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From: Andrew.Stratton@cm.cf.ac.uk (Andrew F Stratton)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.parallel
Subject: Re: Description of C*
Date: 27 Jul 92 14:11:31 GMT
Distribution: fj

In article <1992Jul23.134937.5098@hubcap.clemson.edu> peteh@cs.rhbnc.ac.uk (PeterR.Hoare) writes:
|Could anybody tell me where I can get a good reference to the new
|version of C* which is being proposed as a ANSI standard parallel C.

	Can someone confirm if this is true - ANSI with FORTRAN 90 have produced
a standard for parallel and sequential compilers - allowing the sequential
machines to optimise calculations in a different way.  I would have thought
that ANSI would do exactly the same with a new ANSI C standard - and say call it
ANSI C 92 (or some such).

	Also - what is the chance of ANSI proposing a standard for C++ that
would also allow parallel 'constructs' - and can we expect it before 1994.

	Thanks in advance,
	  Andy Stratton.
-- 
	Parallel Processing Support Officer
	University of Wales College of Cardiff

	email:stratton@uk.ac.cf.cm
From: noh@cs.umd.edu (Sam Hyuk Noh)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.parallel
Subject: Sun 4/670MP
Date: 28 Jul 92 18:38:18 GMT
Distribution: fj

Is anyone out there willing to send me some technical
documents on the Sun 4/670MP.
If so, here is my address:

Sam H. Noh
AV Williams Bldg.
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Maryland
Colleg Park, MD 20742

I also have some questions about the machine.

1. Is it possible to execute a single job (process)
 on multiple number of processors it has?

2. If the answer to question 1 is yes, then 
how does one do this? 
	If the answer is no,
then is there a way to take advantage of the
extra processors to shorten the execution time
(eg forking ...)?

3. If we need to explicitly fork processes
how is this done (a concrete example would help)?
Then, if we were to measure the execution time
how do we make sure that the process that we
forked terminated?


Thanks.

-- sam noh (noh@cs.umd.edu)
From: pgw@koel.mel.dit.CSIRO.AU (Paul Whiting)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.parallel
Subject: Directory of Australian Parallel Processing Directory avialable
Date: 24 Jul 92 11:54:08 GMT
Distribution: fj

The "Directory of Australian Parallel Processing Research" which has
been compiled over the first half of 1992 by the High Performance Computation
Program of the CSIRO is now available.

Sorry for the long delay but the sheer volume of the number of
entries, the formatting required by the entries and other commitments
meant that the release date took much longer than we originally
intended.

Due to the size of the document (~130 pages or 200K postscript file) we
are mainly distributing it in electronic form. To obtain your copy
please email your request to:-

ppd@mel.dit.csiro.au

This will allow us to determine whether we should update the directory
next year.

We also have a limited number of 2 entries per page, doubled-sided
hardcopies of the document. To obtain a copy, once again email your
request to:-

ppd@mel.dit.csiro.au

In both cases, DO NOT SEND YOUR REQUEST TO ME!

regards,

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Computer Scientist			| 723 Swanston Street
High Performance Computing Program      | Carlton 3053, Australia
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From: saroff@msc.edu (Stephen Saroff--Minnesota Supercomputer Center)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.parallel
Subject: Cubics
Date: 23 Jul 92 17:49:34 GMT
Distribution: fj

Does anyone have any information about the Cubics system?  

I am told that it has mechanisms for distributing data across parallel
architectures, making for a more easily useful means of setting up programs.

I understand that it is closely tied to Express, is it in fact a bundled
product.

If anyone has some experience of information, I would appreciate hearing of
it.  I will summarize.

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	Stephen Saroff	 			<saroff@msc.edu>
	Minnesota Supercomputer Center		1200 Washington Ave S.
	Minneapolis, MN 55415           	612/626 1854
From: dirk@rummelplatz.uni-mannheim.de (Wenzel)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.parallel
Subject: Literature: Clusters of Workstations
Date: 22 Jul 92 15:32:32 GMT
Distribution: fj

I'm interested in literature about Clusters of Workstations.
Could someone give me some hints on actual papers, books on this field.

