Newsgroups: comp.parallel
From: eugene@nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya)
Subject: FAQ for biblios
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1993 13:49:43 GMT

Who What Where When Why How
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Who
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Eugene Miya
has committed to
maintaining a comprehensive biblio on parallelism for ten years (Ref.).

What
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The foundations of the biblio began with several published bibliographies
on parallelism dating back to 1980.  This bibliography corrects errors
found in those.  The bibliography is free, but because it was based on
previously published material, the terms of a copyright with Prentice-Hall
asks that we record all sites using it.  A hardcopy letterhead of request
is all it takes to get access.

The format of the bibliography is straight ASCII and Unix refer for use with
document processing systems. Converters for bibtex and Scribe (and script)
exist.  Some of the text contains significant annotation.

Sources: various published source, unsolicited letters or email, net sources
(comp.parallel, comp.os.research, comp.research.japan, comp.doc.techreports,
and others).  Can't cover everything.  It is important that you the reader
also contribute.  The mass of information, a lack of continued funding,
and other problems are needed to help keep the community informed.
It is used by many people: schools, companies, government agencies,
institutions.

Where
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We need a letterhead to be able to tell you where.  Sorry.
Blame Prentice-Hall.  Miya was only trying to stand on the shoulders
of giants (if not the toes of his colleagues).

Why
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Paper has real problems.  If you go back to the 1980s biblios, the referees
couldn't do a good job.  Software is far more flexible.  Copyright is
another problem.
What makes the biblio special are annotations, comments, keywords by the
readership and others (many anonymous:  "This stinks," others initialed
(XYZ), or "signed."  Many institutions already have it.  You only need
locate the point of contact.  The current size is 6 MBs.

It is also helpful if you as a student of parallel processing NOT simply
post rehashes of his references (he can tell, believe me).  It just
increases the catch up work.  Instead, separate Miya references from
non-Miya references, so that he can add incorporate them (and reformat
if necessary) long with other references.  Thinking of this like a
recording secretary except the combined knowledge of the parallelism
experts on the net.

Upside:
It tries to be comprehensive.
It provides better coverage and collected commentary (in some cases)
than bibliographic services.  It tries to cut an honest deck.

Downside:
It is large.
It is not as always as up to date as the maintainer would like, but he
and the community tries.  You can help, too.

Reference (this also shows what refer looks like [See Mike Lesk's paper
on inverted indices in the Unix manual):

%A E. N. Miya
%T Multiprocessor/Distributed Processing Bibliography
%J Computer Architecture News
%I ACM SIGARCH
%V 13
%N 1
%D March 1985
%P 27-29
%K Annotated bibliography, computer system architecture, multicomputers,
multiprocessor software, networks, operating systems, parallel processing,
parallel algorithms, programming languages, supercomputers,
vector processing, cellular automata, fault-tolerant computers,
some digital optical computing, some neural networks, simulated annealing,
concurrent, communications, interconnection,
%X Notice of this work.  Itself.  Quality: no comment.
Also short note published in NASA Tech Briefs vol. 12, no. 2, Feb. 1988,
pp. 62. Also referenced in Hennessy & Patterson pages 589-590.
About an earlier unmaintained version.  TM-86000 and ARC-11568.
Maintaining for ten years with constant updates (trying to be complete
but not succeeding).  Limited verification against bibliographic systems
(this is better than DIALOG).  Storing comments from colleagues
(DIALOG can't do this.)  Rehash sections on a Sequent as a test of parallel
search (this work exhibits unitary speed-up).  8^).
The attempt is to collect respected comments as well as references.
Yearly net posting results hopefully updated "grequired" and "grecommended"
search fields.  Attempted to be comprehensive up to 1989.
$Revision:$ $Date:$





The standard email request letter follows:

The parallel/distributed processing bibliography (in machine readable
form) is documented in ACM CAN:

%A E. N. Miya
%T Multiprocessor/Distributed Processing Bibliography
%J Computer Architecture News
%I ACM SIGARCH
%V 13
%N 1
%D March 1985
%P 27-29

