Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
From: martin@inf.rl.ac.uk (Martin Prime)
Subject: WORLD TRANSPUTER CONGRESS - Final Conference Program
Organization: Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Informatics Department, U.K.
Date: 8 Jun 94 15:24:48 GMT
Message-ID: <14808@cupid.rl.ac.uk>

1994 WORLD TRANSPUTER CONGRESS (WTC '94) - Conference Program
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The 1994 WORLD TRANSPUTER CONGRESS (WTC '94) is sponsored by The Transputer
Consortium (TTC), the Italian Transputer User Group (ItTUG), the World
occam and Transputer User Group (WoTUG), SGS-THOMSON Microelectronics and
the Commission of European Union. The event is being organised by TTC,
ItTUG and the Italian Congress organiser, SMAU.

OBJECTIVES	

*	to present 'state-of-the-art' research on all aspects of parallel
	computing based upon communicating process architectures

*	to provide a world audience gathering from Industry, Commerce and
	Academia, with a forum for the free exchange of ideas, criticism and
	information

*	to establish and encourage an understanding of the new software and
	hardware technologies enabled by the transputer, especially the new
	T9000 processor and C104 packet router from INMOS, the parallel DSP
	engines (TMS320Cxx) from Texas Instruments and the iWARP device
	from Intel

*	to promote an awareness of how transputer technologies may be
	applied and their advantages over other sequential and parallel
	processors

The conference themes include:  industrial applications, graphics and image
processing, programme environments, evaluation, real time control,
communications, simulation, languages, fault tolerance, tools, systems
programming, algorithms and operating systems. 

Exhibitors will be giving short presentations on their current products and
future plans.

FORMAT

The Conference will have a number of Plenary Sessions, with Keynote and
Invited speakers. The final Plenary Session will include an open Panel
Session. Submitted papers will be presented in three Paralllel Streams. All
papers will be presented in English. 

The Conference  Proceedings will be published by IOS Press in their Transputer
and Occam Engineering Series. These will be available to delegates when they
register.

	Dr Mike Jane				Dr Daniele Marini
	The Transputer Consortium		Department of Computer Science
	Informatics Department			University of Milan
	Chilton					Via Comelico, 39
	Didcot   (OX11 OQX 			Milan 20135
	UK					ITALY

	Phone 	+44 235 445408   		Phone 	+39 2 5500 6358	
	Fax 	+44 235 445893			Fax 	+39 2 5500 6334
	email	mrj@inf.rl.ac.uk		email	marini@imiucca.csi.unimi.it


MONDAY 5 SEPTEMBER 1994
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PLENARY SESSION 1

0900 	Opening address 	Philippe Geyres
				V-P Programmable Products Division
				SGS-THOMSON
				France
				"Transputers now and in the Future"

0915	Keynote Lecture I	Professor David May
				Inmos
				Bristol, UK
				"New Directions in Microprocessor
				Architectures"

1000	Coffee

PLENARY SESSION 2

1030	Invited Lecture  1	Professor Dyke Stiles
				Utah State University
				Logan, USA
				"Simulated Annealing on Massively
				Parallel Machines"

1115	Invited Lecture  2	Dr Francesco Marzano
				University of Rome
				Italy
				"Quadrix: Architecture and Application of the
				Italian Multiprocessor System""
1200	Lunch

PARALLEL SESSION 1

1400				MA1	Graphics/Image Processing
				MA2	Programme Environments
				MA3	Evaluation

1600	Tea

PLENARY SESSION 3

1630	Exhibitors Short Presentations

1730	Exhibitors Reception

1830	END OF DAY 1

0900-1830 EXHIBITION OPENING TIMES

2000	CONFERENCE BANQUET


PARALLEL SESSIONS

	Monday 5 September 1994

	Session 1	Time   1400 Hrs

Stream 1 	Graphics/Image Processing
	MA1

	1400	Software Architecture for Real-Time Parallel Processing
		E Rendon, L Salgado, J M Menendez, N Garcia

	1430	Neural Network Arbitration of Edge Maps
		K M Curtis, M A S N Ramalho

	1500	Parallelising Accelerated Ray Tracing for High Quality Image
		Synthesis
		D Marini, M Rossi

	1530	Efficient Realistic Image Synthesis by Parallel Monte Carlo
		Radiosity on Transputers
		M Feda, W Purgathofer



Stream 2 	Programme Environment
	MA2

	1400	RUBIS: a Runtime Basic Interface Software on Transputers
		C Burrer,  P Remy


	1430	A Cross-Platforms Parallel Genetic Algorithms Environment
		K Tout


	1500	Parlin: From a Centralised Tuple Space to Adaptive Hashing
		J G Silva, J Carreira, F Moreira

	1530 	T9000 Software, Applications and Results.
		RW Dobinson, R Heeley, W Lu, B Martin, Mward, M Zhu



Stream 3 	Evaluation
	MA3

	1400	Characterising Computational Kernals to Predict Performance
 		on Parallel Systems
		M J Zemerly, E Papaefstathiou, D J Kerbyson, Y Papay, R Ziani,
		T J Atherton, G R Nudd


