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From: toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl (Toon Moene)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.super
Subject: Re: 6th List of the world's most powerful computing sites
Date: 10 Jan 93 20:48:15 GMT
Distribution: inet
Organization: Moene Computational Physics, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

In article <1iou1dINNh0d@uniwa.uwa.edu.au> gunter@tartarus.uwa.edu.au  
(Gunter Ahrendt) writes:
> 6th list of the world's most powerful computing sites as of 10-JAN-1993
                  ^^^^^^^

> +32,348 MFLOPS - (05-JAN-1993)
> 	Livermore Computer Center, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 
>       7000 East Avenue, Livermore, California 94550, United States of 
>       America.
> 	seager@llnl.gov
> 	1)	Cray? MPP-256 (1Q93)	25,000 MFLOPS
> 	2)	Cray Y-MP8/8128		 2,667 MFLOPS
> 	3)	Cray Y-MP8/864		 2,540 MFLOPS
	[... etc ...]

> 22,516.75 MFLOPS - (02-JAN-1993)
> 	National Magnetic Fusion Energy Computer Center, Lawrence 
>       Livermore
> 	National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, California 
>       94550,
> 	United States of America. moe@jette.nersc.gov
> 	1)	Cray C90/16	16,000 MFLOPS
> 	2)	Cray 2/8	 3,904 MFLOPS
	[ ... etc ... ]

Just because they can't defend their position here (not having USENET :-):

  >16.000 MFLOPS - by the above definition (10-JAN-1933)
	European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts
	Shinfield Park
	Reading RG2 9AX
	England
	1)	Cray C90/16	16.000 MFLOPS
	2)	Cray Y-MP8/864	 ?.??? MFLOPS
	   ... smaller gear ...
 
> ? MFLOPS - (21-DEC-1992)
> 	NCAR, United States of America.
        ^^^^ National Centre for Atmospheric Research
> 	1)	Cray 3 (?)

Makes you wonder what they do in Livermore :-)

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.super
From: hyatt@cis.uab.edu (Robert Hyatt)
Subject: Unusual computer time request
Organization: University of Alabama at Birmingham
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 03:34:29 GMT



I have an odd query for supercomputer sites.  I am one of three on the
team that has developed Cray Blitz over the past 12 years.  I am the
primary author, Harry Nelson (Livermore labs) has done extensive optimizing
for the Cray machines as well as added lots of enhancements to the search
and evaluation algorithms.  Our third member is a chess player that works
in the Music Department of another university.

Since 1981, Cray Research has sponsored Cray Blitz by providing computer
time for us to compete in the annual ACM (lately Supercomputing conference)
Computer Chess championships as well as the World Computer Chess Championship
held every three years.  We currently have a chess program that is written in
mostly FORTRAN with a couple of C routines for I/O.  When using a Cray, we
have about 12,000 lines of CAL that replace some of the FORTRAN modules for
a speedup of a factor of five or so.  The program also uses parallel processing
to further improve it's performance.  It has run on everything from a Cray-1
all the way thru the C90.

The next computer chess event is being held in Indianapolis next month.  Cray
was unable to provide us computer time for the world championship held last
summer (we won this event in 1983 and 1986).  We have just learned that they
will be unable to provide us with time for the next event as well.  I thought
that I would make a quick inquiry to see if anyone has a C90 sitting idle
for a Sunday (about 12noon to 2am) and Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday in the
evenings for about 6 hours or so.  

Just kidding....  While we would love to have a C90, we can also use an
X or Y if someone has time available.  If you have any leads or suggestions,
please e-mail me.  This has been a long and interesting project, and we hate
to see it fade away after it has become quite well-known.  It is clearly
the best of the general purpose computer programs and pushes the special
purpose machines (like the IBM "Deep Blue" [old deep thought] project) about
as hard as they can be pushed.

If you have any ideas, I can be more specific about the dates/times.  We don't
need any programming assistance, etc. and have files that can be shipped over
the internet if a connection is available.  There are no hidden costs, no
aluminum siding to buy, no credit life insurance required, etc.  We will take
care of communication costs and the like.

Bob Hyatt
hyatt@cis.uab.edu

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From: bergman@cyklop.nada.kth.se (Magnus Bergman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.super
Subject: REQUEST FOR PARALLEL APPLICATIONS
Date: 8 Jan 93 20:09:14 GMT
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden



          REQUEST FOR PARALLEL APPLICATIONS

In the search for partners in the area of applied parallel
computing we would like to create a list of applications
available on (or suitable for) parallel platforms.

The programming models might be data-, control-parallel or a
combination of both. Machine architectures of interest are
SIMD, MIMD, clusters of Workstation or a combination of those
three.

If this list becomes interesting I will post it to this news group.

