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
Summary: New files since 24th January 1995. See ADMIN article for other info.
Keywords: transputer, occam, parallel, archive, anonymous ftp, www, gopher
Organization: University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 95 11:56:18 GMT
Message-ID: <147@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:	  <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.


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

* All text (Index) and html (index.html) files now generated from IAFA
  index files.

* More vendors added to vendors page
  <URL:http://www.hensa.ac.uk/parallel/vendors/>
  including NEC, CSA, Parsytec, sundance.  This will probably be split
  soon since it is getting rather large.


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 24th January 1995
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

14th February 1995

/parallel/consultants/trivision
	Technical consultants and system integrators specialising in MPP
	systems based in Switzerland and southern Germany.
	Author: Daniel D. Senften <senften@itag.ch>.

/parallel/languages/parallel-prolog/
	References to parallel prolog

/parallel/events/hipc
	"International Conference on High Performance Computing"
	Call for papers and participation in HiPC being held from 27th-30th
	December 1995 at Goa, India. Topics: Parallel Algorithms; Parallel
	Architectures; Parallel Languages & Compilers; Distributed Systems;
	Programming Environments; Scientific Computation; Visualization;
	Network Based Computing; Signal & Image Processing Systems and
	Supercomputing Applications and others. Deadlines: Papers: 1st April
	1995; Notification: 1st June 1995; Camera-ready papers: 1st August
	1995. See also: <URL:http://www.usc.edu/dept/ceng/prasanna/home.html>
	and <URL:http://enuxsa.eas.asu.edu/~sridhar/places/india.html> for
	information on other places of interest in India.
	Author: Ajay Gupta <gupta@cs.wmich.edu>.

/parallel/events/scs-ieee-acm-simulation-symposium
	"28th Annual Simulation Symposium"
	Advanced programme and pre-registration for 28th Annual Simulation
	Symposium being held from 9th-13th April 1995 at the Crescent Hotel,
	Phoenix, Arizona, USA. In cooperation with SCS, IEEE and ACM.
	Author: Alois Ferscha <ferscha@ani.univie.ac.at>.

/parallel/events/part95
	"Second Australasian Conference on Parallel and Real-Time Systems"
	Call for papers for PART'94 being held from 28th-29th September 1995
	at The Esplanade Hotel, Fremantle, Western Australia. Topics: Parallel
	architectures and algorithms; Parallel programming; Performance
	analysis and modelling; Parallel applications; Parallel databases;
	Distributed operating systems; Fault-tolerant computing; Parallel I/O
	Systems; VLSI systems; Network-based concurrent computing; Real-time
	languages and tools; Real-time aspects of distributed systems;
	Real-time scheduling; AI and neural networks in real-time control;
	Message Passing Systems and others. Deadlines: Special Sessions: 1st
	March 1995; Extended-abstract: 15th April 1995; Notification: 15th
	June 1995; Camera-ready copies: 1st August 1995.
	Author: Audrey M. Tam <amt@matilda.vut.edu.au>.

/parallel/jobs/ucsb-usa-eng-cs-researcher
	Junior tenure-track Faculty postition at University of California at
	Santa Barbara, USA. Suitable for candidates with CS or related
	Postdoc.
	Author: Eric Baizer <baizer@cs.ucsb.edu>.

/parallel/internet/services/ppg
	Monthly electronic-mail newsletters available for free from the
	Parallel Performance Group (PPG) on Multiprocessing, Parallel
	Processing and Distributed Processing; Solid Modelling/CADD, Mech.
	Design and Animation; Obj.-Oriented CASE Tools; Image Proc'g/Medicl
	Imgng; Fuzzy Logic/Fuzzy Control; Neural Networks; Project Management;
	Digital Signal Processing; Volume Visualization and Simulation.
	Author: Parallel Performance Group <strand@nic.cerf.net>.

/parallel/events/icalp96
	"23rd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and
	Programming"
	Call for papers for ICALP'96 being held from 8th-12th July 1996 at
	Paderborn, Germany. Topics: computability; automata; formal languages;
	term rewriting; analysis of algorithms; computational geometry;
	computational complexity; symbolic and algebraic computation;
	cryptography; data types and data structures; theory of data base and
	knowledge bases; semantics of programming languages; program
	specification; transformation and verification; foundations of logic
	programming; theory of logical design and layout; parallel and
	distributed computation; theory of concurrency; theory of robotics and
	others. Deadlines: Papers: 15th November 1995; Notification: 16th
	February 1996; Final paper: 1st April 1996. See also
	<URL:http://www.uni-paderborn.de/~icalp96/>
	Author: ICALP96 (Rolf Wanka) <icalp96@uni-paderborn.de>.


