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From: MJP@starlink.roe.ac.uk (Magnus Paterson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
Subject: Re: Protocol Query
Date: 7 Sep 92 10:44:00 GMT
Organization: The Internet

Thanks to those who responded to my protocol request.  Looks like I was
tilting at yet another windmill, as what I wanted to do can't yet be
done (occam3 ?).  Roger Peel in particular provided some useful
information.

I couldn't use CHAN OF ANY as there are lots of other things going on
over the channel.  I quite liked Alastair's idea of declaring a new
protocol once I knew what nrows & ncolumns were, but I have to talk to
an external, and this clashes with the debugger.

You CAN send 2-d arrays.  The current version of the code has a variant
protocol (ALICE.LINK) which includes

          CASE
            frame; [256][256]REAL32

and the code includes

      CHAN OF ALICE.LINK from.pipe :

      [256][256]REAL32 data.frame :
      SEQ
        from.pipe ? CASE frame; data.frame

Chris O Byrne came closest, using a loop to read sub-rows;  I had
thought of this approach; I just wanted to be lazy and do it as a single
message.

However, the problem has temporarily gone away as, for this application
at least, the author of the Fortran process (!) with which I have to
communicate is content to get the data as a 1-d vector and deal with
pixel placement in the Fortran code.  Now, the variant protocol
declaration includes
            frame; INT[]::REAL32

and my code has
            [max.pxls]REAL32 data.frame :
            INT num.pxls :
            .
            .
            SEQ
              in ? CASE frame; num.pxls::data.frame

     Cheers,
     Magnus.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
From: mdavoli@eng.auburn.edu (Michael Kenneth Davoli)
Subject: least squares molecular refinement programs
Reply-To: mdavoli@eng.auburn.edu
Organization: Auburn University Engineering
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 07:12:07 GMT



	Hi, I am looking for references to parallel least-squares refinement programs
 - in particular for X-ray diffraction data on crystals.  Any architecture, any
language.



		Thanks in advance,

		Michael Davoli

		mdavoli@eng.auburn.edu



*I have also posted this query to comp.sys.concurrent, bionet.xtallography, 
and comp.parallel


**two previous posting attempts have failed...I think.  Otherwise, apologies
From: dhenrich@ira.uka.de (Dominik Henrich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
Subject: Helios and X-Windows ?
Date: 9 Sep 1992 15:08:35 GMT
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, FRG
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: i60s15.ira.uka.de


Hi,

Fortunately, I have the unique chance to choose a software 
environment for parallel applications.

We have a cluster of 16 transputers under Helios.
The system is:
	Helios Sun I/O Server V3.85_parsytec_0.9 3rd April 1991
	Copyright (C) Perihelion Software Ltd. 1987-1990
a server for SunTools, but I want to use an X-Windows (Motif) surface.

Of cause, I could use the ASCII-terminal interface to communicate with
the cluster. Nevertheless, a comfortable software development is not possible,
because I can not use multiple windows (one for every processor).

Does anyone know a possibility to use Helios with X-Windows (Motif)?

Any advice is welcome.
Thanx in advance,

Dominik.

**************************************************************
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  Institute for Real-time Computer Systems and Robotics (IPR)
  University of Karlsruhe (TH)

  P 69 80, Kaiserstrasse 12     phone:      +49 721 608-4265
  D-7500 Karlsruhe-1            telefax:    +49 721 60 67 40
  F. R. of Germany              e-mail:  dhenrich@ira.uka.de
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From: paulc@cs.hw.ac.uk (Paul Connolly)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
Subject: CS-Tools communication overheads?
Keywords: CS-Tools communication
Date: 9 Sep 92 12:08:31 GMT
Organization: Dept of Computing & Electrical Engineering, 
		Heriot-Watt University, Scotland

Hi Y'all,
	forgive me if this is a FAQ, but are there significant overheads
to calling CS-Tools functions like tx,rx,txnb,rxnb to perform inter-processor
communication on transputers? If, as I suspect, there are, what is the
speed difference between CS-Tools communication and OCCAM communication?

