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apr
Last modified 10:03:08, 3 Oct 1995 - 31.0K - text
Applied Parallel Research (APR) xHPF 2.1 announcement and NAS Parallel Benchmarks of July 5th 1995 with correction of September 5th 1995 and discussion.
See also <URL:../presentations/welch/> for some graphs derived from these statistics to give the efficencies of the benchmarks for IBM SP2 and Cray T3D.
Authors: Marc Baber (marc@efn.org) and David Coster (dpc@ipp-garching.mpg.de).
bsp
Last modified 14:13:51, 3 Oct 1995 - 17.2K - text
Benchmarks of Oxford's BSP library and discussion.
Authors: Richard Miller (Richard.Miller@comlab.oxford.ac.uk); Peter Welch (P.H.Welch@ukc.ac.uk) and Kevin Parrott (Kevin.Parrott@comlab.ox.ac.uk).
epcc-t3d
Last modified 10:03:11, 3 Oct 1995 - 23.6K - text
Announcement of SERC T3D procurement from February 1994 and August 1995 review (selected excerpts).
See also <URL:http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/hpc/>
Authors: Roland Ibbett (rni@dcs.ed.ac.uk); Alison Wall (AW2@ib.rl.ac.uk) and Paul Hatton (P.S.Hatton@bham.ac.uk).
geoff_mike
Last modified 14:13:54, 3 Oct 1995 - 8.5K - text
Issues and discussion for workshop by people who could not attend.
Authors: Geoff Barrett (geoffb@bristol.st.com) and Mike Giles (giles@comlab.oxford.ac.uk).
links
Last modified 10:34:49, 3 Jan 1996 - 1K - text
Links to URLs related to the workshop.
news
Last modified 10:03:18, 3 Oct 1995 - 28.9K - text
News discussion of workshop announcement and HPC efficiency on comp.parallel and uk.org.epsrc.hpc.discussion.
Authors: John D McCalpin (mccalpin@brahms.udel.edu); Rob Whetnall (r.whetnall@ulcc.ac.uk); Peter Welch (P.H.Welch@ukc.ac.uk); John Pelan (johnp@qub.ac.uk); Trevor Daniels (T.Daniels@rl.ac.uk); Nick Maclaren (nmm1@cus.cam.ac.uk) and Dr C. Addison (cliff@liverpool.ac.uk).
Twelve Ways to Fool the Masses When Giving Performance Results on Parallel Computers
Last modified 14:11:49, 3 Oct 1995 - 8.7K - gzipped PostScript
Author: David Bailey