Changes to the archive in in February 1995

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28th February 1995

/parallel/events/num-alg-par-procs: NSF-CBMS Regional Conference in the Mathematical Sciences: Numerical Linear Algebra on Parallel Processors Details of 'conference' (ten 1-hour lectures) being held from 12th-16th June 1995 at University of San Francisco, USA. The principle lecturer will be Professor James Demmel of the University of California, Berkeley. This is intended for researchers and those wishing to begin research in numerical linear algebra on parallel processors. Topics: Parallel architectures and parallel software; Parallel algorithms for dense matrices: matrix multiplication, Gaussian elimination, least squares problems, and eigenvalues and eigenvectors; Parallel algorithms for sparse matrices: matrix partitioning algorithms, direct methods, and iterative methods and other topics. Other lectures will also be given on topics such as: multifrontal methods for matrix factorization; domain decomposition methods; parallel finite elements; graph partitioning and applications. Deadline: Reply by 1st April 1995 to express an interest. Author: Peter Pacheco <peter@mobydick.usfca.edu>.
/parallel/environments/pvm3/emory-vss/pvm_nas.tar.Z: Updated version of the NAS parallel benchmarks (all 8) ported to PVM 3.3. This is only an alpha version, so use at your own risk.
/parallel/environments/mpi/unify/reports/Message-Passing/unify_frontiers95_short.ps.Z: A shorter version of the paper(?): "Migrating from PVM to MPI I.: The Unify System" by Vaughan, Skjellum <tony@aurora.cs.msstate.edu>, Reese, and Cheng, Mississippi State University, NSF Engineering Research Center for Computational Field Simulation & Department of Computer Science.
/parallel/documents/pario/papers/Kotz/OSDI-slides-2up.ps.gz: Updated: OSDI slides - 2 per page
/parallel/documents/mpi/anl/using/errata.ps.Z: Updated: "Using MPI" errata
/parallel/transputer/software/compilers/gcc-helios-loop.c.Z: Fixed version of loop.c.Z in main tar file for GCC for transputers under Helios.

17th February 1995

/parallel/environments/lam/distribution/mpi-quick-ref.ps.gz: MPI Quick Reference Card

16th February 1995

/parallel/software/paragon/nxlib/NXLibV1_1_4.tar.gz: NXlib V1.1.4 distribution - library simulating the Paragon NX message-passing environment on workstations. [gzipped tar file]
/parallel/software/paragon/nxlib/NXLibV1_1_4.tar.Z: NXlib V1.1.4 distribution - library simulating the Paragon NX message-passing environment on workstations. [compressed tar file]
/parallel/software/paragon/nxlib/NXLibUgV1_1_4.ps.gz: NXlib V1.1.4 Users Guide documentation [gzipped PostScript document]
/parallel/software/paragon/nxlib/NXLibUgV1_1_4.ps.Z: NXlib V1.1.4 Users Guide documentation [compressed PostScript document]
/parallel/software/paragon/nxlib/WHATS_NEW_1_1_4: Whats New in NXLIB 1.1.4

15th February 1995

/parallel/events/hicss29-opt-par-compilers: Optimization in Parallelizing Compilers Software Minitrack of HICSS-29 Call for Papers for HICSS-29 Minitrack on Optimization in Parallelizing Compilers being held from 3rd-6th January 1996 at Maui, Hawaii, USA. Topics: task creation and scheduling in multithreaded multiprocessors; cache performance optimization and software prefetching; communication performance prediction and optimization for regular and irregular parallel computation; compile and run time support for task parallelism; automatic task definition and data distribution; loop transformation theory; program partitioning and others. Deadlines: Abstracts: 15th March 1995; Feedback: 3rd April 1995; Paper: 1st June 1995; Notification: 31st August 1995; Final papers: 2nd October 1995. Author: Balaram Sinharoy <balaram@vnet.ibm.com>.