Thanks in advance,

	Dirk.
From: tu@bert.eecs.uic.edu (Shengru Tu)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.parallel
Subject: parallel (integer) Linear Programming algorithms ?
Date: 31 Jul 92 03:26:31 GMT
Distribution: fj

Could some experts point me at some references or well-known software packages
of parallel (integer - big difference !) Linear Programming algorithms?  Since
LP is so commonly used, I believe that there must have been extensive effort
on parallizing it.

Thanks in advance.

-Shengru
From: manchek@thud.CS.UTK.EDU (Bob Manchek)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.parallel
Subject: PVM ver. 2.4.1 patch #1 available
Date: 22 Jul 92 13:46:07 GMT
Distribution: fj

Includes a change to make host.c compile with AIX3.2, lots of man page
fixes, BSDI/386 port, and an FAQ file.  The shar contains a table of
contents and a file of context diffs usable with 'patch'.

To get it, mail "netlib@ornl.gov" with the subject "send patch1_shar
from pvm".  To get more information about PVM, use subject "send index
from pvm".

-- 
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From: primeaux@cs.utk.edu
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.parallel
Subject: Profiling c code on RX
Date: 27 Jul 92 14:10:44 GMT
Distribution: fj

I am trying to identify bottlenecks in some code
written for the intel RX hypercube.  I thought that
using prof might be a good idea, but I have only
been able so far to generate an uninteresting profile of 
what happens on the host.  Does anyone have any suggestions?


Thanks
David Primeaux
primeaux@cs.utk.edu
From: tyzec@sun.pcl.ac.uk (Andy Macfarlane)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.parallel
Subject: TEXT RETREVAL IN PARALLEL
Date: 31 Jul 92 03:22:17 GMT
Distribution: fj

TEXT RETRIEVAL IN PARALLEL

	I would be grateful if anyone can send me the following

i) Details of any books, publications, articles etc on text retrieval
in parallel (if possible using occam).

ii) Details of regular expressions in parallel (as i). ).

iii) Any algoritms for i) & ii).

Andrew MacFarlane
3rd year BSC computer science 
pcl (soon to be university of westminster!)
From: siamak@ossi.com (Siamak Hassanzadeh)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.parallel
Subject: Re: looking for PVM
Date: 23 Jul 92 20:42:22 GMT
Distribution: fj

In article <1992Jul21.143520.21345@hubcap.clemson.edu> robin@fractal.ireq-num writes:
>I know little bit about PVM (Processor Virtual Machine) and I would like to know 
>exactly what is it.  Any explanation will be appreciated.
>

PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine) ia software system that enables a 
collection of heterogeneous computer systems to be used as a coherent
parallel system.  With additional software (i.e., HeNCE), it can be
extended to include a graphical interface.

PVM can be obtained from public ftp sites in the U.S. such as 
'netlib@ornl.gov' by sending the message 'send index from pvm'.


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From: hardy@convex.com (Chris Hardy)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.parallel
Subject: f2c on convex? and PVM
Date: 23 Jul 92 20:42:10 GMT
Distribution: fj

Has anyone out there got the f2c interface working on convex ?
The c interface is ok but the fortran to c causes some weird
problems.  I am only testing with the fhost and node programs
that are included in the distribution.  I think the problem lies
in string handling between c and fortran.

I do not have a lot of time to play with PVM but I am interested
if anyone has any experiences to share.

Thanks,
Chris Hardy
From: vu0208@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu (!)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.parallel
Subject: need these papers
Date: 21 Jul 92 14:38:05 GMT
Distribution: fj

Hi, I need the following papers which were presented in SPAA'92. Since
the proceeding is not yet available to the library I thought i might
ask the authors to send me these papers.

