Announcement of NAG Fortran SMP Library V1
by Lawrence Mulholland <lawrence@nag.co.uk>
A new library of numerical and statistical routines specifically
optimised for use on Symmetric Multi-Processor (SMP) computers.
See also http://www.nag.co.uk/Numeric/SMP/SMP.html
Announcement of NAS HPFplus Compiler V2
by Mike Delves <delves@nasoftware.co.uk>
HPF (inc F77 & F90) compiler with MPI, parallel I/O, debugger and
more for manyHP architectures.
See also http://www.nasoftware.co.uk/
SUPERCOMPUTER - EUROPEAN WATCH
by Jaap Hollenberg <sondjaap@horus.sara.nl>
A monthly newsletter on High Performance Computing and Networking.
Running since 1990 in 16 page format and convering world wide news and
views about supercomputing.
Cray and HPC platforms at NASA John Stennis Space Center, Louisana,
USA
by Mr. Barney R. Banks <banks@datasync.com>
BSc in CS or related, 3+ experience with crays or HPC, UNIX, C.
Second International Symposium on Sensitivity Analysis of Model
Output (SAMO'98)
Call for papers, list of invited speakers, registration details for
conference being held from 19th-22nd April 1998 at Venice, Ca' Dolfin,
Italy.
Topics: Sensitivity Analysis and Epistemology; Variance-based
Methods; Screening Methods; Bayesian Sensitivity Analysis; Inverse
Problems; Reliability; Applications of SA and others.
Deadlines: Abstracts: 30th June 1997; Notification: 15th September
1997; Final papers: 21st December 1997.
See also http://www.ei.jrc.it/samo/
Parallel Programming with MPI
by Peter Pacheco <peter@usfca.edu>, Department of Mathematics,
University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94117, USA; Tel: +1
(415) 666-6630
An elementary introduction to programming parallel systems useing MPI
1.1 library for C and Fortran. The intended audience is students and
professionals with some knowledge of programming for conventional,
single-processor systems, but who have little or no experience
programming multiprocessor systems.
See also http://www.usfca.edu/mpi/ and
http://www.mkp.com.
Published by Morgan Kaufmann, ISBN is 1-55860-339-5.
PDPTA'97 Pre-Conference Tutorial: Reliable Parallel Programming with
Java(TM)
by Hamid Arabnia <hra@pollux.cs.uga.edu>
Call for participation for pre-PDPTA'97 conference tutorial being
held on 29th June at Las Vevas, Nevada, USA.
This tutorial presents the results of recent work on methods for
developing provably deadlock-free and livelock-free parallel programs
with Java(TM) starting with Hoare's CSP model and including practical
examples.
See also http://multi.ece.usu.edu/natug/tutor.html and PDPTA
information at http://www.cps.udayton.edu/~pan/pdpta
Indiana University High Performance Computing Group -- Software
Engineering Positions
by Dennis Gannon <gannon@cs.indiana.edu>
HPC software developement and Post Doc positions.
Italian Centre for Advanced Studies, Research and Development in
Sardinia, Waves, Materials, and Structures group -- Researchers
by Lorenzo Pisani <pisani@mafalda.crs4.it>
Experience in computational electromagnetics; numerical modeling of
wave propagation problems; fluid-structure interaction; nonlinear
structural mechanics; parallel computing and numerical analisys
desired.
See also http://www.crs4.it/~gfotia/tmr.html
University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies --
HPC programming and systems
by Jim Humphries <humphrie@umiacs.umd.edu>
BS, MS, PhD (varys) and appropriate experience.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Computer
Science, Pablo Research Group -- Research Programmer
by Ruth Aydt <aydt@cs.uiuc.edu>
US citizens (1 post). BS CS with programming experience. HPC &
parallel experience desirable.
Applications by 6th June 1997. See also
http://www-pablo.cs.uiuc.edu/
4th Annual Parallel Tools Consortium AGM
by Ken Ferschweiler <kennino@cs.orst.edu>
Call for participation for meeting being held from 9th-11th June 1997
at National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA.
Deadlines: Registration: 9th May 1997 (1 day before this news article
was posted).
See also http://www.ptools.org/
Workshop on Parallel Computing, Routing, and Communication (PCRCW'97)
by Kelly Norton <gt6089c@prism.gatech.edu>
Call for papers for workshop being held from 26th-27th June 1997 at
Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Topics: switching and message flow control mechanisms; techniques and
implementations for deadlock avoidance/recovery; routing algorithms in
both regular and irregular networks; techniques and routing algorithms
for reliable message delivery; algorithms and hardware support for
collective communication in both regular and irregular networks;
router/switch architecture and implementation; network interface
design and implementation; design and implementation of low latency
software messaging layers; techniques and architectural support for
real-time communication; algorithms for compile-time and run-time
optimizations for inter-processor communication; integrating I/O and
inter-processor communication; performance evaluation techniques;
Low-latency support for communications arising in parallel
applications using connection-oriented protocols such as ATM.; Routers
for novel applications such as web TV and cable modems; and others.