Please post to: bergman@nada.kth.se

Dr. C.M. Bergman
Center for Computational Mathematics and Mechanics
Department of Numerical Analysis and Computing Science
Royal Institute of Technology
S-100 44 Stockholm

Tel: +46 8 790 6267 * Fax: +46 8 790 0930 * Mobile: +46 10 228 02 91
Newsgroups: comp.sys.super
From: eugene@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya)
Subject: Re: 6th List of the world's most powerful computing sites NOT
Organization: NAS, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 93 02:03:22 GMT

In article <417@moene.indiv.nluug.nl> toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl
(Toon Moene) writes:
>> ? MFLOPS - (21-DEC-1992)
>> 	NCAR, United States of America.
>        ^^^^ National Centre for Atmospheric Research
>> 	1)	Cray 3 (?)
>
>Makes you wonder what they do in Livermore :-)

Can't see what NCAR and LLNL are doing at the same paragraph.

Read:
	Star Warriors by William Broad.
[old, obsolete]

I think the physical science stuff is far more interesting than
some of their computing stuff (pardon my friends who work there).
Bill Gosper pointed out the grottiness of physicist code ;^).
Too bad you can't easily take a tour.  I have a 4 inch sabot from
the last tour milled at the High Explosives Applications Facility as a
paper weight.  The defunct mirror fusion facility is interesting as are
the Nova Lasers.  They produced a nice 40 year ann. from founding booklet
which you might be able to write for copies to LLNL.

--eugene miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@orville.nas.nasa.gov
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A Ref: Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning, vol. 1, G. Polya
Newsgroups: comp.sys.super
From: kirchner@uklira.informatik.uni-kl.de (Reinhard Kirchner)
Subject: Relation Mflops/Memory/IO-Rate ?
Organization: University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 10:01:44 GMT



Hello Super-Users and Administrators and Operators,

we have here discussions about the replacement of our VP-100, so I would
like to here some opinions about the relation of

Brutto speed ( Mflops )  to

main memory size and

IO-rate

one should have.

The machine should have a brutto power of appr. 1 Gflop. We are a university
with mostly technical sciences, so more than half ( perhaps 60-80 % ) will
go to such applications. We have appr. 1500 scientists, appr. 10000 students,
( who will of coarse use this machine for the final thesises only, if at all ).

The machine will run under some flavour of Unix, interactive use will happen
at least for development.

How will access via X-terminals affect the configuration of the machine ?

How can a high speed DRAM 'disk' be traded against main memory ?
( many supers have such a storage behind main memory for fast swapping etc.)

How important or unimportant would you consider the existance of virtual
memory ? How would this influence the IO-rate needed ? the size of main
memory ?

Thanks a lot for all responses to the group or by mail, i'll summarize
if I get useful responses.

Reinhard Kirchner
Univ. of Kaiserslautern, Germany
kirchner@informatik.uni-kl.de

Newsgroups: comp.sys.super
From: aspfibf@cid.aes.doe.CA (Iain Findleton)
Subject: SX-3/44 at Dorval
Organization: Environment Canada (CID), Dorval, QC
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 18:18:04 GMT


                                                            10 January 1993




                          SX-3/44 at Dorval Accepted 
     
          On  December 17 1992 the SX-3/44   installed   at   the    Dorval
     supercomputer  center completed the  last of  the  formal   acceptance
     requirements  and  was switched into operational mode. The machine  is
     now  the  main  production  system  used  for the support of   weather
     forecasting in Canada.
     
          The SX-3/44 is a 22 GFLOP vector  supercomputer  produced  by NEC
     Corporation of Japan. The Canadian   system, originally installed   in
     October    of 1991, consists of 4 vector processors, each with   a 5.5
     GFLOP  nominal  performance, 1 GByte of main memory, and 4 GBytes   of
     extended memory. Connected to the machine is a 200 GByte disk  farm of
     high performance parallel disks.
     
          Over  the  year  since the initial installation of  the   machine
     employees  of  Environment Canada, the machine's   major  client, have
     converted a large base of software from the proprietary Cray Operating
     System  to  run  under  the  UNIX  environment of the SX-3/44. At  the
     completion  of  the  conversion  efforts, the major application of the
     weather forecasting system, a finite  element based weather prediction
     code, runs in 1/3 of the elapsed time on a  single  processor  of  the
     SX-3/44 as it did on 4 processors of an XMP 4/16 EA machine. For  this
     application this shows an almost 12 times improvement  in  performance
     over the previous production machine.
     
          With the conversion effort complete, Environment Canada employees
     are now shifting their efforts to projects that will take advantage of
     the  increased performance of  the SX-3/44 to  improve the quality and
     accuracy of products. 
     
