Changes to the archive in in September 1995

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

19th September 1995

/parallel/environments/pvm3/tape-pvm/tape0.9pl6.tgz: Tape/Pvm 0.9 Patch level 6 sources including instructions on setting up, building and installing the distribution. Author: Eric Maillet <maillet@imag.fr>, LMC-IMAG, Grenoble, France
/parallel/environments/pvm3/tape-pvm/tape0.9pl5.tgz: Tape/Pvm 0.9 Patch level 5 sources including instructions on setting up, building and installing the distribution. Author: Eric Maillet <maillet@imag.fr>, LMC-IMAG, Grenoble, France
/parallel/performance/tools/pmt/INSTALL.README: PMT Distribution and Installation by Frank Brockners <frank@lfbs.rwth-aachen.de> Describes the installation of the Partition Management Tool (PMT) and includes the warranty (none)

18th September 1995

/parallel/environments/pvm3/tkpvm/: tkPvm is the result of a wedding. The husband is pvm3.3.x (preferably 3.3.7 or later) and the wife is Tk4.0 or Tk3.6 (preferably 4.0).
/parallel/environments/pvm3/tkpvm/pvm3.3.9+.patch.gz
/parallel/environments/pvm3/tkpvm/pvm3.3.9+.patch.README: PVM3.3.9 (or later) patch for TkPVM
/parallel/environments/pvm3/tkpvm/tcl7.4p1i-b2.patch.gz: A patch from Tcl 7.4p1 to Tcl7.4p1i-b2
/parallel/standards/mpi/winmpi/: WinMPI is an implemation of the Message Passing Interface (MPI) for Microsoft Windows 3.1. It is based on MPICH from ANL/MSU. Authors: Joerg Meyer <jmeyer1@unocss.unomaha.edu> and Hesham El-Rewini.
/parallel/standards/mpi/winmpi/README: WinMPI 0.99b overview, installation instructions and examples.
/parallel/standards/mpi/winmpi/wmps099b.zip: WinMPI distribution without source code. Contains libraries and header files for creating MPI applications, documentation and example programs are included. Authors: Joerg Meyer <jmeyer1@unocss.unomaha.edu> and Hesham El-Rewini.
/parallel/standards/mpi/winmpi/wmpl099b.zip: WinMPI distribution including source code. Contains all files from the small distribution and the source code for the WinMPI libraries. Currently, compiling the WinMPI libraries and implementing MPI applications require Microsoft Visual C++ 1.5 or Borland C++ 3.1. Authors: Joerg Meyer <jmeyer1@unocss.unomaha.edu> and Hesham El-Rewini.
/parallel/occam/projects/occam-for-all/kroc/: Kent Retargetable Occam Compiler (KROC) distribution area. KROC is a development of the "Occam For All" EPSRC project at the University of Kent at Canterbury and the University of Keele. It will provide a portable occam compiler for Sparc, Alpha and PowerPC processors.
/parallel/occam/projects/occam-for-all/kroc/README.html
/parallel/occam/projects/occam-for-all/kroc/README: KROC 0.3 Beta release announcment
/parallel/occam/projects/occam-for-all/kroc/kroc-0.3beta-sparc-sunos4.1.3U1.tar.gz
/parallel/occam/projects/occam-for-all/kroc/kroc-0.3beta-sparc-sunos4.1.3U1.tar.Z: KROC 0.3 beta BINARY distribution for Sun Sparcs with SunOS 4.1.3U1 (or related versions). Compiles the occam 2.1 language (RECORDS and DATA TYPEs) has an occam/C interface tool and basic separate compilation support. Author: Occam For All Group
/parallel/occam/projects/occam-for-all/kroc/kroc-0.3beta-sparc-solaris2.3.tar.gz
/parallel/occam/projects/occam-for-all/kroc/kroc-0.3beta-sparc-solaris2.3.tar.Z: KROC 0.3 beta BINARY distribution for Sun Sparcs with Solaris 2.3 (SunOS 5.3) (or related versions). Compiles the occam 2.1 language (RECORDS and DATA TYPEs) has an occam/C interface tool and basic separate compilation support. Author: Occam For All Group
/parallel/vendors/elcom/elcom.htm: Elcom Ltd, Moscow Parallel Programming Environment for Microsoft Windows Home Page
/parallel/vendors/elcom/about1.htm: About Elcom
/parallel/vendors/elcom/about2.htm: About Windows Server Package
/parallel/vendors/elcom/wsp.zip: Transputer Programming Environment for MS Windows 3.1 and 95 (demonstration version)
/parallel/vendors/elcom/about3.htm: About Origami for Windows
/parallel/vendors/elcom/origami.zip: Origami folding editor for MS Windows 3.1 and 95 - beta version and free for non-commercial use if you register.

