Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer,comp.parallel.pvm,comp.parallel.mpi
From: Dave Beckett <D.J.Beckett@ukc.ac.uk>
Subject: Internet Parallel Computing Archive (IPCA)
Keywords: transputer, occam, parallel computing, HPC
Organization: University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.
Date: 15 Nov 1996 13:59:03 +0000
Message-ID: <u64ralv4fyw.fsf@mint.ukc.ac.uk>


		 INTERNET PARALLEL COMPUTING ARCHIVE

		    Over 1.7 million files served

	    Funded by JISC ISSC and hosted on HENSA Unix

		<URL:http://www.hensa.ac.uk/parallel/>
	      <URL:ftp://unix.hensa.ac.uk/pub/parallel/>

The IPCA contains over 650M of freely distributable software and
documents about High Performance and Parallel Computing with special
interest in the Transputer processor concept and the occam language.

Contents:

* Over 80 different parallel and HPC packages are mirrored from around
  the world nightly and kept up-to-date including:

    adaptor; Adsmith; APRIL; C4; Chaos; Charm; CHIMP; CL-PVM;
    CoCheck; Code; CRL Enterprise; F2C; FE; Wilson's parallel
    simulator; gcc for T8s; glenda; GA Toolkit; GMD tools; HPF
    standard; HIPPI; IMPALA; Modula 2*; "Using MPI" book; LAM (MPI);
    MASPAR from netlib; METIS; MINT; MPI; MPIMAP; NXLib; Omega; P4;
    PABLO; PAINT; Paragraph; pade; Parallel I/O; PARASOL; PARMACS;
    PAROS; PCN; PDATS; PeIGS; PFSLib; PGAPACK; PGPVM; PICL; PIOUS;
    PMT; PRAM; PRESTO; Proteus; PVaniM; PVM+ATM; PVM-Povray; PVM3
    from netlib; SCOTCH; SISAL; SPLASH 2; SPOC; SR; Tape/Pvm; tkPVM;
    TOOPS; Transputer drivers for linux, FreeBSD & NeXTStep;
    Transputer Minix; Fork95; uC++; UNIFY; PVM papers; VCR; WAMM;
    WinMPI; WMnxlib; XAB3

* Links to other on-line WWW and ftp sites, vendors, organisations and groups.

* Full search service.

* Archives of the Internet USENET groups related to parallel computing:
     comp.parallel comp.parallel.pvm comp.parallel.mpi
     comp.os.parix comp.sys.transputer
  including the comp.parallel FAQ at
  <URL:http://www.hensa.ac.uk/parallel/internet/usenet/>

* Archive of FAQs from newsgroups
  <URL:http://www.hensa.ac.uk/parallel/faqs/>

* Glossary of HPC terms
  <URL:http://www.hensa.ac.uk/parallel/acronyms/hpccgloss/>

* occam and Transputer documentation, compilers, software and more at
  <URL:http://www.hensa.ac.uk/parallel/occam/> and
  <URL:http://www.hensa.ac.uk/parallel/transputer/>

* On-line books:
  "Designing and Building Parallel Programs" by Ian Foster
  <URL:http://www.hensa.ac.uk/parallel/books/addison-wesley/dbpp/>

  "Networks Routers and Transputers" edited by M.D. May, P.W. Thompson
  and P.H. Welch
  <URL:http://www.hensa.ac.uk/parallel/books/ios/nrat/>

* Mirror Sites in
    AUSTRALIA: <URL:ftp://pcrf.anu.edu.au/HENSA/>
    FRANCE:    <URL:ftp://ftp.ibp.fr/pub/parallel/>
               <URL:ftp://ftp.jussieu.fr/pub/parallel/>
    GERMANY:   <URL:ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/parallel/ipca/>
    JAPAN:     <URL:ftp://ftp.center.osaka-u.ac.jp/parallel/hensa/>

    USA        Under development

    Others     WANTED!  Email me for permission & help.

* Lots more, visit to get the full list.

and you can always ask me a question if you want more help.

Donations are welcome, email me details or use the on-line FORM.

Dave