14th February 1995

/parallel/consultants/trivision: Technical consultants and system integrators specialising in MPP systems based in Switzerland and southern Germany. Author: Daniel D. Senften <senften@itag.ch>.
/parallel/languages/parallel-prolog/: References to parallel prolog
/parallel/events/hipc: International Conference on High Performance Computing Call for papers and participation in HiPC being held from 27th-30th December 1995 at Goa, India. Topics: Parallel Algorithms; Parallel Architectures; Parallel Languages & Compilers; Distributed Systems; Programming Environments; Scientific Computation; Visualization; Network Based Computing; Signal & Image Processing Systems and Supercomputing Applications and others. Deadlines: Papers: 1st April 1995; Notification: 1st June 1995; Camera-ready papers: 1st August 1995. See also: http://www.usc.edu/dept/ceng/prasanna/home.html and http://enuxsa.eas.asu.edu/~sridhar/places/india.html for information on other places of interest in India. Author: Ajay Gupta <gupta@cs.wmich.edu>.
/parallel/events/scs-ieee-acm-simulation-symposium: 28th Annual Simulation Symposium Advanced programme and pre-registration for 28th Annual Simulation Symposium being held from 9th-13th April 1995 at the Crescent Hotel, Phoenix, Arizona, USA. In cooperation with SCS, IEEE and ACM. Author: Alois Ferscha <ferscha@ani.univie.ac.at>.
/parallel/events/part95: Second Australasian Conference on Parallel and Real-Time Systems Call for papers for PART'94 being held from 28th-29th September 1995 at The Esplanade Hotel, Fremantle, Western Australia. Topics: Parallel architectures and algorithms; Parallel programming; Performance analysis and modelling; Parallel applications; Parallel databases; Distributed operating systems; Fault-tolerant computing; Parallel I/O Systems; VLSI systems; Network-based concurrent computing; Real-time languages and tools; Real-time aspects of distributed systems; Real-time scheduling; AI and neural networks in real-time control; Message Passing Systems and others. Deadlines: Special Sessions: 1st March 1995; Extended-abstract: 15th April 1995; Notification: 15th June 1995; Camera-ready copies: 1st August 1995. Author: Audrey M. Tam <amt@matilda.vut.edu.au>.
/parallel/jobs/ucsb-usa-eng-cs-researcher: Junior tenure-track Faculty postition at University of California at Santa Barbara, USA. Suitable for candidates with CS or related Postdoc. Author: Eric Baizer <baizer@cs.ucsb.edu>.
/parallel/internet/services/ppg: Monthly electronic-mail newsletters available for free from the Parallel Performance Group (PPG) on Multiprocessing, Parallel Processing and Distributed Processing; Solid Modelling/CADD, Mech. Design and Animation; Obj.-Oriented CASE Tools; Image Proc'g/Medicl Imgng; Fuzzy Logic/Fuzzy Control; Neural Networks; Project Management; Digital Signal Processing; Volume Visualization and Simulation. Author: Parallel Performance Group <strand@nic.cerf.net>.
/parallel/events/icalp96: 23rd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming Call for papers for ICALP'96 being held from 8th-12th July 1996 at Paderborn, Germany. Topics: computability; automata; formal languages; term rewriting; analysis of algorithms; computational geometry; computational complexity; symbolic and algebraic computation; cryptography; data types and data structures; theory of data base and knowledge bases; semantics of programming languages; program specification; transformation and verification; foundations of logic programming; theory of logical design and layout; parallel and distributed computation; theory of concurrency; theory of robotics and others. Deadlines: Papers: 15th November 1995; Notification: 16th February 1996; Final paper: 1st April 1996. See also http://www.uni-paderborn.de/~icalp96/ Author: ICALP96 (Rolf Wanka) <icalp96@uni-paderborn.de>.

8th February 1995

/parallel/transputer/software/NeXTstep/: Transputer driver, iserver and pserver for NeXTSTEP/Intel by Nicolas Droux <droux@info.isbiel.ch> of Engineering School of Biel-Bienne, Computer Science Dpt, Switzerland. Supports B004 systems. Tested with D7205 and PACT-C v93.1. Latest version available from http://www.info.isbiel.ch/droux/nxtrans/.
/parallel/transputer/software/NeXTstep/NXTrans.tar.gz
/parallel/transputer/software/NeXTstep/NXTrans.README: NeXTSTEP/Intel transputer driver Version 2.2. Allows B004 compatible Transputer systems to be used from NeXTSTEP running on Intel based computers. It has been tested with the INMOS D7205 occam toolkit and the PACT Parallel C v93.1 compiler. Contains versions of driver, iserver and pserver. Author: Nicolas Droux <droux@info.isbiel.ch>
/parallel/transputer/software/NeXTstep/ispy_next.tar.gz: ispy and mtest programs for NeXTSTEP/Intel. Developed by Andy Rabagliati <andyr@wizzy.com> and ported to NeXTSTEP by Nicolas Droux. ispy scouts out a transputer network of the T4/T8/T2/C004 family, and reports back processor type, boot link and speed, and connectivity. mtest uses this information to run memory tests, and memory speed tests, on all processors. Tested under NeXTSTEP 3.2 and 3.3. Contains isp, mtest, user manual and ispy protocol description. Author: Nicolas Droux <droux@info.isbiel.ch>