14th September 1995

/parallel/journals/Wiley/trcom/latex-styles/: Updated LaTeX style files and example papers using them for papers for the Transputer Communications journal published by Wiley.
/parallel/journals/Wiley/trcom/latex-styles/trcom03.sty: LaTeX style file V3 for papers for the Transputer Communications journal published by Wiley. Requires trueital.tex.
/parallel/journals/Wiley/trcom/latex-styles/trueital.tex
/parallel/journals/Wiley/trcom/latex-styles/trueital.sty: LaTeX style / include file for papers for the Transputer Communications journal published by Wiley. Used by trcom03.sty above.
/parallel/journals/Wiley/trcom/latex-styles/ttcverb.sty: A 'verbatim' style for Transputer Communications to set the code in 9 point courier. This is not a required file, but is recommended to reduce the size of large code fragments.
/parallel/journals/Wiley/trcom/latex-styles/example1.tex: Example 'paper' using the Transputing Communications style files for a single author.
/parallel/journals/Wiley/trcom/latex-styles/example2.tex: Example 'paper' using the Transputing Communications style files for multiple authors.
/parallel/journals/Wiley/trcom/latex-styles/paper.bib: Dummy bibliography used by example1.tex and example2.tex

13th September 1995

/parallel/events/spdp95-comp-opts-dms: Workshop on Compiler Optimizations on Distributed Memory Systems at SPDP'95 by Santosh Pande <sspande@monsoon.cs.ohiou.edu> Call for participation for workshop being held on 25th October 1995 at the 7th IEEE Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing (SPDP'95) at San Antonio, TX, USA. Topics: Exact dependence analysis; Interprocedural dataflow analysis; Communication/data locality optimizations; Optimizing loop transformations in HPF framework; Code generation issues such as address and communication generation; Mapping task parallelism.
/parallel/jobs/anl-usa-par-tech-support: Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Chicago, USA are looking for staff to support and operate the divisional computational infrastructure and the High-Performance Computing Research Facility. Skills needed include UNIX, languages (perl), networking (NFS, AFS) and programming (Fortran, C, C++). Author: Jan Griffin <griffin@mcs.anl.gov>
/parallel/events/appt95: International Workshop on Advanced Parallel Processing Technologies by Xiandeng Huang <huang@mailhost.uni-koblenz.de> Preliminary programme and registration form for conference being held from 26-27th September 1995 at Northern Jiaotong University, Beijing, China.
/parallel/oses/: New area added for operating systems
/parallel/tools/: New area added for compilers, editors, debuggers and other tools
/parallel/vendors/: Updated entries for Elcom; Texas Instruments (TI) and Thinking Machines Corp. (TMC).
/parallel/jobs/nec-nj-usa-par-arch-researcher: NEC Research in Princeton, NJ, USA is seeking candidates for research positions in the area of Parallel Processing Architectures. Visionary, broad, original ideas are wanted. A broad hardware design and theoretical background is desired. PhD or equivalent level education and a research record. Author: Eugen Schenfeld <eugen@research.nj.nec.com@research.nj.nec.com>
