From: jph@RMIT.EDU.AU (John Hulskamp)
Newsgroups: news.announce.conferences
Subject: Australian Transputer and Parallel Applications Conference
Date: 14 Apr 92 01:20:56 GMT
Expires: Tue, 30 Jun 1992 07:00:00 GMT
Organization: RMIT Computer Centre, Melbourne Australia.


ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS

AUSTRALIAN
TRANSPUTER AND OCCAM USER GROUP


TRANSPUTER AND PARALLEL APPLICATIONS CONFERENCE

(TAPA-92)

4 & 5 NOVEMBER 1992


CASEY PLAZA LECTURE THEATRE
ROYAL MELBOURNE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
124 La Trobe Street
MELBOURNE AUSTRALIA

TAPA-92 incorporates the fifth annual Conference/Exhibition of the Australian
Transputer and OCCAM User Group. The Conference will be held under the auspices of the RMIT Concurrent Computing Centre within the Department of Computer
Systems Engineering at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.

The Conference aims to cater for the "state of the art" coverage, in Australia, of both transputer and parallel computing theory and practice. The Conference
will provide an opportunity to focus on the latest research and developments in transputers and other parallel computing hardware and software in the
Australian environment.

The Conference will be held over two days, with a post-Conference workshop on
the third day.


CALL FOR PAPERS

Papers for the Conference are being sought from interested persons. The
Conference will focus on the latest developments in the transputer family
and other parallel computing hardware, the language support for such systems,
and applications. Papers are invited from those working in the field of
transputer-based and parallel computing research and development and their
application in science and engineering.

Abstracts of a maximum of 500 words on topics related to the Conference are now invited, and will be due by 30 June 1992. Abstracts may be posted to the
Conference Convenor, or e-mailed to transputer@rmit.edu.au (text or postscript
formats only, please).

Notification of Acceptance will be given by 30 July 1992. At this time
prospective authors will be supplied with instructions concerning the format
of the final paper. Authors whose papers are accepted will be required to pay
the Conference registration fee and attend the Conference to deliver the paper.

The deadline for the receipt of final papers is 30 September 1992. All papers
received by this time will be included in a proceedings that will be available
at the Conference. The proceedings will be published by I.O.S. Press, Amsterdam,for international distribution part of the publisher's series on Transputer and OCCAM Conference books.


EXHIBITION

An exhibition on transputer-based and other parallel computing products and
systems will be concurrently with the Conference. Persons and/or organisations
wishing to mount an exhibit are most welcome to apply, and discuss their
requirements with the Conference Convenor.


CONFERENCE COSTS

The all-inclusive Conference fee of $A260 will include morning, afternoon teas
and lunch on two days as well as a Conference Dinner on the evening of the firstday. A special rate of $A100 will be applied to post-graduate students.


ACCOMMODATION AND FACILITIES

Melbourne in the first week of November is a most delightful time. It is the
week of the Melbourne Cup, with a public holiday on 3 November 1992. In keeping with the carnival atmosphere, it is expected that the Conference Dinner on
4 November will be held at a suitable club well-known for its racing
connections.

Interstate visitors should make their own travel and accommodation requirements.

POST-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP

A feature of this year's Conference/Exhibition will be the provision of a
one-day pre-conference workshop Friday 6 November 1992. This Post-Conference
Workshop will concentrate on demonstrating advanced features of transputer-basedsystem access. In particular, it is expected that participants will gain
knowledge on how to access facilities within the Department of Computer Systems Engineering at RMIT (where a twentyfour-transputer system has been developed andbuilt) and at the Australian Transputer Centre at the University of Technology, Sydney. Topics to be covered will include:

	Remote ETHERNET access

	X-Windows software

	C compilers/tools

	Windows-based software tools

The details of this workshop are being finalised, and will be offered subject
to demand. The cost of attendance at this one-day workshop will be $A110
(including workshop notes, morning, afternoon teas and lunch). This cost is not included in the cost of the Conference itself, but will be an additional charge to participants.


CONFERENCE ORGANISING COMMITTEE

Convenor
Mr John Hulskamp
Department of Computer Systems Engineering
RMIT
G.P.O. Box 2476V, MELBOURNE 3001
Telephone: (03) 660-2453
FAX: (03) 662-1060
e-mail: jph@rmit.edu.au

Dr David Abramson
High Performance Computing Group
CSIRO Division of Information Technology, Melbourne

Mr David Jones
Lecturer, Department of Computer Systems Engineering
RMIT, Melbourne

Dr Tom Hintz
Associate Professor, School of Computing Science
University of Technology, Sydney

Dr Terry Bossomaier
Research School of Physical Sciences
Australian National University
Canberra

------------------------------- CUT HERE & RETURN ------------------------------

TRANSPUTER AND PARALLEL APPLICATIONS CONFERENCE

(TAPA-92)

4 & 5 NOVEMBER 1992

This announcement is preliminary and some details may change.

For further details, and to indicate your interest in attending the Conference, contact the Conference Convenor, Mr John Hulskamp, Department of Computer
Systems Engineering, RMIT, G.P.O. Box 2476V, MELBOURNE 3001, or by telephone on (03)660-2453/2090, or by e-mail: jph@rmit.edu.au, or by returning this portion
of the Announcement by mail or FAX on (03)662-1060.

Name:

Organisation:

Address:

Phone:					FAX:

E-mail:

TICK APPROPRIATE OPTIONS:

		I am interested in Attending the Conference

		I am interested in Presenting a Paper and/or Demonstration,
			provisionally entitled:

		I am interested in mounting an Exhibit

		I am UNABLE to attend the Conference, but would like to be
			kept informed

		I am interested in attending the Post-Conference Workshop
			on 6 November