Newsgroups: comp.parallel From: eugene@nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya) Subject: FAQ for biblios Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1993 13:49:43 GMT Who What Where When Why How --- ---- ----- ---- --- --- Who --- Eugene Miya has committed to maintaining a comprehensive biblio on parallelism for ten years (Ref.). What ---- The foundations of the biblio began with several published bibliographies on parallelism dating back to 1980. This bibliography corrects errors found in those. The bibliography is free, but because it was based on previously published material, the terms of a copyright with Prentice-Hall asks that we record all sites using it. A hardcopy letterhead of request is all it takes to get access. The format of the bibliography is straight ASCII and Unix refer for use with document processing systems. Converters for bibtex and Scribe (and script) exist. Some of the text contains significant annotation. Sources: various published source, unsolicited letters or email, net sources (comp.parallel, comp.os.research, comp.research.japan, comp.doc.techreports, and others). Can't cover everything. It is important that you the reader also contribute. The mass of information, a lack of continued funding, and other problems are needed to help keep the community informed. It is used by many people: schools, companies, government agencies, institutions. Where ----- We need a letterhead to be able to tell you where. Sorry. Blame Prentice-Hall. Miya was only trying to stand on the shoulders of giants (if not the toes of his colleagues). Why --- Paper has real problems. If you go back to the 1980s biblios, the referees couldn't do a good job. Software is far more flexible. Copyright is another problem. What makes the biblio special are annotations, comments, keywords by the readership and others (many anonymous: "This stinks," others initialed (XYZ), or "signed." Many institutions already have it. You only need locate the point of contact. The current size is 6 MBs. It is also helpful if you as a student of parallel processing NOT simply post rehashes of his references (he can tell, believe me). It just increases the catch up work. Instead, separate Miya references from non-Miya references, so that he can add incorporate them (and reformat if necessary) long with other references. Thinking of this like a recording secretary except the combined knowledge of the parallelism experts on the net. Upside: It tries to be comprehensive. It provides better coverage and collected commentary (in some cases) than bibliographic services. It tries to cut an honest deck. Downside: It is large. It is not as always as up to date as the maintainer would like, but he and the community tries. You can help, too. Reference (this also shows what refer looks like [See Mike Lesk's paper on inverted indices in the Unix manual): %A E. N. Miya %T Multiprocessor/Distributed Processing Bibliography %J Computer Architecture News %I ACM SIGARCH %V 13 %N 1 %D March 1985 %P 27-29 %K Annotated bibliography, computer system architecture, multicomputers, multiprocessor software, networks, operating systems, parallel processing, parallel algorithms, programming languages, supercomputers, vector processing, cellular automata, fault-tolerant computers, some digital optical computing, some neural networks, simulated annealing, concurrent, communications, interconnection, %X Notice of this work. Itself. Quality: no comment. Also short note published in NASA Tech Briefs vol. 12, no. 2, Feb. 1988, pp. 62. Also referenced in Hennessy & Patterson pages 589-590. About an earlier unmaintained version. TM-86000 and ARC-11568. Maintaining for ten years with constant updates (trying to be complete but not succeeding). Limited verification against bibliographic systems (this is better than DIALOG). Storing comments from colleagues (DIALOG can't do this.) Rehash sections on a Sequent as a test of parallel search (this work exhibits unitary speed-up). 