Newsgroups: comp.parallel
From: parallel@netcom.com (B. Mitchell Loebel)
Subject: The PARALLEL Processing Connection - Oct. '95 meeting notice
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
Date: 9 Oct 1995 15:17:17 GMT
Message-ID: <45bedt$1vu@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu>

October 9th - Fine Grained On-Chip Multiprocessing (Instruction Level)

The PARALLEL Processing Connection is an entrepreneurial association. 
Our first priority is to assist our members in forming new high 
performance computing businesses; we accomplish this by forming 
strategic alliances with important organizations and providing 
significant technical presentations, seminars, and field trips.

PPC is fortunate to have a very accomplished computer architect as its 
October 9th speaker - Burton Smith, Chairman, Chief Scientist, founder 
of Tera Computer Company.  The company's new machine will arrive on 
the market in 1996 with a fine grained multithreaded processor 
architecture.  Because this instruction level parallelism will so 
effectively hide the long latency of off node memory accesses, Burton 
speaks of the company's shared memory machine (named MTA) as being a UMA 
(Uniform Memory Access) type.  An interesting (and controversial) 
unorthodoxy in the processor's design is its lack of an on chip cache!  
For further information, see the August '95 issue of the IEEE Spectrum 
for an excellent article on the subject of Multithreaded Processor 
Architecures including the Tera machine.  Incidentally, Tera Computer 
went through its IPO just a few days ago.

The main meeting starts promptly at 7:30PM and a discussion of 
member projects currently underway and other issues of interest to 
entrepreneurs follows immediately thereafter at 9PM. Our meeting will 
be held at Sun Microsystems at 901 San Antonio Road in Palo Alto. 
This is just off the southbound San Antonio exit of 101.  Northbound 
travelers also exit at San Antonio and take the overpass to the other side 
of 101.  

Please be prompt; as usual, we expect a large attendance; don't be left 
out or left standing. There is a $10 fee for non-members and members 
will be admitted free.  Yearly membership fee is $50.


-- 
B. Mitchell Loebel                                      parallel@netcom.com 
Director - Strategic Alliances and Partnering                  408 732-9869 
PARALLEL Processing Connection 