8th February 1995

/parallel/transputer/software/NeXTstep/
	Transputer driver, iserver and pserver for NeXTSTEP/Intel by
	Nicolas Droux <droux@info.isbiel.ch> of Engineering School of
	Biel-Bienne, Computer Science Dpt, Switzerland. Supports B004
	systems. Tested with D7205 and PACT-C v93.1. Latest version
	available from <URL:http://www.info.isbiel.ch/droux/nxtrans/>.

/parallel/transputer/software/NeXTstep/NXTrans.tar.gz
/parallel/transputer/software/NeXTstep/NXTrans.README
	NeXTSTEP/Intel transputer driver Version 2.2.  Allows B004
	compatible Transputer systems to be used from NeXTSTEP running on
	Intel based computers. It has been tested with the INMOS D7205
	occam toolkit and the PACT Parallel C v93.1 compiler.  Contains
	versions of driver, iserver and pserver.  Author: Nicolas Droux
	<droux@info.isbiel.ch>

/parallel/transputer/software/NeXTstep/ispy_next.tar.gz
	ispy and mtest programs for NeXTSTEP/Intel.  Developed by Andy
	Rabagliati <andyr@wizzy.com> and ported to NeXTSTEP by Nicolas
	Droux.  ispy scouts out a transputer network of the T4/T8/T2/C004
	family, and reports back processor type, boot link and speed, and
	connectivity. mtest uses this information to run memory tests, and
	memory speed tests, on all processors.  Tested under NeXTSTEP 3.2
	and 3.3.  Contains isp, mtest, user manual and ispy protocol
	description.  Author: Nicolas Droux <droux@info.isbiel.ch>


6th February 1995

/parallel/journals/Wiley/trcom/volume2/trcom2-3.bib
	Bibliography of papers from Transputer Communications 2(3)
	September 1994

/parallel/events/icdcs95
	15TH International Conference on Distributed Computer Systems
	(ICDCS 95).  Announcement of ICDCS-15 being held from 30th May-2nd
	June 1995 at Vancouver, B.C., Canada.  Topics: Distributed Systems
	Architecture; Distributed Operating Systems; Distributed Databases
	and Information Systems; Communication Protocols; Distributed
	Real-Time Systems; Distributed Algorithms and System Theory;
	Languages, Tools and Software Engineering; Distributed System
	Services and Management; Fault Tolerance, Availability and
	Security; Performance of Distributed Systems and New Distributed
	Applications.  See also <URL:http://www-csc.uvic.ca/ICDCS-15.html>,
	<URL:gopher://www-csc.uvic.ca/> and
	<URL:ftp://www-csc.uvic.ca/pub/Conferences/>.

/parallel/events/mppoi95
	The Second International Conference on Massively Parallel
	Processing Using Optical Interconnections (MPPOI'95).  Call for
	papers for MPPOI'95 being held from 23rd-24th October 1995 at San
	Antonio, Texas, USA.  Sponsored by: ACM SIGARCH, OSA, IEEE
	(pending) and NSF (pending).  Deadlines: papers: 1st April 1995;
	Notification: 1st July 1995; Camera-ready papers: 1st August
	1995. Topics: Optical interconnections; Reconfigurable
	Architectures; Embedding and mapping of applications and
	algorithms; Packaging and layout of optical interconnections;
	Electro-optical, and opto-electronic components; Relative merits of
	optical technologies (free-space, fibers, wave guides); Passive
	optical elements; Algorithms and applications exploiting MPP-OI;
	Data distribution and partitioning; Characterizing parallel
	applications exploiting MPP-OI and Cost/performance studies.

/parallel/events/hpcasia1995
	Call for papers and participation for HPC'ASIA 1995 being held from
	18th-22nd September 1995 at Taipei, Taiwan R.O.C.  Deadlines:
	Papers and Roundtables: 1st April 1995; Acceptance: 15th June 1995;
	Camera-Ready papers: 8th July 1995; .  Topics: Environmental
	Modeling; Chemistry and Materials; Computational Fluid Dynamics;
	Computational Solid Mechanics; Numerical Algorithm; Performance and
	Benchmark; Novel Architecture (Processors; Interconnection; and
	Storage); High-Performance Parallel Language and Software;
	Distributed and Network Computing; Financial Modeling; Parallel
	Programming and Scientific Visualization.  See also
	<URL:gopher://gopher.nchc.gov.tw> and
	<URL:ftp://cacus.nchc.gov.tw/HPC-95/format> for author
	instructions.

