From: Albert Foo <UC580503@mizzou1.missouri.edu>
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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE
 * Information Technology Institute
       75 professionals and 50 engineers from industrial partners (1/3
       with MS or PhD).  The research arm of NCB is the Information
       Technology Institute (ITI), also housed in Science Park in another
       beautiful airy modern building.  If the Institute of System
       Science and the National University (both described below)
       emphasize long term research, then ITI focuses on the shorter
       term, with an even stronger emphasis on industrial collaboration
       and support of local industrial R&D driven by market needs.  ITI
       appears to have excellent facilities, and there seemed to be an
       ample supply of workstations.  ITI was the first place I visited
       in Singapore. The staff I met were mostly young, and I worried
       about who was directing the show.  To a large extent this concern
       was relieved as I met the more senior managers, and learned more
       about the organizational structure. ITI has an ITI Board (composed
       of experts from academia and industry) that reviews the direction
       and makes recommendations.  There is also has an International
       Advisory Panel which comprises Les Belady from MCC, Mike
       Stonebreaker from UCLA, and Charles Rich from  MIT. In addition,
       various consultants such as Joseph Hardin from NCSA, Jeffery
       Macmann from Stardent are engaged for technical consultation.
       There also seems to be excellent communication between ITI, the
       university (NUS), and Institute for Systems Science, and the
       National Computer Board (NCB).
 
       ITI is divided into a Systems Engineering Lab, Knowledge Systems
       Lab, and Computer & Communication Lab. In all cases they produce
       "products" that are precommercial. Some I heard about later at NUS
       or ISS because of their collaborative research. Several of the
       projects are innovative; their commercial value varies from global
       to regional. A brief description of the projects that I learned
       about follows.
 
       * Port of Singapore Ship Planning System. Set up on a network of
       Unix workstations this is an interactive knowledge based system,
       using object oriented principles, hierarchical planning and
       heuristic search, built to help scheduling of container ship
       movements in this huge port. It was implemented in Common Lisp
       with Flavors and Objective-C, uses INGRES DBMS and is linked to a
       mainframe ADABAS DBMS. Presently, planning for loading and
       unloading of about 80% of the container ships at the terminal is
       done with this system, which is claimed to have reduced planning
       time from 8 to 4 hours. The Ship Planning System won a American
       Association for Artificial Intelligences award in 1989. There is
       also a project to develop an expert system to automate the
       planning and allocation of ground services at Singapore's
       international airport.
 
       * The Scientific Visualization Library seeks to provide a reusable
       library of visualization techniques that will reduce application
       development time on different platforms and also give a standard
       look and feel to applications developed at ITI, such as CFD (see
       Galaxy simulator below) and Financial Data Visualization projects.
       ITI believes that these have potential commercial values and are
       exploring partnership with vendors and industrial organizations.
       However, Western supercomputing centers have many years of
       experience producing visualization applications, and it remains to
       be seen how competitive these products will be.
 
       * Galaxy simulator. Jointly with Physics Dept at NUS. Uses
       Newtonian mechanics and a particle mesh algorithm. Stars are
       treated as infinitely long rods with fixed mass. The rods are
       parallel to each other and initially distributed so that their
       cross section collectively form a circular disk. Motion occurs in
       such a way that centrifugal and gravitational forces balance. At
       every time step a Poisson equation needs to be solved (via fft),
       and this is iterated until the motion stabilizes.  The basic
       computation is done on the NEC SX-1A and then images are post
       processed on an Iris workstation.  This project is apparently
       mostly a ramp-up to visualization software for 3D fluid dynamics,
       and the development of a user library of scientific visualization
       routines. However a videotape illustrating galaxy evolution is on
       permanent exhibit at the Singapore Science Center.
 
