27th August 1993 /parallel/conferences/wtc-form Application form for the World Transputer Congress conference /parallel/software/environments/p4 P4 Version 1.3 distribution from Argonne National Laboratory /parallel/software/environments/p4-1.3-announcement Announcement of Version 1.3 of P4 by Rusty Lusk from Argonne National Laboratory, Chicago, USA. /parallel/parlib Added full mirror of the PARLIB email archive server. /parallel/conferences/iccl94.ascii /parallel/conferences/iccl94.ps Call for papers for IEEE Computer Society 1994 International Conference on Computer Languages (ICCL) to be held from 16th-19th May, 1994 in Toulouse, France sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Computer Languages incooperation with ACM SIGPLAN and IRIT. /parallel/software/pvm/example-comms-jf PVM example comms program by Josef Fritscher /parallel/documents/usenet/tools-for-clustered-workstations Updated version of list of PD/freely distributable tools and applications for developing parallel programs on clustered workstations by Lars Ulrik Wacher Hansen /parallel/conferences/ipps94 Call for participation in 8th International Parallel Processing Symposium to be held from 26th-29th April, 1994 at Hotel Regina, Cancun, Mexico. Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing in cooperation with ACM SIGArch. /parallel/documents/usenet/timeline/timeline.txt New ASCII only version of timeline history of parallel computing and supercomputing by Greg Wilson . /parallel/documents/usenet/vr-object-survey Announcement of survey of research groups in area of development of (distributed) object hit detection algorithms in virtual reality environments by Knut Menzel /parallel/journals/prog-lang-compiling-dist-addr-sys Call for papers for Journal of Programming Languages: Special Issue on Compiling and Run-Time Issues for Distributed Address Space Machines. Deadline is 31 December 1993. /parallel/conferences/trends-workstation-clusters Call for participation for conference: Trends in Workstation Cluster Computing to be held from 2nd-4th March, 1994 at University of Cologne, Germany. /parallel/documents/usenet/parallel-c++-extensions A summary of packages that implement proposed parallel and distributed extensions to C++ by David Edelsohn . /parallel/documents/usenet/gordon-bell-finalists-1993 Announcement of Gordon Bell Award Finalists for 1993. /parallel/documents/usenet/processor-powers A digest of a few articles describing the power outputs of various 'hot' processors including benchmarks "per watt". Articles by Edward Vielmetti and Gunes Aybay /parallel/user-groups/parkbench/meeting-august Details of 4th meeting of the Parallel Benchmarks Working Group (ParkBench) in Knoxville, Tennessee on August 23rd. /parallel/conferences/logic-in-cs Call for papers for 9th annual IEEE Symposium on Logic In Computer Science to be held from 4th-7th July 1994 in Paris, France. /parallel/conferences/opopac-workshop Details of International Workshop On Principles Of PArallel Computing (OPOPAC) / "Journees internationales sur des problemes fondamentaux de l'informatique parallele et distribuee" to be held from 23rd-26th November 1993 in Lacanau, France. /parallel/documents/usenet/nas-cfd-benchmarks Announcement of C version of the sequential Fortran NAS CFD benchmarks and how to obtain them (the original Fortran version requires an NAS license) by Shubhendu Mukherjee /parallel/bibliographies/par-prog-models.bib A small bibliography of surveys of parallel programming models by David Skillicorn /parallel/documents/usenet/inmos-C-alloca An attempt to provide an alloca() (stack based malloc) for INMOS C for transputers by Adam Back /parallel/software/pvm/example-jf PVM example program by Josef Fritscher /parallel/conferences/rcs-3 Details of Third Internatinal Workshop On Responsive Computer Systems to be held from 29th September-1st October 1993 at Lincoln, New Hampshire, USA. Sponsored by US Office of Naval Research in cooperation with IEEE CS-TC on Fault-Tolerant Computing and IEEE CS-TC on Real-Time Systems. /parallel/conferences/mpp-models Details of Conference on Massively Parallel Programming Models: Suitability, Realization, and Performance to be held from 20th-23rd September, 1993 in Berlin, Germany. Organized by GMD FIRST in Cooperation with IEEE Computer Society and Gesellschaft fuer Informatik /parallel/journals/parallel-symbolic-apps Call for papers for the Journal on Lisp and Symbolic Computation, Special Issue on Parallel Symbolic Applications. Deadline is 1 September 1993. /parallel/documents/usenet/MPI-details Details of the next Message Passing Interface Forum meeting and how to join the MPIF or find out more about it. From: David Walker Executive Director of the MPI Working Group /parallel/papers/karlsruhe/modula-2-star.ps.Z The