/parallel/events/jip95: Journees Industrielles du Parallelisme / Parallel Computing in Industry by Thierry Cornu <cornu@mantrasun5.epfl.ch> Call for participation, abstracts, programme and registration details for conference being held from 28-29th September 1995 at EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland. Aim of the course is to make the audience more familiar with the problems related to the use of parallel computing systems. The first day will be devoted to a series of conferences, by speakers from the industry as well as from the academic field, presenting their experience with parallel computing. The second day will be devoted to a tutorial that will make the participants more familiar with the different programming standards currently available. The participants will have the opportunity to program on the Cray T3D massively parallel supercomputer. See also http://imhefwww.epfl.ch/COSMASE/JIP/
/parallel/jobs/cuny-usa-postdoc-researcher: The Laboratory of Applied Mathematics at City University of New York, USA is seeking a post-doc researcher with a background in large scale computing (e.g. on problems in fluid mechanics). Experience with super-computers and parallel machines, as well as unix based workstations is desirable. Author: Post-doc search <postdoc@camelot.rockefeller.edu>
/parallel/events/wopa96: Workshop on Parallel Algorithms by Cecilia Kullman <cecilia@umiacs.UMD.EDU> Call for contributed presentations for workshop being held from 25th-26th May 1996 at Philadelphia, PA, USA. WOPA '96, is one of the constituent meetings of the Federated Computing Research Conference (FCRC). Deadlines: Abstract: 28th November 1995; Notification: 31st January 1996.
/parallel/events/parcella96: Seventh International Workshop Parallel Processing by Cellular Automata and Arrays by GI-Fachgruppe 0.1.3 <parva@gollum.uni-paderborn.de> Call for papers, project presentations for workshop being held from 16th-20th September 1996 at Berlin, Germany. Topics: Models of parallel computation (Cellular automata and homogeneous structures, neural networks, systolic arrays, synchronous and asynchronous computation, recursive and iterative machines, distributed and heterogeneous systems, ATM protocols and interconnection networks); HPCN systems technology (Data driven architectures, portable software platforms, optical computing and interconnection networks, networks for parallel computers, fault-tolerant computing, neurocomputing and connectionism); Simulation and design in key HPCN industrial and embedded applications (Environmental modeling, computational fluid dynamics, molecular modeling, seismic processing, reservoir modeling, chemistry, biology and medicine, chip simulation, imaging processing and modeling, computer vision, automotive systems, crash analysis and EM, signal processing and analyzing, program packages and problem solving environments tools for simplification of parallel programming and for supporting scientific computations. Mapping strategies from and to models); Parallel languages, compiler technology, parallelizing compiler techniques, load distributing and load balancing, parallel debugger tools. Deadlines: Papers: 31st December 1995; Notification: 30th April 1996; Camera-ready papers: 15th June 1996. See also http://www.fb3.fhtw-berlin.de/parcella/homepage/ and http://www.gfai.fta-berlin.de/
/parallel/jobs/msu-usa-cfs-researcher: Mississippi State University invites applicants for a Research Assistant I (non-tenure) position in its NSF Engineering Research Center for Computational Field Simulation. The successful candidate will have significant experience in the area of high performance computing, with particular knowledge of message passing parallel programming, C, C++, Fortran, threads, and use of real parallel systems. Knowledge of numerical algorithms and parallel libraries is desirable but not required. Requirements: US citizens only; MS in CS (or related) plus 3 years experience. Author: Tony Skjellum <tony@aurora.cs.msstate.edu>
