Changes to the archive in in April 1996

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22nd April 1996

/parallel/environments/pvm3/tkpvm/blt-1.9.0+.patch
/parallel/environments/pvm3/tkpvm/blt-1.9.0+.patch.README: Patch from blt-1.9.0 to blt-1.9.0+ by Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@nici.kun.nl>, http://www.nici.kun.nl/~nijtmans/, Nijmegen Institute of Cognition and Information (NICI), Netherlands

19th April 1996

/parallel/jobs/engineer-nasa-ames-usa: Parallel I/O (MPI-IO) Software Engineer @ NASA Ames, Mt View, California, USA by Samuel A. Fineberg <fineberg@gaudi.nas.nasa.gov> MRJ, Inc. has an opening for an experienced systems software engineer specializing in parallel I/O to join the Parallel Systems group and support the Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation (NAS) facility at NASA Ames Research Center to develop and implement the portable reference implementation of MPI-IO as part of a world-wide team. Requirements: HPC; MPI; parallel I/O; MS CS/Eng or equiv; track record; language/system experience.
/parallel/jobs/ra-scalable-io-uiuc-usa: High-Performance Input/Output Post-Doctoral Positions, UIUC, USA by Daniel A. Reed <reed@cs.uiuc.edu> Researchers wanted for UIUC ARPA/NSF project on Scalable Input/Output Characterization. Requirements: large OS/fs/software; programming; par systems/tools; real time; keen. See also http://www-pablo.cs.uiuc.edu/Projects/IO/io.html and http://www-pablo.cs.uiuc.edu/ on Pablo group.
/parallel/jobs/rdbms-continuum-usa: Senior Software Engineer - Scalable O-O tools, MA, USA by Continuum Software Inc <continuum@continuum.continuumsi.com> Continuum Software, Inc is looking for an outstanding designer and productive developer of data-intensive business software systems and RDBMS tools. Requirements: DBMS, RDBMS; OO classes/tools; parallel/scalable tools; Client-server. BS in CS and experience.
/parallel/jobs/researchers-icase-usa: Research Positions at ICASE, Hampton VA, USA by Piyush Mehrotra <pm@icase.edu> Institute for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering (ICASE) seeks recent PhDs for staff scientist positions in the area of system software for parallel computers interested in collaborative research in all aspects of software support for distributed and heterogeneous environments. 2/3 years. US Citizens / resident aliens preferred. See also http://www.icase.edu/
/parallel/events/wotug-japan7: The 7th Transputer/occam International Conference - WoTUG/Japan by Kazuto Matsui <matsui@gab.at-m.or.jp> Call for papers for conference being held from 28-29th November 1996 at Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan. Topics: Models of Parallel Computing; Parallel Numerical Analysis; Massively Parallel Architecture; High Speed Networking; IEEE 1355 , 1394 Systems; Theoretical Aspects of Parallel Algorithm; Applications; Multimedia Technologies and others. Deadlines: Abstracts: 13th April 1996; Abstract Notification: 15th May 1996; Papers: 15th June 1996; Paper Notification: end July 1996; Camera-ready papers: 14th September 1996.
/parallel/events/ucsg-stt-hpc: Software Tools and Technology for exploiting High Performance Computing (HPC) in Science and Engineering by NOEL WILSON <RN.Wilson@ulst.ac.uk> Call for participation for workshop being held from 9-10th July 1996 at University of Greenwich, UK. Sponsored by UCISA-SG. See also http://www.essex.ac.uk:80/ucsg/workshops/index.html
/parallel/events/pstpa: Portable Software Tools for Parallel Architectures technical meeting (PSTPA) by Kay Lloyd <KLL1@wpo.epsrc.ac.uk> Call for participation for meeting being held from 10-11th July 1996 at University of Southampton, UK. Sponsored by UK EPSRC PSTPA. EPSRC is funding this meeting which will provide an opportunity for delegates to meet other PSTPA members, hear reports from them and other project reports - US Ptools, EC work as well as take part in discussions and help plan future activities.
/parallel/events/scitools96: International Workshop on Modern Software Tools for Scientific Computing (SciTools'96) by Are Magnus Bruaset <bru@si.sintef.no> Call for papers for conference being held from 16-18th September 1996 at Oslo, Norway. Organized by SINTEF Applied Mathematics and the University of Oslo Deadlines: Abstracts for talks: 15th May 1996. See also http://www.oslo.sintef.no/SciTools96/
/parallel/events/micro29: The 29th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (with special emphasis on Instruction-Level Parallel Processing) (MICRO-29) by steve beaty <beaty@lance.colostate.edu> Call for papers for symposium being held from 2nd-4th December 1996 at Paris, France. Sponsored by IEEE TC-MICRO and ACM SIGMICRO. Topics: Compiler techniques for instruction-level parallelism; Theoretical foundations of instruction level parallelism; ILP architectures and designs; Object code translation; Branch prediction hardware and software; Compiler and hardware techniques for improving memory system performance; Application of ILP techniques to Design Automation; Parallel algorithms for fine grain parallel architectures and others. Deadlines: Papers: 14th June 1996; Notification: 16th August 1996; Camera-ready papers: 13th September 1996. See also http://www.micro29.org/
/parallel/events/cornell-vw-hpc: Cornell Theory Center Virtual Workshop Topics in High Performance Computing by Ros Leibensperger <roz@waxwing.tc.cornell.edu> Call for participation in virtual workshop being held from 10th June - 12th August 1996 on the Web. Topics: Introduction to Parallel and Distributed Memory Programming; The Message-Passing Interface Standard (MPI); The PVM Message-Passing Library; Serial and Parallel Performance Issues for the IBM RS/6000 SP. Deadlines: Registration: 13th May 1996. See also http://www.tc.cornell.edu/Edu/VW/

18th April 1996

/parallel/libraries/numerical/omega-calculator/sparc_demo.tar.gz: Sparc binaries of the Omega Calculator and Petit The same binary works on machines running either SunOS 4.1.3 or Solaris 2.x. The calculator comes in two versions, one that includes all debugging code, and another that omits some of it for speed, but may have odd or wrong behavior on incorrect inputs.

16th April 1996

/parallel/standards/hippi/hippi-mp_0.1.ps.gz
/parallel/standards/hippi/hippi-mp_0.1.pdf: High-Performance Parallel Interface - Multiple Path (HIPPI-MP) by Roger Cummings <cummings_roger@dpt.com>, Distributed Processing Technology, 140 Candace Drive, Maitland, FL 32751, USA; Tel: +1 407 830-5522 x348; FAX: +1 407 260-5366; Carl Zeitler <zeitler@ausvm6.vnet.ibm.com>, IBM Corporation, MS 9440, 11400 Burnet Road, Austin, TX 78758, USA; Tel: +1 512 838-1797; FAX: +1 512 838-3822 and Don Tolmie <det@lanl.gov>, Los Alamos National Laboratory, CIC-5, MS-B255, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA; Tel: +1 505 667-5502; FAX: +1 505 665-7793. ABSTRACT: This standard specifies the formats and procedures for the segmentation and reassembly of large upper-layer protocol data units for transmission over multiple High-Performance Parallel Interface - Framing Protocol (HIPPI-FP) lower-layer protocol instances. Single HIPPI interfaces support 800 or 1600 Mbit/s data transfer rates; HIPPI-MP allows multiple interfaces to be ganged together for even higher data transfer rates. NOTE: This is an internal working document of X3T11, a Technical Committee of Accredited Standards Committee X3. As such, this is not a completed standard. The contents are actively being modified by X3T11. This document is made available for review and comment only.
/parallel/standards/hippi/hippi-6400-ph_0.2.ps.gz
/parallel/standards/hippi/hippi-6400-ph_0.2.pdf: High-Performance Parallel Interface - 6400 Mbit/s Physical Layer (HIPPI-6400-PH) by Roger Cummings <cummings_roger@dpt.com>, Distributed Processing Technology, 140 Candace Drive, Maitland, FL 32751, USA; Tel: +1 407 830-5522 x348; FAX: +1 407 260-5366; Carl Zeitler <zeitler@ausvm6.vnet.ibm.com>, IBM Corporation, MS 9440, 11400 Burnet Road, Austin, TX 78758, USA; Tel: +1 512 838-1797; FAX: +1 512 838-3822 and Don Tolmie <det@lanl.gov>, Los Alamos National Laboratory, CIC-5, MS-B255, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA; Tel: +1 505 667-5502; FAX: +1 505 665-7793. 5th April 1996. 32 pages. ABSTRACT: This standard specifies a physical-level, point-to-point, full-duplex, link interface for transmitting digital data at 6400 Mbit/s over parallel copper cables across distances of TBD m, or over parallel fiber-optic cables across distances of TBD m. Small fixed-size micro-packets provide an efficient, low-latency, structure for small messages, and a building block for large messages. Services are provided for transporting data streams specified by HIPPI-PH, ANSI X3.183-1991, which is limited to 25 m distances, and 800 or 1600 Mbit/s data rates. NOTE: This is an internal working document of X3T11, a Technical Committee of Accredited Standards Committee X3. As such, this is not a completed standard. The contents are actively being modified by X3T11. This document is made available for review and comment only.