       * POSE is a CASE tool supporting the planning, analysis, and
       design phases of the software development life cycle.  It is now
       being marketed by ITI's industrial partner, CSAR (Computer Systems
       Adviser Research) and it has more than 2000 installed base
       worldwide. It was recognized by Datamation as one of the top ten
       CASE products, and voted best case tool by DBMS Magazine.
 
       * ITI is also working on several fax and communications related
       projects such as the ISDN PC Card. This is a PC plug-in card which
       transforms a PC compatible into an ISDN terminal. It provides a
       high data bandwidth for PC applications communication. The card
       handles all communication related tasks and frees the PC to handle
       application related tasks.
 
       * Multimedia Document Environment (MDE) is a network-based
       electronic document management system that gives users the ability
       to electronically compose, index, retrieve, archive, route, track,
       and collaborate on multimedia documents (documents comprising
       text, image, graphics, voice, video, etc).
 
       * Visual Programming Environment (VPE) is a CASE tool for rapid
       prototyping, aiming to provide a quick and intuitive way for users
       to define both the user interface and database processes of their
       application.  Simulation is supported to allow user to test the
       application and source code can also be generated to help produce
       the final stand-alone application.
 
       ITI staff attend international meetings. In fact ITI had a booth
       at Supercomputing Japan '90 where I first learned about them.
 
       ITI Contact.
                Mrs Chin Tahn Joo
                Director ITI
                National Computer Board
                71 Science Park Drive
                Singapore 0511, Republic of Singapore
                  Tel: 778-2211, Fax 779-5966
                  Email: TAHNJOO@ITIVAX.BITNET
 
 
NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE
 * National University of Singapore (NUS)
       13,000 undergrads, 1,600 grads, 1,250 faculty, 2,400 staff.
       My hosts were from the Faculty of Science, and the Department of
       Mathematics, including
           Professor Bernard Tan Tiong Gie
           Dean, Faculty of Science
                   & Professor of Physics
           National University of Singapore
           Lower Kent Ridge Road
           Singapore 0511
            Tel: 772-2774, -2615; Fax: 777-4279
            Email: DFSCI@NUS3090.BITNET, BTGTAN@NUSVM.BITNET
       and
           Professor Chong Chi Tat
           Vice-Dean of Science
                   & Professor of Mathematics
           (same address)
            Tel: 777-2833, 772-2752; Fax: 777-4279
            Email: DSCCCT@NUSVM.BITNET
        I did not know any of the faculty in either the CS or Math
        Departments, but their list of research reports has a heavy
        concentration in discrete optimization (path and assignment
        algorithms), multivariate spline approximation, a small amount of
        numerical analysis, and some interesting image analysis.  Time
        did not permit me to speak with anyone in the Faculty of
        Engineering.
 
        Propitiously, during the time I was in Singapore there was a
        lively discussion among the Science Faculty about a new degree
        program in computational science, focusing on numerical
        computation and graphics visualization to study problems in math,
        physics, chemistry, or biology. What makes this program very
        interesting is that it will be offered at the undergraduate
        level, beginning fall 1991. The plan is as follows.
 
        YEAR I ----------------------
          Computational Science Course
             Basic computer concepts
             Pascal and assembler
             Computer graphics I
             Data structures
             Numerical methods I
          Mathematics Course
          Subject Course (math, physics, etc)
        YEAR II-----------------------
          Computational Science Course
             Computer organization and architecture
             Fortran and C
             Computer graphics II
             Algorithms
             Numerical methods II
          Mathematics Course
          Subject Course (math, physics, etc)
        YEAR III-----------------------
          Computational Science Course
             Parallel computing
             Simulation, visualization, modelling
          Mathematics Course or Physics Course
          Optional Course in ODEs, PDEs
        YEAR IV (Honors)---------------
         Project
         Computational Math
          (Statistics, OR, dynamical systems, theory of computation, etc)
        or
         Computational Physics
          (Condensed matter, molecular dynamics, fluid dynamics,
           image/signal processing, neural nets, optics, holography, high
           energy physics, etc.)
 