	1430	GigaView Parallel Image Server Performance Analysis
		B A Gennart, B Krummenacher, L Landron, R D Hersch


	1500	Parallel Benchmarks on the Transtech Paramid
		R S Stevens


	1530	Transparent Sharing of Links in Inmos Tools Application
		E Cervera



TUESDAY 6 SEPTEMBER 1994
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PLENARY SESSION 4

0900	Keynote Lecture II	Professor Corrado Boehm
				University of Rome
				Italy
				"Parallelism in Functional Programming"

0945	Invited Lecture  3	Professor Shoichi Noguchi
				Nihon University
				Koriyama, Japan
				"Massively Parallel Computation Research
				Projects in Japan"

1030	Coffee

PARALLEL SESSION 2

1100				TM1	Real Time Control
				TM2	Communications
				TM3	Simulation

1300	Lunch

PARALLEL SESSION 3

1430				TA1	Applications
				TA2	Languages I
				TA3	Fault Tolerance I

1630	Tea

PARALLEL SESSION 4

1700				TA4	Tools
				TA5	Languages II
				TA6	Fault Tolerance II

1700		END OF EXHIBITION

1830 - 1930	ItTUG INAUGURAL MEETING

1930		END OF DAY 2

0900 - 1700	EXHIBITION OPENING TIMES


PARALLEL SESSIONS

	Tuesday 6 September 1994

	Session 2	Time   1100

Stream 1 	Real Time Control
	TM1

	1100	An Application of a Distributed Transputer Network for Active
		Optics Control
		D Fantinel, F Bortoletto

	1130	Management for Reliability of Decentralised Data Fusion Networks
		S Utete, H F Durrant-Whyte

	1200	The Application of TIAC (Transputer Identification and Adaptive
		Control) Modules in the Development of Distributed Adaptive
		Control Systems
		A J Anderson

	1230	Title to be decided
		P K Sinha, K A Mutib, V Garibian, P H Sorensen


Stream 2 	Communications
	TM2

	1100	A Parallel Approach to High-speed Protocol Processing
		T S Chan, I Gorton

	1130	Hardware Implications of Virtual Channels
		P Walker

	1200	A Transputer Based Dynamic Routing Neural Network Simulation
		K M Curtis, S A Wilde, J L Blakemore, M P Craven, I Jelly,
		D Lloyd, B C O'Neill, J W Ellis

	1230	Fast SIMD Algorithms on a Mesh with Wormhole Routing
		D Kim, S-H Kim, J Kim


Stream 3 	Simulation
	TM3

	1100	A Parallel Emulator for a Multi-processor Dataflow Machine
		F A de Almeida, P H Welch

	1130	Simulation of Logic Circuits using a Network of Transputers
		P P K Chiu

	1200	Building Parallel Distributed Models for Asynchronous Computer
		Architectures
		G Theodoropoulos , V Woods

	1230	An Innovative Simulator for Cellular Neural Networks
		L Fortuna, G Manganaro, G Muscato, G Nunnari


	Session 3	Time   1430

Stream 1 	Applications
	TA1

	1430	A Transputer-Based Data Acquisition System for a 256x256 Pixel
		Infrared Camera
		A. Rodriguez-Mora, E Joven, J Diaz, L F Rodrigues-Ramos,
		N Sosa, M Williams, J C Gonz=E1lez

	1500	A Transputer Based Soft-correlator for Radio Astronomy
		T Fayard

	1530	Extensions of Parallel Approaches to Intensive Computing and
		Instrumentation Upgrading
		F Bruge, D Bulone, L G Fornili, S L Fornili, M Lapis,
		P L San Biagio

	1600	Seismic Processing on TRAM-based Parallel Computers
		G Quinping, Z Tao, L Ping, C Yunhe


Stream 2 	Languages I
	TA2

	1430	Translating Timed CSP Processes to occam 2
		B G O Scott

	1500	Dynamic Allocation of Tasks in occam3
		J Kerridge, P Nixon

	1530	Implementing Object-based Distributed Shared Memory on
		Transputers
		H-P Heinzle, H E Bal, K Langendoen

	1600	A First Step Towards Scientific Computation with Automatic
		Result Verification using PASCAL-XSC on Transputer Clusters
		under PARIX
		T Kersten


Stream 3 	Fault Tolerance I
	TA3

	1430	A Fault-tolerant Digital Communication System based on
		Transputers
		M Avvenuti, M Galavotti

	1500	An Architecture for Constructing Fault-Tolerant Transputer
 		Systems
		M J Colley , J Standeven

	1530	Fully Interconnected Fault Tolerant Networks Using Global
		Link Adapters
		C Hossack, C G Guy


	Session 4	Time   1700 Hrs

Stream 1 	Tools
	TA4

	1700	Monitoring a T9000: The Trapper Approach
		L Schafers, C Scheidler

	1730	Scalable Transputer Software Development with Quickplay System
		A Biriukov, V Meliokhin

	1800	Behavioural Modelling of a Communicating Process
		C Elamvazuthi


Stream 2 	Languages II
	TA5

	1700	Translating occam 2 into CSP
		B Scattergood, K Seidel

	1730	Scheduling Extended Transactions on Parallel Database
		Machines Using OCCAM
		N McCarroll, J M Kerridge

	1800	Implementing a Language for Co-ordinated Distributed
		Programming on a Transputer Multiprocessor
		A Adir, N Francez, S Katz

