Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer,comp.parallel.mpi,comp.parallel.pvm
From: D.J.Beckett@ukc.ac.uk (Dave Beckett)
Subject: Internet Parallel Computing Archive (HENSA Unix) - NEW FILES 1/2
Summary: New files since 27th Nov 1995. See ADMIN article for other info.
Keywords: transputer, occam, parallel, archive, anonymous ftp, www, gopher
Organization: University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 96 11:53:42 GMT
Message-ID: <92@mint.ukc.ac.uk>

		 Internet Parallel Computing Archive
		 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
		   "Over a 1,000,000 files served"

			 Funded by JISC NTSC
		 Hosted at HENSA Unix (JISC funded)

			      New Files

The archive is available via these access methods:

 * World Wide Web: <URL:http://www.hensa.ac.uk/parallel/>

 * FTP site: <URL:ftp://unix.hensa.ac.uk/pub/parallel/>
   which means: anonymous ftp to unix.hensa.ac.uk and look in /pub/parallel

 * gopher to unix.hensa.ac.uk port 70 and go to
  "Internet Parallel Computing Archive"

 * One of the mirror sites:
   AUSTRALIA:  <URL:ftp://pcrf.anu.edu.au/HENSA/>
   FRANCE:     <URL:ftp://ftp.ibp.fr/pub/parallel/>
               <URL:ftp://ftp.jussieu.fr/pub/parallel/>
   JAPAN:      <URL:ftp://ftp.center.osaka-u.ac.jp/parallel/hensa/>

   See <URL:http://www.hensa.ac.uk/parallel/www/mirror-sites.html>
   for full details.

Please also consult the accompanying ADMIN article if you cannot use
any of the above methods of access and for further information.

Dave


NEW FEATURES
~~~~~~~~~~~~

* "Over a 1,000,000 files served"

  On Tuesday 6th February 1996 at 02:13 GMT, the millionth file was
  sent from the IPCA.  It was part of the gcc for transputer
  distribution and sent to a WWW user at University of Florida, USA.

* Updates to areas:

  lam, tkpvm, Using MPi book, chimp, mpi2, pvanim, glenda, c4, sisal,
  pade, hippi, mpimap, DS-link, sr, pvm3, adaptor, tape-pvm, CoCheck,
  mint and lots of new events.
  
  See detailed lists below and the other articles for full details

* "Designing and Building Parallel Programs" by Ian Foster <itf@mcs.anl.gov>
  The entire book on-line here at /parallel/books/addison-wesley/dbpp/


NEW FILES between 27th November 1995 - 12th January 1996
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

12th January 1996

/parallel/vendors/elcom/
	Updated Elcom Ltd Home Page, now at
	<URL:http://www.ecsc.mipt.ru/Elcom/>

/parallel/vendors/elcom/patches/originfo.txt
	Origami release history and notes

/parallel/vendors/elcom/patches/c01to110.zip
	Patch for Origami for Windows from 1st December 1995 release to 10th
	January 1996 release.

/parallel/standards/mpi/anl/mpi2/mpi-draft.super95.ps.Z
	"MPI-2: Extensions to the Message-Passing Interface"
	by Message Passing Interface Forum
	8th January 1996
	ABSTRACT:
	This document describes the MPI-2 effort to add extensions to the
	original MPI standard. The MPI-2 effort began in March 1995 and the
	additions to the standard are scheduled to be released for public
	comment at Supercomputing '96. Topics being explored for possible
	inclusion in MPI-2 are dynamic processes, one-sided communications,
	extended collective operations, external interfaces, additional
	language bindings, real-time communications, and miscellaneous topics.
	NOTE: This is the current state of some of the chapters being drafted
	for possible inclusion in the MPI-2 standard document. It represents
	the ongoing work of the MPI Forum in an incomplete and tentative form,
	but is being distributed with the intention of desseminating the work
	of the MPI Forum and to allow people attending the BOF at
	Supercomputing '95 to understand the topics under consideration. The
	proposals for MPI-2 are still very much under development. It is very
	likely that the final MPI-2 standard will differ in important ways
	from this draft. As a result, this draft should not be taken as a
	promise of the final form of the MPI-2 standard.

/parallel/standards/mpi/anl/mpi2/mpi-draft-oompi.ps.Z
	"Annex B -C++ Class Library: Object Oriented MPI" (OOMPI)
	by Andrew Lumsdaine; Jeff Squyres and Brian McCandless.

/parallel/architecture/processing/process-migration/CoCheck/
	CoCheck is an environment that allows both process migration and
	creating checkpoints of parallel applications. Currently, only PVM
	applications are supported, but support for MPI is under construction.
	
	See also <URL:http://wwwbode.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/CoCheck/>

/parallel/architecture/processing/process-migration/CoCheck/announcement
	Announcement of CoCheck
	Author: Georg Stellner <stellner@informatik.tu-muenchen.de>

/parallel/architecture/processing/process-migration/CoCheck/CoCheck-V1.0.tgz
	"CoCheck - Consistent Checkpoints V1.0"
	by Prof. Dr. A. Bode <bode@informatik.tu-muenchen.de>; Georg Stellner
	<stellner@informatik.tu-muenchen.de>,
	<URL:http://wwwbode.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~stellner/> and J.
	Pruyne. Lehrstuhl f"ur Rechnertechnik und Rechnerorganisation,
	Institut f"ur Informatik, Technische Universit"at M"unchen, 80290
	M"unchen, Germany.
	CoCheck distribution. This package is under the GNU Library General
	Public License and the GNU General Public License.
	
	CoCheck was tested to run on SunOs 4.1.x and DEC OSF/1. It requires
	at least PVM Version 3.3.7 or higher.
	
	See also <URL:http://wwwbode.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/CoCheck/>

/parallel/architecture/processing/process-migration/CoCheck/Ug-V1.0.ps.gz
	"CoCheck Users' Guide V1.0 (PVM Version)"
	by Georg Stellner <stellner@informatik.tu-muenchen.de>,
	<URL:http://wwwbode.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~stellner/> and Jim
	Pruyne <pruyne@cs.wisc.edu>, <URL:http://cs.wisc.edu/~pruyne/>.

/parallel/architecture/processing/process-migration/CoCheck/CkptLib-ALPHA-V1.0.tgz
	Condor V1.0 binary library (DEC Alpha)

/parallel/architecture/processing/process-migration/CoCheck/CkptLib-SUN4-V1.0.tgz
	Condor V1.0 binary library (Sun Sparc + SunOS 4)

/parallel/environments/pvm3/tape-pvm/tape0.9pl8.tgz
	Tape/Pvm 0.9 Patch level 8 sources including instructions on setting
	up, building and installing the distribution. Changes: Now measures
	the overhead inferred each time an event is traced. Events now contain
	a new field (alpha) containing the overhead (in mus). This information
	is used by the intrusion compensation tool "tico". Caution: trace
	format has changed!
	Author: Eric Maillet <maillet@imag.fr>, LMC-IMAG, Grenoble, France

/parallel/teaching/hpctec/epcc/tech-watch/EPCC-HPFcourse-PS.tar.Z
	"EPCC HPC Postscript Course Notes and Slides and HPC Examples
	sources"

/parallel/events/pc96
	"8th Joint EPS - APS International Conference on Physics Computing" (Physics Computing'96)
	by Zofia Mosurska <pc96@cyf-kr.edu.pl>
	Call for papers for conference being held from 17-21st September 1996
	at Krakow, Poland. Sponsored by European and American Physical
	Societies.
	
	Topics: computer simulation in statistical physics; simulation of
	specific materials; surface phenomena; percolation; critical
	phenomena; computational fluid dynamics; classical and quantum
	molecular dynamics; chaos, dynamical systems; self-organization and
	growth; neural networks and their applications; complex optimization.
	As well as contemporary trends in hardware and software development:
	recent developments in computer architectures; modern programming
	techniques (parallel programming, object oriented approach); symbolic
	computations; graphics, visualization and animation together with
	industrial applications and teaching of computational physics and
	others.
	
	Deadlines: Camera-ready Papers: 30th April 1996; Notification: 31st
	May 1996.
	
	See also <URL:http://www.cyf-kr.edu.pl/pc96/> and
	<URL:ftp://ftp.cyf-kr.edu.pl/pc96/>

/parallel/events/ica3pp96-par-prog-tools
	"Tools for Parallel Programming mini-track at ICA3PP, Singapore"
	Call for papers for mini-track at ICA3PP-96 being held from 11th-13th
	June 1996 at Singapore. Sponsored by IEEE.
	
	Topics: visual parallel programming; program visualization and
	animation; novel monitoring and debugging techniques; performance
	tuning of parallel programs; performance modeling and prediction;
	automatic parallelization techniques; tools for parallel high level
	languages; scheduling and load balancing; support for heterogeneous
	computing; case studies and applications and others.
	
	Deadlines: Papers (hard copy): 5th February 1996; Papers (email):
	15th February 1996; Notification: 31st March 1996; Camera-ready
	papers: 30th April 1996.
	
	See ICA3PP information at <URL:http://www.iscs.nus.sg/ica3pp/>.


9th January 1996

/parallel/events/ipps96-hetro-comp-workshop
	"Heterogeneous Computing Workshop at IPPS96"
	by V.S.Sunderam <vss@mathcs.emory.edu>
	Call for papers and participation in 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.
	
	Topics: Basic Models and Performance Measures; Efficient Resource
	Management Strategies; Transparent Mechanisms for Storing and Handling
	Data; System Interfaces and Programming Tools; Failure Resilience
	Strategies; "Proof of Concept" Application Implementations and others.
	
	Deadlines: Papers: 12th January 1996; Notification: 20th February
	1996; Camera-ready papers: 1st March 1996.
	
	See also <URL:http://www-cse.ucsd.edu/users/berman/hcw.html> and
	IPPS'96 information at
	<URL:http://www.usc.edu/dept/ceng/prasanna/meetings/ipps/ippshome.html>

/parallel/events/supeur96
	"SUP'EUR 96 - High Performance Computing in Europe on IBM Platforms"
	by Zofia Mosurska <supeur96@cyf-kr.edu.pl>
	Call for papers, participation and advanced program for conference
	being held from 8-11th September 1996 at Continental Hotel, Krakow,
	Poland.
	
	The conference is particularly intended to address problems and needs
	of high performance computing on IBM machines, to offer up-to-date
	information on IBM's products and plans in HPC.
	
	Also jointly with the conference is the Sup'Prize contest worth
	$10,000 for the development of parallel applications on IBM Platforms.
	
	Topics: Parallel and distributed computing; IBM trends in high
	performance computing; New IBM products; Experience with SP2; High
	performance storage systems; Environments, languages and tools;
	Applications; Graphics and visualization; Education and training and
	others.
	
	Deadlines: Papers: 30th May 1996; Notification: 30th June 1996.
	
	See also <URL:http://www.cyf-kr.edu.pl/supeur96> and <URL:ftp:
	//ftp.cyf-kr.edu.pl/supeur96>

/parallel/standards/mpi/mpimap/MPIMap.tar.Z
	Updated: "MPIMap Distribution"
	by John May <johnmay@llnl.gov>
	A tool for visualizing MPI datatypes. Must run on the target parallel
	machine for which the MPI code is being developed, since it calls MPI
	to determine datatype layouts and sizes.
	
	Designed to with only with the MPICH V1.0.10 and V1.0.11
	implementations of MPI at present. It also requires Tcl 7.4 and Tk 4.0
	and works best with a colour display.

/parallel/applications/numerical/aztec
	"Aztec: A parallel iterative package for the solving linear systems
	arising in Newton-Krylov Methods"
	by Ray S. Tuminaro <tuminaro@cs.sandia.gov>; Tel: +1 505 845-7298;
	John N. Shadid <jnshadi@cs.sandia.gov>; Tel: +1 505 845-7876 and Scott
	A. Hutchinson <sahutch@cs.sandia.gov>,
	<URL:http://www.cs.sandia.gov/~sahutch>; Tel: +1 505 845-7996; FAX: +1
	505 845-7442. Sandia National Laboratories, Department 9221, Parallel
	Computational Sciences, MS 1111 P.O. Box 5800, Albuquerque, NM
	87185-1111, USA.
	Announcement of iterative library that greatly simplifies the
	parallelization process when solving a sparse linear system of
	equations Ax = b where A is a user supplied nxn sparse matrix, b is a
	user supplied vector of length n and x is a vector of length n to be
	computed.
	
	Available publicaly through a research license from the authors.
	
	See also <URL:http://www.cs.sandia.gov/HPCCIT/aztec.html> for more
	details including Postscript papers.


8th January 1996

/parallel/languages/fortran/f90/f90-FAQ
	"Fortran 90 information file, on compilers, tools, books, courses,
	tutorials and the standard."
	by Michael METCALF <Michael.METCALF@cern.ch>
	See also <URL:http://www.fortran.com/fortran/>

/parallel/books/mcgraw-hill/par-dist-comp-handbook
	"Parallel and Distributed Computing Handbook (1996)"
	by Albert Y. Zomaya <zomaya@ee.uwa.edu.au>, The University of Western
	Australia, Australia
	Featuring contributions from more than sixty of the world's top
	experts in the field, this state-of-the-art handbook offers engineers
	and scientists the most comprehensive treatment available of the
	theory and applications of parallel and distributed computing.
	
	Readers will find forty-one well-organized chapters covering the full
	range of key issues relating to systems design and operation,
	including models and algorithms....architectures and
	technologies....development tools....and current and future uses of
	this exciting technology in science and industry.
	
	See also <URL:http://www.ee.uwa.edu.au/~paracomp/home.html>
	
	1232 pages. 600 illustrations. ISBN 0-07-073020-2. $99.50.

/parallel/books/prentice-hall/in-search-of-clusters
	"In Search of Clusters"
	by Gregory F. Pfister <pfister@austin.ibm.com>
	Topics covered include: how clusters are an invisible, multi-billion
	dollar segment of the computer industry; why clusters are growing in
	importance and visibility hardware and software elements of clusters,
	including the first serious discussion of "single system image"; key
	incompabilities in programming clusters and symmetric multiprocessors;
	comparison between clusters and symmetric multiprocessors; how popular
	benchmarks mislead users and designers of clusters
	
	ISBN 0-13-437625-0 published by Prentice-Hall, 415 pages, $42.
	
	See also <URL:http://www.prenhall.com/> or the book at
	<URL:http://www.prenhall.com/~ray/013/437624/ptr/43762-4.html>

/parallel/libraries/memory/global-array/
	GA Toolkit developed at Molecular Science Research Center in Pacific
	Northwest Laboratory, USA. It provides portable and efficient
	"shared-memory" programming interface through which each process in a
	MIMD parallel program can asynchronously access logical blocks of
	physically distributed matrices, without need for explicit
	cooperations by other processes. Platforms: SP1, IPSC, Delta, Paragon,
	KSR-2, workstations.
	
	The toolkit contains global arrays (GA), memory allocator (MA),
