13th October 1993 /parallel/software/miami/mpsim.tar.Z Small multiprocessor simulator package written by Felix Quevedo at the University of Miami. ASCII and PS versions of the documentation are provided as well as troff source. Works on Sun3-SunOS3.5, Sun4-SunOS4.0.3, VAX-Ultrix3.0 and MAC-A/UX1.1. /parallel/conferences/int-dev-par-comp Details of two-day Symposium on International Developments in Parallel Computing being held from 9th-10th November 1993 at the University of Liverpool organised by ACT-UETP and the Institute of Advanced Scientific Computation (IASC), University of Liverpool. /parallel/software/washington-seattle/chaos Chaos Simulator Package - a compiled routing network simulator written by the Chaos router team at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA. /parallel/reports/announcements/genetic-alg-robotics Announcement of Technical Report available for FTP about Genetic Algorithms for robotics (in French). "Algorithmes genetiques paralleles pour la planification de trajectoires de robots en environnement dynamique" by Thierry Chatroux of Institut Imag, Grenoble, France. /parallel/conferences/can-fr-conf-par-comp Final announcement and call for papers for the Canada-France conference on Parallel Computing being held from 18th-20th May 1994 at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada the week before the 1994 ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing. Deadlines: 31st October 1993: Submission of papers; 31st January 1994: Acceptance; 28th February 1994: Camera-ready copy. /parallel/software/rice/netsim/README Details and copyright message for the package: READ THIS FIRST. (No commercial use of software allowed) /parallel/software/rice/netsim/sim.tar.Z A family of discrete-event simulators based on the C programming language by J. Robert Jump of Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA. Contains YACSIM - A process-oriented discrete-event simulator, NETSIM - A general-purpose interconnection network simulator and DBSIM - A debugging utility for use with any of the simulators. Archive contains source code and documentation and papers in PostScript. /parallel/reports/misc/twelve-ways-to-fool-masses.tex /parallel/reports/misc/twelve-ways-to-fool-masses.ps.Z Report: "Twelve Ways to Fool the Masses When Giving Performance Results on Parallel Computers" by David Bailey posted to comp.parallel by Andrew Stratton in LaTeX form (twelve-ways-to-fool-masses.tex) and compressed Postscript (twelve-ways-to-fool-masses.ps.Z). /parallel/bibliographies/parallelism-biblos-FAQ Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) about the bibliography on parallelism maintained by Eugene N. Miya for the last ten+ years. Written by the maintainer. /parallel/faqs/conferences/opopac-workshop-programme More programme details for the International Workshop On Principles Of PArallel Computing (OPOPAC) / "Journees internationales sur des problemes fondamentaux de l'informatique parallele et distribuee" being held from 23rd-26th November 1993 in Lacanau, France. [See also /parallel/faqs/conferences/opopac-workshop]. /parallel/faqs/parallel-Fourier-transforms Summary of some citations for parallel Fourier transform papers/algorithms by Mike Gross . /parallel/faqs/message-passing-simulators Summary of responses to a query about freely available message passing software simulators by David C Blight and details of how to obtain it. /parallel/conferences/esa94 Call for papers for 2nd Annual European Symposium On Algorithms (ESA'94) being held from 26th-28th September 1994 near Utrecht, The Netherlands. Deadlines: Extended Abstract/Full draft paper: 25th March 1994; Acceptance: 20th May 1994; Camera-ready copy: 20th June 1994. /parallel/conferences/rsp94 Call for papers for 5th IEEE International Workshop on Rapid System Prototyping (RSP 94) being held from 21st-23rd June 1994 at Grand Hotel de Paris at Villard de Lans, Grenoble, France. Conferences is in English. Deadlines: Papers: 10th January 1994; Acceptance: 10th February 1994; Camera-ready copy: 24th Marh 1994. /parallel/conferences/jisc-ntsc-cluster-workshop Details of the JISC/NTSC Workshop on Cluster Computing being held on Tuesday 2nd November 1993 at the University of Edinburgh. /parallel/faqs/industrial-par-tools Summary of responses about a query on tools for industrial ((non-research) parallel programming by Richard Schooler /parallel/software/linux/assembler/assembler.announcement Announcement of new version of assembler and servers written by Michael Haardt for Linux 0.99.13 /parallel/software/linux/assembler/asld.tz New version of assembler and linker (gzipped tar file) /parallel/software/linux/assembler/b004.tz Patches for Christoph Niemann's link device driver for Linux 0.99.13. For documentation, see his original release. (gzipped tar file) /parallel/software/linux/assembler/server.tz Iserver, AFserver and cserver (gzipped tar file) /parallel/software/linux/assembler/tdis.tz Disassembler (gzipped tar file) /parallel/software/ipsc/ipscs-to-pvm3.1 Announcement of v0.1 of Intel iPSC to PVM3.1 library written by J. Sunny Egbo et al /parallel/software/ipsc/i2pvm0.1.tar.Z Version 0.1 of the Intel-iPSC to PVM Library: A set of routines to allow Intel iPSC programs to run under a Parallel Virtual Machine. CAVEATS: 1. This version (0.1) only works for PVM3.1 and supports most of the Intel iPSC node calls, and a few host programs. 