        The faculty freely admitted to me that the program was still
        evolving. Nevertheless this is a very ambitious project, the
        emphasis on scientific computation (as opposed to computer
        science) is exciting, and I suspect that the graduates will be in
        high demand by industry.
 
INSTITUTE OF SYSTEMS SCIENCE (ISS)
 * Institute of Systems Science
       100 staff (26 with PhD), 52 students.
       ISS's mission is devoted to training and research for information
       and systems technology, with emphasis on technology transfer to
       industry. Outside of the university, ISS represents long-term
       science research, but not so long-term that definite industrial
       benefit cannot be imagined or that industrial partners will not be
       interested in doing joint R&D. Nevertheless, its goal is to
       produce world class research.  In terms of training, ISS offers
       about two dozen courses, in areas such as Technology Management,
       Systems Development, Database Development, Office Systems,
       Knowledge Systems, etc. (Systems Analysis Knowledge Engineering
       are offered at the postgrad level.) ISS offers consultation
       services, an industry Affiliates program, Current Issues Seminars,
       residency, etc. A long term partnership with IBM brings in
       scientists from IBM's R&D labs to assist.  Specific areas
       mentioned that are of particular interest are as follows.
        * Hypermedia
             Development Environment
             Application Knowledge Bases
             Video and 3D Graphics
             Optical Disk Storage
        * Multimedia User Interfaces
             (live motion video, interactive 3D graphics, images, menus,
             icons, and other coexisting objects)
        * Image Archival System and Data Compression
        * Multimedia Object Oriented Database System
         There are several projects oriented around hypermedia, related
         to information structuring and generalizing links, converting
         printed material into hypertext with little human intervention,
         development of an interpretive object-oriented language,
         development of tools to create hypermedia knowledge bases and
         creating specific knowledge bases for users, applications
         emphasizing motion of 3D solid objects, nearest neighbor
         searching algorithms and natural language queries for images,
         a user interface management system allowing rapid prototyping,
         etc. In the OODBMS area, research into how to exploit the
         semantics of the OO model (such as superclass-subclass,
         composite-component relationships) for query optimization,
         concurrency control, etc., and development of a language, query
         optimizer, view, storage, transaction, and interface manager.
        * Modelling and Simulation of High Speed LANs in Multimedia
             Communications
         Studying traffic characteristics, and performance requirements
         of multimedia communications and then building performance
         models, algorithms and analytical techniques to predict
         performance of high speed networks such as FDDI.
        * Neural Nets
         This is essentially theoretical research focusing on pattern
         processing and reasoning via neural nets.
        * Connectionist Expert System Shells
         A project to merge neural network ideas and rule based expert
         systems.
        * Fuzzy Pattern Recognition
         Part of an automation project in the Port of Singapore, this
         research is studying computerized system to automatically
         recognize cargo container number.  See also ITI above.
        * Computer Aided Translation
         Research associated with helping IBM develop a machine
