24th March 1997

/parallel/events/wdag97

11th International Workshop on Distributed Algorithms (WDAG'97) by Aleta Ricciardi <aleta@ece.utexas.edu> Call for papers for workshop being held from 24-26th September 1997 at Saarbrucken, Germany. Topics: communication networks -- protocols and architectures; competitive analysis of distributed algorithms; concurrency control and synchronization; data management, replication, and consistency; design and analysis of distributed systems; distributed applications, paradigms and services; distributed databases; distributed information retrieval; distributed operating systems; fault-tolerance and self-stabilization; knowledge in distributed systems; mobile computing; multiprocessor algorithms and architectures; performance and scalability issues; privacy and security in distributed systems; semantics, specification and verification; synchrony, asynchrony, partial synchrony and real-time and others. Deadlines: Papers: 26th April 1997; Acceptance: 17th June 1997; Camera-ready papers: 10th July 1997. See also http://www.mpi-sb.mpg.de/~wdag97

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/parallel/events/hiper97

Updated to 2nd announcement: "High Performance Computing on Hewlett-Packard Systems" (HiPer'97)

/parallel/faqs/reading-list-top-10

Top ten parallel computing reading list for CS grad students Author: Eugene N. Miya <eugene@cse.ucsc.edu>

18th March 1997

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/parallel/environments/pvm3/adsmith/adsm1.8.0c.tar.gz

Adsmith 1.8.0c: An Efficient Object-Based DSM Environment on PVM by William W. Y. Liang <wyliang@orchid.ee.ntu.edu.tw>, http://archi1.ee.ntu.edu.tw/~wyliang/, Department of Computer Science & Information Engineering National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan Contains Adsmith source, documentation, manual pages, and examples.

/parallel/standards/mpi/anl/twoday.ps.Z

MPI in Practice by William Gropp <gropp@mcs.anl.gov>, Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Two-day course slides, 4-up - quarter size, 37 pages

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MPI in Practice by William Gropp <gropp@mcs.anl.gov>, Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Two-day course slides, 1-up - full size, 147 pages