/parallel/jobs/encore-ma-usa-par-hardware-programmer: Reflective Memory Systems (RMS) at Marlborough, Massachusetts, USA is seeking strong, creative programmers that can work at a very low hardware-related level and at the same time understand the performance implications to very large MPP clusters. Skills that would help include: a solid background in parallel programming; low-level experience with I/O board programming; RAID; intelligent communication devices and distributed shared-memory multiprocessors. Author: Ilya Gertner <ilya@walrus.encore.com>
/parallel/jobs/nih-usa-parallel-researcher: The Division of Computer Research and Technology (DCRT) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has a post-doctoral position for researchers in applying scalable parallel processing technology to advanced research problems at NIH. NIH is in Bethesda, MD nr Washington, DC. Skills that help are HPC architecture knowledge, biomedical application knowledge, skill in writing scientific software and working professionally.
/parallel/jobs/intel-usa-supercomp-engs: Intel Scalable Systems Division (SSD) has several positions open at its Portland, Oregon site for Senior Software Engineers. These positions would be working in the Paragon Operating system group. C and UNIX, multi/super-computing experience. Only US permanent residents or US citizens. Author: Ellen Deleganes <ellend@ssd.intel.com>
/parallel/events/par-proc-techs: Planning for Parallel Processing Technologies Call for attendance and registration details for workshop being held from 18th-19th October 1995 at Herndon, Virginia, USA. Part of the Fall Seminar Series Presented by the Institute for Computer Capacity Management (ICCM). Purpose: To explore the background and technology behind the perennial fascination with parallelism, the successes and failures associated with the technology, a review of parallel platform and parallel database architectures, and an exhaustive comparison of the current crop of commercially viable MPPs. The class also discusses performance and capacity planning issues. Participants will evaluate a detailed study of two very successful MPP architectures from Tandem and Teradata, and will examine what these mature MPP systems can tell us about the newer Open MPPs. A key theme throughout the class is the importance of commodity economics in influencing which of the plethora of MPP architectures is likely to make it to the year 2000.
/parallel/events/part95: Second Australasian Conference on Parallel and Real-Time Systems by Audrey M. Tam <amt@matilda.vut.edu.au> Advanced programme for conference 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. See also <http://www.cs.uwa.edu.au/part95/>
/parallel/events/natug8: 1996 Transputer Research And Applications Conference by Tushar Hazra <tushar@src.umd.edu> Call for papers for conference being held from 26th-28th May 1996 at Sunnyvale, California, USA. Topics: parallelism, concurrency, or simultaneity as a concept; parallel algorithms; parallel microprocessor architectures; interconnection networks, communications; operating systems, environments, or user interactive interfaces; implementation of algorithms in multiprocessors; applications in diverse area: aerospace, medical technology, computational science, applied physics, fluid dynamics, visual computing, signal processing, numerical computation and methods and others. Deadlines: Extended abstracts / tutorial proposals: 30th November 1995; Acceptance: 15th January 1996; Full papers: 31st March 1996.

