Newsgroups: comp.parallel
From: parallel@netcom.com (B. Mitchell Loebel)
Subject: The PARALLEL Processing Connection - June meeting notice
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
Date: Wed, 05 Jun 1996 12:26:20 +0000 (GMT)
Message-ID: <4p6ked$551@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu>

June 10 - Auriga - A NUMA Smart Compiler

Dr. John Willis of FTL Systems, Inc. will describe the Auriga parallel, 
optimizing compiler that his company is developing.  Initially it will 
support VHDL and Verilog used in the design of hardware; these 
languages have explicit or implicit parallelism based on a fine-grain 
process model and partially ordered inter-process communication.  C++ 
implementations are underway.

Auriga reformulates individual processes during run-time to increase 
the number of concurrently executing processes and increase the 
opportunities for concurrent execution among existing processes.  Even 
a single source-level process can be translated into multiple, 
concurrently executing processes at run-time.  Access to highly shared 
memory locations can result in long latency processor stalls.  Auriga
compiler optimizations use knowledge of the underlying hardware to 
reduce these processor stalls.

FTL is porting its compiler to several MIMD platforms and plans to do 
likewise with the SCI based clustered workstation system currently 
being developed by MultiNode Microsystems - a start-up formed by 
several PPC members.

The main meeting starts promptly at 7:30PM at Sun Microsystems at 
901 San Antonio Road in Palo Alto. This is just off the southbound San 
Antonio exit of 101.  Northbound travelers also exit at San Antonio and 
take the overpass to the other side of 101.  A discussion of member 
projects currently underway and other issues of interest to entrepreneurs 
follows immediately thereafter at 9PM.

Please be prompt; as usual, we expect a large attendance; don't be left 
out or left standing. There is a $10 fee for non-members and members 
will be admitted free.  Yearly membership fee is $50.
-- 
B. Mitchell Loebel                                      parallel@netcom.com 
Director - Strategic Alliances and Partnering                  408 732-9869 
PARALLEL Processing Connection 


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