Newsgroups: comp.parallel
From: m-node@ix.netcom.com (B. Mitchell Loebel, Executive Director)
Subject: The PARALLEL Processing Connection - Meeting Notice
Organization: The PARALLEL Processing Connection
Date: 21 Apr 1997 12:48:40 GMT
Message-ID: <5jfnn8$7te@server1.ctc.com>

April 14th - Software Development Tools for Pentium Pro SMP's and Clusters

The Portland Group, Inc. (PGI) is developing a full suite of native
parallelizing C/C++/F77/F90/HPF compilers for the ASCI Red TeraFLOPS
machine at Sandia National Laboratories.  ASCI Red will incorporate
9000 Pentium Pro processors when fully configured later this
year. These same compilers and related development tools are currently
being productized by PGI for broad availability on Pentium Pro
workstations, clusters, and serversrunning Linux, Solaris86, and
Windows NT. 

Parallelizing compilers and tools for Pentium Pro will need to
consider data-parallelism, task-parallelism and loop parallelism.  
And good compiler design must also take into account data-locality,
processor scheduling, network topology, bandwidth and latency.  This
is especially important with the oncoming proliferation of Pentium Pro
ccNUMA systems.  PGI's Vince Schuster will discuss the company's
findings related to these issues. 

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 9:15PM.

Please be prompt; as usual, we expect a large attendance; don't be
left out or left standing. There is a $12 fee for non-members and 
members will be admitted free.  Yearly membership fee is $65.

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