12th September 1995

/parallel/languages/sisal/distribution/tools/LoadBalance_0.9.tar.Z
/parallel/languages/sisal/distribution/tools/README.LoadBalance: SISAL LoadBalance Performance Analaysis Tool V0.9 distribution containing sources and users manual. Requires c/g++ and Motif. Author: Cindy Solomon, Computer Research Group, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, USA. [compressed tar file]
/parallel/simulation/architectures/parasol/parasol-3.1.tar.Z: PARASOL V3.1 distribution. Contains source code for PARASOL libraries, full documentation, example applications, a test suite, some small tools including visiualisers. Requires a POSIX system with ANSI C and the official release supports Sun SPARCstations with SunOS 4/5; PCs with Linux, Mach or NextStep; HP snakes with HPUX; SGIs with IRIX. Changes since 2.3: a) Improved execution traces to facilitate debugging and model validation. Included are filters which provide interfaces to visualization tools such as ParaGraph and xtg. b) A warning flag option to further facilitate debugging by causing warnings to be written to stderr if library calls misfire due to inappropriate arguments. c) A new provision for highly flexible node scheduling using user written schedulers. This provision permits a new class of applications to use PARASOL directly without the need for kernel hacking. d) A new class library called PARASOL++ for C++ object oriented users. This library provides the base classes for most PARASOL-based applications without requiring the PARASOL kernel to be accessed directly. e) A new PVM-based (Parallel Virtual Machine) simulation manager called DPSM (Distributed PARASOL Simulation Manager) which manages concurrent experimental replications to achieve user specified confidence intervals. f) Improved statistics handling with the addition of RATE statistics, a "reset all" function, and several new options for node utilization statistics. g) New support for glocal variables - this will be appreciated most by modellers of highly detailed simulations/emulations when modelling static data. h) New default stack sizing which improves PARASOL's resistance to stack overflows - a problem which manifest itself particularly with optimized Linux- based models. i) Improved and updated documentation with several new case study examples. Added new documentation for PARASOL++, DPSM, and the visualization tools. j) An improved test suite for system verification and to aid in porting PARASOL to new platforms.
/parallel/environments/enterprise/Enterprise2.4.2-smalltalk-src.tar.Z: Enterprise Smalltalk source for user interface - runs under ParcPlace Systems Inc, VisualWorks Release 2.0 (not for SGIs).
/parallel/environments/pvm3/tkpvm/tk4.0p1dash-a1.patch.gz: Patch for Tk4.0 to have the options "-dash" and "-outlinestipple" available for all appropriate canvas objects. The file doc/canvas.n is updated for all these changes. See also: http://www.nici.kun.nl/~nijtmans/tcl/patch.html. Author: Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@nici.kun.nl> [gzipped document]
/parallel/environments/pvm3/tkpvm/stcl0.2+.patch.gz
/parallel/environments/pvm3/tkpvm/stcl0.2+.patch.README: Patch updating from Safe-Tcl 0.2 to 0.2+. [ASCII document]
/parallel/languages/sisal/distribution/OSC-13.0.3.tar.Z: Optimizing Sisal Compiler V13.0.3
/parallel/languages/sisal/distribution/TOOLBOX-13.0.3.tar.Z: Toolbox(?) for OSC V13.0.3
/parallel/languages/sisal/distribution/EXAMPLES-13.0.3.tar.Z: Example programs for OSC V13.0.3
/parallel/environments/pvm3/distribution/pvm3.3.9.tar.gz
/parallel/environments/pvm3/distribution/pvm3.3.9.tar.Z.uu.Z
/parallel/environments/pvm3/distribution/pvm3.3.9.shar.Z: PVM version 3.3.9: Parallel Virtual Machine System by A. L. Beguelin; J. J. Dongarra; G. A. Geist; W. C. Jiang; R. J. Manchek; B. K. Moore and V. S. Sunderam. Of University of Tennessee, Knoxville TN, USA; Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge TN, USA; Emory University, Atlanta GA, USA.
/parallel/events/HPCNeurope96: High Performance Computing and Networking Europe 1996 by Jaap Hollenberg <sondjaap@horus.sara.nl> Final call for papers, participants, exhibitors for conference being held from 15th-19th April 1996 at Palais des Congres, Brussels, Belgium. Topics: CLASSICAL HPCN:: Structural Analysis; Computational Fluid Dynamics; Electromagnetic Simulation; Electrical Design Automation; Chemical/Pharmaceutical; Environmental Simulation; EMERGING HPCN:: Data Storage, Retrieval and Analysis; User Interfaces; Cognitive Systems; BASE HPCN TECHNOLOGIES:: Networking Technologies; Data Management Technologies and others. Deadlines: Papers and Posters: 1st November 1995; Workshop and tutorial proposals: 15th December 1995; Paper Notification: 1st February 1996; Electronic / Camera-ready materials: 1st March 1996.