Title: "The Network Architecture of the Connection Machine CM-5"
Authors: C. Leiserson, Z.S. Abuhamdeh, D. Douglas, C.R. Feynmann, M.
Ganmukhi, J. Hill, W.D. Hillis, B. Kuszmaul, M. St. Pierre, D. Wells,
M. Wong, S-W Yang, R. Zak, TMC.

Title: "Design and Performance of Multipath MIN Architectures"
Authors: F. Chong, T. Knight, Jr., MIT


I will appreceiate if some one can send me a copy. 

thanks
From: sinkwitz@ifi.unizh.ch (Rainer Sinkwitz)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.parallel
Subject: Re: Yellow Pages and PVM on a Silicon
Date: 31 Jul 92 15:51:50 GMT
Distribution: fj

In article <1992Jul30.200850.16168@hubcap.clemson.edu>, henrik@mpci.llnl.gov (Henrik Klagges) writes:
> I wonder if it is worth to install PVM (parallel virtual machine). It is 
> supposed to have a lot of limitations (scalability over 10 machines, 
> debugging, &others I can dig up if interest is there). At least this 
> was the conclusion of a summer student that did a long evaluation/test
> project with PVM here at LLNL.

PVM is one of the most widely used platforms for heterogeneous distributed
computing. 10 machines is definitely no limit and now that PVM got
TCP/IP connections it really is a joy. Also "printf"-style debugging 
works well since the output is send back to the output of the master 
daemon and each line prefixed by the machine name.

I'd be interested in you list of limitations. 

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From: mmh@cs.qmw.ac.uk (Matthew Huntbach)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.parallel
Subject: Re: CSP to STRAND/Parlog
Date: 21 Jul 92 14:37:42 GMT
Distribution: fj

From: Steven Ericsson Zenith <zenith@kai.com>
>In article <1992Jul9.091354.25034@dcs.qmw.ac.uk>, mmh@cs.qmw.ac.uk
>(Matthew Huntbach) writes:
>
>> There are close parallels between CSP and the committed choice
>> concurrent logic languages like Strand and Parlog.
>
>There are? I can guess but I'd be interested to hear your rationale for
>this particular parallel and why it's any closer than, say, a functional
>language or even FORTRAN ;-).

See, for example, Graem Ringwood's paper "Parlog86 and the
Dining Logicians" in CACM 31,1 (Jan. '88), or the more recent
paper by Cohen, Ringwood and myself "Logical Occam" in the book
"Implementations of Distributed Prolog", editors Peter Kacsuk
and Michael J.Wise, publisher Wiley (out last month) If you are
not even vaguely aware of the links between the committed choice
logic programming languages and CSP, you need to find out more about
the former. If you think that Strand or Parlog are basically
"parallel Prologs", you are completely wrong. Many people who
program in them, such as myself, think of them more in CSP-like
terms than in Prolog-like terms.

>> In fact
>> part of my current work is considering methods of translating
>> from CSP to Strand/Parlog, and there are other people at QMW
>> who are working on automated reasoning in these languages.
>
>Strand/Parlog to CSP might make sense but the reverse just doesn't seem
>very useful to me. There are programs written in CSP that will benefit
>from such a transformation? What's the rationale here?

CSP is a specification notation, Strand is an industrial-standard
executable language which runs on a variety of multiprocessor
architectures. I would have thought the usefulness of the
transformation is obvious.

Matthew Huntbach
From: tchamov@sunran1.cern.ch (Nikolay Tchamov)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.parallel
Subject: NEW-Projects
Date: 24 Jul 92 11:54:59 GMT
Distribution: fj

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                                 July 24th, 1992, CERN
                                 Geneve, Suisse/Switzerland


Dear Sirs,

I didn`t find a news-group(s) dealing with European Projects like
TEMPUS in example, except ESPRIT & EUROCHIP which is not much
supplied by news and discusions.

Do such News-groups exist, where someone can get up-to-date information
about European projects in the fields of :

  Electronics & Computers & Education & Research & Design ?

If not, please give a hint how to get Up-to-date E-mail information
about projects like those handled by Brussels etc.