         system to translate computer manuals from English to Chinese.
        * Text Abstraction
         A five year project into natural language processing looking at
         two distinct techniques, (1) text analysis and reduction into
         canonical form and (2) summaries via statistical and
         morphological analysis, with specific application for Ministry
         of Defense.
        * Rapid Prototyping and Production of Distributed Software
         Develop primitives, language extensions (to C++), and runtime
         support environments. Runtime features consist of support for
         recoverable objects, synthesis of higher level recovery from
         recovery objects, etc. Key emphasis on heterogeneity and
         reliability in distributed applications.
        * Scientific Visualization on Shared Memory Multiprocessors
         Development of toolkit and graphics user interface (X-Windows).
         Techniques are claimed to reduce and response time compared to
         other systems. This is being developed in collaboration with ITI
         (see galaxy simulation project above).
       At ISS, my hosts were
           Dr. Huang Kuan-Tsae (PhD MIT-CS/EE)
           Institute of Systems Science
           National University of Singapore
           Heng Mui Keng Terrace, Kent Ridge
           Singapore 0511
            Tel: 772-3123 or 772-6666x3123, Fax: 778-2571
            Email: KTH@IBM.COM or ISSKTH@NUSVM.BITNET
       and
           Dr. Shu Renben (PhD Minnesota-CS)
            (same address)
            Tel: 772-2504 or 772-6666x2504, Fax: 778-2571
            Email: ISSRB@NUSVM.BITNET
       ISS is in a spectacular building set on a hill, but already being
       enlarged and looking much like a modern Western research facility.
       Large numbers of color and black and white Unix workstations and
       related equipment were set up throughout the building.  I noticed
       RS/6000s, RT/PCs, PS/2s, Macs, Apollos, TI Explorer, and of course
       many Suns. They all seemed to be in active use.  I was told that
       there is both a Token-Ring and Ethernet.  While I only had time
       for a short visit, ISS gave me a very good feeling.  Some of their
       senior scientists are on temporary duty from different IBM
       research facilities, and many have solid research records and
       years of contacts and experience.  A booklet sent to me (printed
       in 1990) list almost 100 accepted papers, about one third in
       international journals, since 1989.  A substantial number of the
       ISS scientists have PhDs from well known universities not only in
       the US (Minnesota, Illinois, UC-Irvine, MIT, RPI, Wisconsin,
       Texas, Rutgers, etc.), but from UK, Australia, PRC, Scotland,
       Canada, Spain, and others.  There is an International Review
       Board, set up to advise on the R&D program and recruitment of
       staff. It currently consists of
          Prof. H. Kobayashi, Dean Sch of Eng and Appl Sci., Princeton.
          Prof. C. Ramamoorthy, Dept of EE & CS, UC Berkeley.
          Prof. L. Pau, Tech Director DEC European Tech Center, France.
          Dr. T. Agerwala, Director Future Systems Tech, IBM USA.
          Dr. N. Suzuki, Director Tokyo Research Lab, IBM Japan.
          Dr. C. Ellis, Tech Director, Micro Electron & Comp Technol, USA.
       ISS also has had a good selection of visiting experts, including
          H. Simon (CMU), S. Grossberg (Boston U), A. Lippman (MIT), A.
          Lazar (Columbia), P. Johnson (Minnesota), G. Wiederhold
          (Stanford), M. Stonebraker (Berkeley), C. Rich (MIT).
       Several international conferences have been hosted by ISS,
       including, 10th Very Large DB Conf., IEEE Lang for Automation
       Conf., 1990 Computer Graphics International Conf, and others.
 