6th February 1995

/parallel/journals/Wiley/trcom/volume2/trcom2-3.bib: Bibliography of papers from Transputer Communications 2(3) September 1994
/parallel/events/icdcs95: 15TH International Conference on Distributed Computer Systems (ICDCS 95). Announcement of ICDCS-15 being held from 30th May-2nd June 1995 at Vancouver, B.C., Canada. Topics: Distributed Systems Architecture; Distributed Operating Systems; Distributed Databases and Information Systems; Communication Protocols; Distributed Real-Time Systems; Distributed Algorithms and System Theory; Languages, Tools and Software Engineering; Distributed System Services and Management; Fault Tolerance, Availability and Security; Performance of Distributed Systems and New Distributed Applications. See also http://www-csc.uvic.ca/ICDCS-15.html, gopher://www-csc.uvic.ca/ and ftp://www-csc.uvic.ca/pub/Conferences/.
/parallel/events/mppoi95: The Second International Conference on Massively Parallel Processing Using Optical Interconnections (MPPOI'95). Call for papers for MPPOI'95 being held from 23rd-24th October 1995 at San Antonio, Texas, USA. Sponsored by: ACM SIGARCH, OSA, IEEE (pending) and NSF (pending). Deadlines: papers: 1st April 1995; Notification: 1st July 1995; Camera-ready papers: 1st August 1995. Topics: Optical interconnections; Reconfigurable Architectures; Embedding and mapping of applications and algorithms; Packaging and layout of optical interconnections; Electro-optical, and opto-electronic components; Relative merits of optical technologies (free-space, fibers, wave guides); Passive optical elements; Algorithms and applications exploiting MPP-OI; Data distribution and partitioning; Characterizing parallel applications exploiting MPP-OI and Cost/performance studies.
/parallel/events/hpcasia1995: Call for papers and participation for HPC'ASIA 1995 being held from 18th-22nd September 1995 at Taipei, Taiwan R.O.C. Deadlines: Papers and Roundtables: 1st April 1995; Acceptance: 15th June 1995; Camera-Ready papers: 8th July 1995; . Topics: Environmental Modeling; Chemistry and Materials; Computational Fluid Dynamics; Computational Solid Mechanics; Numerical Algorithm; Performance and Benchmark; Novel Architecture (Processors; Interconnection; and Storage); High-Performance Parallel Language and Software; Distributed and Network Computing; Financial Modeling; Parallel Programming and Scientific Visualization. See also gopher://gopher.nchc.gov.tw and ftp://cacus.nchc.gov.tw/HPC-95/format for author instructions.
/parallel/events/iasc-courses: IASC 1995 short courses on Advanced Scientific Computation. Five short courses and some distant learning courses in the advanced scientific computing arena. Topics: Optimisation Techniques for Science and Engineering; Neural Networks; Statistical Techniques for Scientific Computation; An Introduction to the Design and Programming of Parallel Computers. See also http://supr.scm.liv.ac.uk/
/parallel/events/act-uetp-porting-packages-to-dmm: IASC Seminar: Porting Commercial Packages onto Distributed Memory Machines. being held on Wednesday 22nd February 1995 at Mason Bibby Room, Faculty of Engineering, Harrison Hughes Building, Liverpool, UK. A joint Liverpool Parallel Computering Club ACT-UETP event. See also http://supr.scm.liv.ac.uk/.
/parallel/environments/pvm3/emory-vss/ijsa.ps.Z: Description of recent and upcoming PVM developments. Invited paper to appear in Intl. Journal of Supercomputer Apps.