28th July 1994 /parallel/conferences/asap94 Advanced program and registration info for the 1994 International Conference on Application Specific Array Processors (ASAP-94) being held from 22nd-24th August 1994 at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco, California, USA. Entry-Range:1994-08-22-1994-08-24 /parallel/conferences/itug94 Preliminary announcement (and out of date call for papers) for the 2nd Conference of the Indian Transputer User Group (ITUG'94) being held from 8th-10th December 1994 at Hyderabad, India. Entry-Range:1994-12-08-1994-12-10 /parallel/bibliographies/computer-science-bibs Announcement of a large collection of bibliographies in various fields of computer science is available via anonymous ftp and the World Wide Web from University of Karlsruhe, Germany and other sites. Includes ~15000 abstracts under parallel processing and ~6000 article references. /parallel/environments/mpi/unify/distribution (Via mirror): The UNIFY system from Mississippi State University, which patches PVM 3.2, 3.2.6, or 3.3, provides a subset of MPI within the PVM environment, without sacrificing the PVM calls already available. This system currently works with the network versions of PVM, and has been tested with Sun and SGI platforms. /parallel/papers/surveys/early_apps_mpi.announcement Announcement of report below. /parallel/papers/surveys/early_apps_mpi.ps.gz "Early Applications in the Message-Passing Interface(MPI)" by Tony Skjellum and Rusty Lusk. ABSTRACT In this paper, we describe a number of early efforts to make use of the Message Passing Interface (MPI) standard in real applications. An informal survey, described herein, was posted by the authors on common USENet groups as well as to common MPI mailing lists. The responses contained here represent all but one the responses received; it is not exhaustive, but rather represents those researchers who were willing to respond during a limited period of time (about two weeks). Rather than a definitive statement of MPI development work, this paper restricts itself to describing the initial successes, progress, and impressions of application developers have with MPI, according to the responses received (many other projects, not described here, are also evidently on-going). An understanding of message-passing, and access to the MPI standard are prerequisites for appreciating this paper. %However, background material is given where needed. We summarize the important aspects of each response, and draw conclusions about the spread of MPI into applications. Clearly, studying the state of MPI application development is on-going: here, we demonstrate that it is well underway, and that it has breadth in the type of applications, and the target architectures. From ftp://aurora.cs.msstate.edu/pub/reports/early_apps_mpi.ps.Z /parallel/vendors/transcomp/windows3-iserver Call for distributers, resellers, beta-testers and customers for the Windows Server Package v3.0 by Transcomp Ltd., Moscow. Consists of a Transputer Iserver for MS Windows and support software. /parallel/papers/announcements/n-body-solver-cfd Announcement of PhD thesis by Gavin Pringle : "Numerical Study of Three-Dimensional Flow using Fast Parallel Particle Algorithms" available from the author. /parallel/books/morgan-kaufmann/parallel-computing-works Announcement of book: "Parallel Computing Works!" by Geoffrey C. Fox, Roy D. Williams and Paul C. Messina published by Morgan Kaufmann. This book shows how parallel computers can be successfully applied to large-scale scientific computations. It demonstrates how a variety of applications in physics, biology, mathematics, and other sciences were implemented on real parallel computers to prove new scientific results. /parallel/papers/announcements/paradyn Announcement of technical reports from the Paradyn Parallel Program Performance Tool project at UW-Madison available via anonymous FTP. /parallel/conferences/ica3pp95 Call for papers for the 1st IEEE First International Conference on Algorithms And Architectures for Parallel Processing (ICA3PP) being held from 19th-21st April 1995 at the Mayfair Crest Hotel, Brisbane, Australia organised by the IEEE Australia Council and the IEEE Queensland Section. Deadlines: Full paper/Extended Summary (x4): 15th October 1994; Tutorial/Panel proposals: 1st November 1994; Acceptance: 15th January 1995; Camera-ready papers: 15th February 1995. Entry-Range:1995-04-19-1995-04-21 /parallel/books/vieweg/load-dist-for-mach Details of book "Load Distribution, Implementation for the Mach Microkernel" by Dejan Milojicic published by Verlag Publishing from the thesis. Includes four reviews of work. /parallel/conferences/irregular94.txt /parallel/conferences/irregular94.tex Call for participation and preliminary program for the IFIP WG 10.3 International Workshop and Summer School on Parallel Algorithms For Irregularly Structured Problems being held from 29th August-2nd September 1994 at University of Geneva, Switzerland. /parallel/faqs/parallel-debuggers A very short summary of references to parallel debuggers by Anh Nguyen-Tuong /parallel/papers/evaluations/ksr1/mannheim/rum3593.ps.gz "One Year KSR1 at the University of Mannheim - Results & Experiences" editted by Robert Schumacher of University of Mannheim, Germany, 17th December 1993 (70 pages, Postscript) From ftp://ftp.uni-mannheim.de/top500/rum3593.ps.Z /parallel/papers/surveys/top500.announcement Announcement of TOP500 reports available on the WWW and ftp. Reports are produced below. /parallel/papers/surveys/rum3894.ps.gz "TOP500 Supercomputer Sites" by Jack J. Dongarra of University of Tennessee and ORNL, USA, Hans W. Meuer and Erich Strohmaier of University of Mannheim, Germany 30th June 1994 (32 pages, Postscript) From ftp://ftp.uni-mannheim.de/top500/rum3894.ps.gz /parallel/papers/surveys/rum3393.ps.gz "TOP500 Supercomputer Sites" by Jack J. Dongarra of University of Tennessee and ORNL, USA, Hans W. Meuer and Erich Strohmaier of University of Mannheim, Germany 11th November 1994 (32 pages, Postscript) From ftp://ftp.uni-mannheim.de/top500/rum3393.ps.Z /parallel/faqs/process-migration References and papers on process migration collected from responses to a news posting by David Cronk /parallel/software/announcements/mentat-2.7 Announcement of release 2.7 of Mentat - a parallel object-oriented computing environment based on C++ developed at the University of Virginia and available via anonymous FTP and via the WWW. 8th July 1994 /parallel/user-groups/ppc/PPC-1994-July Details of 11th July 1994 meeting /parallel/documents/pario Updated mirroring the Parallel I/O bibilographies, papers and information mainted by David Kotz of Dartmouth College to add in all the recent papers and keep up to date. /parallel/courses/apr-hpf-workshop Details of a four-day workshop on High Performance Fortran (HPF) being given by the Applied Parallel Research (APR), in cooperation with the Swiss Scientific Computing Center (CSCS-ETHZ) being held from 18th-21st October 1994 at the Swiss Scientific Computing Center, CSCS-ETHZ, Manno (Ticino), Switzerland. Entry-Range:1994-10-18-1994-10-21 7th July 1994 /parallel/packages Added pointers to common packages 4th July 1994 /parallel/courses/forge-90-workshop Details of GENIAS Software Workshop & Training on Re-engineering and Parallelization with FORGE 90 being held from 28th-30th September 1994 in Regensburg, Germany. Deadlines: Early-registration: 31st August 1994 Entry-Ragen:1994-09-28-1994-09-30 /parallel/courses/par-cfd-germany Details of an European Research Community On Flow Turbulence And Combustion (ERCOFTAC) course On Parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics being held from 17th-20th October 1994 in Stuttgart, Germany sponsored by ESA, ERCOFTAC, Institut fur Aero- und Gasdynamik, Universitat Stuttgart and Rechenzentrum Universitat Stuttgart. Entry-Range:1994-10-17-1994-10-20 /parallel/courses/par-processing-via-apps MIT Summer Professional Program Course: A Peek at Parallel Processing from an Applications Perspective given by Alan Edelman and Shang-Hua Teng of MIT from 11th-15th July 1994 at MIT. /parallel/internet/ Added Internet and USENET related files tree (15M of files) including news articles for the four main parallel computing newsgroups since at least January 1994. /parallel/internet/ftp-sites/ (soon to contain) FTP sites /parallel/internet/services/ On line services /parallel/internet/services/tracebase Announcement of TraceBase service - New Mexico State University Trace Database developed to allow researchers around the world to access and share traces from various computer architectures. Bryan Hunt /parallel/internet/usenet/ USENET newsgroup archives for comp.parallel, comp.parallel.pvm, comp.sys.transputer and comp.os.parix. Each newsgroup has a directory containing the articles, with sub-directories by year, sub-sub-directories with months and the articles at the bottom. Each month,year and group has Index files in article order and Subject and Author indices. /parallel/internet/www/ Some WWW references /parallel/conferences/splc94 Announcement and call for papers and posters for the Scalable Parallel Libraries Conference II (SPLC94) including MPI Applications Day and Multicomputer Toolbox Developers' & Users' Meeting being held from 12th-14th October 1994 at the National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center for Computational Field Simulation, Mississippi State, Mississippi, USA. Entry-Range:1994-10-12-1994-10-14 /parallel/bibliographies/parallel-debugging Details of Bibliography on Parallel and Distributed Debuggers available in BiBTeX format and PostScript via anonymous ftp from Rob Netzer and Cherri M. Pancake /parallel/conferences/ispan94 Call for papers for the International Symposium on Parallel Architectures, Algorithms and Networks (ISPAN' 94) being held from 14th-16th December 1994 at Kanazawa, Japan. Entry-Range:1994-12-14-1994-12-16 /parallel/papers/announcements/crim-par-arch-papers Announcement of recent papers published by the Parallel Architectures group at the CRIM (Centre de recherche informatique de Montreal / Computer Research Institute of Montreal) available via anonymous ftp. 1st July 1994 /parallel/vendors/inmos/ieee-hic/data/C101-02.ps.Z ST C101 Parallel DS-Link Adaptor Datasheet - Preliminary Datasheet. This allows high speed serial DS-Links to be interfaced to buses peripherals and microprocessors. It is particular suitable to interfacing such devices to interconnects which deal in packets consisting of data and header information. This header information may be used to demultiplex packets from different sources and/or route them through one or more switches. It has two modes of operations - in the first (Transparent Mode), with packetization disabled, it provides simple access to the DS-Link, all data provided to the ST C101 is transmitted down the DS-Link. In the second (Packetizing Mode) it can be used by devices such as processors to use such things as the ST C104 Packet Switch [C104-04.ps.Z below]. In both modes it can be used as one of: 16 bit processor i/f, 32 bit processor i/f or 16 bit processor i/f with token interfaces. This document includes changes for Revs A and B silicon. 64 pages. 17 Mbytes uncompressed. /parallel/vendors/inmos/ieee-hic/data/C104-04.ps.Z ST C104 Asynchronous Packet Switch - Preliminary Datasheet. This is a complete, low latency, packet routing switch on a single chip. It connects 32 high bandwidth serial communications links to each other via a 32 by 32 way non-blocking crossbar switch, enabling packets to be routed from any of its links to any other link. The links operate concurrently and the transfer of a packet between one pair of links does not affect the data rate or latency for another packet passing between a second pair of links. Up to 100 Mbits/s on each link or 19 Mbytes/s on a singe link. Packet rate processing up to 200 Mpackets/s. Data is transmitted in packets with headers and uses that to wormhole via interval labelling routing and Universal Routing to eleminate hotspots. Includes errata from previous datasheet and changes for Rev B. 64 pages. 18 Mbytes uncomrpessed.