Thank you for your time in considering this posting,

Bye y'all
	Paul Connolly	paulc@cs.hw.ac.uk (Internet)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
From: jan@pallas.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (Jan Vorbrueggen)
Subject: Re: occam compiler bugs (was protocol query)
Organization: Inst. f. Neuroinformatik, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, FRG
Date: 9 Sep 92 13:34:13

Conor O'Neill from Inmos' software group has asked me to point out that
the bug I mentioned (code generation for MOVE2D), as well as the other
two code generation bugs I had found in the '89 release of the TDS occam
compiler, are not in the currently released toolset occam compiler.

Jan Vorbrueggen, Inst. f. Neuroinformatik, RuhrUniversitaet Bochum, FRG
jan@neuroinformatik.ruhrunibochum.de
Xref: sparky comp.sys.transputer:1025 comp.sys.amiga.hardware:15414
From: mcramm@dct.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Transputer Cards for Amiga Zorro II or Zorro III bus
Date: 15 Sep 92 14:35:11 GMT
Organization: Dundee Institute of Technology

This is a repost - I'm looking for information about suppliers of 
Transputer cards for CBM-Amiga Zorro II or III slots.

The last information I have is from an old (1990) copy of AC's Guide to the
Amiga. I have had several requests for copies of any information I receive
so I will be posting summaries to these groups.

Anyone with any information (even rumours) please e-mail me at one of the
addresses below. (given in order of frequency of checking)


-- 
 Angus M. Marshall, 
 e-mail: MCRAMM@UK.AC.DCT.                  
         MCRAMM@UK.AC.DCT.CLUS                                 // 
         amarshal@uk.ac.dund.mcs                              //
 Phone: (+44 382) 308000 ext. 2265 or (+44 382) 308600    \\ //
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".. and in the grove, by gate and hill, midst  merry  throng  and  market
clatter -  stood  the  Hall  of  the Mountain Grill, where table strain'd
'neath loaded platter "                             
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
From: tbjorkho@james.abo.fi (Tom Bj|rkholm AT)
Subject: prof. Hintz
Organization: Abo Akademi University, Finland
Distribution: comp.sys.transputer
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 11:39:09 GMT


I am sorry that I have to use usenet for this.

Does anyone have the email address of Prof. Tom Hintz,
School of Computer Science, University of Technology,
Sydney?

Could you please mail it to me?

Best regards,

Tom
----
--
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Process Design Laboratory             Phone: +358 21 654 863
Department of Chemical Engineering    Fax:   +358 21 654 479
Abo Akademi University                Internet: tbjorkho@ra.abo.fi
Biskopsgatan 8                           or:    tbjorkholm@finabo.abo.fi
SF-20500 Abo                          Bitnet:   TBJORKHOLM@FINABO
FINLAND                               Nordunet: ABOVAX::TBJORKHOLM
Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
Subject: Looking for a job.
From: bordy@edy.elettra.trieste.it (Luca Giovanetti Sismat Genova)
Date: 8 Sep 92 20:04:49 +0100
Distribution: world

I'm an electronic engineer graduated at Genoa's University in July 92.
My thesis is about parallel processing on transputer machine and was
developed with P. Morasso and R. Zaccaria at dist.unige.it.
I'm 26 and now i'm in the Italian Navy. I'm stay there until next
december.

I'm looking for opportunities in the following fields:

		- Virtual systems
		- Astronomy and spatial systems
		- Robotics
		- Submariner and flying systems
		
You can find me at this email address: bordy@edy.elettra.trieste.it

MANY THANKS IN ADVANCE !!!

Lines: 5
Date: Fri,  4 Sep 92 17:38:20 MDT
Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
Subject: LINDA for transputer
Organization: Brigham Young University, Provo UT USA
Keywords: Transputer , LINDA
From: barness@bones.et.byu.edu (scott a barnes)

Is there anyone that knows about an implementation of LINDA on the 
transputer. 
 


Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
From: raja@osc.edu (Raja Daoud)
Subject: G300 with low-res monitors
Organization: The Ohio Supercomputer Center
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 21:54:09 GMT

We have a Transtech graphics TRAM based on the INMOS G300 video controller.
We were able to program it to use a high resolution colour monitor (1024 x 768
with 256 colours) but are having trouble using it on a low-res NTSC monitor
(with RGB inputs): can't get it to sync.  Did anybody use a G300-based
graphics TRAM to drive low-res monitors and if yes how was this accomplished
(register settings, nifty tricks, etc...) ?
Thank you for your help.

-=-
Raja Daoud					Ohio Supercomputer Center
Trollius Operating System			1224 Kinnear Road
raja@tbag.osc.edu				Columbus, OH 43212
From: bane@neumann.ma.man.ac.uk (Michael)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
Subject: Meiko
Date: 11 Sep 92 12:36:41 GMT
Reply-To: bane@vtx.ma.man.ac.uk
Organization: Mad Hackers Anonymous

Hi!

Could somebody please confirm, or otherwise, that the Meiko machines have switch chips
which do not give reproducible results?

Michael Bane
Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
From: andyr@wizzy.com (Andy Rabagliati)
Subject: Re: Sension IP-1/IPLIB software
Organisation: little, as usual
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 03:18:03 GMT

In article <1992Sep11.142913.17850@EE.Surrey.Ac.UK> mes3sl@surrey.ac.uk (Shaun Lawson) writes:

>The drivers for the IP-1 and the IPLIB software are supplied as either
>3L or Inmos C source happily delivered with *DOS* installation batch files.

The compilers for the PC and sun are the same. The source for the transputer
end of things should thus be completely portable.

To use your favorite editor, you may have to do some CR/LF -> LF
dos2unix shuffles, but I doubt you will have any problem with
code compatibility, linking, libraries, etc.

Cheers,   Andy.

-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer,comp.os.mach
From: duzan@tweety.cis.udel.edu (Gary D. Duzan)
Subject: Re: Mach on Transputers?
Keywords: mach transputer t9000 t800
Organization: Your Organization Could Be Here!
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 11:19:03 GMT

In article <1992Sep9.073732.14197@rhrk.uni-kl.de> uch024@zx1.hrz.uni-dortmund.de writes:
=>
=>David B. Teague (dbt@adm.csc.ncsu.edu) wrote:
=>: 
=>:   Has anyone given thought to running Mach3 on transputers? While I
=>: have questions about the suitability of their memory model and IO
=>: system (I am learning about them), they are on the whole very
=>: interesting, and their lightweight-process and cheap interprocess
=>: communication would seem to fit Mach well.
=>: 
=>: --Jim
=>
=>Well, i already heard about works on impementing a UNIX-like System
=>with a MACH-Kernel on transputers. The system was called CHORUS.

   For the record, Chorus is not MACH-based; it has its own microkernel.

                                        Gary Duzan
                                        Time  Lord
                                    Third Regeneration



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Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer,comp.os.mach
From: dbt@adm.csc.ncsu.edu (David B. Teague)
Subject: Mach on Transputers?
Followup-To: bray@wcuvax1.wcu.edu "Jim Bray"
Organization: wcuvax1.wcu.edu (Western Carolina University CS Dept.)
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 17:54:36 GMT


  Has anyone given thought to running Mach3 on transputers? While I
have questions about the suitability of their memory model and IO
system (I am learning about them), they are on the whole very
interesting, and their lightweight-process and cheap interprocess
communication would seem to fit Mach well.

--Jim
Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
From: uch024@zx1.Darkcrystal.Cyberspace (Lothar Koniczek)
Subject: Re: T9000 Systems Workshop: Summary ?
Reply-To: uch024@zx1.hrz.uni-dortmund.de
Organization: University of Dortmund (Germany), Department of Chemistry
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 13:12:30 GMT

David Arnold (davida@cs.uq.oz.au) wrote:
: Would anyone who attended the T9000 workshop at the University of
: Kent like to post a summary of the proceedings ? Or even just an
: impression or comments on what was said ?
: 
: Thanks in advance,
: 
: David Arnold		davida@cs.uq.oz.au

Yes, i'll appreciate a summary too.

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From: lyond@csc4.essex.ac.uk (Lyons D M)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
Subject: Strange advertising
Date: 9 Sep 92 08:43:13 GMT
Reply-To: lyond@essex.ac.uk (Lyons D M)
Organization: University of Essex, Colchester, UK

On British ITV, Tuesday 8/9/92 at 9 pm, something called a transputer was the 
focus of a detective program ("Boon"). This device, a "printed circuit to help 
computers talk to one another".  

Some of the technology was quite correctly portrayed. It seemed important that 
"the FPU was on the same chip as the CPU", although the actor seemed 
uncomfortable with the line.  The industrial spies seemed to spend a lot of 
time stripping the data from proms or EPLD's or such.

