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Started by Geraint Jones
Tue, 02 Oct 1990 14:16
OUG Japan cancellation, Transputing 1991 call for papers
Author: Geraint Jones
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 1990 14:16
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 1990 14:16
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Kazuto Matsui from the Inmos Business Centre in Tokyo reminds me to tell
everyone that the OUG Japan meeting (previously announced here) in May 1991
has been cancelled, or at least indefinitely postponed. This is to avoid any
conflict with the meeting sponsored by the various occam and transputer user
groups around the world, to happen in Santa Clara, California 22--26th April
1991.
While I am here let me remind you about that meeting too. The call for papers
is attached to the end of this posting, just in case you missed the 1st
October deadline. If you are intedning to submit anything it would propbably
be as well to give immediate notice to one of the collectors listed in the
call, and get the paper to them as soon as possible.
Since the launch of the H1 is now scheduled for mid-April, you can expect that
there will be a full technical disclosure from Inmos on this product at the
Santa Clara meeting.
gj
TRANSPUTING 1991 - CALL FOR PAPERS
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The First World Conference of National Transputer and Occam User Groups will
take place at :-
Title: TRANSPUTING 1991
Place: Santa Clara, California (at the Sunnyvale Hilton)
Dates: 22nd. to 26th. April, 1991
The goals of this conference are :-
+ to present ``state-of-the-art'' research on all aspects of parallel
computing based upon communicating process architectures;
+ to demonstrate ``state-of-the-art'' products and applications from
as wide a range of fields as possible;
+ to progress the establishment of international software and hardware
standards for parallel computing systems;
+ to provide a forum for the free exchange of ideas, criticism and
information from a world audience gathered from Industry, Commerce
and Academia;
+ to establish and encourage an understanding of the new software and
hardware technologies enabled by the transputer;
+ to promote an awareness of how these technologies may be applied and
what are their advantages.
The conference themes will include: education and training issues, formal
methods and security, performance and scalability, porting existing systems,
parallelisation paradigms, tools, programming languages, support environments,
standards and applications.
Applications include: embedded real-time control systems, workstations,
super-computing, consumer products, artificial intelligence, databases,
modelling, design, data gathering and the testing of scientific or
mathematical theories.
The conference programme will contain invited papers from established
international authorities in these fields together with submitted papers. The
International Program Committee, presided over by Professor P.H. Welch (OUG
Chair), is now soliciting papers on all areas described above. All papers
will be fully refereed. Only papers of high excellence will be accepted. The
proceedings of this conference will be published internationally and will be
given to delegates as they register at the start of the meeting.
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
The programme committee consists of invited experts from Industry and Academia
together with existing committee members from the joint organising user-groups
based in Australia, France, Germany, India, Japan, Latin America, New Zealand,
North America, Sweden and the United Kingdom.
The organising load is being spread around the world to ensure that all points
of view and expertise are properly represented and to obtain the highest
standards of excellence.
INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS
Seven copies of submitted papers (not exceeding 16 pages - single-spaced, A4
or US ``letter'') must reach one of the Program Committee members nominated
below before 1st October, 1990. Authors will be notified of acceptance by
15th November, 1990. Final camera-ready copy will be required by 6th January,
1991.
A submitted paper should be a draft version of the final camera-ready copy.
It should contain most of the information, qualitative and quantitative, that
will appear in the final paper - i.e. it should not be just an extended
abstract.
Please submit your paper to the Committee member closest to you in the list :-
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Professor P H Welch
Chair, OUG
Computing Laboratory
The University
Canterbury
Kent, CT2 7NF
UK
Phone: +44 227 764000
FAX: +44 227 762811
Email: phw@ukc.ac.uk
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Dr D Stiles
Chair, NATUG
Dept of Electrical Engineering
Utah State University
Logan
UT 843222-4120
USA
Phone: +1 801 750 2806
FAX: +1 801 750 2992
Email: dyke@opus.ee.usu.edu
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Professor T L Kunii
Chair, OUG Japan
Dept of Information Science
University of Tokyo
7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku
Tokyo
Japan
Phone: +81 3 816 1783
FAX: +81 3 818 4607
Email: kunii@is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp
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Dr K S Venkatesh
Centre for Development of Advanced Computing
2/1 Brunton Road
Bangalor-560 025
India
Phone: +91 812 575781
FAX: +91 812 563183
Email: @shakti.uu.net:venki@cdacb
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Dr J Hulskamp
Chair, Australian Occam and Transputer User Group
Department of Communication and Electrical Engineering
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
GPO Box 2476V
Melbourne 3001
Australia
Phone: +61 3 660 2453
FAX: +61 3 662 1060
Email: rcojh@minyos.xx.rmit.oz
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Dr R Lins
Chair, Occam User Group: Latin America
Department de Informatica
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
P O Box 7851
50739-Recife-PE
Brazil
Phone: +55 812 713052
FAX: +55 813 264880 (The British Council)
Email: ufpedi@brfapesp.bitnet
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CONFERENCE STRUCTURE
PAR
... exhibition/demonstrations (Monday..Friday)
SEQ
... tutorials (Monday)
... conference papers (Tuesday..Thursday)
... seminars/workshops (Friday)
CALL FOR TUTORIALS AND WORKSHOPS
On the Monday of TRANSPUTING 1991, we shall be holding some tutorials on the
fundamental principles underlying transputer technologies and various design
paradigms for exploiting them. On the Friday, we shall be running several
workshops that will focus directly on a range of specialist themes (e.g.
real-time issues, formal methods, AI, super-computing, ...).
We welcome suggestions from the community for what particular themes should be
chosen for these tutorials and workshops. In particular, we welcome proposals
from any group that wishes to run such a tutorial or workshop. A submission
should give details of the proposed programme, numbers of people to attend
(minimum and maximum) and how much equipment (if any) is needed for support.
Please submit your suggestions and/or proposals to one of the Committee listed
above by 1st October, 1990.
FURTHER INFORMATION
Companies and other organisations wishing to be associated with TRANSPUTING
1991 should contact either Peter Welch or Dyke Stiles at the above addresses.
Re: OUG Japan cancellation, Transputing 1991 call for papers
Author: Lindsay Patten
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 1990 20:46
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 1990 20:46
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In article <9010021416.AA20507@prg.ox.ac.uk>,
Geraint.Jones@prg.oxford.ac.uk (Geraint Jones) writes:
|> Since the launch of the H1 is now scheduled for mid-April, you can
expect that
|> there will be a full technical disclosure from Inmos on this
product at the
|> Santa Clara meeting.
Would someone repost the H1 description? Will it really be a 100MIPs,
100Mb/link processor? Will those of us who stuck by transputers in the
face of increasingly fast competition be vindicated?
Would someone at cornell give me an email address there to contact
about getting the latest Trollius release (previous mail has not been
responded to)?
Would someone post the address of the trollius mailing list?
Demanding sort aren't I? :-)
Thanks,
Lindsay Patten Never get angry at stupid people! -Erasure
Pattern Analysis & Machine Intelligence Group S4 y+ f-- t+ w- k+ m h- r
Department of Systems Design Engineering lindsay@pami.waterloo.edu
University of Waterloo {utai|decvax|uunet}!watmath!watnow!lindsay
Humphuter outline specification
Author: news
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 1990 18:52
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 1990 18:52
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I can't say I really believe this sort of thing, but since Lindsay Patten
asks (in article <1990Oct2.204634.16609@watserv1.waterloo.edu>), at the York
OUG meeting the Inmos stand was (at least at the beginning of the meeting)
knee deep in uninformative eight-page leaflets called the H1 transputer
`product preview'. It really is pretty uninformative, but I can safely assume
that it isn't covered by any pledges in blood that I may have made to anyone.
The cover says:
Instruction set compatible with the IMS T805
[ that seems to mean `binary compatible' and the compatibility mode
running is on a per-process basis
]
Pipelined superscalar micro-architecture
Workspace cache
4Gbyte physical address space
16Kbyte instruction and data cache
>150MIPS peak
>60MIPS sustained
>20MFLOPs peak
>10MFLOPs sustained
Sub-microsecond interrupt response
[ this may be code for `more register banks for fast swaps' ]
Per process error handling
Enhanced support for pre-emptive schedulers
[ or perhaps that is the line that is code for `more register banks' ]
Memory protection and address translation
Virtual channels
Support for message routing
80Mbytes/s total bi-directional link bandwidth
[ there are four links, four events, and two control links
shown on the block diagram alongside
]
Separate control system
Single 5MHz clock input
50MHz internal clock
Single +5+/-5% power supply
The rest of the document (everything says `preliminary' and `we don't promise
anything', and is dated September 1990) is, I am told, largely unintelligble
unless you already know what it means. Oh, I exaggerate. I'm just trying to
get out of typing it all in. I guess the only other thing to say is that all
of the links (even the control system links) are of the four-wire style that is
being used for the H series communications. There is a C100 link converter
which is meant to be out before the H series transputers themselves.
They weren't promising anything. Neither am I; errors and imaginings excepted.
g
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