2. We are working on the next release which includes most of the host library calls, host programs, and will run under PVM3.2. /parallel/bibliographies/par-functional Directory containing an annotated bibliography on parallel functional programming (including BibTeX sources) listing more than 350 publications mostly including their full abstracts by Wolfgang Schreiner /parallel/conferences/sms94 Call for papers for 2nd International Conference on Software for Multiprocessors and Supercomputers- Theory, Practice, Experience (SMS TPE'94) being held in early September 1994 in Mosco, Russia. Organising institutions are the Computing Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Institute for the Problems of Cybernetics of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Deadlines: Abstracts: 31st December 1993; Acceptance: 1st March 1994; Camera-ready copies: 1st May 1994. /parallel/documents/misc/optical-nets-in-multiprocessors.announce Announcement of PhD thesis by James Olsen : "Control and Reliability of Optical Networks in Multiprocessors" available in both Postscript and LaTeX formats via anonymous ftp. /parallel/conferences/shpcc94 Update to call for papers for 1994 Scalable High Performance Computing Conference (SHPCC94) to beld from 23rd-25th May 1994 in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA. Deadlines: PAPERS: Extended Abstracts: 1st November 1993; Acceptance: 14th January 1994; Camera-ready copies: 14th February 1994. POSTERS: Short Abstracts: 1st November 1993; Acceptance: 14th January 1994; TUTORIALS: Proposals: 1st November 1993; Acceptance: 14th January 1994. /parallel/conferences/ieee-workshop-visualisation-machine-vision Call for papers for the IEEE Workshop on Visualization and Machine Vision being held on the 24th June 1994 at The Westin Hotel, Seattle, Washington, USA (A day after CVPR at the same site. So researchers can stay an extra day and attend the workshop) Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society: Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence Technical Committee and Computer Graphics Technical Committee. Deadline: 13th December 1993. /parallel/conferences/PEPS-programme Programme and Registration Details for the Workshop on the Performance Evaluation and Assessment of Parallel Systems (PEPS) sponsored by the EC ESPRIT 6942 programme, the BCS and the TTCP XTP3 Technical Panel on Computer Architectures and organised by the PEPS Consortium. Workshop being held from 29th-30th November 1993 at University of Warwick, Coventry, UK. /parallel/reports/announcements/GRAPE-report-kahaner Announcement of reports by Dr. David Kahaner on the GRAPE (GRAvity PipE) computer, developed at the University of Tokyo, for simulation of N-body systems. The newest version will have TFLOPs performance, using 2000 600MFLOP chips. Posted by Rick Schlichting /parallel/journals/ppl Added Parallel Processing Letters details, call for papers and contents of some of the issues. /parallel/courses/parasoft-par-prog-course Introductory course on the theory and practice of distributed and parallel computing held by ParaSoft Corporation from 10th-12th December 1993 at Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA (At the end of Cluster Workshop) /parallel/user-groups/ppc/PPC-October Announcement of the October PPC Meeting held on October 11th. [Posted too late to arrive before the meeting date] /parallel/books/morgan-kaufmann/parallel-processing-from-applications-to-systems Announcement of book: "Parallel Processing from Applications to Systems" by Dan I. Moldovan, University of Southern California published by Morgan Kaufmann and details of contents and costs. /parallel/conferences/wotug17 Call for papers for the 17th World occam and Transputer User Group (WoTUG) Technical Meeting being held from 11th-13th April 1994 at the University of Bristol, UK. Deadlines: Extended abstracts: 1st November 1993; Notification: Mid December 1993; Camera read copy: 10th January 1994. /parallel/conferences/EURO-PAR-site-bids Call for conference site bids for the new series of European Conferences called EURO-PAR (merge of CONPAR/VAPP and PARLE). Deadline for bids is Friday 5th November. 11th October 1993 /parallel/conferences/share-HPC-day Details of the talks taking place during the High Performance Computing Day being held as part of the SHARE Europe Anniversary meeting on 27th October 1993 at The Hague, The Netherlands. /parallel/documents/vendors/APR/parallelizing-products Details of APR parallelizing products (FORGE 90, xHPF77) /parallel/journals/lisp-and-symbolic-computation Call for papers and information for Lisp and Symbolic Computation journal published by Kluwer. /parallel/reports/dec-crl/contention-in-shared-mem-algorithms Announcement of new CRL Technical Report 93/12 on Contention in Shared Memory Algorithms by Cynthia Dwork, Maurice Herlihy and Orli Waarts. /parallel/faqs/PVM-technical PVM Version 3 Frequently Asked Questions - Technical from comp.parallel.pvm newsgroup by Bob Manchek /parallel/conferences/parle94 Call for papers for Parallel Architectures and Languages Europe (PARLE) 1994 being held from 13th-17th June 1994 at the Intercontinental Hotel, Athens, Greece. Deadlines: Full Draft: 19th November 1993; Acceptance: 11th February 1994; Camera-ready copies: 18th March 1994. /parallel/faqs/parallel-data-compression