Modula-2* Environment for Parallel Programming by S.U. Haenssgen, E.A. Heinz, P. Lukowicz, M. Philippsen, and W.F. Tichy. From i41s10.ira.uka.de in /pub/m2s. /parallel/conferences/CAPPs Details of Commercial Applications of Parallel Processing Systems conference to be held from 19th-20th October 1993 at the Stouffer Austin Hotel, Austin, Texas. /parallel/software/virginia/mentat/* Papers and manuals (but not software) for mentat 2.5, an object orientated parallel programming system written at the Department of Computer Science, University of Virginia, USA. No binary distribution (executables) is included here due to the licensing restrictions. It must be obtained from the source site directly and not distributed from your site. See the README file in this directory for details. /parallel/documents/hpf/announcement /parallel/documents/hpf/hpf-v10-final.ps.Z /parallel/documents/hpf/hpf-v10-final.tar.Z /parallel/documents/hpf/jod-v10-final.ps /parallel/documents/hpf/jod-v10-final.tar.Z The final version of the High Performance Fortran Language Specification (v1.0 final) from Rice University. ~200 pages. Available in compressed PostScript and LaTeX source in compressed tar file. From titan.cs.rice.edu in /public/HPFF/draft. Includes Journal of Development (JOD). /parallel/user-groups/ppecc/announcement Announcement of the SERC Parallel Processing in Engineering Community Club (PPECC) and invitation for membership. /parallel/software/emacs-lisp/folding-mode.el A folding minor-mode for emacs by Jamie Lokier from an emacs lisp archive. Dated 93-06-8. Contributed by TERRENCE MONROE BRANNON /parallel/documents/usenet/actor-theory Announcement of new Actor theory paper by Gul Agha et al. /parallel/conferences/general-purpose-par-comp Announcement and call for contributions for the General Purpose Parallel Computing open meeting to be held on 22nd December 1993 at University of Westminister, London organised by the British Computer Society Parallel Processing Specialist Group (BCS PPSG) /parallel/conferences/scalable-par-libs Call for posters and details of participation in the Scalable Parallel Libraries Conference (including Multicomputer Toolbox Developers' & Users' Meeting) to be held from October 6-8th 1993 at the NSF Engineering Research Center for Computational Field Simulation, Mississippi State, Mississippi. /parallel/conferences/wtc-1993-conference-programme /parallel/conferences/wtc-1993-tutorial-programme Conference and tutorial programmes for the World Transputer Congress to be held from September 20-24rd 1993 in Aachen, Germany organised by the Transputer Consortum (TTC) and the German national conference, the Transputer-Anwender-Treffen (TAT) in association with the World occam and Transputer User Group (WoTUG). The conference is the first three days and the tutorials and workshops are from September 23-24th. /parallel/documents/usenet/dslinks-paul-walker-2 Article by Paul Walker who worked for INMOS describing the maximum DS-Link transfer rates. /parallel/conferences/dist-computing-aero-workshop Call for papers/participation for the Distributed Computing for Aerosciences Applications workshop to be held from October 18-20th 1993 at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California. /parallel/conferences/cluster-workshop-93 Call for participation in Cluster Workshop '93 to be held from December 7th-9th 1993 at the Supercomputer Computations Research Institute, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida. Issues are on using heterogeneous clusters of computers as computational resources. /parallel/conferences/ipccc94-tutorials Call for tutorial proposals for International Phoenix Conference on Computers and Communications (IPCCC '94) to be held in April 1994. Proposals must be given by 1st September 1993. /parallel/reports/conferences/WOPA93 Report on the 3rd Workshop on Parallel Algorithms (WOPA) held from May 19-20 1993 in San Diego, California by Dr. Rajeev Raman /parallel/conferences/HPDC-3 Call for papers for the Third International Symposium on High-Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC-3) to be held from August 3rd-5th 1994 at Westin St. Francis Hotel, San Francisco, California, USA. /parallel/reports/misc/soft-env-net-report.announcement /parallel/reports/misc/soft-env-net-report.tar.Z Report: "A Survey of Software Environments for Exploiting Networked Computing Resources" by Louis Turcotte covering over 60 distributed and other networked software environments (150 pages). Announcement of report contains author contact details. From bulldog.wes.army.mil as /pub/report.ps.Z /parallel/user-groups/ppsg/contacts Contact addresses for the BCS Parallel Processing Specialist Group (PPSG). /parallel/documents/usenet/PVM-FAQ New version of PVM Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ).