Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer,comp.parallel.pvm,comp.parallel.mpi
From: D.J.Beckett@ukc.ac.uk (Dave Beckett)
Subject: Parallel Computing Archive at HENSA Unix: NEW FILES [Updated REPOST]
Summary: New files since 8th November 1994. See ADMIN article for other info.
Keywords: transputer, occam, parallel, archive, anonymous ftp, www, gopher
Organization: University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 95 14:54:36 GMT
Message-ID: <141@nutmeg.ukc.ac.uk>

This is the new files list for the Parallel Computing Archive at
HENSA Unix.  Please consult the accompanying article for
administrative information and the various ways to access the
files.

For experts:
     World Wide Web URL: http://www.hensa.ac.uk/parallel/
	       OR
     anonymous ftp to unix.hensa.ac.uk and look in /parallel
	       OR
     gopher to unix.hensa.ac.uk port 70 and go to "Parallel Archive"

Dave


MIRROR SITES
~~~~~~~~~~~~

There are two full mirror sites for the archive available for anonymous ftp:

FRANCE:	  ftp://ftp.ibp.fr/pub/parallel/
	  ftp://ftp.jussieu.fr/pub/parallel/

JAPAN:	  ftp://ftp.center.osaka-u.ac.jp/parallel/hensa/


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


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

* Many WWW page changes (for the better I hope):

  # http://www.hensa.ac.uk/parallel/
    Changed home page

  # http://www.hensa.ac.uk/parallel/events/
    Events page upgraded to show entries by date.
  
  # http://www.hensa.ac.uk/www/mail.html
    Email response form now available from all WWW index pages.

  # http://www.hensa.ac.uk/vendors/
    Upgraded vendors page to add links to Parsytec amongst others.


COMING SOON
-----------

* Storage of items by content rather than form.  I mean by this, that
things that are currently under 'software' or 'papers' will move to areas
related to the content of the program or document.

* Better keywords for files, using IAFA indices.

* Improved gopher interface, also using the IAFA indices.



NEW FILES since 8th December 1994 (newest first)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
24th January 1995

/parallel/documents/mpi/anl/sut-1.0.10.tar.Z
	Scalable Unix Tools V1.0.10: pps, pls, load, gload, prun, pkill,
	prm, pdistrib, pfind, fps, pfps etc. by Gropp and Lusk.  Includes
	paper. 

http://www.hensa.ac.uk/parallel/vendors/index.html#Intel
	Intel SSD informercial: "Intel Paragon reclaims the title of Worlds
	Fastest Computer from the Japanse with a blazing speed of 281
	GFLOPS". Ahem.


20th January 1995

/parallel/documents/pario/STARFISH/
	STARFISH Parallel file-system simulator by David Kotz of Dartmouth
	College, USA.  This was used in the kotz:diskdir and
	related papers, for simulations involving disk-directed I/O.  See
	http://www.hensa.ac.uk/parallel/documents/pario/papers/Kotz/ for
	the papers.

/parallel/documents/pario/STARFISH/README
	STARFISH Parallel file-system simulator by David Kotz of Dartmouth
	College, USA.  Requires Proteus from MIT to build and runs only on
	(MIPS) DECstations.  Includes copyright and copying rules.

/parallel/documents/pario/STARFISH/figs.tar.Z
	Paper figures (0.6M uncompressed)

/parallel/documents/pario/STARFISH/papers.bib
	Papers bibliography

/parallel/documents/pario/STARFISH/src.tar.Z
	Sources (3.6M uncompressed)


19th January 1995

/parallel/documents/mpi/anl/mpich-1.0.7.tar.Z
	MPI Chameleon implementation version 1.0.7 (18th January 1995).
	See http://www.hensa.ac.uk/parallel/documents/mpi/anl/README for
	release notes and other details.

