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2 total messages Started by JHOH Fri, 10 Jun 1988 15:22

#2085

Author: JHOH
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 1988 15:22

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                                                                       POSTECH
                                    POHANG INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
                                        P.O.BOX 125, POHANG 790-600, KOREA
                                        POPA\%postech.postech.ac.kr@relay.cs.net
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                    POSTECH PARALLEL PROCESSOR PROJECT


               POSTDOCTORAL POSITIONS IN TRANSPUTER RESEARCH

  Applicants are invited for postdoctoral positions to work on a large scale 
Transputer research project. According to the qualification, visiting and 
tenure-track faculty positions can be considered. The starting time of 
each position is negotiable. Visitors at graduate student level are also 
invited. 

  The project aims to implement large scale transputer based parallel computer
and to develop related system software, scientific and industrial applications.
A prototype machine with 256 or more T800 Transputers will be built during 
1989. We are currently running B004, B003 based Transputer Development Systems
(TDS), and a Transputer array including 64 T800's will be available during 
the third quarter of this year.  

  Possible research areas are

  1. Development of hardware and system software for dynamically 
     allocating Transputer resources.
  2. Applications in the area of physics, chemistry, finite element method, 
     neural network and artificial intelligence, robotics, industrial 
     applications including image processing and real-time control, etc.

  Pohang Institute of Science and Technology (POSTECH) is a newly established 
research-oriented university in Korea.	POSTECH has 9 departments and accepts
only first-rate undergraduate and graduate students. In addition, Korea's first
particle accelerator, a 2 GeV synchrotron radiation source, will be constructed
on the campus beginning this year. POSTECH's Computer Center operates 
2 VAX 8800's and an IBM 4381.  We also have a VAX 8200(UNIX), a Gould image 
processor, many SUN, Apollo, Symbolics workstations, and PC's for education and
research use. Access to Cray-2 outside the campus will be possible.

  Applications should be sent to

Prof. S. Y. Bang, Department of Computer Science, POSTECH,
P.O. Box 125, Pohang 790-600, Korea. 
e-mail: sybang\%postech.postech.ac.kr@relay.cs.net

or 

Dr. Jong-Hoon Oh, Department of Physics, University of Edinburgh,
The King's Buildings, Edinburgh EH9 3JZ, United Kingdom.
e-mail: jhoh@uk.ac.ed.phyvax.

Sun-hosted Transputers?

#2086

Author: Ralph Hyre
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 1988 21:48

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Anyone have any thought or experiences on using transputers in Sun 
workstations.  I recall seeing some literature on a Sun 9U board-level 
product with around 8 T800's on it at one time, but can't recall the company.
VME 6U boards might be preferable.

The main competition around here is the WARP systolic array processor,
200 Mflops/box.  The main drawback is the lack of an easy-to-use software
development environment.

The support burden of another widly different architecture would need
to be small to even be considered, especially given the technology
window between now and the next generation of Warp (late '89), which will
have twice the performance and C compilers and such.

The Quality of C and Lisp systems needs to be comparable with the SunOS
products as well, and I suspect this might ultimately be the sticking point.

Some around here are doing neural net stuff, but mainly it's just
integer image->image transformations, and random bursts of floating point
(usually at such inopportune times as to make FP subsystems whose performance
is proportional to pipeline utilitization not as useful)

Send email, and I'll summarize to the net.

Thanks.
-- 
					- Ralph W. Hyre, Jr.

Internet: ralphw@ius2.cs.cmu.edu    Phone:(412)268-{2847,3275} CMU-{BUGS,DARK}
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