Applications of Transputers

        Workshop on Transputer Development Environments, Abingdon
                                                         30 Nov - 1 Dec 1987

The SERC/DTI Transputer Initiative will hold its first workshop,  on the
subject of Transputer Development Environments,  at The Coseners' House,
Abingdon, from 30th November to 1st December 1987.

The  workshop   aims  to  bring  together   workers   in  industry   and
universities  to look  at aspects  based  on but  not  confined  to  the
development of an Integrated Programming Support Environment (IPSE)  for
applications development using Transputers and Occam.

The programme will be composed of invited presentations  and discussions
aimed  at  identifying  the  needs  of industrial  and  academic  users,
existing facilities  and developments  in hand,  and what suppliers  can
offer, with respect to the following broad categories:

* Tools                  (eg development, debugging, diagnostic)
* Performance            (monitoring, modelling, simulation)
* Compilers              (for multiple Transputer configurations)
* Higher level languages (explicit vs. implicit parallelism)
* Project management     (modularity, support for large projects,
                          configuration management, version control)

The workshop  is intended  for suppliers  and users  of Occam/Transputer
equipment  engaged either in developing  tools or other support software
or in substantial applications  development in which progress is limited
by  shortage   of  facilities   in  existing   tools.   There   will  be
approximately  30-40 places available,  20-30 of which will be filled by
invitation.  The remaining  10 places  will be filled  on the basis of a
short  positional  paper  in one of the above  categories  submitted  by
people wishing to attend.  Copies of position  papers (approx 800 words)
should be submitted [address below] by 22nd October 1987.

||        I know no more about it than that; you should probably contact
||              Dr. G.M.Megson, Informatics Division,
||              Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton,
||              Didcot, Oxon OX11 0QX
||                                                                      gj