       Because ISS is on the campus of NUS, senior staff and students
       interact freely.  Although ISS has no formal responsibilities with
       respect to ITI there is ample communication.  As far as I can
       tell, the essential differences between these organizations have
       to do with the time-line on the research and the level of
       development. ISS appears to be focused more on the longer term,
       but even so there is a definite sense of application in their
       interests, and all their projects list "deliverables".
 
 
SINGAPORE INSTITUTE of STANDARDS AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH
 * Singapore Institute of Standards and Industrial Research (SISIR)
       100 professionals, 250 staff, about two dozen PhDs, work in
       standards and quality assurance, materials technology, design,
       food technology, product evaluation. SISIR generates income by
       industrial R&D, consulting, testing, analysis, certification,
       etc., to corporate and government clients. In FY89/90 there were
       over 3000 clients generating about $11M in revenue, or about $50K
       per staff member. SISIR is committed to operating on a self-
       financing basis beginning in 1990/91, and there are significant
       efforts in marketing, business, and corporate planning. Primary
       activities are as follows. I have also listed some of the projects
       that looked interesting to me.
        Materials Technology
          Polymer (Joint work with French CEMOTA, rubber research)
          Metals and Advanced Materials (Microelectronics failure
              testing with GEP Hirst Res Center-UK, residual stress in
              metal components and silicon wafers, magnetic properties of
              metal components, corrosion in stainless steel tanks)
          Chemical Technology (Solvent reclamation system, CFC
              alternatives)
          Surface and Particle Technology (Micocontaminants and failure
              diagnosis of Winchester disk drives)
        Product and Process Technology
          Food Technology
          Mechanical Technology
          Design and Development
          Electronics Technology
        Electronics and Computer Applications
          Intelligent Systems (Computer assisted management tool)
          Vision and Imaging (Frame processing system, Scanning electron
               microscope image collection/processing system, IC mark
               inspection system, IC package visual inspection system,
               grey scale machine vision system)
          Electronic Communications
          Sensors and Instruments
        Technology Transfer
          Tech Diagnosis, Training, Information (More than 20K loans of
               material)
        Standards and Quality
          Good Manufacturing Practice Certificate
          Quality Systems
          Agency Inspection
          Singapore Lab Accreditation Scheme
          Measurement Standards
        Marketing and Business
        Corporate Planning
 
 
SINGAPORE TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
 * Singapore Technology Corporation
       Singapore Technology Corporation is a government related
       organization that comprises companies such as Singapore Aerospace,
       Singapore Automotive Engineering, and Singapore Shipbuilding. The
       (more than 50) companies together have a staff strength of about
       9000, with about 1,500 engineering, system analyst and other
       specialists.
 
       One of the most interesting aspects of this organization is that
       it runs an Advanced Computation Center to support its own users as
       well as outside contract and research activities. The focal points
       of the Center are an IBM 3090-200E with two vector processors, and
       an NEC SX-1A, along with various other mainframes, Vax 8800,
       terminals, workstations, and network.  The Center was set up with
       the support of the Ministry of Education and the Economic
       Development Board to be a catalyst for R&D as well as a resource.
       The Center is also tightly coupled with the National University,
       as attested by the address of my host.
           Mrs. Tan Chee Kiow
           Deputy Director, Computer Center
           National University of Singapore
           10 Kent Ridge Crescent
           Singapore 0511
            Tel: 772-2048, Fax: 778-0198
            Email: CCETANCK@NUS3090.BITNET
       As this is the only Supercomputer center in the region, it is also
       hoped that it will be used by others from outside Singapore. There
       is a sophisticated set of application software available, mostly
       of the engineering analysis type, and the Center's newsletter
       (SuperTimes) describes applications in aircraft design, coastal
       water modelling, microwave scattering, weather prediction, as well
       as general engineering. SuperTimes is a glossy, multicolor product
       that is professionally done.  Of course the Center is trying to
       encourage new users. During 11-12 December 1990 Singapore's
       universities, the National Computer Board, and the Computer
       Society organized an international conference on Supercomputing
       for Strategic Advantage. A very impressive list of invited
       speakers included Hockney, Navon, Kuwahara, Hardin, Bell, Bailey
       and others from US, Japan, Australia, UK, Indonesia, etc. A list
       of the titles and authors is given at the end of this report.
 
       In conversations with Center staff we discussed some of their
       problems. As I saw it, their major difficulty is that the SX-1A
       supports NEC's proprietary operating system. This means that it is
       more difficult to get applications software. NEC is helpful, but
       only modest resources are being devoted to this.  Further, except
       for "mission critical" needs, potential users are very reluctant
       to spend a great deal of their time learning another system that
       is not going to benefit them in the long run. One user expressed
       tremendous satisfaction after obtaining excellent speedup by
       moving a program from a Vax to the SX-1, but commented that it was
       a painful and time consuming process.  We all agreed that the task
       of converting users and applications would go much more quickly in
       a Unix environment, because users see it as the wave of the
       future. In addition, the SX-1A has poor support for any language
       except Fortran, and many scientists are already developing
       applications in C, Pascal, Prolog, etc., on Unix workstations. We
       all agreed that the Center should try to move toward Unix as
       quickly as possible.
 