Deadlines: Papers: 21st March 1997; Paper Notification: 11th May
1997; Posters: 23rd May 1997; Poster Notification: 2nd June 1997;
Camera-ready papers: 2nd June 1997; Full Paper versions of posters:
23rd June 23rd; Notification for proceeding acceptance: 1st August
1997.
See also http://www.ece.gatech.edu/conferences/pcrcw97/
Third European SGI/Cray MPP Workshop
by Laurent Colombet <Laurent.Colombet@cea.fr>
Call for papers for workshop being held from 11th-12th September 1997
at Paris, France. Sponsored by CEA and SGI France.
Topics: Support Tools and Environments; Parallel Debugging; Parallel
Languages; Automatic Parallelization and High-Performance Compilers;
Programming Models and Methods; Parallel Numerical Algorithms;
Scheduling and load balancing; Performance Evaluation and Prediction;
Parallel operating systems and others.
Deadlines: Abstracts: 12th May 1997; Notification: 9th June 1997;
Final papers: 11th August 1997.
See also http://www.cea.fr/workshop/
7th International Workshop on Petri Nets and Performance Models /
9th International Conference on Modelling Techniques and Tools for
Computer Performance Evaluation (PNPM'97 / PERFORMANCE TOOLS'97)
by Molnar_Miklos <molnar@irisa.fr>
Call for participation, schedule and registration details for
workshop and conference being held from 3rd-6th June, 1997 at
Saint-Malo, France.
Topics (PNPM'97): Timed and Stochastic Petri Nets and their
applications and others.
Topics (PERFORMANCE TOOLS'97): modelling paradigms, analysis,
performance, measuring and techniques and others.
See also http://www.irisa.fr/PNPM97/ and
http://www.irisa.fr/TOOLS97/
The 1997 International Conference on Parallel Architectures and
Compilation Techniques (PACT'97)
by Thomas M. DeBoni <deboni@llnl.gov>
Call for papers for conference being held from 11th-15th November
1997 at San Francisco, California, USA. Sponsored by IFIP WG 103, IEEE
Computer Society and ACM SIGARCH.
Topics: Parallel architectures and computation models;
Application-specific parallel architectures; Compilers for parallel
computer systems; Compiler/hardware support for reducing memory
latencies; Compiler/hardware support for exploiting fine and medium
grain parallelism; Compiler/hardware support for exploiting
instruction-level parallelism; New parallel programming languages and
paradigms; Application studies that demonstrate the performance of
parallel computer systems and others.
Deadlines: Papers: 12th May 1997; Tutorials: 2nd June 1997;
Notification: 21st July 1997.
See also
http://ww-iscr.llnl.gov/iscr/projects/crg/pact97/pact97.html
Fourth AMAST Workshop on Real-Time Systems, Concurrent, and
Distributed Software (ARTS)
by Francesc Oller Teijon <francesco@mat.upc.es>
Call for participation for workshop being held from 21st-23rd May
1997 at Palma de Mallorca, Mallorca.
The Workshop will present current research falling under a broadly
interpreted mathematical transformation-based approach to the
specification, modeling, design, verification, and refinement of
Real-Time Systems, Concurrent, and Distributed Software.
Updated: "Fortran 90 information file, on compilers, tools, books, courses,
tutorials and the standard."
by Michael METCALF <Michael.METCALF@cern.ch>
See also http://www.fortran.com/fortran/
Adsmith 1.8.0d: An Efficient Object-Based DSM Environment on PVM
by William W. Y. Liang <wyliang@orchid.ee.ntu.edu.tw>,
http://archi1.ee.ntu.edu.tw/~wyliang/, Department of Computer
Science & Information Engineering National Taiwan University, Taipei,
Taiwan
Contains Adsmith source, documentation, manual pages, and examples.
MPICH 1.1.0
The biggest change is an update of the internals to add a new
"abstract device (ADI-2)" to achieve portability. This change fixes
some long-standing bugs and offers a higher-performing interface.
However, some devices have not been updated to the new interface, and
are not available. (See README file for more
Tkpvm Version 1.2
by Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@nici.kun.nl>,
http://www.cogsci.kun.nl/~nijtmans/, Nijmegen Institute of
Cognition and Information (NICI), Netherlands