Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer,comp.parallel.pvm
From: djb1@ukc.ac.uk (Dave Beckett)
Subject: Transputer, occam and Parallel Computing Archive: ADMIN
Summary: See NEW FILES article for details of new files
Keywords: transputer, occam, parallel, archive, anonymous ftp, www, gopher
Organization: University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.
Date: Mon, 06 Jun 94 17:31:42 GMT
Message-ID: <110@nutmeg.ukc.ac.uk>


This is the administrative information article for the Transputer, occam
and parallel computing archive.  Please consult the accompanying article
for details of the new files and areas.

The archive is at unix.hensa.ac.uk in /parallel.  It contains freely
distributable software and documents, in the Transputer, occam, high
performance and parallel computing subject area.

Since the last posting on 6th May, I've added 29 megabytes of files making
around 145M of files available.


STATISTICS
~~~~~~~~~~

During May:
  Over 1,240,000,000 bytes (1195MB) transferred
  Over 26,000 file accesses
  Over 2,200 users

  91.1% FTP 7.0% Gopher 1.1% Email <1% Interactive and WWW

  Top 10 files accessed (excluding directory Index files):

  # (old) Count Path
  0 (0)   425   http://unix.hensa.ac.uk/parallel/index.html
  1 (1)   192   /ftp/pub/parallel/README
  2 (3)   102   http://unix.hensa.ac.uk/parallel/other-sites.html
  3 (2)    92   /ftp/pub/parallel/info/FullIndex.ascii*
  4 (7)    81   /ftp/pub/parallel/faqs/transputer-FAQ
  5 (4)    79   /ftp/pub/parallel/Changes
  6 (8)    73   /ftp/pub/parallel/occam/compilers/spoc/README.spoc
  7 (6)    73   /ftp/pub/parallel/occam/compilers/inmos/README
  8 (-)    70   /ftp/pub/parallel/faqs/transputer-ftp-sites
  9 (-)    63   /ftp/pub/parallel/faqs/PVM

The WWW access seems to be very popular as well as people looking at
the obsolete FAQ for the Transputer that I should really get updated.



WHERE IS IT?
~~~~~~~~~~~
At the UNIX HENSA (Higher Education National Software Archive) archive,
funded by the JISC.  The UNIX HENSA archive is accessible via an
interactive browsing facility, called fbr as well as email, DARPA ftp,
gopher and NI-FTP (Blue Book) services.

The parallel archive is provided with help and funding from SEL-HPC (London
and South East centre for High Performance Computing) project and the EU
COMETT project supporting occam and Transputer training.



HOW DO I FIND WHAT I WANT?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The files are all located in /parallel and each directory contains a
short Index file of the contents.

If you want to check what has changed in between these postings, look
at the /parallel/Changes file which contains the new files added.
Files older than that are in /parallel/info/Changes, indexed by
year/month.

There is also a full text index available of all the files in
/parallel/info/FullIndex.ascii but be warned - it is very large
(over 330K).  Compressed and gzipped versions are in the same
directory.

For those UNIX dweebs, there are output files of ls-lR in
/parallel/info/ls-lR along with compressed and gzipped versions too.


HOW DO I CONTACT IT?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

There are several ways to access the files which are described below
- log in to the archive to browse files and retrieve them by email;
transfer files by DARPA FTP over JIPS or use Blue Book NI-FTP.


Logging in:
~~~~~~~~~~~
JANET X.25 network:
	call uk.ac.hensa.unix (or 000049200900 if you do not have NRS)

JIPS (via SUPERJANET): 
	telnet unix.hensa.ac.uk	(or 129.12.43.16)

Once connected, use the login name 'archive' and your email address to
enter. You will then be placed inside the fbr restricted shell. Use the
help command for up to date details of what commands are available.


Transferring files by FTP
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
DARPA ftp from JIPS/the internet:
	site: unix.hensa.ac.uk	(or 129.12.43.16 on SUPERJANET)
        login: anonymous
        password: <your email address>

Use the 'get' command to transfer a file from the remote machine to
the local one.  When transferring a binary file it is important to
give the command 'binary' before initiating the transfer.  For more
details of the 'ftp' command, see the manual page by typing 'man
ftp'.


The NI-FTP (Blue Book) request over JANET
        <ARCHIVE>path-of-file  from uk.ac.hensa.unix
        Username: guest
        Password: <your email address>

The program to do an NI-FTP transfer varies from site to site but is
usually called hhcp or fcp.  Ask your local experts for information.


Transferring files by Email
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
To obtain a specific file email a message to
      archive@unix.hensa.ac.uk
containing the single line
      send path-of-file
or 'help' for more information.


Browsing and transferring by gopher
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Starting at the Root Minnesota Gopher gopher, select the following entries:

	8.  Other Gopher and Information Servers/

	5.  Europe/

	37. United Kingdom/

	15. HENSA unix (National software archive, University of Kent), (UK)/

	6.  Parallel Archive/

and browse the archive as normal.  [The numbers are very likely to
change] The short descriptions are abbreviated to fit on an 80 column
display but the long ones can always be found under 'General
Information.' (the Index files).  Updates to the gopher tree follow a
little behind the regular updates.  We are also working on the
software that generates so please bear with us if some of the areas
are incomplete.


WWW Access
~~~~~~~~~~

If you have Mosaic, Lynx or another World-Wide-Web client, you can
connect to the parallel archive's WWW server via the following URL:

	http://unix.hensa.ac.uk/parallel/index.html

OR if you want to add me to your WWW tree, please use the following
bit of HTML:

<A HREF="http://unix.hensa.ac.uk/parallel/index.html">Transputer, occam and parallel computing archive</A>.

This area is still under construction (like the rest of the web).


COMING SOON
~~~~~~~~~~~
Some articles from older occam User Group newsletters.
An enhanced WWW area.


DONATIONS
~~~~~~~~~
Donations are very welcome.  We do not allow uploading of files directly
but if you have something you want to donate, please contact me.

Dave Beckett