       During my visit I saw no activities related to parallel
       processing, nor is there any mention of this in the materials
       provided to me, except for an allusion to shared memory in the
       galaxy simulator. This was a little surprising, given the amount
       of computer related research, even in the supercomputing field,
       but perhaps it reflects a realization that the current commercial
       potential for this in Singapore is quite low.  I expect that this
       will change as the National Supercomputing Research Centre comes
       up to steam and NUS's Scientific Computing program begins to turn
       out graduates.
 
OTHER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANIZATIONS IN SINGAPORE (INCOMPLETE)
 * Telecoms
       12,000 staff responsible for telephone and postal services.  All
       26 exchanges in Singapore are served with about 8K km of optical
       cable. Various research activities focus on ISDN, electronic mail,
       etc.
 * Singapore Science Center
       non-formal science educational institution, with various galeries,
       large planetarium, etc.
 * Nanyang Technological University
       5,000 students, 300 faculty.
 * Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology
       200 scientists, 150 PhDs.
 * Ministry of Health
       13,000 staff including 1,000 doctors, 5,500 nurses, 100 scientific
       and engineering staff, research at medical clinical research
       center.
 * Economic Development Board
       In addition to the usual things they also run the German-Singapore
       Institute, French-Singapore Institute, Japan-Singapore Institute,
       and several training centers.
 * Singapore Trade Development Board
       maintains 20 overseas centers, and provides data via five on-line
       data-base services.
 * Pacific Biomedical
       Producer of heart valves (more than 100K sold last year).
 * Primary Production Department
       1,000 staff related to agriculture, veterinary, fisheries, and
       rural development.
 * Jurong Town Corporation
       210,000 workers, responsible for development of Singapore's
       industrial infrastructure, such as land sites, cargo handling
       facilities at main port, electrical railway system, etc.
 * Primary Industries Enterprise
       550 staff (biologists, chemists, microbiologists, nutritionists,
       vets, etc.) engaged in agro food activities.
 * Singapore Engineering Consultancy Services 100 professional staff
       engaged in engineering, planning for Port of Singapore.
 * Singapore Electronic & Engineering
       Subsidiary of Singapore Aircraft Industries provides electronic
       engineering services, 600 staff of which almost 500 are technical,
       professional engineers, software specialists.
 * Indeco Engineers
       Integrated engineering services, emphasizing large building
       projects such as China World Trade Center, Beijing. 610 staff.
 * Microprocessor Applications Center
       19 staff, 15 engineers working on machine vision & non-contact
       measurement, precision motion control, factory communication, VME
       controllers, scanning electron microscopy equipment, etc.
 * National University Hospital
       1,400 staff plus 500 staff from NUS in 712 bed teaching/research
       hospital.
 * Automation Applications Center
       30 staff focusing on factory automation and robotics
 * Computer Systems Advisors Group
       400 staff have computerized over 1,000 installations in
       Asia/Pacific.
 * Fraser & Neave
       Founded in 1883, 3,000 staff, business in soft drinks, beer, etc.,
       some research in food technology.
 * Lam Soon Oil & Soap Manufacturing
       1,500 staff in Singapore, 6,000 world wide, works in food
       technology areas, especially fats and oils.
 * Singatronics
       Contract manufacturer of electronic products, 900 staff. Owns
       Healthcheck in the US.
 * Yeo Hiap Seng
       3,500 staff, producing processed foods and drinks, now involved in
       high-tech prawn farming.
 