/parallel/events/pdpta95: International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications by Hamid R. Arabnia <hra@pollux.cs.uga.edu> Call for participation, registration and lodging form for conference being held from 3rd-4th November 1995 at The University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia, USA. Topics: Parallel/Distributed architectures; Building block processors; Interconnection networks; Reliability and fault-tolerance; Parallel/Distributed algorithms; Parallel/Distributed applications; Mobile computation and communication; Heterogeneous and multimedia systems; Software tools and environments for parallel computers; High-performance computing in Computational Science and others.
/parallel/events/simsymp29: 29th Annual Simulation Symposium by Taieb Znati <znati@cs.pitt.edu> Call for papers for conference being held from 8th-11th April 1996 at Fairmont Hotel, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Sponsored by the Society for Computer Simulation (SCS) in cooperation with the IEEE Computer Society ACM (Association for Computing Machinery). Topics: Simulation of Multiprocessor Architectures; VLSI Circuit Simulators; Simulation Languages, Tools, and Environments; Object-Oriented Simulation; Simulation of Distributed Systems and Databases; Animations/Virtual Reality; Advances in Simulation Methodology and Practices; Network Modeling and Simulation; Simulation of Multimedia Applications and Systems; Parallel and Distributed Simulation; Artificial Intelligence in Simulation; Neural Network Models and Simulation. Deadlines: Papers: 15th September 1995; Notification: 15th November 1995; Camera-ready papers: 8th January 1996. See also the simpsymp29 http://www.cs.pitt.edu/simsymp29 or the Postscript call for papers at ftp://ftp.cs.pitt.edu/pub/simsymp29/CFP.ps
/parallel/events/hipc95: International Conference on High Performance Computing by Ajay Gupta <gupta@cs.wmich.edu> Advanded programme and registration for of conference being held from 27th-30th December 1995 at Habitat World, New Delhi, 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. Deadline: Advanced Registration: 25th November 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.
/parallel/events/swiss-par-dist-seminar: Swiss Seminar on Parallel and Distributed Computing by Oliver Krone <krone@ufps12.unifr.ch> Call for participation, programme and registration form for seminar being held from 19-20th September 1995 at Institut d'Informatique, Universite de Fribourg, Switzerland by Vaidy Sunderam, Emory University, Atlanta, USA et al. Deadline for registration: 15th September 1995.
/parallel/events/ipps96: 10th International Parallel Processing Symposium by D N Jayasimha <djayasim@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Call for papers and participation for conference being held from 15th-19th April 1996 at Sheraton Waikiki Hotel, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing in cooperation with ACM SIGARCH. Workshops: Heterogeneous Computing; Parallel and Distributed Real Time Systems; Reconfigurable Architectures; I/O in Parallel and Distributed Systems; High Speed Network Computing; Solving Irregular Problems on Distributed Memory Machines; Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing and Randomized Parallel Computing. Proposals by 29th September 1995. Topics: Performance Modeling/Evaluation; Signal & Image Processing Systems; Parallel Implementations of Applications; Parallel Programming Environments; Parallel Algorithms; Parallel Architectures; Parallel Languages; Special Purpose Processors; Parallelizing Compilers; Scientific Computing; VLSI Systems; Network Computing and others. Deadlines: Papers: 20th September 1995; Workshops: 29th September 1995; Tutorials: October 31, 1995; Notification: 20th December 1995; Camera-ready papers: 23rd January 1996. See also http://www.usc.edu/dept/ceng/prasanna/home.html
/parallel/events/europvm95: Second European PVM Users' Group Meeting by Xavier-Francois Vigouroux <vigourou@cri.ens-lyon.fr> Call for participation, programme and registration form for conference being held from 13th-15th September 1995 at Lyon, France. Sponsored by IBM-France, IBM-Europe; GDR-PRC Parall'elisme R'eseaux Syst`eme; Matra Cap Systems; CRAY Research, Ecole normale sup'erieure de Lyon, Telmat multinode and Pallas GmbH. 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. See also http://www.ens-lyon.fr/~vigourou/.