Changes to the archive in in March 1995

Newest entries are first. Older changes can be found here.

30th March 1995

/parallel/documents/mpi/anl/sut-1.0.12.tar.Z: Scalable Unix Tools V1.0.12: pps, pls, load, gload, prun, pkill, prm, pdistrib, pfind, fps, pfps etc. by Gropp and Lusk. Includes paper.
/parallel/software/toolkits/global-array/global2.0.tar.Z: Updated Global Array (GA) Toolkit V2.0 distribution. GA Toolkit developed at Molecular Science Research Center in Pacific Northwest Laboratory, USA. It provides portable and efficient "shared-memory" programming interface through which each process in a MIMD parallel program can asynchronously access logical blocks of physically distributed matrices, without need for explicit cooperations by other processes. Platforms: SP1,IPSC,Delta,Paragon,KSR-2,workstations.

20th March 1995

/parallel/documents/mpi/anl/mpich-1.0.8.tar.Z: MPI Chameleon implementation version 1.0.8 (18th March 1995).
/parallel/documents/mpi/anl/patch1.0.7-1.0.8
/parallel/documents/mpi/anl/patch1.0.7-1.0.8.Z: Patch from MPI Chameleon 1.0.7 to 1.0.8

16th March 1995

/parallel/documents/mpi/anl/mpi2/mar13.ps.Z
/parallel/documents/mpi/anl/mpi2/mar13.dvi: Minutes of MPI meeting held from March 13-15, 1995 at Chicago, Illinois, USA. An unedited set of minutes taken during this MPI meeting. This contains both a summary of some of the discussions and official, binding votes of the MPI Forum. Author: William Gropp <gropp@mcs.anl.gov>.

15th March 1995

/parallel/software/os/minix/aachen/: Update to Transputer Minix by Michael Haardt <michael@cantor.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>
/parallel/software/os/minix/aachen/afserver.tz
/parallel/software/os/minix/aachen/afserver.README: Libraries and include files which are needed to compile stand-alone afserver executables.
/parallel/software/os/minix/aachen/image.btl: Minix bootable (iserver -sb image.btl)
/parallel/software/os/minix/aachen/iserver.tz
/parallel/software/os/minix/aachen/iserver.README: Libraries and include files which are needed to compile stand-alone iserver executables.
/parallel/software/os/minix/aachen/server.tz: Server?

14th March 1995

/parallel/transputer/software/utils/wintrans/: WinTrans is a graphical user interface library for Transputer systems written by Robert Westendorp <west@emt.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de>. It features full MS-Windows support such as Pushbuttons, Radiobuttons, Checkboxes, Scrollbars and Editboxes etc. Furthermore there are dedicated objects for automation and process control like an Oscilloscope, Multimeter, Knob, Switch or Bargraphs.
/parallel/transputer/software/utils/wintrans/announcement: Announcement document. Author: Robert Westendorp <west@emt.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de>.
/parallel/transputer/software/utils/wintrans/wintrans.zip: WINTRANS distribution.
/parallel/transputer/software/utils/wintrans/wintrans.ps.gz
/parallel/transputer/software/utils/wintrans/wintrans.ps.zip: WINTRANS: Graphical User Interface Library for Transputer Systems V1.0 65 pages, 5138870 bytes ungzipped or unzipped. Author: Robert Westendorp <west@emt.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de>.
/parallel/environments/mpi/unify/reports/Message-Passing/mpix-rev1.ps.Z: Inter-communicator Extensions to MPI in the MPIX (MPI eXtension) Library by Anthony Skjellum, Nathan E. Doss and Kishore Viswanathan, Department of Computer Science & NSF Engineering Research Center for Computational Field Simulation, Mississippi State University, USA. August 3, 1994. ABSTRACT: MPI is the new standard for multicomputer and cluster message passing introduced by the Message-Passing Interface Forum (MPIF) in April 1994. This paper describes the current inter-communicator interface found in MPI and the reasons for its current design. We also motivate the need for additional inter-communicator operations and introduce the extensions we have included in MPIX (MPI eXtension Library), a library of extensions to MPI that we are currently developing. Inter-communicators may be used for a variety of purposes such as in client/server applications (i.e., I/O and graphics servers) and for process management in dynamic process environments and multi-protocol implementations; MPI's definitions are unnecessarily restrictive, so we extend them here. We discuss the inter-communicator collective operations defined in MPIX and illustrate their use. We also discuss additional inter-communicator construction routines not in the original MPI interface, but that are provided in MPIX. Our final contribution is a strategy for extending virtual topologies to support inter-communicators with the MPIX inter-communicator library.