	TCGMSG, and TCGMSG-MPI packages bundled together.
	
	Global Arrays is a portable shared Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA)
	programming environment for distributed and shared memory computers.
	
	TCGMSG is a simple and efficient message passing library.
	
	TCGMSG-MPI is a TCGMSG library implementation on top of MPI and in
	some cases architecture-specific resources.
	
	MA is a dynamic memory allocator for Fortran (and also C) programs.

/parallel/libraries/memory/global-array/global2.1.tar.Z
	"Global Array (GA) Toolkit V2.1"
	by Jarek Nieplocha <j_nieplocha@pnl.gov>, Environmental Molecular
	Sciences Laboratory Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, MSIN:
	K1-87, Richland, WA 99352, USA; Tel: +1 (509) 372-4469
	Requires GNU make, IPC (semaphores).

/parallel/applications/numerical/peigs/siam_6th.ps.Z
	"Parallel Inverse Iteration with Reorthogonalization"
	by George I. Fann <gi_fann@pnl.gov> and Richard J. Littlefield
	<rj_littlefield@pnl.gov>. Pacific North West Laboratory, PO Box 999,
	Richland, WA 99352, USA.
	ABSTRACT:
	A parallel method for finding orthogonal eigenvectors of real
	symmetric tridiagonal matrices is described. The method uses inverse
	iteration with repeated Modified Gram-Schmidt (MGS)
	reorthogonalization of the unconverteged iterates for clustered
	eigenvalues. This approach is more pallelizable than reorthogonalizing
	against fully convertged eigenvectors, as is done by LAPACK's current
	DSTEIN routine. The new method is found to provide accuracty and speed
	comparable to DSTEIN's and to have good parallel scalabilty even for
	matrices with large clusters of eigenvalues. We present empirical
	results for residual an ortogonality tests, plus times on IBM RS/6000
	(sequential) Intel Touchstone DELTA (parallel)computers.

/parallel/events/ipps96-irregular-workshop
	"Second Workshop on Solving Irregular Problems on Distributed Memory
	Machines at IPPS96"
	by Eugene N. Miya <eugene@ames.arc.nasa.gov>
	Call for papers and participation for workshop being held at IPPS96
	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.
	
	Deadlines: Submissions: 31st January 1996; Notification: 1st March
	1996; Camera-ready manuscripts: 20th March 1996.
	
	See also <URL:http://www.usc.edu/dept/ceng/prasanna/home.html>

/parallel/standards/mpi/anl/pxman.ps.Z
	"PEXEC Reference Manual (Draft)"
	by William Gropp <gropp@mcs.anl.gov> and Ewing Lusk
	<lusk@mcs.anl.gov>. Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne
	National Laboratory, USA.
	ABSTRACT:
	PEXEC is a system for writing lightweight, fault-tolerant,
	client/server programs. It is organized around an event-driven model,
	and provides for highly modular definition of different services to be
	provided by a program. This document contains detailed documentation
	on the routines that are part of the PEXEC implementation. These
	include the basic event-driven driver routines, as well as a variety
	of convenience routines for creating and using network sockets and
	child processes. As an alternate to this manual, the reader should
	consider using the script pxman; this is a script that uses xman to
	provide a X11 Window System interface to the data in this manual.

/parallel/events/
	At <URL:http://www.cs.reading.ac.uk/cs/research/pedal/rwpc/rwpc.html>
	"Reading Workshops on Parallel Computing"
	Call for papers for workshops being held from 28-29th March 1996 at
	Reading, UK.
	
	The Parallel, Emergent, & Distributed Architectures Laboratory
	(PEDAL) in conjunction with the Dept of Computer Science at Reading
	University is presenting a series of workshops on the broad theme of
	parallel computing.
	
	The intention of these workshops is to provide a forum for both
	academia and industry to meet and discuss key issues in the area of
	Parallel & Disributed processing and the related field of emergent
	computing structures which often relies on implicit recognition or
	direct use of parallelism.
	
	Deadlines: Extended Abstracts: 25th January 1996; Notification: 15th
	February 1996; Full papers: 15th March 1996.
	
	See also Call for Papers details at
	<URL:http://www.cs.reading.ac.uk/cs/research/pedal/rwpc/rwcfp1.html>,
	and Best Student Paper details at
	<URL:http://www.cs.reading.ac.uk/cs/research/pedal/rwpc/bpaward.html>