Summary of responses to a query about parallel data compression by Alf-Christian Achilles . /parallel/conferences/ispcs93 Details of the 1993 International Workshop on Intelligent Signal Processing and Communication Systems (ISPCS '93) being held from 27th-29th October 1993 at Aoba Memorial Hall, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan. /parallel/user-groups/isug/isug_newsletter.09.93 Intel Supercomputer Users Group newsletter for September 1993 from export.ssd.intel.com in /pub/isug. /parallel/user-groups/isug/isug_newsletter.09.93.announce Announcement of the above newsletter /parallel/software/tmsc40/tick.txt TMS320C40 parallel network detection and loader utility v2.0 (September 1993) supporting Transtech, Hunt, and Traquair boards hosted by DOS, SunOS and Linux by Ben Abbott and Akos Ledeczi of Vanderbilt University, USA with Modifications for UNIX by Mark Milligan University of British Columbia and Rolf Skeie of NDRE. /parallel/software/tmsc40/tick.zip PKZIP archive of TICK v2.0 for x86 computers running MSDOS or Linux, and Suns running SunOS. /parallel/conferences/compsac93 Details (Advance Programme) of IEEE Computer Society's Seventeenth Annual International Computer Software & Applications Conference - COMPSAC93 being held from 1st-5th November 1993 at the Mesa Hilton Pavilion, Mesa (Phoenix suburb), Arizona, USA. /parallel/conferences/conpar-vappVI-94 Call for papers for the 1994 International Conferences on Parallel Processing (CONPAR) / Vector and Parallel Processors in Computational Science meeting VI (VAPP VI) being held from 6th-8th September 1994 at the Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria. Deadlines: Final call for papers: October 1993; Submission of complete papers: 15th February 1994; Acceptance: 1st May 1994; Final paper: 1st July 1994. /parallel/documents/vendors/cray/cray-t3d.announcement Announcment of the CRAY T3D by Cray Research, Inc. /parallel/bibliographies/icpp93-bib.ref Draft bibliography of 1993 International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP 93) by Eugene Miya in refer format. /parallel/reports/misc/status-of-parallel-processing-education.announcement How to get hold of the current version of "The Status of Parallel Processing Education: 1993" from University of New York at Buffalo by Russ Miller /parallel/conferences/par-finite-element-computations Call for participation in the symposium: Parallel Finite Element Computations being held from 24th-27th October 1993 at the Supercomputer Institute, 1200 Washington Avenue South, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA sponsored by the University of Minnesota Supercomputer Institute and US Army High Performance Computing Research Center. /parallel/documents/misc/PPE_Survey.announcement /parallel/documents/misc/PPE_Survey.txt The Parallel Programming Evaluation Survey -- Doug Elias of the Software and Consulting Support Group, Cornell Theory Center, Ithaca, NY, USA is taking a survey questionnaire on tools used to obtain parallelism in applications. The survey is PPE_Survey.txt and his comments are PPE_Survey.announcement. /parallel/conferences/micro-26 Call for participation for the 26th Annual ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Microarchitecture with special emphasis on Instruction-Level Parallel Processing being held at The Austin Marriott at the Capitol, Austin, Texas, USA from 1st-3rd December 1993. Sponsored by ACM SIGMICRO and IEEE TC-MICRO. /parallel/faqs/mesh-of-buses Summary of responses to a query about works on Meshes of (optical) Buses by ricki R. Wegner /parallel/conferences/ess93 Call for participation in the European Simulation Symposium 1993 with the following themes: Dynamic Modelling and Information Systems; Multimedia Systems and Virtual Reality; High-performance Computing; Simulation and New Trends in Methods and Tools. THe symposium is being held from 25th-28th October 1993 at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. /parallel/courses/csp Introductory CSP (Communicating Sequential Processes) - A Tool-Based Course being given by Formal Systems (Europe), Ltd from 29th November -3rd December 1993 in Boston, MA, USA. /parallel/conferences/rovpia94 Details and call for papers for International Conference on Robotics, Vision and Parallel Processing for Industrial Automation (ROVPIA'94) being held from 26th-28th May 1994 at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Perak Campus of University of Science, Malaysia. Deadlines: Abstract: 30th Oct, Acceptance: 30th Nov, Camera-ready copies: 30th Dec. /parallel/faqs/parallel-garbage-collection A summary of responses to a query about parallel garbage collection algorithms by Gritton Gregory Vance /parallel/documents/vendors/maspar/MasPar-Challenge Details of the MasPar Challenge for 1993. /parallel/journals/IEEE-computer-assoc-processing Call for papers and referees for November 1994 Special Issue of IEEE COMPUTER on Associative Processing and Processors. Deadlines: Abstract: 1st October; Draft Paper: 1st December. /parallel/bibliographies/archindependent.bib /parallel/bibliographies/archindependent.txt BibTeX bibliography by David Skillicorn on aspects of parallelism relating to: architecture independence, programming models, categorical approaches to parallelism, general purpose parallelism, and theoretical and foundational results relating to these.