From: deboni@diego.llnl.gov (Tom DeBoni)
Newsgroups: sci.optics,sci.physics.fusion,sci.physics,sci.research,sci.space
Subject: Sisal meeting schedule
Date: 15 Sep 92 16:17:39 GMT
Followup-To: sci.optics
Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory


			     A N N O U N C E M E N T

			The Second Sisal Users Conference

			       Hyatt Islandia Hotel

			   	   San Diego, CA

				 October 4-6, 1992


				   Presented by

		      Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

				with support from 

			  the US Department of Energy


Sisal (Streams and Iterations in a Single-Assignment Language) is a general-
purpose functional language that supports the development of determinate, 
machine-independent parallel software. The Sisal project has achieved 
significant successes over the past nine years, in many areas of computer 
science and parallel computing. Among these are the development of the Sisal 
language and the IF1 intermediate dataflow graph representation, the 
implementation of a runtime system for parallel execution on conventional 
shared memory computers, optimizations for functional languages, the 
achievement of Fortran-like performance, and the establishment of the Sisal 
Scientific Computing Initiative. The latter of these has involved researchers 
from many areas of science and engineering in the use of Sisal as an 
application programming language. In this meeting we will discuss uses of the 
language, the current state of the project, and its future directions.

Who Should Attend?

All Sisal users, implementers, and researchers, and those who are interested 
in the Sisal language or functional programming are invited to attend this 
meeting. We also welcome those involved in the various other aspects of 
parallel computing.

Cost

The cost of this conference is $150, and includes lunches both days and a 
reception the first night. Guest lunch tickets are available. 


Accomodations

Lodging is available at a special rate of $70 (US) per room, single or double 
occupancy, at the Hyatt Islandia Hotel, phone (800) 233-1234. ATTENDEES MUST
ARRANGE THEIR OWN LODGING.


Transportation

Shuttle service is available between the San Diego airport and the Hyatt 
Islandia Hotel.

					
                        Tentative Conference Program

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Sunday, October 4, 1992

Registration - 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm

Reception - 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm

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Monday, October 5, 1992

Session 1 - 8:30 am to 10:00 am

John Feo, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Introduction

James McGraw, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Keynote Address

Break - 10:00 am to 10:30 am

Session 2 - 10:30 am to 12 noon - Session Chair: Richard Wolski

Dae-Kyun Yoon and Jean-Luc Gaudiot, University of Southern California
"Programming and Evaluating the Performance of Signal Processing Applications
in SISAL Programming Environment"

Dean Engelhardt and Andrew Wendelborn, University of Adelaide
"Investigating the Memory Performance of the Optimising SISAL Compiler"

Patrick J. Miller, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
"TWINE: A Portable, Extensible SISAL Execution Kernel and Debugger"

Lunch - 12 noon to 1:30 pm

Session 3 - 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm - Session Chair: Walter Cedeno

Jesus Novoa, Flor Sanmiguel, and Jaime Seguel, University of Puerto Rico at
Mayaguez
"A SISAL Code for Computing the Fourier Transform on Sn"

Wim Bohm, Colorado State University
Greg Egan, Swinburne University of Technology
"Five Ways to Fill Your Knapsack"

Arun K. Arya, David Woods, and Charles Murphy, Dr. Arun Arya and Associates
"Mathematical Syntax for SISAL"

Break - 3:00 pm to 3:30 pm

Session 4 - 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm - Session Chair: Chris Frerking

Marc Pantel, Marcel Gandriau, and Patrick Salle, Ecole Nationale Superieur
d'Electrotechnique d'Electronique d'Informatique et d'Hydraulique de
Toulouse
"FOL: An Object Oriented Extension to the SISAL Language"

David J. Raymond, New Mexico Tech
"Candis as an Interface for SISAL"

Steven M. Fitzgerald, University of Lowell
"An Approach for Optimizing Recursive Functions"

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Tuesday, October 6, 1992

Session 1 - 8:30 am to 10:00 am - Session Chair: Tom DeBoni

A. L. Cricenti and G. K. Egan, Swinburne University of Technology
"Parallelisation and Performance of the Burg Algorithm on a Shared Memory
Multiprocessor"

Walter Cedeno, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
"Genetic Algorithms in SISAL"

Dorothy Bollman, Flor Sanmiguel, and Jaime Seguel, University of Puerto Rico at
Mayaguez
"Implementing FFT's in SISAL"

Break - 10:00 am to 10:30 am

Session 2 - 10:30 am to 12 noon - Session Chair: James McGraw

R. R. Oldehoeft, Colorado State University
"Implementing Arrays in SISAL 2.0"

Srdjan Mitrovic, ETH Zurich
"An IF2 Code Generator for the ADAM Architecture"

David Andrews, University of Arkansas
"An Approach for Performing Application Specific Analysis of Parallel
Computing Systems"

Lunch - 12 noon to 1:30 pm

Session 3 - 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm - Session Chair: Patrick Miller

Richard Wolski, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
"Program Partitioning for NUMA Architectures"

Santosh S. Pande, Dharma P. Agrawal, and Jon Mauney, North Carolina State
University
"Mapping Functional Parallelism on Distributed Memory Machines"

Paul Roe and Andrew Wendelborn, University of Adelaide
"Explicit Copying and Updating in Functional Languages"

Break - 3:00 pm to 3:30 pm

Session 4 - 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm - Session Chair: John Feo

Michael Strailey and Patrick Tibbits, Indiana Institute of Technology
Tom DeBoni, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
"Simulating Material Strain Dislocation Motion in Sisal"

C. Yoshikawa, U. Ghia, and G. A. Osswald, University of Cincinnati
"SISAL and Von Neumann-Based Languages: Translation and Intercommunication"

Vivek Sarkar, International Business Machines
"SISAL vs. FORTRAN '90 --- Contradictory or Complementary Approaches?"

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                       The Second Sisal Users Conference
                               October 4-6, 1992
                               Registration Form

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Preregistration is due by September 18th, 1992
Payment is due by September 26th, 1992

Payment by check or money order, in U.S. dollars and drawn on U.S. banks should
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We are unable to accept credit cards.

Send registration and payment to:
    Judy Michels
    Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
    P.O. Box 808, L-316
    Livermore, CA, 94551
    (510) 422-4236
    judy@diego.llnl.gov

Lodging can be arranged through:
    Hyatt Islandia Hotel
    1441 Quivira Road
    San Diego, CA 92109-7898
    Telephone: (800) 233-1234
    FAX: (619) 224-0348
    Telex: 697844

For more information contact:
    John Feo or Tom DeBoni
    Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
    P.O. Box 808, L-306
    Livermore, CA 94550
    (510) 422-6389 or (510) 423-3793
    FAX: (510) 423-2993
    feo@diego.llnl.gov or deboni@diego.llnl.gov