From: dkl@pollux.cs.uga.edu (David Lowenthal)
Newsgroups: comp.parallel
Subject: ANNOUNCE: Filaments version 1.0 available
Date: 19 Sep 1998 16:31:42 GMT
Organization: University of Georgia, Athens
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Filaments version 1.0 is now freely available and can be downloaded on
the web at http://www.cs.uga.edu/~dkl/filaments/dist.html or via the
the University of Georgia CS Department anonymous FTP server at
ftp://ftp.cs.uga.edu/pub/filaments.

The current distribution runs on the following (homogeneous)
architectures: 
	- cluster of Sparcs running Solaris, 
        - cluster of PCs running Solaris, 
        - cluster of PCs running Linux,
        - SPARC/Solaris symmetric multiprocessor, and
        - SGI/Irix symmetric multiprocessor.
The distribution comes with extensive documentation (a programmer's
manual plus four other technical papers) and eight sample application
kernels. 

Filaments is a library package that can be used to create
architecture-independent parallel programs--that is, programs that are
portable and efficient across different parallel machines.
Filaments can be used directly as a subroutine library to write
parallel programs, but it is most useful as the target of a
parallelizing compiler.  

The package uses a carefully designed API along with machine-specific
runtime libraries and preprocessing that allow programs to run
unchanged on both shared- and distributed-memory machines. Most
importantly, applications programmed in Filaments run efficiently,
achieving a speedup of over 4 on 8 processors or nodes in almost all
tests that have been performed.

Any questions should be directed to filaments@cs.uga.edu.

--dave
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