WoTUG 21 Architectures, Languages and Patterns for Parallel and Distributed Applications

Web Resources

This page contains links to various things mentioned during talks, so you don't have to remember them or type them in.

Links to presenters and their organisations can be found on the programme page.

Sunday 5th April

Java Threads Tutorials / JavaPP

• JavaPP - Alan Chalmers, Bristol, UK
• Java Plug and Play - Gerlald Hilderink and team, Twente, Netherlands
• Java Communicating Sequential Processes - Paul Austin, Kent, UK (NOTE: Currently not available outside UKC but we are working on it)
• Java Threads Workshop - IPCA, UK

Monday 6th April

Keynote Talk

• Professor David May
• Bristol Computer Architecture Group projects:
  • Architectures For Media Appliances
  • Mobile Software - Icarus etc.
  • Wearable Computing
  • Multimedia Instruction Sets

IEEE-1355, DS-links and HS-links

• 1355 Association
• CERN IEEE 1355 Home Page - DS and HS link technology resources
• MACRAME project, SRF-PACT, Bristol, UK - The Application of 1355 Technology
• MPC project - University Pierre Marie-Curie (UPMC), France
  • Rcube and PostScript specification (gzipped)
  • PCI-DDC chip PostScript specification (gzipped)

SPOC, KROC - oc-X

• occam for All project KRoC compiler - Kent, UK (stored on IPCA)
• SPOC compiler - Southampton, UK (stored on IPCA)
• KRoC for PowerPC - Tim Sheen and Alistair Allen, Aberdeen, UK (stored on IPCA)

Tuesday 7th April

CSP - Communicating Sequential Processes

• The CSP archive, Oxford University. (Many links below taken from here)
• The occam archive, Oxford University.
• The Programming Research Group (PRG), Oxford University
• Communicating Sequential Processes, C.A.R. Hoare. Prentice Hall International Series in Computer Science, 1985. ISBN 0-13-153271-5
• The Theory and Practice of Concurrency, A.W. Roscoe. Prentice Hall, International Series in Computer Science, 1997. ISBN 0-13-674409-5

Industrial Session

• Alex Computer Systems (USA) - SHARC systems
  Alex Informatics (Canada) - Parent
• Embedded Solutions Ltd - Reconfigurable computers using FPGA and Handle-C (More Handel information at Oxford)
• 1355 Association - everything about IEEE 1355 including:
  • Getting Started with IEEE 1355
  • The Network Designers Handbook, - "CookBook" for 1355 networks - 1355 Association / SRF/PACT, IOS Press, Netherlands, ISBN 99 5199 380 3
  • The Network Designers Handbook description at IOS Press Web Site

Vendors

• 4Links for technical help, Paul Walker, paul@walker.demon.co.uk
• Alex Computer Systems (USA)
• Elcom (Russia)
• Embedded Solutions Ltd
• IC-Routing Ltd - Brian O'Neil
• Kane Computing

(For KROC information, see above)

Announcements

• ESGEM - Stephen Maudsley Stephen.Maudsley@esgem.com
• Alan Chalmers and MPMP system
• Denis A. Nicole and SPOC system V1.3a
• Advanced RISC Machines (ARM) processors - Ruth Ivimey-Cook