/parallel/events/iasc-courses
	IASC 1995 short courses on Advanced Scientific Computation.  Five
	short courses and some distant learning courses in the advanced
	scientific computing arena.  Topics: Optimisation Techniques for
	Science and Engineering; Neural Networks; Statistical Techniques
	for Scientific Computation; An Introduction to the Design and
	Programming of Parallel Computers.  See also
	<URL:http://supr.scm.liv.ac.uk/>

/parallel/events/act-uetp-porting-packages-to-dmm
	IASC Seminar: Porting Commercial Packages onto Distributed Memory
	Machines. being held on Wednesday 22nd February 1995 at Mason Bibby
	Room, Faculty of Engineering, Harrison Hughes Building, Liverpool,
	UK.  A joint Liverpool Parallel Computering Club ACT-UETP event.
	See also <URL:http://supr.scm.liv.ac.uk/>.

3rd February 1995

/parallel/environments/pvm3/emory-vss/ijsa.ps.Z
	Description of recent and upcoming PVM developments. Invited
	paper to appear in Intl. Journal of Supercomputer Apps.

30th January 1995

/parallel/documents/pario/papers/Kotz/ap:workload.ps.gz
	"Characterizing Parallel File-Access Patterns on a Large-Scale
	Multiprocessor" by Apratim Purakayastha, Carla Schlatter Ellis,
	David Kotz, Nils Nieuwejaar and Michael Best.
	ABSTRACT:
	  Rapid increases in the computational speeds of multiprocessors have
	not been matched by corresponding performance enhancements in the
	I/O subsystem. To satisfy the large and growing I/O requirements of
	some parallel scientific applications, we need parallel file
	systems that can provide high-bandwidth and high-volume data
	transfer between the I/O subsystem and thousands of
	processors. Design of such high-performance parallel file systems
	depends on a thorough grasp of the expected workload. So far there
	have been no comprehensive usage studies of multiprocessor file
	systems. Our CHARISMA project intends to fill this void. The first
	results from our study involve an iPSC/860 at NASA Ames. This paper
	presents results from a different platform, the CM-5 at the
	National Center for Supercomputing Applications. The CHARISMA
	studies are unique because we collect information about every
	individual read and write request and about the entire mix of
	applications running on the machines. The results of our trace
	analysis lead to recommendations for parallel file system
	design. First, the file system should support efficient concurrent
	access to many files, and I/O requests from many jobs under varying
	load condit ions. Second, it must efficiently manage large files
	kept open for long periods. Third, it should expect to see small
	requests, predominantly sequential access patterns,
	application-wide synchronous access, no concurrent file-sharing
	between jobs, appreciable byte and block sharing between processes
	within jobs, and strong interprocess locality. Finally, the trace
	data suggest that node-level write caches and collective I/O
	request interfaces may be useful in certain environments.

/parallel/environments/chimp/release/chimp.tar.Z
	CHIMP distribution (27th Jan).


27th January 1995

/parallel/consultants/4links
	Paul Walker <paul@walker.demon.co.uk> Milton Keynes, UK
	trading as "4links for technical help".

/parallel/consultants/wzi
	Andy Rabagliati <andyr@wizzy.com>, Colorado, USA, W.Z.I Consulting:
	Parallel Processing and Transputer Consulting.
	See home page http://www.rmii.com/~andyr/


26th January 1995

/parallel/documents/pario/papers/Kotz/reed:panel.ps.Z
	"Parallel I/O: Getting Ready for Prime Time" by Daniel A. Reed,
	Charles Catlett, Alok Choudhary, David Kotz and Marc Snir.  An
	edited transcript of panel discussion at the 1994 International
	Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP94).

