Newsgroups: comp.parallel
From: parallel@netcom.com (B. Mitchell Loebel)
Subject: The PARALLEL Processing Connection, April 11th Meeting Notice
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Date: 11 Apr 1994 15:14:39 GMT

April 11th - Run-Time Reconfigurable Logic - In Search of 
Affordable High Performance Computing

Nick Treddenick, is the Chief Scientist at Altera Corporation; he will 
present the case for run time reconfigurable hardware.  Incidentally, 
there is a similar thread in the program of the International Parallel 
Processing Symposium in Cancun, Mexico in April.

Reconfigurability time is of the order of milliseconds so that the 
devices can be used in multifunction boards with the reprogramming 
taking place during a process context switch.  Alternatively, 
reconfigurability could be used self-adaptively in Neural Network 
systems.  In any event, they provide a way to the high performance 
normally associated with ASICs without requiring the usually large 
outlay of dollars and, of course, hardware is intrinsically parallel.

A discussion of member entrepreneurial projects currently underway 
will begin at 7:15PM and the main meeting will start promptly at 
7:45PM at Sun Microsystems at 901 San Antonio Road in Palo Alto, 
California. 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.

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 for individuals 
is $50; corporate membership fee is $400/year.

-- 
B. Mitchell Loebel                                      parallel@netcom.com 
Director - Strategic Alliances and Partnering                  408 732-9869 
PARALLEL Processing Connection