Newsgroups: comp.parallel From: D.J.Beckett@ukc.ac.uk Subject: Internet Parallel Computing Archive (IPCA) Additions - September 1997 Organization: University of Kent at Canterbury, UK. Date: 10 Sep 1997 19:15:37 GMT Message-ID: <5v6rkp$fq9$1@server2.ctc.com> INTERNET PARALLEL COMPUTING ARCHIVE Funded by JISC ISSC and hosted on HENSA Unix The IPCA contains over 680M of freely distributable software and documents about High Performance and Parallel Computing with special interest in the Transputer processor concept and the occam language. See URLs above for more details of mirror sites, indices, searching etc. Additions to 15th August 1997 ============================= 15th August 1997 /parallel/forsale/mit-cm5 "FOR SALE: CM5 with 128 nodes and SDA" by Michael F. McCarthy MIT Lab for Computer Science offers for bid sale a Thinking Machines CM-5 Connection Machine Deadline for bids: 8th September 1997 /parallel/events/ Added: http://www.psc.edu/training/Bettis_Sept_97/welcome.html "Supercomputing Techniques: Parallel Processing on CRAY MPP Systems" by Stephanie Dobler Details of workshop being held from 29th September-2nd October 1997 at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. Organised by Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center. PURPOSE: The purpose of this three and a half day workshop is to introduce participants to parallel processing on the CRAY T3E and explore more advanced topics, including performance monitoring and optimization techniques. AGENDA: The first two days of this workshop have been designed to introduce participants to PSC's supercomputing environment, compiling, debugging, job submission, and parallel programming concepts. Participants will learn to write parallel code using message passing calls. The third and fourth days are designed to cover more advanced topics, including advanced parallel programming techniques, how to monitor code performance and optimization strategies. There will also be presentations on scientific applications which have been parallelized. To ensure that participants receive quality training, our workshops incorporate both lectures and extensive hands-on lab sessions. Programming exercises are carefully esigned to reinforce concepts and techniques taught in class. Our instructors have strong scientific and technical backgrounds and are available for individual consultation during lab sessions. In addition to the lab exercises, lab time will also be available for participants to optimize their own code with the help and supervision of our instructors. Participants are encouraged to bring their code, but not required. NOTE: A working knowledge of FORTRAN or C and UNIX is required. Parallel computing experience is not necessary. Topics: parallel processing on the CRAY T3E, performance monitoring and optimization techniques. Deadlines: Registration: September 15, 1997. 11th August 1997 /parallel/tools/editors/folding-editors/fe-mh/fe-0.5.tar.gz Updated: "FE Folding Editor Version 0.5 beta" by Michael Haardt /parallel/events/ Added: http://www.psc.edu/training/J90_Sept_97/welcome.html "Supercomputing Techniques: CRAY J90/C90" by Stephanie Dobler Details of workshop being held from 8th-11th September 1997 at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. Organised by: Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center. PURPOSE: The purpose of this three and a half day workshop is to introduce participants to computing on the CRAY J90/C90. Participants will gain experience in running jobs on the J90/C90, optimizing code, parallel processing, and on the use of graphics software libraries and packages. AGENDA: The first day of this workshop is designed to introduce participants to the J90/C90 platform. During this time, participants will become familiar with PSC's supercomputing environment, the UNICOS operating system, CRAY compiling, job submission, troubleshooting, and debugging. The last three days of this workshop are designed for users who are already familiar with running jobs on the CRAY J90/C90 and who are interested in more advanced topics: * The Code Optimization portion will cover performance monitoring techniques and strategies to improve the performance of one's code. * The Parallel Processing portion concentrates on the mechanics of parallel computing on the J90/C90 systems. * The final day will explore graphics and visualization topics ranging from a general overview of graphics packages available at PSC to a more advanced discussion of animation and 3-D graphics. Topics: Computing on the CRAY J90/C90; running jobs on the J90/C90; optimizing code; parallel processing; use of graphics software libraries and packages. Deadlines: Registration: August 15, 1997. /parallel/languages/fortran/adaptor/adp_5.0.tar.gz /parallel/languages/fortran/adaptor/adp_5.0.tar.Z "ADAPTOR V5.0 Distribution" Version 5.0 supports the new HPF 2.0 standard and many approved extensions. /parallel/languages/fortran/adaptor/iguide.ps.Z ADAPTOR V5.0 Installation guide. /parallel/languages/fortran/adaptor/docs.tar.gz "Adaptor V5.0 Documentation" Contains 9 PostScript documents about Adaptor (see docs directory): iguide.ps; uguide.ps; pguide.ps; dalib.ps; adaptor.ps; evaluation.ps; tut_hpf_standard.ps; tut_hpf_language.ps and tut_adaptor.ps /parallel/events/ipps98-hipcs98-workshop "Third International Workshop on High-Level Parallel Programming Models and Supportive Environments at IPPS/SPDP 1998" (HIPS'98) by M.Gerndt Call for papers for workshop being held from 30th March - 3rd April 1998 at Orlando, Florida, USA. Topics: Concepts and languages for high-level parallel programming; Concurrent object-oriented programming; Automatic parallelization and optimization; High-level programming environments; Performance analysis and debugging techniques and tools; Implementation techniques for high-level programming models; Distributed shared memory; Architectural support for high-level programming models and others. Deadlines: Papers: 1st November 1997; Notification: 20th Deember 1997; Camera-ready papers: 31st January 1998. See also 23rd July 1997 /parallel/libraries/numerical/finite-element-meshes/parmetis "ParMETIS 1.0: A Parallel Graph Partitioning and Sparse Matrix Ordering Library" by George Karypis , , Computer Science Department, University of Minnesota, USA An MPI-based parallel library that implements a variety of algorithms for partitioning unstructured graphs and for computing