It is too bad to get those informations by ordinary mail
quite late (sometimes about 2 weeks before the time to apply).

Having such networks and losing some chances is too sad fact.

Thank you very much in advance for your help.

Sincerely,

Nick

---------------------------------------------------------
  P.S. Please reply either here (in this News-group) or
  directly to my E-mail address:

                    tchamovn@cernvm.cern.ch

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From: zaphiri@watson.ibm.com (Zaphiris Christidis)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.parallel
Subject: Missing subject header
Date: 29 Jul 92 11:52:59 GMT
Distribution: fj

Greetings.

Does anybody know of any review documentation or report on Maspar
available through anonymous ftp or through internet?

Any tips will be greately appreciated.  Please reply by e-mail.

--
Zaphiris Christidis
zaphiri(@watson.ibm.com @yktvmh.bitnet)
From: zenith@kai.com
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.parallel
Subject: Re: CSP to STRAND/Parlog
Date: 23 Jul 92 13:49:53 GMT
Distribution: fj

In article <1992Jul20.075511.17628@dcs.qmw.ac.uk>, mmh@cs.qmw.ac.uk
Matthew Huntbach writes:

> If you think that Strand or Parlog are basically
> "parallel Prologs", you are completely wrong. Many people who
> program in them, such as myself, think of them more in CSP-like
> terms than in Prolog-like terms.

I'm pleased to hear it, I don't dispute that a parallel between CSP and
Strand or Parlog can be drawn - but you don't answer my question: why is the
parallel between committed choice concurrent logic languages closer than any
other (say, CSP and functional or concurrent imperative languages)?

> >> In fact
> >> part of my current work is considering methods of translating
> >> from CSP to Strand/Parlog,

> ... What's the rationale here?
> 
> I would have thought the usefulness of the
> transformation is obvious.

It wasn't clear from your earlier posts that execution was your primary
interest. I'm still not sure that if I was considering a target language for
the execution of CSP scripts that STRAND or Parlog would be a good choice. So,
we should clarify what you are interested in when executing CSP scripts. Is
performance an important issue? Behavioral correctness? Perhaps you are
deriving something from the execution of the program that you can't derive
from static analysis? etc..

Steven Ericsson Zenith
Disclaimer: Opinions expressed are my own and not necessarily those of KAI.
From: raina@compsci.bristol.ac.uk
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.parallel
Subject: Job ad posting
Date: 21 Jul 92 14:37:28 GMT
Distribution: fj

Dear Steve,
	In case it isn't inappropriate to post job ads to comp.parallel, can you post the following ad for us.

Thankyou.

Sanjay Raina
Dept of Computer Science 
University of Bristol, UK

=============================================================================


               UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL

            Advanced Computing Research Centre

              PARALLEL COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE

                 2 Research Posts


Applications are invited for two research posts associated  with the ESPRIT
project OMI/HORN.  The  appointees will join  the Logic Programming Systems
and Computer Architecture Group, led by Professor David Warren, which forms
part  of  the  Advanced  Computing  Research   Centre  in  the   Faculty of
Engineering.

The OMI/HORN project is coordinated  by Inmos and  forms part of the ESPRIT
Open Microprocessor  Systems Initiative.   The  project aims to develop the
building  blocks for the  next  generation  of high performance  (parallel)
computers.  University of Bristol will  work on cache  coherency aspects of
the project, contributing  its previous work   on the  DDM (Data  Diffusion
Machine), a scalable memory  organisation supporting virtual shared memory.
The research will  involve emulating  the DDM   on the  new  architectures,
evaluating the  performance   of  large  shared-memory  applications,  and
designing a combination of hardware and  software that can best support the
concept of virtual shared memory  efficiently on a  scalable multiprocessor
with point-to-point communication.

The work will involve close collaboration with Inmos, and interactions with
other European partners  in the   OMI/HORN project.  Computing   facilities
available for this work include a 20-transputer  Meiko Computing Surface, a
12-processor Sequent Symmetry, and a network of Sun and HP workstations and
servers.  The main implementation language will be C.