          Hardware and software reliability of  the SX-3/44 have proven  to
     be  excellent. The Dorval machine exceeds 99% up time across the total
     system.
Organization: Ege University - Computing Center
Date: Friday, 8 Jan 1993 16:00:20 TUR
From: <BILMIN@TREARN.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.super
Subject:    Supercomputer in Europe

Hello . May I ask a question ?

Is there a list which consists of installed supercomputers (such as
CONVEX , FUJITSU , CRAY , NEC , etc.) in Europe ?

Thanks ...


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From: gupta@prlhp1.prl.philips.co.uk (Ashok Gupta)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.super
Subject: Lecture in London
Date: 8 Jan 93 15:12:29 GMT
Reply-To: gupta@prl.philips.co.uk
Organization: Philips Research Laboratories, Redhill, UK



                          The British Computer Society
                      Parallel Processing Specialist Group

                                   (BCS PPSG)

                                Public Lecture:


                      HIGH PERFORMANCE PARALLEL COMPUTING:
                                    A REVIEW

                             by Professor John Gurd


                                Wed Jan 13 1993
                              6.15 pm for 6.30 pm

                            Fleming Lecture Theatre
                           University College London
                                Torrington Place
                                   London WC1

                        (entrance directly opposite main
                         entrance to Dillons book shop)

                       This is a free public lecture open
                                to one and all.

                         No prior booking is required.

                      Membership of the BCS or of the PPSG
                                is not required.


                                       **
                    ** PLEASE CIRCULATE THIS ANNOUNCEMENT **
                                       **
Newsgroups: comp.sys.super,comp.arch.storage
From: tstark@access.digex.com (Timothy M. Stark)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sequent
Subject: Help! Dialing routines
Date: 7 Jan 1993 14:02:03 GMT
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: access.digex.com

Hello Everyone:

    I have an empoloyee here. He need a help for dialing routines on his DYNIX
ptx 1.4 operating system. He tried to open modem and dialed it but his does
not work because modem is not response or his system does not communicate with a modem as dialout. Do you have a C program that handle modem dialout for
DYNIX/ptx OS? If so, please send me it as soon as possible and I will
appericate that. Thanks you!

-- Tim Stark
   Unix Systems Administrator
   Internal Revenue Service
   1200 Pennaylvania Ave, NW
   Washington, DC 20224

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"Washington, DC is the most deaf population!! -- Gallaudet University"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sequent
From: mikes@techbook.com (Mike Scheuerman)
Subject: User friendly text editor wanted
Summary: User friendly text editor wanted for novice Unix users
Keywords: text editor friendly Unix
Organization: TECHbooks --- Public Access UNIX --- (503) 220-0636
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 20:17:39 GMT

We are in the process of installing an email package on our Sequent
system
and most of the users who will be using it are not familiar with Unix.
We would like to make it as painless as possible to use the email so
we would like to find an editor that is 'somewhat' more friendly than
VI.  A full screen editor that uses the cursor keys to move around
would be nice.  Most of our users are used to the editors available on
MS/DOS so something on that order would be nice.  I suspect there are
several available in the public domain, but I don't know where.

Any help or suggestions are gratefully accepted.

Mike Scheuerman
CMSI, Inc
0234 SW Bancroft
Portland, OR 97201

mikes@techbook.com
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sequent
From: boone@a.cs.okstate.edu (Barry E. Boone)
Subject: IRC Client needed for ptx
Organization: Oklahoma State University
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 93 02:04:34 GMT

Can someone tell me how or where I could get an IRC client for a S-81 running
under Dynix/ptx 1.3?

Thanks,

Barry
-- 
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Gravity: It's not just a good idea, it's the law.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sequent
From: tucker@bedford.progress.COM (Kyle Tucker)
Subject: Re: User friendly text editor wanted
Keywords: text editor friendly Unix
Reply-To: tucker@bedford.progress.COM
Organization: Progress Software Corp.
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 15:13:05 GMT

The PICO editor that is supplied with Pine is supposed be very user
friendly, albeit limited. I use Pine, but with vi, but it does
compile as a seperate binary. You might even end up using Pine as your
mail tool :-). It can be had from ftp.cac.washington.edu and compiled
very easily under PTX.
 
- Kyle
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From: rlyle@nl.oracle.com (Rob Lyle  Wizard of Ozje)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sequent
Subject: DYNIX 3.2 kernel build fails - Make error
Keywords: MAXUPROC make kernel build
Date: 5 Jan 93 11:21:17 GMT
Organization: Oracle Europe

DYNIX people,

I have DYNIX 3.2 (with the old SVAE 3.1.x libraries) on my S81.  When I now try
to build a new kernel, I get ...

# config SEQ1
Don't forget to run "make depend"
# cd ../SEQ1
# make depend
Bad character & (octal 46), line 64Make: .  Stop.
# 


Anybody any ideas what is going on?  I hvaen't installed any weird or wonderful
device drivers.  This is all bog standard stuff.  All I want to do is raise
MAXUPROC.