/parallel/transputer/software/drivers/linux/transputer-08.tar.gz
	Device-driver for transputers in a linux-box version 0.8. Works via an 
	INMOS B004-compatible link-interface (most link-interfaces should
	support this mode because it works via simple io-instructions)
	Requires linux 1.1.82 or above.  Author is Christoph Niemann
	<niemann@swt.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> and <Christoph.Niemann@linux.org> 

/parallel/environments/pvm3/xab3/CMU-CS-94-223.ps.Z
	"High-Level Fault Tolerance in Distributed Programs" by Erik
	Seligman and Adam Beguelin, School of Computer Science, Carnegie
	Mellon University, USA.  Technical report CMU-CS-94-223, December
	1994.
	ABSTRACT:
	  We have been developing high-level checkpoint and restart methods
	for Dome (DIstributed Object Migration Environment), a C++ library
	of data-parallel objects that are automatically distributed using
	PVM.  There are levels of programming abstraction at which fault
	tolerance mechanisms can be designed; high-level, where the
	checkpont and restart are built into our C++ objects, but the
	program structure is severly constrained; high-level with
	preprocessing, where a preprocessor inserts extra C++ statements
	into the code to facilitate checkpoint and restart; and low-level
	where periodically an interrupt causes a memory image to be written
	out.  Because we consider portability (both of our libraries and
	the checkpoints they produce) to be an important goal, we focus on
	the higher-level checkpointing methods.  In addition, we described
	an implementation of high-level checkpointing, demonstrate it on
	multiple architecutres, and show that it is efficient enough to
	provide good expected run times with low overhead, even in the case
	of frequent faiulres.


25th January 1995

/parallel/jobs/madison-usa-researcher
	A researcher for the Paradyn Parallel Tools Project at the
	University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA.  Deadline: 1st March 1995.
	Start: 1st July 1995 - 1st Septembet 1995.

/parallel/jobs/carleton-ca-cs-soft-devel-apps-gis
	One software development position at the School of Computer
	Science, Carleton University Ottawa, Canada.  A strong background
	in parallel programming is required. Application-oriented work in
	GIS or related fields are assets.  See also
	http://www.scs.carleton.ca/

/parallel/events/ppecc-embedded-parallel-processing
	Details of the Parallel Processing in Engineering Community Club
	(PPECCC) one-day seminar on "Embedded Parallel Processing" being
	held on 23rd February 1995 at 22 Lecture Theatre, RAL, UK.  The
	Chariman is Prof George W Irwin, Queen's University Belfast, UK.
	Deadlines: Registration: 9th February 1995

/parallel/events/hpff95
	Announcement of High Performance Fortran Forum (HPFF) 1995 Meeting
	being held from 30th-31st January 1995 at Doubletree Hotel Houston
	at Intercontinental Airport Houston, Texas, USA

/parallel/events/ppai-95
	Call for papers for the Third International Workshop on Parallel
	Processing for Artificial Intelligence (PPAI-95) being held on two
	days between 19th-21st August 1995 at Montreal, Canada.  This
	workshop is being held before IJCAI-95.  Topics: Parallel
	Algorithms for AI; Parallel Inference Systems; Massive Parallelism
	for AI; HW and SW for Parallel AI; Progress reports.  Deadlines:
	Abstract or Paper: 1st March 1995;  Notification: 1st April 1995;
	Camera-ready paper: 20th April 1995.  Note: Must register with
	IJCAI-95 to attend.

/parallel/events/iasted-ismm-par-dist-sys-7
	Call for papers for the 7th IASTED - ISMM International Conference
	on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems being held from
	18th-21st October 1995 at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.,
	USA.  Topics: Architecture; Algorithms; Software; Resource
	allocation; Load partitioning and balancing; Scheduling; Modelling;
	Evaluation; Optimization; Numerical methods; Scientific computing;
	Parallelizing compilers; Programming languages; Massively parallel
	systems; Heterogeneous computing; Data flow computing; Operating
	systems; Real time systems; Interconnection networks; Processor and
	memory architectures; I/O in parallel and distributed systems;
	Fault tolerance; Distributed database; Network communication; High
	performance computing; Neural networks; VLSI; Application of
	parallel & distributed computing in: Signal processing, Image
	processing, Multimedia, Control, Simulation, Robotics Environmental
	systems and Education and Other topics.
	Deadlines: Full Papers: 15th April 1995; Notification: 15th June
	1995; Camera-ready papers: 1st August 1995; Workshops: 30th April
	1995; Tutorials: 31st May 1995; Exhibits: 31st May 1995.

/parallel/environments/chimp/release/chimp-sgi5.tar.Z
	CHIMP binary distribution for Silicon Graphics (SGI) 5