Applicants  should have a  good honours degree, a  strong  interest in  the
subject of the  research, and relevant  postgraduate experience,  including
experience with  one  or more of:  computer  architecture, multiprocessors,
transputers, or C.  The posts are available  from  1 September 1992 and are
tenable  for  seventeen  months in  the first   instance  with an  expected
extension of a further twenty-one months subject to approval of funding for
the second  phase of   the  OMI/HORN project.    Appointments will  be made
according to age  and experience on  the  RA1A, RA2, or RA3  salary  scales
(12,129-19,328, 17,827-23,739, or 22,487-28,165 pounds, all under review).

Letters of application, including a CV, a statement of  research interests,
and  the names  and addresses  of    two referees,  should  be  sent to the
Personnel Office, Senate  House, Bristol BS8 1TH,  preferably  by 15 August
1992.  Informal enquiries  can be  made by  telephone (0272-303322)  or  by
electronic mail (hornjobs@uk.ac.bristol.acrc).

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From: peteh@cs.rhbnc.ac.uk
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.parallel
Subject: Description of C*
Date: 23 Jul 92 13:50:17 GMT
Distribution: fj

Could anybody tell me where I can get a good reference to the new
version of C* which is being proposed as a ANSI standard parallel C.
It is mentioned in the Technical correspondance section of
Communications of the ACM June 92. Also has anyone managed to obtain
the response to this article by James Frankel @ Thinking machines
mentioned in the same place. I have tried emailing him but with no
success.

Thank you 


Pete Hoare


Royal Holloway and Bedford New College  |  mail: peteh@cs.rhbnc.ac.uk
Computer Science Department             |  uucp: ....!ukc!rhbnc!peteh
University of London                    |  talk: +44 784 443432 (direct)
Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, England
From: levine@jadoube.mcs.anl.gov (David Levine)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.parallel
Subject: Grand Challenges in Computer Simulation
Date: 28 Jul 92 12:01:07 GMT
Distribution: fj


                Announcement and Call for Papers 

                   HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING 
             Grand Challenges in Computer Simulation 
      (Part of the 1993 International Simulators Conference) 

                          Sponsored by 
               The Society for Computer Simulation  

                    March 29-April 1, 1993 
             Key Bridge Marriott * Arlington, Virginia 

The 1993 International Simulators Conference will feature a special
Symposium devoted to the impact of High Performance Computing on
Computer Simulation.  Topics to be addressed may include (but are
not limited to): (1) high performance computing applications; (2)
parallel algorithms and numerical methods; (3) methodologies to 
exploit HPC architectures.  Prospective authors are invited to 
submit abstracts describing their work in these areas. 

       Areas of interest include (but are not limited to) : 

     * Models of fluid dynamic behavior for 3-D flow fields 
     * Combustion system simulations 
     * Predictions of weather, climate, and global changes 
     * Models of turbulence in fluid flows 
     * Computational solid mechanics applications 
     * Nuclear reactor safety analysis 
     * Computational ocean sciences and systems 
     * Nuclear fusion applications 

                            KEY DATES: 

  Three (3) copies of 300-word abstracts  
OR (preferred) a full paper for review 
to session organizers  . . . . . . . . . . . BY OCTOBER 15, 1992

  Notification of acceptance and author 
kits mailed  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BY NOVEMBER 15, 1992

  Camera-ready copy submitted to Society 
headquarters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BY DECEMBER 31, 1992


Only previously unpublished works will be considered and, if 
accepted, will be published in the proceedings of the conference. 

Submit abstracts/papers with authors' complete addresses, phone,

fax, and e-mail for consideration to: 

Dr. Adrian Tentner                     Symposium on HPCC 
Argonne National Laboratory            c/o Society for Computer 
9700 S. Cass Avenue                      Simulation International
Argonne, IL 60439                      P.O. Box 17900 
e-mail: tentner@pepper.ra.anl.gov      San Diego, CA 92177 USA