10th March 1995

/parallel/documents/pario/papers/Kotz/kotz:dapple.ps.Z: Updated: "A DAta-Parallel Programming Library for Education (DAPPLE)" by David Kotz. ABSTRACT: In the context of our overall goal to bring the concepts of parallel computing into the undergraduate curriculum, we set out to find a parallel-programming language for student use. To make it accessible to students at all levels, and to be independent of any particular hardware platform, we chose to design our own language, based on a data-parallel model and on C++. The result, DAPPLE, is a C++ class library designed to provide the illusion of a data-parallel programming language on conventional hardware and with conventional compilers. DAPPLE defines Vectors and Matrices as basic classes, with all the usual C++ operators overloaded to provide elementwise arithmetic. In addition, DAPPLE provides typical data-parallel operations like scans, permutations, and reductions. Finally, DAPPLE provides a parallel if-then-else statement to restrict the scope of the above operations to partial vectors or matrices.
/parallel/software/toolkits/global-array/global2.0.tar.Z: Updated Global Array (GA) Toolkit V2.0 distribution. GA Toolkit was developed at Molecular Science Research Center in Pacific Northwest Laboratory, USA. It provides portable and efficient "shared-memory" programming interface through which each process in a MIMD parallel program can asynchronously access logical blocks of physically distributed matrices, without need for explicit cooperations by other processes. Platforms: SP1,IPSC,Delta,Paragon,KSR-2,workstations.

9th March 1995

/parallel/software/simulators/chaos/docs/cranium-pcrcw.ps.Z: Cranium: An Interface for Message Passing on Adaptive Packet Routing Networks by Neil R. McKenzie, Kevin Bolding, Carl Ebeling and Lawrence Snyder, University of Washington, Seattle, USA. ABSTRACT: Cranium is a processor-network interface for an interconnection network based on adaptive packet routing. Adaptive networks relax the restriction that packet order is preserved; packets may be delivered to their destinations in an arbitrary sequence. Cranium uses two mechanisms: an automatic-receive interface for packet serialization and high performance, and a processor-initiated interface for flexibility. To minimize software overhead, Cranium is directly accessible by user-level programs. Protection for user-level message passing is implemented by mapping user-level handles into physical node identifiers and buffer addresses.
/parallel/languages/modula2star/karlsruhe/ipdm2s.9501.SUN5.tgz: SPARC Sun-5/SparcStation running Solaris 2.x binary distribution of Modula-2* programming environment.

8th March 1995

/parallel/documents/mpi/anl/using/examples.tar.Z: The examples from the "Using MPI" book in one file.
/parallel/documents/mpi/anl/mpi-test/README: Test suite overview
/parallel/documents/mpi/anl/mpi-test/ibmtsuite.tar.Z: Contains source code for unit test of MPI routines Author: Richard Treumann <treumann@kgn.ibm.com>.
/parallel/environments/pvm3/faq.html: PVM FAQ in HTML form
/parallel/environments/pvm3/pvanim/: PVaniM - Visualizing PVM Executions by Brad Topol & John Stasko, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA. PVaniM is a new system that provides animated program visualizations of the executions of PVM 3.3 applications. PVaniM includes both a set of graphics views and a tracing package to drive the views. Unlike the performance visualizations of ParaGraph, PVaniM focuses on visualizations of the actual execution and correctness of a program. PVaniM provides a number of views that show different perspectives on the dynamics and history of of the message passing in an application, as well as a more performance oriented Gantt chart view. Graphical objects in a PVaniM view also can be queried to determine their representation. PVaniM can animate the execution of a program according to a logical clock, thus truly presenting the (potential) concurrency of the application. Finally, PVaniM tracing provides support for custom user event tracing. Similarly, users can design and develop their own application-specific program views using the Polka animation system upon which PVaniM is built. See also http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/softviz/parviz/pvanim/pvanim.html
/parallel/environments/pvm3/pvanim/announcement: Announcement of PVaniM 1.0 Author: John Stasko <stasko@cc.gatech.edu>.
/parallel/environments/pvm3/pvanim/PVANIM_DESC: PVaniM description
/parallel/environments/pvm3/pvanim/pvanimtrace.tar.Z: PVaniM tracing library
/parallel/environments/pvm3/pvanim/pvanimviz.tar.Z: PVaniM graphics library

