Newsgroups: comp.parallel
From: dhpc@chook.cs.adelaide.edu.au (Distributed High Performance Computing roup account)
Subject: Scholarships available - Adelaide, Australia.
Organization: Computer Science, University of Adelaide, Australia
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 1995 02:47:11 GMT
Message-ID: <490nbf$v7f@quandong.itd.adelaide.edu.au>

RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIPS are available

in the

Distributed High Performance Computing Project (DHPC)

of the

COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL SYSTEMS (ACSys)

and the 

RESEARCH DATA NETWORK COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE (RDN CRC)

based at

The University of Adelaide, and
The Australian National University (Canberra).


The DHPC project aims to investigate the use of broadband networks such
as Telstra's recently-commissioned Experimental Broadband Network (EBN)
to connect high performance computing platforms around Australia. We
will evaluate the network, processor and data storage issues that
define the effectiveness of such a configuration, and design and build
innovative distributed systems. The EBN is an ATM network linking major
cities with 34Mbs and 155Mbs links; this project is the first of its
kind in Australia, and involves many challenging research problems in
distributed computation.

The DHPC project is an RDN CRC project administered by ACSys and is
co-located at the University of Adelaide laboratories of the South
Australian Parallel Computing Centre, and at the Centre for Information
Science Research at the Australian National University in Canberra.

The project is establishing, at each site, a dedicated laboratory
incorporating high-performance DEC Alpha workstations clusters on an
ATM network and a RAID storage subsystem. A Thinking Machines CM-5
multicomputer is also connected to the ATM network at each site for
DHPC research. The ANU StorageTek massive data storage tape robot will
also be used for DHPC research. Each site will soon be connected to the
EBN. Access to additional supercomputing facilities is also available.

ACSys has been established under the Commonwealth Government's CRC
Program with the mission of establishing an internationally competitive
research capability in the area of high performance advanced
computational systems.  The Centre's institutional participants are The
Australian National University and the CSIRO Division of Information
Technology and its core commercial participants are Digital Equipment
Corporation Australia, Fujitsu Australia and Sun Microsystems
Australia.

The RDN CRC has also been established under the Commonwealth
Government's CRC Program with the mission to undertake research,
development and education in communications network technologies and
applications, and to support network infrastructure development.


If you are

    . A first-rate honours  graduate (or about to  be) in computer
    science, information technology or a related field;

    . Eager to pursue postgraduate research with state-of-the-art
    computing technology;

    . Keen to develop a research career with commercial as well as
    academic relevance; and

    . An Australian or New Zealand citizen, or permanent
    resident of Australia

then you should apply for one of these scholarships!

The scholarships available are:

    . Two research scholarships at $19961 p.a. at the University of
    Adelaide

    . supplementary scholarships of up to $5000 at the ANU and the
    University of Adelaide.

The latter can be used to supplement an Australian Postgraduate Award
(APA) or other forms of support.

ENQUIRIES:

Dr Andrew Wendelborn  (DHPC Project Leader), tel +61 8 303 4726, 
fax +61 8 303 4366, email: andrew@cs.adelaide.edu.au

Dr Mark Grundy (ACSys Education Program Coordinator), tel +61 6 249 0159,
fax +61 6 249 0747, email: markg@cisr.anu.edu.au

If you are interested, for further information please contact
(preferably by email) as soon as possible either Dr Wendelborn for
scholarships at Adelaide, or Dr Grundy for supplementary scholarships
at ANU and concerning more general questions about the ACSys Education
Program.

Further information is available via the Web at
http://www.cs.adelaide.edu.au/~dhpc/DHPC.html, and by anonymous ftp
from cisr.anu.edu.au in /pub/DHPC/



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