Perhaps it was not a good idea to hide the thing (even in its carefully labeled 
antistatic wrapper) in the cistern of a toilet.

Did Inmos give permission for this usage?

 David Lyons, Computer Science, University of Essex, Colchester C04 3SQ 
 England.  Tel: 44 206 872674 
 Email: lyond@uk.ac.essex  Fax: 44 206 872788 (GP's 3/2/Auto) 
 David Lyons, Computer Science, University of Essex, Colchester C04 3SQ /-----\
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
From: davidb@inmos.co.uk (David Boreham)
Subject: Re: Strange advertising
Reply-To: davidb@inmos.co.uk (David Boreham)
Organization: INMOS Limited, Bristol, UK.
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 15:51:12 GMT

In article <5374@sersun1.essex.ac.uk> lyond@essex.ac.uk (Lyons D M) writes:
>On British ITV, Tuesday 8/9/92 at 9 pm, something called a transputer was the 
>focus of a detective program ("Boon"). This device, a "printed circuit to help 
>computers talk to one another".  
>
>Some of the technology was quite correctly portrayed. It seemed important that 
>"the FPU was on the same chip as the CPU", although the actor seemed 
>uncomfortable with the line.  The industrial spies seemed to spend a lot of 
>time stripping the data from proms or EPLD's or such.
>
>Perhaps it was not a good idea to hide the thing (even in its carefully labeled 
>antistatic wrapper) in the cistern of a toilet.
>
>Did Inmos give permission for this usage?
>

Yes.

We gave them some old boards (B002's I think) from the cupboard.
We didn't know anything about the plot until the screening this week

Don't know where the idea came from.


-- 
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From: marlow@sys.uea.ac.uk (K. Marlow PG)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
Subject: Trace files from CStools
Date: 8 Sep 92 10:26:52 GMT
Organization: UEA School of Information Systems, Norwich, UK.


  I wonder if someone in Meiko could explain to me the differences
between the format of the .trc files they generate & that which is normally
generated by PICL?  It looks like rather than adding to the PICL format
in a backwards compatible way, it has been altered by the introduction of
hexadecimal numbers & the loss of a few parameters to some of the events.

  If someone could explain to me the differences it would enable me to
write some s/w to convert between the two.

  Thanks in advance

   Keith Marlow

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From: rreiss@TE11.HQ.ESO.ORG (Roland Reiss)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
Subject: WANTED: Vendors for TRAMS
Date: 8 Sep 92 09:54:39 GMT
Reply-To: rreiss@eso.org

I'm looking for potential vendors of size 1 T805/4MB TRAMs in Europe.
It would be helpful for me if satisfied (?) customers could send me
some addresses of suppliers together with their experience i.e.
compatibility, reliability etc.

Thanks in advance.

*
*  Roland Reiss				rreiss@eso.org		
*  Optical Detectors			+49-89-32006-390
*
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*					D-8046 Garching, Germany
From: udptech@uniwa.uwa.edu.au (Denis Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
Subject: video digitising, neural nets
Date: 11 Sep 1992 08:32:51 +0800
Organization: The University of Westrn Australia
NNTP-Posting-Host: uniwa.uwa.edu.au
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

I have an interest in digitising stereoscopic video images for use in
human movement studies (e.g. limb movement dynamics) and, unrelatedly
at present, neural networks for various modelling tasks.  From the
data and experience to hand it seems that transputers offer the power
and expansion prospects which will be required (especially in the
neural nets).  Accordingly I have budgeted for something like the
Transtech TTG-F frame grabber and a 10-TRAM host card for my baseline
environment (networked PCs).  The frame grabber takes up 4 TRAM slots,
so I expect to have a reasonable expansion path before having to get
more host cards.  I'm experienced in C, so have opted for this as the
lingua-franca in the form of 3L's Parallel C.

On the video (movement) side, I'd be interested in deltas (subtracting
successive frames, effectively), with concentration on maybe 6% of the
full scanned area.  Any comments from anyone who's done/doing/given-up-
on something along these lines ??  Granted, it's not the sort of soft-
ware you'd knock up haphazardly before morning tea break one day, but
according to one of our ex Prime Minister's, "Life wasn't meant to be
easy!".  BTW, I don't need display of real-time (or indeed ANY) video,
just a bunch of numbers saying "this point moved xx,yy,zz units since
the last capture time".  Using multiplexed video sources into 1 grabber
and CCIR TV specs, this means a timing resolution of 40 millisecs, more
than fast enough for what I have in mind.