If anybody can tell me how to poke that in the active kernel, that'll do as a
temp solution just now ;-)

Cheers,

--Rob.


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sequent
From: taurins@neodata.uucp (Agris Taurins)
Subject: NIS, PC-NFS & Nameservers
Organization: NeoData - Telemedia
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 15:49:15 GMT


I have a S2000/400 running ptx 1.4.  Prior to setting up named, we had a user
who was using PC-NFS to mount his home directory on his PC.  After setting up
named however, all of a sudden his PC-NFS wouldn't work.  We tried reconfiguring
it several times, in several ways, but named seems to give it fits.  During 
configuration, it's major questions involve finding out if NIS is running on 
the machine you'll be mounting from.  I've tried it both ways, but to no avail.
It just doesn't seem to recognize the Sequent.

Has anyone run into anything similar?  Anyone have any ideas?



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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sequent
From: pete@wvus.org (Pete Gregory)
Subject: Re: version 2.10 of lsof available
Organization: World Vision U.S.
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 93 20:04:02 GMT
Keywords: open files, ofiles, fstat

In article <BzGKLo.Gz0@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> abe@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Vic Abell) writes:
>
>Lsof (for LiSt Open Files) displays information on files opened by processes
>in the following versions of Unix: AIX 3.2, EP/IX 1.4.3, ETAV*, DYNIX 3.0.12
>and 3.1, HP-UX 7.x and 8.x, IRIX 4.0.5, NeXTStep 3.0 and SunOS 4.1.[12].

has anyone ported this to PTX??  if not, has anyone written or obtained
something like this for PTX?  thanks...

-- 

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From: brad@cup.portal.com (Brad E Orahood)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sequent
Subject: Setting up Nameserver on ptx
Date: Fri,  8 Jan 93 14:01:59 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

I'm trying to find if there are any technotes
out there that will help me set up a nameserver
on a S-81 running ptx 1.3.  Currently we are using
remote nameservers (via resolv.conf), but are finding that
they are incomplete on addresses.   Any Help would be
appriciated.

		Thanks
			Brad
------------------------------------------
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brad@max.wosc.osshe.edu
brad@cup.portal.com
From: mah@DIALix.oz.au (Marcus Hayes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sequent
Subject: nlist - getting it to work
Date: 7 Jan 1993 11:24:58 +0800
Organization: DIALix Services, Perth, Western Australia
NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.dialix.oz.au
X-Newsreader: NN version 6.4.19 #1

Hopefully the subject says it all, has someone managed to
successfully use it.

The problem is that I'm converting ofiles to work on the
sequents (running ptx) but the nlist calls succeeds but
no values are returned for symbols proc and nproc,



any pointers would be great


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From: abe@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Vic Abell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sequent
Subject: Re: nlist - getting it to work
Date: 7 Jan 93 19:42:17 GMT
Organization: Purdue University

In article <1ig7qaINNh1b@DIALix.oz.au> mah@DIALix.oz.au (Marcus Hayes) writes:
>The problem is that I'm converting ofiles to work on the
>sequents (running ptx) but the nlist calls succeeds but
>no values are returned for symbols proc and nproc,

Those symbols may not exist in the SYSV-based PTX kernel's name list.  The
"nproc" symbol is often replaced by the v_proc element of the var structure
(see <sys/var.h>), usually named "v" by the kernel.

I don't know how PTX defines and addresses the process table.  You might be
able to find out by running nm on /dynix or /unix or /vmunix or whatever PTX
calls the kernel file and looking for symbols with "proc" in them.  Look for
variants, too, like "_proc" -- DYNIX 3.0.x uses it and "_nproc".

Discovering the way a kernel describes its process table is always an
adventure.  You should look for special functions to read the process (and
even user) table.  SGI IRIX, for example, has syssgi; and SunOS, of course,
has the kvm_* functions.

Finally, you might try porting lsof instead of ofiles.  Lsof (for LiSt Open
Files) is my version of a multi-platform ofiles successor.  It's available
via anonymous ftp from ftp.cc.purdue.edu (128.210.24.1) in pucc/lsof2.tar.Z.

Vic Abell -- a contributor to ofiles
From: rlyle@nl.oracle.com (Rob Lyle  Wizard of Ozje)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sequent
Subject: Re: DYNIX 3.2 kernel build fails - Make error
Keywords: MAXUPROC make kernel build
Date: 5 Jan 93 11:27:47 GMT
Organization: Oracle Europe

OOPS!!!

Ofcourse,  I should've been doing it under the Berekely universe.  Spank my
bottom.  

If anyone knows how to poke MAXUPROC in an active S81 DYNIX 3.2 kernel
then it'll save my users a day of hardship 8-)

--Rob "Should've known better" Lyle.


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