It began with a bibliography published in 1980 by

%A M. Satyanarayanan
%T Multiprocessing: an annotated bibliography
%J Computer
%V 13
%N 5
%D May 1980
%P 101-116
%X Excellent reference source, but dated.
Text reproduced with the permission of Prentice-Hall \(co 1980.
$Revision: 1.2 $ $Date: 84/07/05 16:58:56 $

My work is considerably larger (about 100 times).  In order to obtain
a copy on the Internet, I am required to ask for a letterhead from
an institution stating that they understand portions are copywritten.
It's free, so that is not much to ask.  Please also send any corrections,
typos, additions to me.  Annotations and keywords are particularly
encouraged, since I can't read everything.  Citation in any of your
published work is appreciated since this supports my work.
Send letterhead to:
	E. Miya
	MS 258-5
	NASA Ames Research Center
	Moffett Field,
	CA 94035-1000
	USA

Please include your return Email address.  I maintain copies on some
sites, your site may have one already.  Check with your site admin.
The usual place is kept controlled to abide by terms of the copyright.
I try to keep one point of contact to keep things simple.  A list follows.

If you are not on the Internet, you can obtain an older version
(with source files) from
	COSMIC
	Univ. of Georgia
	382 East Broad St.
	Athens, GA 30602
It's ASCII/refer (that's the format above) bibliographic, tar/Unix tape
format.  There is a tape handling charge.  Special requests: IBM format
tapes, VMS BACKUP format are also possible, ask me, not COSMIC for these.
Tape distribution is now restricted to North America, but I am trying
to get world-wide distribution again.

Details: Why refer? ( 1) human readable ASCII, not a binary format,
2) easily convertable to other formats (EBCDIC), 3) at the time bibtex didn't
exist, 4) less overhead than bibtex (fields smaller, however I decided in
favor of full names for journals rather than abbrev. because many users
don't know what ICPP or IDCS stand for....,
5) not only can you search it, but you can use it with a filter or formatter
like troff with reasonable reformatting results, stylistic considerations
like whether author names should have initials or full names can be automated.

Contact points (not every Dept. is a CS dept).

NASA: me
ICASE: me (Nancy Shoemaker, Bob Voigt)
LLNL/MPCI/CRG/NERSC: me
UCSC: me (Darrell Long)
UC Berkeley: me (Eric Allman, formerly Mike Kupfer)

AMT: Rex Thanakij
Aerospace Corp: Anne Finestone
Amdahl: Hideo Wada (IBM format)
AT&T: Steve Crandall
ANL: Robert Harrison
Aus.NU: David Hawking
Battelle: Rick Kendall
Baylor CM: Stanley Hanks
BBN: Miles Fidelman
Boston U: A. Heddaya
Brown: John Savage

Clemson: Steve Stevenson
Columbia: Yoram Eisenstadter or Ella Sanders
Convex: Greg Astfalk
Cornell: Doug Elias
CoState: Dale Grit (or RRO)
Cray: Tim Hoel
DDt: Anders Ardo
Denelcor (maybe Tera now): B. Smith
DEC: Walter Lamia/John Sopka/C. Kiefer [no longer at DEC]
Dorian Research: R. Levine
DSTO (oz): Charles Watson
Duke U.: Mark Jones
Emory: V. Sunderam
Encore: Peter Fay
ETH: R. Ruhl
EPFL: Lars Bombolt
FPS (defunct): Tom Bauer
Fr.-Alex. Univ. Erlangen-Nurnberg: J. Kleinoder
Fujitsu America, Inc.: Ken Muira
GaTech: Karsten Schwan (Gene Spafford)
GEC, NY: David O'Hallaron
GMD MBH: Ernst-Joachim Busse
GMD First: Diantong Liu
HaL: Dennis Allison
Harvard U: Stravos Macrakis
Horizon RI: Craig Hughes
Hope College: M. Jipping
IBM: F. Darema
Indiana U: Dennis Gannon
Inst. di Disica Cosmica, SIAM: G. Boella
INRIA: Jean-Jacques Levy
ISS: Jit Biswas
Intermetrics: William White
JVNC: Bruce Bathurst
Loral: Ian Kaplan (Defunct)
Katholieke Univ. Leuven: Prof. D. Roose
KSR: M. Presser
Martin Marietta Energy (OR,TN): Richard Hicks
MCC: ???
Mitre: Thomas Gerasch
MIT: Rich Lethin
Maspar: Peter Christy [now at SUN, Kaplan might be able to help]
Mich. State U: Richard Enbody
Minn.SC: Dennis Lienke
Miss. State U: Donna Reese
Monash U: W. Brown/Sim Or/Peter Sember
Motorola: Fred Segovich
Myrias: Jean Andruski (defunct)
NAG: P. Mayes
NM Tech: G. Francia, III
NOSC: H. Smith
Northrup: Jeff Crameron