Another way of going would be a workstation (SUN, DEC, etc) with a
frame grabber card.  There'd most likely be heaps of nearly-written
code out there, but the comparative "isolation" of the processing horse-
power from the grabber hardware weighs up in favour of the txputers, I
think.  Also I have a desire to implement the n/nets (later on) in a
parallel environment.

Comments, etc appreciated.
Cheers,
Denis


Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer,comp.os.mach
From: uch024@zx1.Darkcrystal.Cyberspace (Lothar Koniczek)
Subject: Re: Mach on Transputers?
Summary: Is there anyone distributing MACH for transputers?
Keywords: mach transputer t9000 t800
Reply-To: uch024@zx1.hrz.uni-dortmund.de
Organization: University of Dortmund (Germany), Department of Chemistry
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 07:37:32 GMT


David B. Teague (dbt@adm.csc.ncsu.edu) wrote:
: 
:   Has anyone given thought to running Mach3 on transputers? While I
: have questions about the suitability of their memory model and IO
: system (I am learning about them), they are on the whole very
: interesting, and their lightweight-process and cheap interprocess
: communication would seem to fit Mach well.
: 
: --Jim

Well, i already heard about works on impementing a UNIX-like System
with a MACH-Kernel on transputers. The system was called CHORUS.
In fact the only thing i know about this is that it was going to be
implemented for T9000 (How strange). The article is published
by Chorus Systemes. You can retrieve the postscriptfile from
opera.chorus.fr. I'm sorry but i've completely forgotten
the text-identifying number. Therefore you'll have to retrieve
the index first. I think the article is nearly a year old.
That was the last i've heard about MACH for transputers.
I wonder why nobody else tried with MACH for transputers.

                                            Lothar Koniczek


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From: davida@cs.uq.oz.au (David Arnold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
Subject: T9000 Systems Workshop: Summary ?
Date: 14 Sep 92 22:36:31 GMT
Reply-To: davida@cs.uq.oz.au
Followup-To: comp.sys.transputer
Organization: Computer Science, University of Queensland, Australia

Would anyone who attended the T9000 workshop at the University of
Kent like to post a summary of the proceedings ? Or even just an
impression or comments on what was said ?

Thanks in advance,

David Arnold		davida@cs.uq.oz.au

Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
From: chughes@maths.tcd.ie (Conrad Hughes)
Subject: Acorn Replay speed & compression information
Keywords: replay speed motion picture compression size reduction
Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 18:20:16 GMT


I'm looking for information on Replay's speed and compression
performance..  If anyone in the know would provide me with a few
figures, I'd be very grateful..

Information I'd like would be along the lines of the following:
Frame rate, image size (pixel dimensions) and colour resolution
(16/256 colours, et cetera), movie size (disk usage) and number
of frames.  Information on what hardware these figures are from
would be very useful as well :-)  If it has some facility to
trade speed for compression ratio, tell me - I'd prefer
information on playback rates of at least 10 frames per second..

Thanks very much for your time,
Conrad
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
From: ong_e@cs.uwa.oz.au (Ernie Ong)
Subject: bison ... HELP!!!
Summary: memory problems with bison
Keywords: bison
Organization: Dept. Computer Science, University of Western Australia.
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 07:49:44 GMT

I have just received the UNIX port of bison. It seems to be extremely memory 
hungry...

I have reserved 1.5MB for it (I've got only 2MB on my A5000) but it keeps 
running out of memory... Can ANYONE out there .. HELLPPPPPPPP!!!!!

Much, much thanks in advance!

cheers, ernie.
From: lithgow@usl.com (Malcolm Lithgow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: RISC OS 3.10 Upgrades and HD Controllers
Date: 6 Sep 92 23:55:54 GMT

Thanks to everyone who answered my queries. I'll have to send away for
RISC OS 3.10 as soon as I can. (Thank goodness I've got an ARM3, eh?)

And it looks like SCSI is the best bet for an HD controller. (I might
buy a CD-ROM sometime, if I can find an excuse. ;->)

Thanks,
-Malcolm.  lithgow@usl.com  These are merely my opinions.