Newsgroups: uk.announce
From: ppecc@inf.rl.ac.uk (For the use of bwh and cpw only)
Subject: Launch of Parallel Processing Community Club
Date: 27 Jul 93 11:49:23 GMT

Invitation for Membership
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      SERC Parallel Processing in Engineering Community Club
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 Rutherford Appleton Laboratory have launched a Community Club to
 focus on the application of parallel processing techniques to
 Engineering applications.
 
 Despite its relative lack of maturity, parallel processing is
 steadily gaining acceptance as a potentially cost effective solution
 to a range of computationally intensive engineering problems. Within
 the last year, a number of major established computer suppliers
 have announced new products incorporating parallel processing.
 
 This new Community Club is following closely in the footsteps of 
 the already established SERC CFD Community club ( >500 members ) 
 and the SERC Visualisation Community Club ( >200 members ). These
 clubs provide a forum for academics and industrialists to seek
 guidance, compare notes and profit from each others experiences.
 
 The aims of this new Community Club will be:
 
     * bring together researchers seeking to exploit the potential
     of parallel processing in their own areas of research
 
     * provide a forum for the exchange of practical experience
     about the applications of parallel processing
 
     * increase awareness of parallel processing and its potential
     through workshops, seminars, tutorials and courses.
 
     * to encourage the emergence and use of relevant standards
     which will assist the development of software for parallel
     systems.
 
 The activities of the Community Club will be co-ordinated by a small
 Steering Committee of representatives of the different engineering
 disciplines within the research community with an active interest in
 parallel processing.
 
 The Parallel Processing Group at RAL will provide organisational
 and technical support for the activities of the Club. The Parallel
 Evaluation Centre established and operated by the Group will be
 available to members of the Club to try out a range of current
 affordable parallel hardware and software systems.
 
 We are inviting engineering researchers with an interest in parallel
 processing to contact us, preferably by email, to register their
 interest. The are no fees involved in applying for membership.
 
 If you would like to join the new Parallel Processing in Engineering
 Community Club (PPECC) please send a message including your address
 and phone number to ppecc@uk.ac.rl.inf (preferred) or contact us
 directly.
 
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 C P Wadsworth                                        B W Henderson
 Head, Parallel Processing Group                      Secretary of PPECC
 Informatics Department
 RAL, Chilton, DIDCOT
 Oxox, OX11 0QX
 
 Tel: 0235 445101              E-MAIL: ppecc@inf.rl.ac.uk
 FAX: 0235 445945