/parallel/documents/mpi/anl/patch1.0.6-1.0.7
/parallel/documents/mpi/anl/patch1.0.6-1.0.7.Z
	Patch from MPI Chameleon 1.0.6 to 1.0.7


18th January 1995

/parallel/environments/pvm3/pgpvm/pgpvm.tar.gz
	New version of PGPVM: Performance Visualization support for PVM by
	Brad Topol of Georgia Institute of Technology (while at Emory
	University, Summer 1994) and Vaidy Sunderam of Emory
	University. PGPVM is an enhancement package for PVM 3.3 that
	produces trace files for use with standard ParaGraph.


17th January 1995

/parallel/documents/mpi/anl/mpich-1.0.7.tar.Z
	MPI Chameleon implementation version 1.0.7 (16th January 1995).


16th January 1995

/parallel/documents/pario/papers/Kotz/kotz:lu.ps.Z
	"Disk-directed I/O for an Out-of-core Computation" by David Kotz,
	Dept. of Computer Science, Dartmouth College.
	ABSTRACT
	  New file systems are critical to obtain good I/O performance on
	large multiprocessors. Several researchers have suggested the use
	of collective file-system operations, in which all processes in an
	application cooperate in each I/O request. Others have suggested
	that the traditional low-level interface read, write, seek) be
	augmented with various higher-level requests (e.g., read matrix),
	allowing the programmer to express a complex transfer in a single
	(perhaps collective) request. Collective, high-level requests
	permit techniques like two-phase I/O and disk-directed I/O to
	significantly improve performance over traditional file systems and
	interfaces. Neither of these techniques have been tested on
	anything other than simple benchmarks that read or write
	matrices. Many applications, however, intersperse computation and
	I/O to work with data sets that cannot fit in main memory. In this
	paper, we present the results of experiments with an


14th January 1995

/parallel/environments/mpi/unify/reports/OO/pooma_issues_paper.ps.Z
	"POOMA 94 : Issues and Views" by Aswini K. Chowdappa and
	Anthony Skjellum, Department of Computer Science & NSF
	Engineering Research Center for Computational Field Simulation,
	Mississippi State University, USA.
	ABSTRACT
	  This paper summarizes and organizes the views expressed and the
	issues discussed by a broad cross section of the participants
	at the workshop on Parallel Object-Oriented Methods and
	Applications (POOMA) held in Santa Fe, New Mexico between Dec
	5-7, 1994 [11]. About 6 years after the first C++ conference,
	object-oriented programming (OOP) and its relevance to
	large-scale applications was discussed at this workshop. The
	special focus was on the effectiveness of OOP methodology in
	terms of performance when coupled with the parallel programming
	paradigm.


13th January 1995

/parallel/software/simulators/pdats/
	PDATS format sources and ACS trace driven cache simulator from
	Tracebase at New Mexico State University (NMSU), USA.
	See also the Tracebase pages at http://tracebase.nmsu.edu/ and
	ftp://tracebase.nmsu.edu/

/parallel/software/simulators/pdats/README
	Warning

/parallel/software/simulators/pdats/acs
	ACS V1.0.1 simple trace driven cache simulator for PDATS traces

/parallel/software/simulators/pdats/acs/README
	Overview of ACS by Bryan Hunt <acme@nmsu.edu>, Parallel
	Architecture Research Laboratory Department of Electrical &
	Computer Engineering New Mexico State University.

/parallel/software/simulators/pdats/acs/acs.tar.Z
	ACS distribution

/parallel/software/simulators/pdats/docs
	PDATS documentation

/parallel/software/simulators/pdats/docs/pdats.ps.gz
	"PDATS - Lossless Address Trace Compression for Reducing File Size
	and Access Time" by Eric E. Johnson <ejohnson@nmsu.edu> and Jiheng
	Ha, Parallel Architecture Research Lab, New Mexico State
	University, USA.
	ABSTRACT:
	  The Tremendous storage space required for a useful data base of
	traces has driven a search for trace compaction techniques.  In
	this paper we present an information-lossless trace compression
	scheme that can reduce both storage space and access time by an
	order of magniture or more, compared to ASCII-format traces,
	without discarding either references to or inter-reference timeing
	from the original trace.
