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28th July 1998

/parallel/standards/mpi/anl/
Updated for MPICH V1.1.1 (July 1998)
/parallel/environments/pvm3/adsmith/adsm1.8.0i.tar.gz
New version of "Adsmith 1.8.0i"
/parallel/tools/editors/folding-editors/fe-mh/fe-0.6.tar.gz
New version of "FE Folding Editor Version 0.6 beta" by Michael Haardt <michael@cantor.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>
/parallel/books/unknown/
Added:
http://www.uni-karlsruhe.de/Uni/RZ/Personen/rz03/book/
"Scientific Supercomputing: Architecture and Use of Shared and Distributed Memory Parallel Computers " by Prof. Dr. Willi Schoenauer <schoenauer@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>, Universitaet Karlsruhe, Rechenzentrum, Zirkel 2, 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany; Tel: +49 721-6083754; FAX: +49 721-32550 A handwritten (and then scanned) Internet book on Scientific Supercomputing.

Table of Contents: Introduction; Prototypes with their Bottlenecks; Arithmetic Operations and Memory Bandwidth; The CRAY T90; The Fujitsu VPP300 (and VPP700); The IBM RS/6000 SP ; The CRAY T3E and DEC Alpha Processors; Performance Analysis; Basic Considerations Concerning Data Structures; Fortran, Autovectorization and Autoparallelization, Progamming Models; Recurrences; Matrix Operations; Systems of Linear Equations on Vector Processors; Remarks to the Parallelization of the Gauss Algorithm; Tridiagonal Linear Systems; Iterative Solution of Linear Systems of Equations; Explaining the Gap Between Theoretical Peak Performance and Real Performance for Supercomputer Architectures; References.

In the Addendum further architectures and algorithms will be presented (open-ended).

/parallel/languages/fortran/adaptor/
Updated for ADAPTOR 6.0
/parallel/environments/pvm3/tkpvm/
Updated for Tcl/Tk 8.1a2.
/parallel/tools/tools/
Added:
http://smile.cpe.ku.ac.th/~ppe
"Tools for Beowulf Clusters" by Putchong Uthayopas <uthayopa@mcs.anl.gov>, <URL:http://smile.cpe.ku.ac.th/~ppe/> The Parallel Research Group, Faculty of Engineering, Kasetsart University, Thailand are working on a set of Tools that help manage and use a Beowulf Cluster.

This tool includes. 1. GUI Administrator tools that gear toward parallel cluster. System admin can firup screen from any node. Pick a set of node to submit collective operation. Shutdown, bootup any node.

2. Set of Parallel Unix Commands along the guideline of Parallel Tools Consortium

14th July 1998

/parallel/events/java-hpnc
"Java for High Performance Network Computing Workshop at EuroPar 1998" by Omer F Rana <O.F.Rana@cs.cf.ac.uk> Details of workshop to be held on 2 September 1998 at EuroPar 1998, Southampton, UK.

Deadlines: Papers: 31 July 1998

See also <URL:http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/hpjworkshop/> and EuroPar site <URL:http://www.europar98.ecs.soton.ac.uk/>

/parallel/events/stanford-perf-workshop
"Practical Performance Methods - Stanford Performance Workshop" by Perfskool <perfskool@aol.com> Training class held at Stanford University, USA.
/parallel/events/scicom99
"2nd Workshop on Large-Scale Scientific Computation" (SciCom99) by Informatica Journal <informat@orca.st.usm.edu> Details of workshop being held from 2-6 June 1999 at Sozopol, Bulgaria

See also <URL:http://copern.acad.bg/Conferences/SciCom99.html> and <URL:http://orca.st.usm.edu/marcin/mp/cfp/SciCom99.html>

http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~hong/pdcn98
"IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Networks" (PDCN'98) by Nadia Hamza <iasted@cadvision.com> Details of event being held from 14-16 December 1998 at Brisbane, Australia. Organised by the International Association of Science and Technology for Development.
http://www.ucy.ac.cy/ucy/cs/SAC99.html
"ACM SAC'99 - Track on Coordination" (SAC'99 - Coordination) by George A. Papadopoulos <george@cs.ucy.ac.cy> Details of conference track at SAC'99 being held on 28 February 1999 at The Menger, San Antonio, Texas, USA. Organised by ACM.