fill-reducing orderings for sparse matrices. See also /parallel/jobs/amsterdam-comp-arch "University of Amsterdam Computer Architecture & Parallel Systems Group PostDoc" by Andy Pimentel Performance evaluation studies of parallel/distributed platforms by means of simulation. Experience in area. /parallel/jobs/lanl-par-num-alg "Post Doctoral Fellowship Positions at LANL" by Wayne D Joubert LANL Scientific Computing Group seeking candidates with experience in Numerical & Linear Algebra, Multigrid, Parallel engineering, F90, HPF, MPI on parallel machines. /parallel/jobs/nmsu-phd-par-dist "NMSU Ph.D. in parallel and distributed computing" by Srinivas Aluru See /parallel/events/pads98 "12th Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Simulation" (PADS'98) by Gabriele Kotsis Call for papers for conference being held from 26th-28th May 1998 at Banff, Alberta, Canada. Sponsored by ACSM SIGSIM, IEEE TCSIM, SCS. Topics: Algorithms and methods for parallel simulation; Models of parallel simulation; Methodologies for parallel simulation; Implementation Issues; Performance of parallel simulation; Application of parallel simulation; Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS); Distributed Simulation on the WWW and others. Deadlines: Papers: 6/10th October 1997; Notification: 22nd December 1997; Camera-ready papers: 15th February 1997. See also /parallel/events/hpcs98 "The 12th Annual International Symposium on High Performance Computing" (HPCS '98) by Diego Novillo Call for papers for conference being held from 20th-22nd May 1998 at Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Topics: High performance architecture; Parallel/distributed/vector algorithms; Industrial and scientific applications; Heterogeneous computing environments; Scalable systems; HPC using the World Wide Web; Parallel programming environments; Tools; Visualization; Parallel languages; Compiler technology; Parallel I/O; Operating systems; High-speed networking; Performance modeling and evaluation and others. Deadlines: Papers: 15th December 1997; Notification: 15th February 1998; Camera-ready papers: 15th March 1998. See also /parallel/events/ Updated other events 15th July 1997 /parallel/environments/pvm3/tkpvm/ Updated TkPvm patches and files for Tcl 8.0b2 and Tk 8.0b2 /parallel/events/wcsg98 "6th International Conference in Central Europe on Computer Graphics and Visualization" (WSCG'98) by SKALA Call for papers for conference being held from 9th-13th February 1998 at Plzen, nr Prague, Czech Republic. In cooperation with IFIP working group 5.10 on Computer Graphics and Virtual Worlds. Topics: Fundamental algorithms, rendering and visualization, virtual reality, animation and multimedia, medical imaging, geometric modelling and fractals, graphical interaction, object-oriented graphics, WWW technologies, standards, computer vision, parallel and distributed graphics, computational geometry, computer aided geometric design, CAD/CAM, DTP and GIS systems, educational aspects of related fields, usage of graphics within mathematical software in education and others. Deadlines: Papers: 30th September 1997; Notification: 30th November 1997; Camera-ready papers: 10th December 1997. See also and /parallel/events/stanford-ppm "Practical Performance Methods course" by J. Barnhill Call for participation for course being held from 4th-8th August 1997 at WICS, Stanford University, USA. This course introduces practical methodologies for large-scale computer performance analysis and capacity planning in modern distributed open systems environments. The three major subject areas are: data collection, data analysis, and performance prediction. See also /parallel/events/mascots98 "Sixth International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems" (MASCOTS '98) by Azzedine BOUKERCHE Call for papers for conference being held from 19th-24th July 1998 at Complex Dejardins Hotel, Montreal, Canada. Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society (TCCA, TCSIM) IFIPS, and IBM (pending). Topics: telecommunication software, broadband communication systems, wireless communication networks, advanced intelligent networks and SS7, set-top boxes, digital/interactive TV, video-on-demand servers, cable modems/telephony, thin-clients and their servers, as well as computer system architectures, including memory and communication systems, performance models, discrete and numeric simulation, simulation efficiency, monitoring and visualization, system and application tuning, performability modeling, specification, validation and others. Deadlines: Workshops: 12th December 1997; Tutorials: 30th January 1998: Tools: 30th January 1998; Papers: 5th December 1997; Notification: 5th March 1998; Camera-ready papers: 10th April 1998. See also and http://www.dl.ac.uk/TCSC/HPCI/conference/ "HPCI Conference 1998" (HPCI98) by Robert J. Allan , Call for papers for conference being held at Manchester Conference Centre, UK from 12th-14th January 1998. Organised by EPSRC, Universities of Edinburgh & Southampton and CCLRC Daresbury Laboratory. The end of this year will mark three years of the U.K. HPC Initiative, and more importantly three years of exploitation of the National Cray T3D supercomputer at EPCC. To mark this event a conference will be held in Manchester in mid January 1998. The focus of this conference is scientific achievement, not politics! As the procurement process for the next stage in the development of HPC is now under way, it will be timely to assess the progress achieved and to indicate our expectations for the next three years. We also hope to invite plenary speakers from the major US and European supercomputer sites to act as a cross-border comparison. We will also involve the major supercomputer vendors and software specialists. We are hoping for contributions from all HPCI Consortia and others involved in high-performance computing in the UK (see call for papers). Proceedings will be formally published in a book by Plenum shortly after the conference. It is hoped that this book will stand as testimony to the enabling power and cost-effectiveness of parallel supercomputers in modelling the world in which we live. Topics: High-performance Computing in Academic Research Grand Challenges.. Deadlines: none set - use on-line registration form. -- Articles to parallel@ctc.com (Administrative: bigrigg@ctc.com) Archive: http://www.hensa.ac.uk/parallel/internet/usenet/comp.parallel