	  This techniqute has been selected as the standard trace format for
	an extensive new trace base that will be made accessible to the
	international research and teaching community.

/parallel/software/simulators/pdats/makefile
	Makefile for pdats (requires pdats.c das_pack.c das_pack.h)

/parallel/software/simulators/pdats/pdats.c
	Produces PDATS format compressed traces from any of the following:
	DAS, dinero, Schieber, GreenStamp, and straight binary with or
	without time stamps. by Eric E. Johnson and Jiheng Ha.

/parallel/software/simulators/pdats/das_pack.c
	das_pack.c

/parallel/software/simulators/pdats/das_pack.h
	das_pack.h

/parallel/software/simulators/pdats/pdt2din.c
	Converts PDATS trace to dinero

/parallel/software/simulators/pdats/pdtstats.c
	Histograms of PDATS trace


12th January 1995

/parallel/books/addison-wesley/designing-building-parallel-programs
	"Designing and Building Parallel Programs" (DBPP) book by Ian Foster
	published by Addison Wesley.  Available free in hypertext form at
	http://www.mcs.anl.gov/dbpp/


11th January 1995

/parallel/events/paderborn-spring-school
	Announcement of Paderborn Spring School on Efficient Use of
	Parallel Systems being held from 25th-28th April 1995 at Paderborn,
	Germany.  Goal: an overview of recent research in parallel and
	distributed algorithms for graduate students and postdocs.

/parallel/events/parco95.ascii
	Updated call for papers for the Fifth International Conference on
	Parallel Computing (ParCo'95) being held from 19th-22nd September
	1995 at International Conference Center, Gent, Belgium.  Topics:
	Applications and Algorithms; Systems Software and Hardware.
	Deadlines: Abstracts: 31st January 1995; Notification: 15th April
	1995; Posters: 30th June 1995.  See also
	htpp://www.elis.rug.ac.be/announce/parco95/cfp.html

/parallel/events/frontiers95-templates-workshop
	Call for participation for Templates: Building Blocks for Portable
	Parallel Applications workshop being held at FRONTIERS '95: Fifth
	Symposium on the Frontiers of Massively Parallel Computation being
	held from 6th-9th February 1995 at the McLean Hilton, McLean, VA,
	USA.  Organized by Jack Dongarra, Robert Ferraro and Geoffrey Fox.
	Includes registration form.  See also
	http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/hpsl/announcements/front95.html or
	ftp://ftp.cs.umd.edu/pub/hpsl/frontiers95/front95.html

/parallel/events/wtc95
	Updated call for papers for the World Transputer Congress 1995
	(WTC'95) -  papers deadline extended till 15th March 1995.


9th January 1995

/parallel/vendors/elcom/wserver/readme
	Overview of WServer 2.5 - demo version of MSWindows Iserver
	by ELCOM Ltd, Moscow, Russia.

/parallel/vendors/elcom/wserver/wserv25.zip
	WServer 2.5 binary

/parallel/software/simulators/parasol/parasol-2.3.tar.Z
	PARASOL V2.3 distribution - an ANSI C/C++ simulation library for
	distributed and/or parallel systems development on a sequential
	machine.


5th January 1995

/parallel/vendors/elcom/origami/announce.txt
	Details of beta test version of the origami folding editor for
	MS WINDOWS, from ELCOM Ltd, Moscow, Russia.  The beta version is
	free for people who are willing to test it and report on it.
	YOU MUST READ THIS FILE BEFORE USING THE EDITOR.

/parallel/vendors/elcom/origami/history.txt
	Details of changes between versions

/parallel/vendors/elcom/origami/origami.exe
	MS Windows executable of Origami folding editor V1.05 beta

/parallel/vendors/elcom/origami/ctl3dv2.dll
	Some kind of MS Windows DLL needed for origami.exe

/parallel/documents/mpi/anl/using/errata.dvi
/parallel/documents/mpi/anl/using/errata.ps.Z
	Using MPI errata


4th January 1995

/parallel/documents/pario/rapid.README
/parallel/documents/pario/rapid.tar.gz
	All the source code for the RAPID-Transit simulator used in
	kotz:thesis and related papers.