Stream 3 	Fault Tolerance II
	TA6

	1700	A Fault-Tolerant Tuple Space Library
		L M Silva, J G Silva, B Veer


	1730	Checkpointing Pipeline Applications
		L M Silva, J G Silva


	1800	Novel Fault Injection for Dependable Parallel Networks
		P Griffiths, J Bryant, P Croll, D Marriott


WEDNESDAY 7 SEPTEMBER 1994
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PARALLEL SESSION 5

0900				WM1	Industrial Applications I
				WM2	Systems Programming
				WM3	Algorithms I

1100	Coffee

PARALLEL SESSION 6

1115				WM4	Industrial Applications II
				WM5	Operating Systems
				WM6	Algorithms II

1315	Lunch

PLENARY SESSION 5

1400	Invited Lecture 4	Dr Bob Dobinson
				CERN
				Switzerland
				"From One to Sixty Four T9000s at CERN"

1445	Invited Lecture 5	Matt Kelvin
				Farnbourough Supercomputing Centre
				Farnbourough, UK
				"The Benchmarking and Assessment of
				Massively Parallel Systems"

1530	PANEL SESSION	Chair:  A De Gloria
			"Is Parallel Processing Still Important?"

1630	CLOSING REMARKS

1645	FORMAL CLOSE OF CONFERENCE


PARALLEL SESSIONS

	Wednesday 7 September 1994

	Session 5	Time   0900 Hrs

Stream 1 	Industrial Applications I
	WM1

	0900	Food Process Control using Parallel Computing
		M W Cook


	0930	Scalable Design for Parallel Embedded Systems: An
		Application to Real Time Handwritten OCR
		A Cuhadar, A C Downton

	1000	Automatic Mail Sorting Machines, Some Aspects of the OCR Control
		Software
		K Menn, G Thurner

	1030	Porting Real Application Code to Embedded Systems
		H Webber, K J Palmer, J G Harp, MJ  Hamer, S A Baker



Stream 2 	Systems Programming
	WM2

	0900	Two Strategies for the Efficient Implementation of Data-Driven
		Programs on Transputer Networks
		A Mitschele-Thiel


	0930	An Enhanced Transputer Server Architecture
		B Murphy


	1000	Scalable Data Sharing on a Message Passing Machine
		J Nash, P M Dew


Stream 3 	Algorithms I
	WM3

	0900	Partitioning Methods for Unstructured Finite Element Meshes
		C Greenough, R F Fowler

	0930	Formal Derivation and Implementation of Divide-and-conquer=
		on a Transputer Network
		S Gorlatch

	1000	Implementation of Parallel Variable-forgetting Multivariable
		Estimators on Distributed Memory Multiprocessors
		D F Garcia, F J Suarez, J Garcia, J R Arias

	1030	Solving the Convoy Movement Problem using Branch-and-Bound
		on a Network of Transputers
		Y N Lee, G P McKeown, V J Rayward-Smith


	Session 6	Time   1115

Stream 1 	Industrial Applications II
	WM4

	1115	Deadlock/Livelock Analysis of a Highly Parallel Traffic
		Network	Model, Using High Level Paradigms
		K H Lu, J Jones, J Kerridge

	1145	3 Volt Matchbox GPS Covering Applications from Container
		tracking through Vehicles and Portables to Geodetic Surveying
		P G Mattos

	1215	Sensorless Vector Control of Induction Motor Drives using
		an Intel i860 Connected to a Transputer Network
		M Sumner, R Blasco, G M Asher

	1245	Real-Time Measurement and Control by Transputers of the
		Temperature Profile at the Exit of a Transverse-Flux
		Induction Heater
		K Taylor, I Smith


Stream 2 	Operating Systems
	WM5

	1115	Congestion Prevention by Bounding in Distributed Memory
		Systems
		A Baiardi, A Candelieri, L Ricci

	1145	A Neural Self-Organising Scheme for Dynamic Load Allocation
		R Calinescu, D Grigoras

	1215	Vituoso: Extending the Transputer Concept to Standard Processors
		E Verhulst

	1245	Near-Optimal Compile-Time Scheduling and Configuration of
		Parallel Systems
		A Mitschele-Thiel, K Dussa-Zieger


Stream 3 	Algorithms II
	WM6

	1115	Updating Cholesky Factors on a Transputer Network
		G P McKeown, Y N Lee, S A Rush

	1145	Parallel Triangular Solvers on Network of Transputers
		L Piccolomini, M Barulli

	1215	Dynamic Programming Parallel Algorithms for the O/1 Knapsack
		Problems on Transputer Networks
		F A de Almeida

	1245	A Transputer Based Mixed Supervised/Unsupervised
		Neural Network for Speech Recognition
		K M Curtis, S A Wilde

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