6th March 1995

/parallel/events/europvm95: Second European PVM Users' Group Meeting Call for papers for EuroPVM'95 being held from 19th-21st September 1995 at Lyon, France. Topics: Tools; Libraries; Extensions and Improvements; Vendors Implementations; Programming Environments; Numerical Kernels; Scheduling and Load Balancing; Benchmarking and Pseudo-Applications; Irregular Structures and Algorithms; CFD; Image Processing; Structural Analysis; Chemistry; Aerodynamics and others. Deadlines: Short paper: 2nd June 1995; Notification: 28th July 1995. Author: Xavier-Francois Vigouroux <vigourou@cri.ens-lyon.fr>.
/parallel/events/spdp95: Seventh IEEE Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing Call for papers for SPDP'95 being held from 25th-28th October 1995 at San Antonio, Texas, USA. Topics: Artificial Intelligence; Computer Architecture; Data and Knowledge-Base Systems; Distributed Computing; Image Processing; Interconnection Networks; Neural Networks; Operating Systems; Parallel Algorithms; Programming Languages; Scheduling and Resource Mangt.; Applications and others. Deadlines: Camera-ready papers: 17th March 1995; Notification: 31st July 1995; Workshops: 17th March 1995; Author: Vadakke Kuruppath Sameer <sxv4648@decster.uta.edu>.
/parallel/events/hicss29-hpc-par-dist: High Performance, Parallel and Distributed Systems Minitracks of HICSS-29 Software Technology Track of HICSS-29 Call for Papers and Referees for the High Performance, Parallel and Distributed Systems Minitracks of HICSS-29 Software Technology Track of 29th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-29) being held from 9th-12th January 1996 at Maui, Hawaii, USA. Minitracks: Approaches to Persistency in Distributed Systems; High Speed Networks; Parallel and Distributed Operating Systems; Optimization in Parallelizing Compilers; Heterogeneous Processing; Parallel and Distributed Simulation; Distributed Real-Time Systems and Partitioning and Scheduling. Deadlines: Interest/abstract: 15th March 1995; Feedback: 3rd April 1995; Paper; 1st June 1995; Notification: 31st August 1995; Camera-ready paper: 2nd October 1995. Author: Gabriele Kotsis <gabi@ani.univie.ac.at>.
/parallel/events/cosmase-comett-par-computation: COSMASE/COMETT Advanced Course on Parallel Computation; Theme: The Efficient Use of High Performance Parallel Computers COSMASE / COMETT specialized traning course for industry and academia being held from 20th-24th March 1995 at Lausanne, Switzerland. See also http://imhefwww.epfl.ch/COSMASE Author: Mark SAWLEY <sawley@dgm.epfl.ch>.
/parallel/events/icspat95: Sixth International Conference on Signal Processing Applications & Technology Call for papers for ICSPAT'95 being held from 24th-26th October 1995 at Boston, MA, USA. Topics: Aerospace; Audio & Speech; Comm. & Telephony; Consumer Products; Data Acquisition; DSP Hardware; DSP Software; Geophysics; Image Processing; Industrial Applications; Instrumentation & Testing; Medical Electronics; Multimedia; Neural Networks; Parallel Processing; Radar; Radio, SATCOM & NAV; Real-Time O/S; Robotics; Speech Processing; Underwater/SONAR and VLSI Architectures. Deadlines: Abstracts: 15th April 1995.
/parallel/events/ipps95: 9th International Parallel Processing Symposium Details and advance programme of 9th International Parallel Processing Symposium (IPPS '95) being held from 25th-28th April 1995 at Fess Parker's Red Lion Resort, Santa Barbara, California, USA sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing in cooperation with: ACM SIGARCH; Department of Computer Science, University of California, Santa Barbara and Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Maryland, College Park. See ftp://replicant.csci.unt.edu/pub/IPPS95/ for full call for paper and updates. Author: Stefan Lamberts <lamberts@informatik.tu-muenchen.de>.
