From: grant@v2.cgu.mcc.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
Subject: Meiko Users Conference
Date: 11 Jan 93 17:22:53 GMT
Organization: Manchester Computing Centre CGU

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		The 4th Meiko User Society Conference
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                     15th and 16th April 1993 
                          Moat House Hotel
                          Southampton, UK

The Meiko User Society annual conference provides a forum for users and
administrators of Meiko parallel computer systems to meet and discuss 
relevant issues. Meiko directors, support and technical staff are also 
present, providing an opportunity for direct discussion. 

The conference will include sessions for User papers, Special Interest
Groups (SIGs), and informative workshops.  This year there are two
workshops which will be held concurrently; one concerning High
Performance Fortran and the other continuing the theme set at last
year's conference of advanced CSTools programming issues and problems. 
The final afternoon of the conference is devoted to SIGs.  The SIGs will
provide a friendly forum for the discussion of: Parallel Database
Systems, Parallel Graphics and Data Visualisation, Computational Fluid
Dynamics, Grand Challenge problems and High Performance Fortran. 

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Venue 
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The 1993 Meiko User Conference will be held at the Southampton Moat
House Hotel.  This hotel is about half a mile from the University of
Southampton's main campus at Highfield and approximately two miles from
Southampton city centre. 

The University of Southampton has had a very strong association with
parallel computing since the early days of the first generation of
transputers.  Today the University is playing a major role in the
development of new standards and technology in the parallel computing
world.  Currently there are three main parallel computing groups at
Southampton and their work covers academic research, industrial and
commercial applications, and user service and support. 

The conference will be mainly held at the Moat House Hotel.  Those
delegates wishing to attend the CSTools workshop will be transported to
and from the University. 

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Date
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The conference will be held on Thursday 15th and Friday 16th April 1993. 

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Membership
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Membership of the Meiko User Society (MeikUS) is free to all users of
Meiko equipment.  Members are entitled to free copies of the Society's
journal "Surface Noise" (published three times a year).  In addition
members have access to an archive server and will receive regular
information on conferences and events connected with the Society. 

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Call For Papers
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Submission of abstracts:      February 1st 1993
Notification of acceptance:   February 20th 1993
Final versions of papers:     March 20th 1993

Authors should submit full papers in English of not more than 20 A4,
double spaced, pages, together with an abstract.  Three copies should be
submitted together with an electronic version in plain ASCII text.  It
should be noted that accepted papers will be published in "Surface
Noise" and in the North Holland journal "Future Generation Computer
Systems". 

An added attraction at this years conference will be a user poster
display competition.  Each entrant should produce a poster of no more
than A1 size with pictures and text describing their work.  Delegates
interested in entering this competition should indicate so on the
application form. 

Meiko are kindly sponsoring the prizes for the best paper presentation
and the best submitted poster. 

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CSTools Tutorial
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This workshop will concentrate on the use of advanced CSN communications
features such as message prioritisation and the effects of various CSN
function call parameters on the behaviour of CSN primitives. 

The workshop will be of particular interest to CSTools users in the
client-server applications field but is also designed to be of general interest.
No particular knowledge of client-server applications will be assumed. 

The workshop will, however, assume a background knowledge and understanding 
of various modes of communication available within CSTools along with a 
working knowledge of Unix and one of its common editors (vi or emacs). 

The workshop will be of an "exploratory" nature involving both group and
individual work and will last approximately 1.5 - 2.0 hours. 

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High Performance Fortran Workshop
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Since its introduction over 3 decades ago, Fortran has been the language
of choice for scientific and engineering programming for sequential
computers.  Exploiting the full capability of modern parallel
architectures, however, increasingly requires more information than
ordinary Fortran77 or Fortran90 programs provide. 

The High Performance Fortran Forum was formed in January 1992 as a
coalition of industrial and academic groups working to develop a set of
standard Fortran extensions to provide the necessary information,
particularly for data parallel computation.  The working group includes
most vendors and manufacturers of parallel computers, compiler vendors, and 
many leading academic research groups in the field of parallel computation. 

The resulting informal language standard, High Performance Fortran
(HPF), is due to be published at the start of 1993.  It will be based on
extensions to Fortran90 as the base language, and is intended to be
portable from workstations to massively parallel supercomputers while
being able to express the algorithms needed to achieve high performance
on specific architectures.  The extensions will consist of:

	new directives, e.g. for data distribution on multiprocessors;
	
	new language features, probably limited to a FORALL statement and
	construct, and new intrinsic procedures;

	language restrictions, e.g.  in the use of sequence and storage
	association. 

An official subset of full HPF will be defined for faster implementation. 

This HPF workshop will include the following topics:

	a tutorial introduction to HPF; 

	a review of current and planned HPF implementations and related tools
	for parallel program development. 

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Social Events
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	A reception before the conference banquet has been sponsored by Meiko.
	The conference banquet will be held on Thursday evening.

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Conference Format
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The morning of the first day is being set aside for:

	A CSTools workshop given by Meiko staff.
	A High Performance Fortran workshop given by staff from the
	University of Southampton. 

User presentations and keynote speeches will take place during the first
afternoon and the second morning.  The final afternoon will consist of a
number of SIGs running in parallel. 

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Day 1
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0900   		Registration and Coffee
1000 - 1300	High Performance Fortran workshop (coffee 1100-1130)
0930 - 1300	CSTools Workshop (Coffee 1100 - 1120).
1300   		Lunch
1400   		Keynote speech - Anthony Hey (Professor of Concurrent Computation, University of Southampton)
1445      	User paper 1
1510      	User paper 2
1535      	User paper 3
1600      	Tea
1630 - 1800   	Meiko Session - Headed by Miles Chesney (Managing Director, Meiko)
1930      	Conference Banquet

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Day 2
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0900      	Registration and Coffee
0930      	Keynote speech - Andy Coot (Manager Spacial Database System, Ordnance Survey)
1015      	User paper 4
1040      	User paper 5
1105      	Coffee break and MeikUS AGM
1145      	User paper 6
1210      	User paper 7
1235      	User paper 8
1300      	Lunch
1400      	SIG session 1
1500      	Tea
1530      	SIG session 2
1630      	Close

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Further Information
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For further information on the Conference or the Meiko User Society contact:

Dr Mark Baker                 			Ms Charlie Clydesdale
Southampton University Computing Services 	Meiko Users Conference
Highfield  					c/o Meiko Ltd
Southampton, S05 5NH          			650 Aztec West
Tel: (+44) 703 593226         			Bristol, BS12 4SD
Fax: (+44) 703 593939         			Tel:    (+44) 454 616171
Email M.A.Baker@soton.ac.uk			Fax:    (+44) 454 618188
   						Email:  meiko-user-soc@uk.co.meiko

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				Booking Form
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Name:
Address:

Telephone:			Email:             	Fax:

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General Information:
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The day rates given below are inclusive of: attendance at the
conference, lunch and refreshments, a copy of the conference proceeding,
attendance of one of the workshops (Thursday) and attendance of the SIGs
(Friday).  It does not include accomodation or the Conference Banquet. 

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* N.B. All prices (#) are in UK pounds sterling. *
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Conference Attendance:
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Day Delegate  (Coffee, Lunch & Tea) - Thursday 15th	#30	Y/N
Day Delegate  (Coffee, Lunch & Tea) - Friday 16th	#30	Y/N

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Day 1 (Thursday 15th April)

I wish to attend:
   Advanced CSTools Tutorial    				Y/N 
OR
   High Performance Fortran Workshop       			Y/N

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Day 2  (Friday 16th April)

I would like to attend the following Special Interest Groups (SIG):

   Session 1:
	Parallel Databases					Y/N
   OR   Computational Fluid Dynamics     			Y/N
   OR   Grand Challenges      					Y/N

   Session 2:
   	Visualisation     					Y/N
   OR   HP Fortran 						Y/N

I wish to enter the poster competition    			Y/N

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		Accommodation at the Southampton Moat House Hotel:
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Wednesday 14th							Y/N
Thursday 15th 							Y/N
Friday 16th   							Y/N

Hotel Rates (per night):

Single (B & B)					 	#41	Y/N
Twin or Double (B & B)          			#47 	Y/N

Conference Banquet					#25	Y/N
Vegetarian Meal							Y/N
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Total Cost
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Discount: 
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There is a 10% discount for delegates booking conference places before
1st February 1993.  Each paper accepted for presentation at the
conference will entitle its author to a free Conference Banquet. 

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Payment:
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Charges are inclusive of VAT and must be paid in advance of the event. 
Refunds less a 20% cancellation fee will be given only for cancellation
received in writing more than 28 days before the conference.  However,
registration may be transferred to another named individual without
financial penalty.  In the event of the conference being cancelled,
repayment will be made in full.  Please return this form with a cheque
or postal order made payable to the following bank account:

Account Name: "Scientific Meiko User Group"
Account No.:   06569668      Sort Code: 77-67-16
Branch Name:  TSB, The Paddock Shopping Precinct Handforth, Cheshire, UK, SK9 3HQ

Payment should be sent to:   Meiko User Society
   c/o Charlie Clydesdale
   Meiko Ltd.
   650 Aztec West
   Bristol
   UK, BS12 4SD
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