The 1994 Transputer Research And Applications Conference ======================================================== Oct. 23 - Oct. 25, 1994 The University of Georgia Athens, Georgia, USA The University of Georgia is pleased to host the 1994 Transputer Research and Applications Conference (7th in the series), held this year in Georgia from October 23 through October 25, 1994. The conference is sponsored by the North American Transputer Users Group (NATUG). The conference papers report on a wide variety of multicomputer applications, systems and architectures. The conference brings together researchers from diverse areas with a common interest in message passing multiprocessors. Since over half of the accepted papers are from outside the United States, the conference has a good international flavor. Appended to this email you will find the conference schedule. For registration material and other information contact: Mr. Allen Henderson Head of Communications Program and Conference Development The University of Georgia Georgia Center for continuing Education Athens, Georgia 30602-3603 Tel No: (706) 542-2237 Fax No: (706)542-6382 I look forward to seeing you at the conference. Hamid Arabnia Conference Chair Conference Schedule =================== October 23, 1994 Workshops 8:00 - 9:00 Registration - Georgia Center conference registration desk 9:00 - 12:00 Basic Fluency in the Occam/CSP/transputer Parallel Computing Model Professor Peter Welch, The University of Kent, England 12:00 - 1:00 Lunch - Georgia Center Banquet Area 1:30 - 4:30 Programming Transputers - Major Issues Dr. Tushar K. Hazra, Martin Marietta Services, INC. Goddard Space Flight Center. OCTOBER 24, 1994 7:30 - 8:30 Registration - Georgia Center conference registration desk 8:30 - 9:30 Keynote Speech by Professor Peter Welch, The University of Kent. Session 1 - Applications I: 9:30 - 9:55 A Transputer-Based Visualization System for Parallel Meteorological Modeling R. W. Melton and C. O. Alford 9:55 - 10:15 Coffee Break 10:15 - 10:40 Developing Parallel Algorithms For Error Detection and Control in Satellite Data Communications Using the Transputer-Based System T. K. Hazra and B. Singh 10:40 - 11:05 Parallel Polygonization of Implicit Surfaces on Transputers: Algorithm, Time Performance Evaluation and Rendering Results V. V. Savchenko and A. A. Pasko 11:05 - 11:30 Parallel Stereocorrelation H. R. Arabnia 11:30 - 11:55 The Application of Parallel Processing to Rendering in a Virtual Reality System S. Bangay, P. Clayton and D. Sewry 11:55 - 1:15 Lunch - Georgia Center Banquet Area Session 2 - Applications II: 1:15 - 1:40 A Transputer-Based Scalable, Parallel Global Climate Change Model R. W. Melton, P. R. Bingham, C. O. Alford and M. B. Woods 1:40 - 2:05 A Transputer-Based Vision System for Mobile Robots A. Faridani and K. R. Dimond 2:05 - 2:30 Comparative Study of Implementation Performance for Intermediate Level Image Processing Functions on Transputer and DSP based Multiprocessor Systems S. Kumarasamy and A. Y. M. Shakaff 2:30 - 2:55 A Parallel-Vector Algorithm For Solving Higher KDV Equations T. R. Taha 2:55 - 3:20 Using PVM for Hunting Snake-In-The-Box Codes M. Juric, W. D. Potter and M. Plaksin 3:20 - 3:40 Coffee Break Session 3 - Applications III: 3:40 - 4:05 Implementing STRIP using a Transputer Network S. S. Anand, C. M. Shapcott, D. A. Bell and J. G. Hughes 4:05 - 4:30 Parallelizing the MIVS Terrain Masking Algorithm Utilizing the Meiko MK202 Transputer Board M. M. Benincasa and D. Pease 4:30 - 4:55 Parallel Ordered Enumerative Algorithms for the Multidimensional Knapsack Problem on a Distributed Transputer Network A. G. Burns and F. Friedman Session 4 - Architecture, Load Balancing and Routing (I): 4:55 - 5:20 A Circuit Switched Network for Inmos OSLinks L. Bissland and D. N. J. White 5:20 - 5:45 Balancing Workloads Using the Reconfigurable Logic Layer O. N. P. Dasnulmadi OCTOBER 25, 1994 Session 5 - Architecture, Load Balancing and Routing (II): 8:05 - 8:30 Using Transputers as Building Blocks for the Mapped Interconnection Cached Architecture (MICA) E. Schenfeld 8:30 - 8:55 Optimal Global Communications in Arbitrary Networks by A-priori Path Planning R. Stephens 8:55 - 9:20 Cut-Through Message Passing on the TI TMS320C40 J. R. Davis, J. D. Davis and B. Abbott 9:20 - 9:45 What is in a message? T. Gross, S. Hinrichs and J. Subhlok 9:45 - 10:10 A Parallel C30 Architecture for Miniaturized 3-D Monolithic Packaging S. Cannon, J. Lyke, J. Staggs and D. Watson 10:10 - 10:30 Coffee Break Session 6 - Languages, Systems and Tools (I): 10:30 - 10:55 Graphical Configuration of Transputer Systems: The Graphical Configuration Assistant G. Theodoropoulos and A. West 10:55 - 11:20 A Sound Mapping from Abstract Algorithms to Occam Programs N. Brown 11:20 - 11:45 A Parallel Scheduling Algorithm for Parallel Applications A. A. Abdulghani and M. Bozyigit 11:45 - 12:10 HICCS with a COPP: A High-level Inmos C Communication Syntax with a Communication Optimizing Preprocessor R. S. Tosten and C. A. Ross 12:10 - 1:30 Lunch - Georgia Center Banquet Area Session 7 - Languages, Systems and Tools (II): 1:30 - 1:55 Parallel C vs Occam - Performance Assessment for Real-Time Modelling R. I. O'Tiarnaigh, K. Adamson and J. G. Keating 1:55 - 2:20 Implementing Inter-Tool Communication in an open design framework C. Murphy, J. G. Keating and D. Mulcahy 2:20 - 2:45 Generic Matrices in Occam3(e) W. Chutimaskul and J. M. Kerridge 2:45 - 3:10 Unbalanced Computations onto a Transputer Grid B. Bacci, M. Danelutto, S. Orlando, S. Pelagatti and M. Vanneschi 3:10 - 3:30 Coffee Break Session 8 - Languages, Systems and Tools (III): 3:30 - 3:55 A High Level Parallel Language and its Implementation on Transputer Networks F. Garcia, C. Rodriguez, C. Leon and F. Sande 3:55 - 4:20 A Pilot Implementation of some Algorithmic Skeletons on Transputers P. G. Clayton, R. C. Watkins and E. P. Wentworth Session 9 - Models and Methodologies: 4:20 - 4:45 A T9000 Implementation of the P4 Parallel Programming Model S. J. Turner and A. Back 4:45 - 5:10 Comparative Study of Two Parallel Programming Models and their Performance W. Foong 5:10 - 5:35 Building Blocks For A Transputer-Based Real-Time System W. A. Booth and P. C. Grabow 5:35 - 6:00 Performance and Scalability Analysis for High Performance Computing E. Tambouris and P. Santen