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A reminder about the

EDINBURGH CONCURRENT SUPERCOMPUTER SECOND ANNUAL SEMINAR

Wednesday 27th September 1989
James Clerk Maxwell Building, The King's Buildings, University of Edinburgh

which follows immediately after the 11th Technical Meeting of the Occam User
Group, also in Edinburgh.

This is an open seminar reporting the progress and results of the year's work in
the Edinburgh Concurrent Supercomputer Project, with a selection of research
projects in science, engineering and artificial intelligence from the expanding
community of more than 200 users.  It also offers demonstrations of the Meiko
system and the AMT DAP, and software developed on them.

* The opening session will be chaired by Dr Iann Baron.  The day's guest
* speaker, on "Concurrent supercomputing: international perspective", will be
* Dr Paul Messina, Director of concurrent supercomputing facilities at Caltech.

Full details were posted earlier to this newsgroup/bulletin board.  If you
missed that, please contact either of the addresses below.

Programme:

08.30 Registration, coffee and demonstrations

09.30 Edinburgh Concurrent Supercomputer Project status:
           Session chairman,  Iann Baron
      Introduction:  D.J. Wallace
      Service and utilisation:  M.W. Brown
      Software environment:  M. Davoren
      Project Manager's report:  D.B. Mercer

10.30 Coffee

11.00 Concurrent supercomputing - international perspective:  Paul Messina
      Meiko perspectives:  N. Burnett and D. Roweth
      Summer scholarships report:  G.V. Wilson

12.30 Lunch and demonstrations

14.00 ECS Project reports: Session Chairman,  R.N. Ibbett
      Parallelising tools:  D. Prior
      Topology-independent harnesses: L.J. Clarke
      D3 - Parallel graphics:  M.G. Norman
      Machine-independent image processing language -
         APPLY:  H. Wang (Leeds University)
      Linda - shared memory emulation:  R. Trehan
      Communications performance in occam programs:
         Q. Luo

15.30 Tea

16.00 ECS Project reports (continued)
      A distributed black-board system for vision
         applications:  M. Brown
      Neural net work:  D.J. Wallace
      Chemical process simulation:  J. Ponton
      Oil reservoir modelling:  M. Baker
      Variational wave functions for high temperature
         superconductors: W. Yeung (Queen Mary College)
      Lattice field theory:  K.C Bowler

17.30 Close

Cost: #34.50 for prompt booking

Contacts for more information:
   John Wexler
   Edinburgh University Computing Service
   The King's Buildings
   Edinburgh EH9 3JZ
   Great Britain
   phone: +44 31 667 1081 ext 2635 / 031 667 1081 ext 2635
   fax:   +44 31 662 4712 / 031 662 4712
   e-mail: J.Wexler@uk.ac.edinburgh (JANET)

   CEP Consultants Ltd
   26-28 Albany Street
   Edinburgh EH1 3QH
   Great Britain
   phone: +44 31 557 2478 / 031 557 2478
   fax: +44 31 557 5749 / 031 557 5749