/parallel/environments/pvm3/distribution/pvm3.3.6.tar.Z.uu.Z
	PVM V3.3.6 (compressed uuencoded compressed tar file format)

/parallel/environments/pvm3/distribution/pvm3.3.6.shar.Z
	PVM V3.3.6 (compressed shar format)

/parallel/environments/pvm3/distribution/pvm335to6.Z
	Patch from PVM V3.3.5 to V3.3.6

/parallel/environments/lam/distribution/mpi-top10
	"Top 10 Reasons to Prefer MPI Over PVM"

/parallel/documents/hippi/minutes/
	Minutes of HIPPI meetings

/parallel/documents/hippi/minutes/dec94_hippi_min.ps.gz
/parallel/documents/hippi/minutes/dec94_hippi_min.txt
	Minutes for December 1994 HIPPI meeting

/parallel/documents/hippi/minutes/oct94_hippi_min.ps.gz
/parallel/documents/hippi/minutes/oct94_hippi_min.txt
	Minutes for October 1994 HIPPI meeting

/parallel/documents/hippi/minutes/aug94_hippi_min.ps.gz
/parallel/documents/hippi/minutes/aug94_hippi_min.txt
	Minutes for August 1994 HIPPI meeting

/parallel/software/linux/device-driver/transputer-07.tar.gz
	Device-driver for transputers in a linux-box version 0.7. Works via an 
	INMOS B004-compatible link-interface (most link-interfaces should
	support this mode because it works via simple io-instructions)

/parallel/languages/fortran/adaptor/hpf_examples.tar.Z
	High Performance Fortran examples for ADAPTOR.


12th December 1994

/parallel/events/iccc95
	Call for papers for International Council for Computer
	Communication conference 1995 (ICCC '95) being held from 21st-24th
	August 1995 at Seoul, Korea.  Sponsored by The International
	Council for Computer Communication.  Topics: (including):
	Strategies, Policies, and User Perspectives of Information
	Superhighways; Social and Economical Impacts of Information
	Superhighways; Computer Communication for Developing Countries;
	Network Planning; Security and Privacy in Computer Communications;
	Evolution towards the High-Speed Networks including Frame Relay and
	SMDS; Packet Radio Technologies; Satellite Communications; Wireless
	Communications; Intelligent Networks; Personal Communications
	Systems; Broadband Communication; ATM Switching; International
	Emergencies; Distance Learning; Optical Communications; Multimedia
	Communication and its Applications; High-Speed Protocols; Network
	Management and Protocol Engineering.  Deadlines: Papers: 1st
	February 1995; Notification: 1st May 1995; Camera-ready papers:
	15th June 1995.

/parallel/events/hpdc4
	Call for papers for Fourth International Symposium on High
	Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC-4) being held from 1st-4th
	August 1995 at The Ritz Carlton Pentagon City, Virginia, USA.
	Sponsored by : IEEE Computer Society and Northeast Parallel
	Architectures Center at Syracuse University in cooperation with ACM
	SIGCOMM and Rome Laboratory.  Topics: (including): Software
	environments and language support for high performance distributed
	computing; Parallel and distributed algorithms to solve
	computationally intensive problems across a LAN, MAN, or WAN; High
	performance I/O and file systems; Fault tolerance; Architectural
	support for high-speed communications or interconnection networks;
	Efficient communication interfaces for distributed computing;
	Gigabit network architectures; Networking for multimedia data and
	HPDC applications and case studies.  Deadlines: Papers / Tutorials:
	3rd February 1995; Notification: 25th April 1995; Camera-ready
	papers: 26th May 1995.  See also
	http://uvacs.cs.virginia.edu/~hpdc95/

/parallel/events/wtc95
	Call for papers and tutorial proposals for the World Transputer
	Congress 1995 (WTC'95) being held from 4th-6th September 1995 at
	Harrogate International Conference Centre, Harrogate, North
	Yorkshire, UK.  Topics: applications (especially industrial),
	education and training issues, formal methods and security,
	performance and scalability, porting existing systems,
	parallelisation paradigms, tools, programming languages, support
	environments and standards.  Deadlines: Papers: 1st March 1995;
	Notification: 24th May 1995; Camera-ready copy: 23rd June 1995;
	Tutorials and workshops: 1st March 1995.