 
 
 
                        Titles of Papers Presented at
                    SINGAPORE SUPERCOMPUTING CONFERENCE '90
                     SUPERCOMPUTING FOR STRATEGIC ADVANCE
                             11 & 12 December 1990
 
SESSION 1
 
Keynote Address 1
 
NASA's Supercomputing Experience
     F. Ron Bailey (NASA Ames Research Center, California, USA)
 
SESSION 2
 
Trends in Supercomputing 1
 
Grand Challenges, High Performance Computing and Computational Science
     Gray M. Johnson (Office of Energy Research, US Department of Energy,
     USA)
 
Supercomputing has to be part of an Organization-Wide Automation Concept
     Wout Loeve (National Aerospace Laboratory NLR, The Netherlands)
 
SESSION 3
 
Keynote Address 2
 
Flow Simulation on Supercomputer and its Visualization
     Kunio Kuwahara (The Institute of Space and Astronautical Science,
     Japan)
 
SESSION 4
 
Supercomputing Applications 1
 
A Performance Analysis of Nonlinear Optimization Codes on Supercomputers
     Paul Phua Kang Hoh (Department of Information Systems and Computer
     Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore)
 
A Numerical Study of a Design of Novel Exhaust Systems
     Susan X. Ying and Choudary R. Robba (Supercomputer Computations
     Research Institute, Florida State University, USA)
 
SESSION 5
 
Supercomputing Applications 2
 
Numerical Simulations on Fujitsu VP Series Supercomputers and their
        Visualization
     Yoshio Tago (Science and Engineering Applications, Fujitsu Ltd.,
     Japan)
 
3-D Finite Element Analysis of Sheet-Metal Forming Process
     Lum Choon Kead and Lim Kay Leong (Engineering Division, Chartered
     Industries of Singapore Pte Ltd., Singapore)
 
Modern Reservoir Simulation in Sumatra
     N.D. McMullen (P T Caltex Pacific Indonesia, Indonesia)
 
Computer Simulation of Polymer Melt Flow at the Entry Region
     K.W.L. Loh, A.A.O Tay, S.H. Teoh, Y.T. Chew (Department of
     Mechanical and Production Engineering, National University of
     Singapore, Singapore)
 
SESSION 6
 
Graphics and Visualization
 
Scientific Visualization in the Computational Science Research Process
     Joseph Hardin (National Center for Supercomputing Applications,
     Software Tools Group, University of Illinois, USA)
 
The Use of Supercomputers in Graphics Rendering
     Toh Guang Nge, Seah Hock Soon, Li Ling (Nanyang Technological
     Institute, Singapore)
 
A New Optimal Parallel Algorithm for Generating Linear Level Octree From
Voxels
     Zuo-Ming Yin, Puay-Hwa Tan, Kuan-Tsae Huang, Ren-Ben Shu (Institute
     of System Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore)
 
SESSION 7
 
Parallel Algorithms and Scheduling
 
Parallel Computing and Parallel Compiler
     Jesse Fang (Research and Development Department, CONVEX Computer
     Corporation, USA)
 
Solving Scientific Problems on the CM-2 Supercomputer
     John L. Richardson (Thinking Machines Corporation, USA)
 
Task-Level Scheduling for Multiprocessor Supercomputers
     Chia-Ling Lee (Information Technology Institute, Singapore)
 
Two Multiprocessor Scheduling Algorithms for Supercomputing Configuration
     Zuo-Ming Yin, Kuan-Tsae Huang, Ren-Ben Shu, Chee-Kong Chui (National
     University of Singapore, Singapore)
 
SESSION 8
 
Keynote Address 3
 
Performance Parameters and Benchmarking of Supercomputers
     Roger W. Hockney (Computer Science Department, Reading University,
     United Kingdom)
 
Neuro-computing and its Application in Supercomputing
     Nobuhiko Koike (C&C Systems Research Laboratories, NEC Corporation,
     Japan)
 
SESSION 9
 
Trends in Supercomputing 2
 
Advanced Computational Technology in Meteorology and Oceanography
     David D. Blaskovich (Cray Research Incorporated, USA)
 
Trends in Supercomputing
     Howard M. Brauer (IBM Palo Alto Scientific Centre, California, USA)
 