/parallel/vendors/bbn/totalview: TotalView Debugger for PVM from BBN Inc. for networks of Sun SPARCS and Digital Alphas. New PVM Features include: catching pvm_spawn()s automatically; group control and multi-process breakpoints. See also http://tv.bbn.com/. Author: Marguerite Sinnett <msinnett@bbn.com>.
/parallel/documents/mpi/anu/lam-mpi-tutorial/announcement: Announcement of LAM companion to ``Using MPI...'' Author: Zdzislaw Meglicki <gustav@arp.anu.edu.au>.
/parallel/documents/mpi/anu/lam-mpi-tutorial/mpi.html: LAM companion to ``Using MPI'' report Author: Zdzislaw Meglicki <gustav@cisr.anu.edu.au>.
/parallel/documents/mpi/anu/lam-mpi-tutorial/mpi.tex: LAM companion to ``Using MPI'' source
/parallel/documents/mpi/anu/lam-mpi-tutorial/Makefile: Makefile for building report (html etc.)
/parallel/jobs/argonne-usa-cs-researcher: Postdoctoral research position in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division of Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, USA. Working on tools and techniques for implementing computationally intensive climate and weather models on state-of-the-art parallel supercomputers. Author: Jan Griffin <griffin@mcs.anl.gov>.
/parallel/jobs/lanl-usa-postgrad-ras: Graduate Student Research Assistants at Computer Research and Applications Group at Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA. Categories: Parallel Computer Programming; Numerical Linear Algebra; Software Library Development; Parallel Applications Development; Oil Reservoir Simulation and Geostatistics; Microprocessor Performance Evaluation and Parallel Tool Development. Author: Wayne D Joubert <wdj@c3serve.c3.lanl.gov>.
/parallel/jobs/notre-dame-cs-researcher: Assistant Professor tenure-track Faculty position at University of Notre Dame, USA. Suitable for postdoctorate CS, C Eng, EE or related for work in Parallel and Distributed Computing (including Parallel Languages/Compilers, Parallel Architectures, High Performance Computing, and Parallel Algorithms) and VLSI. Author: Andrew Lumsdaine <lums@owl.cse.nd.edu>.
/parallel/jobs/ne-usa-par-proc-engineers: Parallel Systems Programmer wanted in New England, USA area by a company doing work in "state of the art work in parallel computing, and artificial intelligence". Author: martin lebowitz <cisml@netcom.com>.
/parallel/vendors/APR/forge-release: Announcement of new release of APR's FORGE Fortran Parallelization tools availble via anonymous ftp (license keys by phone,fax or email). Author: FORGE Customer Support <forge@netcom.com>.
/parallel/vendors/fujitsu/vpp300.announce: Announcement of VPP300 Series of computers: from single-processor vector servers to large 16-processor systems. Author: Clifford Chen <cliffc@fujitsu.com>.
/parallel/groups/ptools/ptools-meeting-1995: Call for participation for Parallel Tools Consortium 2nd Annual Meeting being held from 22nd-24th May 1995 at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, USA. Topics: Problems in application I/O; visualization of performance data; the role of "meta-debuggers and others. Deadlines: Posters: 1st April 1995. Author: John M May <johnmay@anduin.ocf.llnl.gov>.
/parallel/documents/hippi/minutes/feb95_hippi_min.ps.gz
/parallel/documents/hippi/minutes/feb95_hippi_min.txt: Minutes for February 1995 HIPPI meeting

2nd March 1995

/parallel/software/toolkits/global-array/: Global Array (GA) Toolkit V2.0 distribution (compressed tar file) GA Toolkit was developed at Molecular Science Research Center in Pacific Northwest Laboratory, USA. It provides portable and efficient "shared-memory" programming interface through which each process in a MIMD parallel program can asynchronously access logical blocks of physically distributed matrices, without need for explicit cooperations by other processes. Platforms: SP1,IPSC,Delta,Paragon,KSR-2,workstations.
/parallel/vendors/inmos/ieee-hic/data/C104-05.ps.Z: Updated version of 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.