/parallel/events/pas95-program.tex
	LateX programme of the Aizu International Symposium on Parallel
	Algorithm/Architecture Synthesis (pAs'95) being held from 15th-17th
	March 1995 at Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan.

/parallel/events/ipps95-hinet
	Updated call for papers for the one day Workshop On High-Speed
	Network Computing (HiNet '95) at the 9th International Parallel
	Processing Symposium (IPPS '95) being held from 25th-28th April
	1995 at Fess Parker's Red Lion Resort, Santa Barbara, California,
	USA sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on
	Parallel Processing in cooperation with: ACM SIGARCH; Department of
	Computer Science, University of California, Santa Barbara and
	Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Maryland,
	College Park.  Deadlines: Papers: 16th December 1994; Notification:
	10th January 1995; Camera-ready papers: 15th February 1995.

/parallel/events/hpca95
	Programme details for the First International Symposium On High
	Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA) being held from 22nd-25th
	January 1995 held at the Sheraton Inn, Raleigh, North Carolina,
	USA.  Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society.  Includes
	registration form.

/parallel/events/frontiers95
	Programme details for FRONTIERS '95: Fifth Symposium on the
	Frontiers of Massively Parallel Computation being held from
	6th-9th February 1995 at the McLean Hilton, McLean, VA, USA.
	Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Technical
	Committee on Computer Architectures and the NASA Goddard Space
	Flight Center.  Includes registration form.  See also
	ftp://ftp.cs.umd.edu/pub/hpsl/frontiers95/front95.html

/parallel/events/hpcs95
	Updated call for papers for High Performance Computing Symposium'95
	(HPCS'95) being held from 10th-12th July 1995 at Montreal, Canada.

/parallel/events/europar95
	Call for papers for EURO-PAR 95 - International Conference on
	Parallel Processing Merging PARLE and CONPAR-VAPP being held from
	29th-31st August 1995 at Stockholm, Sweden in association with
	Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS) and Department of
	Teleinformatics, KTH.  Topics: Parallel Machines & Systems;
	Parallel Operating Systems; Design of Parallel Architectures;
	Design of Parallel Programs; Parallel Programming Languages;
	Applications of Parallel Systems and others.  Deadlines: Papers:
	18th January 1995; Emailed papers: 1st February 1995; Posters: 15th
	February 1995; Acceptance: 7th April 1995; Camera-ready papers: 7th
	May 1995.  See also http://www.sics.se/europar95

/parallel/events/super95
	Details of SUPER! 95 - 8th annual conference for users of IBM-based
	high performance computing systems being held from 23rd-26th April
	1995 at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona, USA.  See
	also http://aruba.ccit.arizona.edu/super95.html

/parallel/events/icpads94
	Program hilights of the 1994 International Conference on Parallel
	and Distributed Systems (ICPADS '94) being held from 19th-21st
	December 1994 at National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan,
	R.O.C. Includes registration form.

/parallel/software/simulators/mint/mint-2.6.tar.Z
	MINT v2.6 simulator sources

/parallel/documents/mpi/anl/sut-1.0.7.tar.Z
	Scalable Unix Tools V1.0.7: pps, pls, load, gload, prun, pkill,
	prm, pdistrib etc. by Gropp and Lusk.  Includes paper.

/parallel/documents/mpi/anl/using/examples/libraries/README.html
/parallel/documents/mpi/anl/using/examples/libraries/README
	More code for the book "Using MPI" for the "Parallel Libraries"
	Chapter:

/parallel/documents/mpi/anl/using/examples/libraries/linpack.f/
	Fortran of LINPACK benchmark in MPI