/parallel/libraries/numerical/omega-calculator/: The Omega Calculator and Library V0.96. The Omega calculator is a text-based interface to the Omega library, a set of routines developed for manipulating: Presburger formulas, Integer tuple sets and Integer tuple relations. See also http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/omega/ (This area is a mirror of ftp://ftp.cs.umd.edu/pub/omega/ )
/parallel/libraries/numerical/omega-calculator/README: Short description of the Omega Library
/parallel/libraries/numerical/omega-calculator/README.binaries: Overview of Omega binary releases
/parallel/libraries/numerical/omega-calculator/INSTALL: Installation instructions for release 1.0 of the Omega Library, Omega Calculator, and Petit
/parallel/libraries/numerical/omega-calculator/omega_library.tar.gz: Omega Library Sources A set of C++ classes and routines developed for manipulating: Presburger formulas; Integer tuple sets and Integer tuple relations.
/parallel/libraries/numerical/omega-calculator/code_gen.tar.gz: Code Generation Library Routines for generating code to scan the points in the union of a number of convex sets. (requires the Omega library)
/parallel/libraries/numerical/omega-calculator/omega_calc.tar.gz: Omega Calculator Text based interface to the above libraries
/parallel/libraries/numerical/omega-calculator/OmegaCalc.PPC.sea.hqx
/parallel/libraries/numerical/omega-calculator/OmegaCalc.68k.sea.hqx
/parallel/libraries/numerical/omega-calculator/OmegaCalc.Fat.sea.hqx: Omega Calculator Binaries (Macintosh)
/parallel/libraries/numerical/omega-calculator/petit.tar.gz: Petit A research tool for dependence analysis and program transformations. Requires the Omega Library and code generation library.
/parallel/libraries/numerical/omega-calculator/doc.tar.gz: Omega System Documentation PostScript documents for Omega Calculator, the interface, Petit and Wolfe Tiny (?).
/parallel/architecture/communications/io/pario/STARFISH/README: STARFISH Parallel file-system simulator. by David Kotz <dfk@cs.dartmouth.edu>, http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~dfk/, Department of Computer Science, Dartmouth College, 6211 Sudikoff Laboratory, Hanover, NH 03755-3510 USA; Tel: +1 603-646-1439 Based on Eric Brewer's Proteus simulator (binary only included) and runs only on (MIPS-based) DECstations. Proteus source is at /parallel/simulation/architectures/proteus/index.html See also http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~dfk/STARFISH/
/parallel/architecture/communications/io/pario/STARFISH/papers.html
/parallel/architecture/communications/io/pario/STARFISH/papers.bib: Starfish Bibliography
/parallel/architecture/communications/io/pario/STARFISH/run.tar.Z: STARFISH Simulator V2.0 Experimental configurations and raw data. WARNING - very large!

11th April 1996

/parallel/events/ipps96-job-scheduling-workshop: Job Scheduling Workshop at IPPS96 by Larry Rudolph <rudolph@lcs.mit.edu> Call for participation and program for workshop being held from 15-16th April 1996 at Sheraton Waikiki, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. Sponsored by sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing. See also http://www.csg.lcs.mit.edu:8001/Users/rudolph/cfp-96-1.html and http://www.csg.lcs.mit.edu:8001/Users/rudolph/program.html and IPPS'96 information at http://cwis.usc.edu/dept/ceng/prasanna/meetings/ipps/ippshome.html