8^). The attempt is to collect respected comments as well as references. Yearly net posting results hopefully updated "grequired" and "grecommended" search fields. Attempted to be comprehensive up to 1989. $Revision:$ $Date:$ The standard email request letter follows: The parallel/distributed processing bibliography (in machine readable form) is documented in ACM CAN: %A E. N. Miya %T Multiprocessor/Distributed Processing Bibliography %J Computer Architecture News %I ACM SIGARCH %V 13 %N 1 %D March 1985 %P 27-29 It began with a bibliography published in 1980 by %A M. Satyanarayanan %T Multiprocessing: an annotated bibliography %J Computer %V 13 %N 5 %D May 1980 %P 101-116 %X Excellent reference source, but dated. Text reproduced with the permission of Prentice-Hall \(co 1980. $Revision: 1.2 $ $Date: 84/07/05 16:58:56 $ My work is considerably larger (about 100 times). In order to obtain a copy on the Internet, I am required to ask for a letterhead from an institution stating that they understand portions are copywritten. It's free, so that is not much to ask. Please also send any corrections, typos, additions to me. Annotations and keywords are particularly encouraged, since I can't read everything. Citation in any of your published work is appreciated since this supports my work. Send letterhead to: E. Miya MS 258-5 NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000 USA Please include your return Email address. I maintain copies on some sites, your site may have one already. Check with your site admin. The usual place is kept controlled to abide by terms of the copyright. I try to keep one point of contact to keep things simple. A list follows. If you are not on the Internet, you can obtain an older version (with source files) from COSMIC Univ. of Georgia 382 East Broad St. Athens, GA 30602 It's ASCII/refer (that's the format above) bibliographic, tar/Unix tape format. There is a tape handling charge. Special requests: IBM format tapes, VMS BACKUP format are also possible, ask me, not COSMIC for these. Tape distribution is now restricted to North America, but I am trying to get world-wide distribution again. Details: Why refer? ( 1) human readable ASCII, not a binary format, 2) easily convertable to other formats (EBCDIC), 3) at the time bibtex didn't exist, 4) less overhead than bibtex (fields smaller, however I decided in favor of full names for journals rather than abbrev. because many users don't know what ICPP or IDCS stand for...., 5) not only can you search it, but you can use it with a filter or formatter like troff with reasonable reformatting results, stylistic considerations like whether author names should have initials or full names can be automated. Contact points (not every Dept. is a CS dept). NASA: me ICASE: me (Nancy Shoemaker, Bob Voigt) LLNL/MPCI/CRG/NERSC: me UCSC: me (Darrell Long) UC Berkeley: me (Eric Allman, formerly Mike Kupfer) AMT: Rex Thanakij Aerospace Corp: Anne Finestone Amdahl: Hideo Wada (IBM format) AT&T: Steve Crandall ANL: Robert Harrison Aus.NU: David Hawking Battelle: Rick Kendall Baylor CM: Stanley Hanks BBN: Miles Fidelman Boston U: A. Heddaya Brown: John Savage Clemson: Steve Stevenson Columbia: Yoram Eisenstadter or Ella Sanders Convex: Greg Astfalk Cornell: Doug Elias CoState: Dale Grit (or RRO) Cray: Tim Hoel DDt: Anders Ardo Denelcor (maybe Tera now): B. Smith DEC: Walter Lamia/John Sopka/C. Kiefer [no longer at DEC] Dorian Research: R. Levine DSTO (oz): Charles Watson Duke U.: Mark Jones Emory: V. Sunderam Encore: Peter Fay ETH: R. Ruhl EPFL: Lars Bombolt FPS (defunct): Tom Bauer Fr.-Alex. Univ. Erlangen-Nurnberg: J. Kleinoder Fujitsu America, Inc.: Ken Muira GaTech: Karsten Schwan (Gene Spafford) GEC, NY: David O'Hallaron GMD MBH: Ernst-Joachim Busse GMD First: Diantong Liu HaL: Dennis Allison Harvard U: Stravos Macrakis Horizon RI: Craig Hughes Hope College: M. Jipping IBM: F. Darema Indiana U: Dennis Gannon Inst. di Disica Cosmica, SIAM: G. Boella INRIA: Jean-Jacques Levy ISS: Jit Biswas Intermetrics: William White JVNC: Bruce Bathurst Loral: Ian Kaplan (Defunct) Katholieke Univ. Leuven: Prof. D. Roose KSR: M. Presser Martin Marietta Energy (OR,TN): Richard Hicks MCC: ??? Mitre: Thomas Gerasch MIT: Rich Lethin Maspar: Peter Christy [now at SUN, Kaplan might be able to help] Mich. State U: Richard Enbody Minn.SC: Dennis Lienke Miss. State U: Donna Reese Monash U: W. Brown/Sim Or/Peter Sember Motorola: Fred Segovich Myrias: Jean Andruski (defunct) NAG: P. Mayes NM Tech: G. Francia, III NOSC: H. Smith Northrup: Jeff Crameron NYU: Allen Gottlieb OhioState: Jeff Martens OrGI: Robbie Babb (Dave DiNucci, defunct) OrSU: Youfend Wu Purdue: Andrew Royappa Rice: Ken Kennedy Rutgers: A. Gerasoulis Rutherford Appleton: David Greenaway Santa Clara U.: Hasan AlKhatib Schlumberger: Peter Highnam SGI: Jim Denhert SMU: I. Gladwell SWRI: Richard Murphy SRI: Cliff Isberg Stanford: Byron Davies/M. Flynn/V. Pratt/J. Hennessey/Andy Tucker Stony Brook: L. Wittie NPAC/Sycrause: Bill O'Farrell SSI: ??? 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