SESSION 10
 
Keynote Address 4
 
Optimal Control Methods and Efficient Minimization Algorithms for Variational
         Data Assimilation in Meteorology
     Michael Navon (Department of Mathematics and Supercomputer
     Computations Research Institute, Florida State University, USA)
 
SESSION 11
 
Supercomputing Applications 3
 
The Application of Supercomputing in Chemistry
     Jan Almlf (Department of Chemistry and Minnesota Supercomputer
     Institute, University of Minnesota, USA)
 
Supercomputing in Computational Mechanics for Industrial Applications
     K.Y. Lam, W.C. Ong, K.C. Tay (Department of Mechanical and
     Production Engineering, National University of Singapore, Advanced
     Integration System (Pte) Ltd., Singapore)
 
Nature of the Hydrogen-boron Complex in Crystalline Silicon
     C.K. Ong, G.S. Khoo (Department of Physics, National University of
     Singapore, Singapore)
 
SESSION 12
 
Supercomputing Applications 4
 
Interactions between Artificial Intelligence and Supercomputing
     John Campbell (University College, London, United Kingdom)
 
Multi-Block Euler/Navier-Stokes Solver for Complex Configuration Aerodynamic
Analysis
     Lee Kuok Ming, Fong Kai Chun (Engineering and Development Centre,
     Singapore Aerospace, Singapore)
 
Hydrodynamic Tidal Model of Singapore Coastal Waters
     N. Jothi Shankar, S. Selvalingam, Stephen Tay Tiong Lee (Department
     of Civil Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore)
 
SESSION 13
 
Design and Developments 1
 
Supercomputing Developments in Australia
     Alan P. Bell (Information Technology Services, University of
     Melbourne, Australia)
 
High Speed Computer Design Using Quantum Flux Parametron
     K.F. Loe (DISCS, National University of Singapore; Quantum Magneto
     Flux Logic Project, JRDC) E. Goto (Department of Information
     Science, University of Tokyo, Singapore/Japan)
 
Towards Desk-Top Super Computing with Second Generation RISC
     Thomas Y.C. Choong (IBM Singapore Pte Ltd., Singapore)
 
SESSION 14
 
Design and Developments 2
 
Technical Presentation of the Silicon Graphics Project Supercomputer
     Goh Eng Lim (Silicon Graphics Pte Ltd., Singapore)
 
A Transputer-based Desktop Supercomputer
     K.T. Lua, Y.W. Wong (Department of Information Systems and Computer
     Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore)
 
Deskside "Supercomputing"
     Chuang Ping Derg (Rahmonic Resources Ptd Ltd., Singapore)
 
 
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Upcoming Meetings of Potential Interest
 
11-12 September 1991
      ISIC-91 (International Symposium on IC Design, Manufacture &
                Applications
                1991 Theme--VLSI Technology & Signal Processing)
      Contact: Mr. Tan Ooi Kiang
               School of EEE
               Nanyang Technological Institute
               Repbulic of Singapore 2263
               Tel: (65) 6605411, Fax: (65) 2641687
               Email: EOKTAN@NTIVAX.BITNET
 
18-21 November 1991
      International Joint Conference on Neural Network
                Organizer: IEEE Neural Network Council,
                           International Neural Network Society
                           IEEE Singapore Section
 
  2-5 December 1991
      ICIE-91 (International Conference on Information Engineering
                Theme--Integrated Perspective of Computers & Communication
                   Systems)
      Contact: School of EEE
               Nanyang Technological Institute
               Repbulic of Singapore 2263
               Tel: (65) 2651744, Fax: (65) 2641687
               Email: ESUBRAM@NTIVAX.BITNET
 
  2-3 ??? 1991
      IT Works '91
                Organizer: Singapore Computer Society
                           National Computer Board
                           Systems and Computer Organisation
                           Institute of System Science
 
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