NYU: Allen Gottlieb
OhioState: Jeff Martens
OrGI: Robbie Babb (Dave DiNucci, defunct)
OrSU: Youfend Wu
Purdue: Andrew Royappa
Rice: Ken Kennedy
Rutgers: A. Gerasoulis
Rutherford Appleton: David Greenaway
Santa Clara U.: Hasan AlKhatib
Schlumberger: Peter Highnam
SGI: Jim Denhert
SMU: I. Gladwell
SWRI: Richard Murphy
SRI: Cliff Isberg
Stanford: Byron Davies/M. Flynn/V. Pratt/J. Hennessey/Andy Tucker
Stony Brook: L. Wittie
NPAC/Sycrause: Bill O'Farrell
SSI: ???
SUN: Lisa Steiner/Bob Birss
TAI: Lisa Vander Sluis
TI: Bryon Davies
TMC: Robin Perera
Ultra: Bill Overstreet
U. Adel.: Bruce Tonkin
U. Ala.: Steve Wixson
U. at Albany: Steven Sutphen
Univ. AZ: Peter Wolcott/Matthew Saltzman
UBC: Donald Acton
U. Buff.: John Case
UCLA: ???
UCSD: Greg Hidley
UCF: Narsingh Deo/Shivakumar Sastry
UCDublin: John Dunnion
UCo, Boulder: Lloyd Fosdick (Mike Schwartz)
U Del.: Gary Delp/Dave Farber
U. Edinburgh: Tom Stimerling/Richard Eyre-Todd/R. Ibbett
U. Exeter: Patrick Lidstone
Univ. Fed. de Minas Gerais: Marcio Luiz Bunte de Carvalho
UFl: G. Fischer
U. Ha.: Tim Brown
UHo: Francis Kam
UId.: Howard Demuth
UIll.: Steve Turner/Dan Reed
U. Kaiser.: Gerhard Zimmermann/ F.R. Abmann
U. Lan.: Vince Aragon/ C. D. Paice
U. Mel.: K. Forward
Univ. NM: krishna@rye.cs.unm.edu/Art St. George
U Minn.: Gary Elsesser/Steven Miller
UNL: Ashok Samal
U. Notre Dame: Karl Heubaum
UNC: Bruce Smith
UNTx: Roy Jacob
U. Pitt.: Mary Lou Soffa
U. Qu.: V. L. Narasimhan
U. Roch.: Cesar Quiroz
U. So. Cal: Les Gasser
U. So. Car: John Bowles/David Walker
U Strathclyde: Magnus Luo
Univ. Stuttgart: Joachim Maier
U. Tx Austin: Vipin Kumar
U. Tx Dallas: Eliezer Dekel/Leslie Crawford
U. Trond.: Petter Moe
U U: Armin Liebchen
UWa: Jean Loup Baer
U Waterloo: Peter Bain
U. Wis.: Gregory Moses
Utrecht U.: Lex Wolters
Wa. St. U: Alan Genz
W. Mi. U: John Kapenga
Yale U.: Miriam Putterman
BRL?: Curt Levey (host former brunix)
Wa. U (SL. Mo): Fred Rosenberger
Zentralinst. fur Ang. Math.: J. Fr. Hake
paulo rosado

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