Newsgroups: comp.parallel From: meunierp@duvel.cs.colorado.edu (Philippe Meunier) Subject: [SUMMARY] KSR & iPSC/860 performances ? Organization: University of Colorado at Boulder Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1993 23:13:40 GMT I want first to thank all the people how have taken time to reply to my original posting. Here was my request: > i am looking for papers about the KSR1 and iPSC/860 machine, dealing with > shared-memory/message-passing performances, computational efficiency etc... i get the following responses: ############################################# - For the KSR machine: ********************************************** From: mikep@ksr.com (Mike Pittaro) The KSR1: Expermientation and Modeling of Poststore E. Rosti, E. Smirni, T.D. Wagner, A.W. Apon, and L.W. Dowdy, Department of Computer Science, Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN. KSR1 Multiprocessor: Analysis of Latency Hiding Techniques in a Sparse Solver Daniel Windheiser, Eric Boyd, Eric Hao, Santiosh Abraham, Ed Davidson The University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI copies are available on hopscotch.ksr.com (139.167.128.5) in pub/mikep ********************************************** From: dunigan@thdsun.EPM.ORNL.GOV (Tom Dunigan 576-2522) Kendall Square multiprocessor: early experiences and performances. Tom Dunigan on ftp.tc.cornell.edu : /incoming/mall.ps this is a temporary location. a definitive one will soon be find. *********************************************** From: aib@aib.CCS.ORNL.GOV (Buddy Bland) (from an old posting) The Theory Center at Cornell University has a gopher server (type: gopher gopher.tc.cornell.edu) which contains lots of good information about the KSR1 computer. Look under "Research and Technical Reports" and "Hardware Architectures" for information. *********************************************** There is several mailing lists dealing with the KSR1 machine: Name: Contact: KSR User's Group baird@tc.cornell.edu KSR Parallel Programming Tools bergmark@tc.cornell.edu KSR Algorithms and Mathematical Libraries hoisie@tc.cornell.edu KSR Documentation and Training baird@tc.cornell.edu KSR System Administration pmc@engin.umich.edu KSR Performance Monitoring boyd@eecs.umich.edu Contact Lynn Baird (baird@tc.cornell.edu) for more info. ############################################### - for the iPSC/860 machine: ************************************************ From: steve@cs.mtu.edu (Steve Seidel) Over the past few months each of you has posted something on comp.parallel having to do (more or less) with message passing on distributed memory machines, usually the iPSC/860. Some of the work we have done here might be of interest to you, so I have put together the following list of reports. Let me know if you'd like to be added to my mailing list. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following two reports are available via anonymous ftp from csserver.cs.mtu.edu. cd to pub/steve, set the mode to binary, get .ps.Z, and uncompress it locally. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Seidel, S. R., Broadcasting on linear arrays and meshes, Tech. Rep. ORNL-TM-12356, Engineering Physics and Mathematics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, March, 1993. Seidel, S. R., and M. Davis, Global synchronization algorithms for the Intel iPSC/860, Tech. Rep. RNR-92-027, Applied Research Branch, NASA Ames Research Center, August, 1992. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The remaining reports are available via US mail. Send me your address. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Davis, M., and S. R. Seidel, Global processor synchronization for the Intel iPSC/2 and iPSC/860, Tech. Rep. 92-03, Computer Science Dept., Michigan Technological Univ., May, 1992. Lee, M., and S. R. Seidel, Concurrent communication on the Intel iPSC/2, Tech. Rep. 90-03, Computer Science Dept., Michigan Technological Univ., July, 1990. Schmiermund, T. E., and S. R. Seidel, A communication model for the Intel iPSC/2, Tech. Rep. 90-02, Computer Science Dept., Michigan Technological Univ., June, 1990. Seidel, S. R., Circuit-switched vs. store-and-forward solutions to symmetric communication problems, Tech. Rep. 89-06, Computer Science Dept., Michigan Technological Univ., June 1989. Graham, S. W., and S. R. Seidel, The Cost of Broadcasting on Star Graphs and k-ary Hypercubes, Tech. Rep. 89-05, Computer Science Dept., Michigan Technological Univ., May 1989. ################################################ Unfortunatly, i got only one response for the intel machine. So if you are reading this posting and have informations that migth be of interest ... Philippe ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Philippe Meunier meunierp@anchor.cs.colorado.edu