Topics: Novel models, languages, programming and implementation techniques; Relationship with other computational models such as object oriented; declarative (functional, logic, constraint) programming or extensions of them with coordination capabilities; Applications (especially where the industry is involved); Theoretical aspects (semantics, reasoning, verification); Software architectures and software engineering techniques; Middleware platforms (e.g. CORBA); All aspects related to the modeling of Information Systems (groupware, Internet and the Web, workflow management, CSCW).

See also <URL:http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/SAC99/>

http://www.coma.sbg.ac.at/acpc99/call.html
"International Conference on Parallel Computation" (ACPC'99) by Andreas Uhl <uhl@cosy.sbg.ac.at> Details of event being held at Salzburg, Austria from 16-18 February 1999. Organised by Univ. Salzburg.

Topics: All aspects of parallel computation; Special track on Parallel Numerics, Special track on parallel computing in image processing, video processing, and multimedia.

Deadlines: Papers: 18th June 1998, Posters: 15th August 1998.

See also <URL:http://www.coma.sbg.ac.at/acpc99/home.html>

13th July 1998

/parallel/events/adcomp98
"Sixth International Conference on Advanced Computing" (ADCOMP'98) by Anand Sivasubramaniam <anand@cse.psu.edu> Details of conference being held from 14-16 December 1998 at Pune, India.
/parallel/events/dapsys99
"Austrian-Hungarian Workshop on Distributed and Parallel Systems" (DAPSYS'98) by Zsolt Nemeth <zsnemeth@sztaki.hu> Details of workshop being held from 28-30 September 1998 at Budapest, Hungary.
/parallel/events/hiper98
"High Performance Computing on Hewlett-Packard Systems" (HiPer'98) by G.M.Sigut <sigut@awu.id.ethz.ch> Details of conference being held from 14-16 October 1998 in Zurich, Switzerland.
/parallel/events/ipps-spdp99
"Second Merged Symposium IPPS/SPDP 1999 13th International Parallel Processing Symposium & 10th Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing" (IPPS/SPDP'99) by David A. Bader <dbader@eece.unm.edu> Details of symposium being held at San Juan, Puerto Rico from 12-16 April 1999.
/parallel/events/iasted-workshop-hpscieng-apps
"IASTED Workshop on High Performance Scientific and Engineering Computing with Applications" by Tianruo Yang <tiaya@mir46.ida.liu.se> Workshop held at IASTED 10 / PDCS98 at Las Vegas, Nevada, USA from 28-31 October 1998.
/parallel/events/iscope98
"The Second International Symposium on Computing in Object-oriented Parallel Environments" (ISCOPE'98) by MaryDell Tholburn <marydell@lanl.gov> Details of symposium being held from 8-11 December 1998 at Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.
/parallel/events/pdp99
"7th Euromicro Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Processing" (PDP'99) by Paolo Cremonesi <cremones@xxxelet.polimi.it> Details of workshop being held from 3-5 February 1999 at University of Madeira, Funchal, Portugal.
/parallel/events/hpca5
"The Fifth International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture" (HPCA-5) by Anand Sivasubramaniam <anand@cse.psu.edu> Details of conference being held at Orlando, Florida, USA from 9-12 January 1999.
/parallel/events/pdcs98
"11th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems" (PDCS-98) by Dr Zahir Tari <zahirt@cs.rmit.edu.au> Details of conference being held at Chicago, Illinois, USA from 2-4 September 1998.
http://www.usenix.org/events/osdi99/
"3rd USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design & Implementation" (OSDI 99) by Cynthia Deno <cynthia@usenix.org> Details of event being held from 22-25 February 1999 at New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Sponsored by USENIX Association, Co-sponsored by IEEE TCOS and ACM SIGOPS
/parallel/events/iscis98
"The 13th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences" (ISCIS'98) by ISCIS XIII <iscis98@cs.bilkent.edu.tr> Details of symposium being held from 26-28 October 1998.
/parallel/events/hpdc7
"Seventh IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing" (HPDC-7) by Manish Parashar <parashar@rci.rutgers.edu> Details of symposium being held at Chicago, Illinois, USA from 28-31 July 1998.
/parallel/events/hipc98
"5th International Conference on High Performance Computing" (HIPC98) by Sandeep Gupta <gupta@CS.ColoState.EDU> Details of conference being held at Chennai (Madras), India from 17-20th December 1998
/parallel/jobs/job-birm-cs
"Chair in School of CS, University of Birmingham, UK" by Georgios K Theodoropoulos <G.K.Theodoropoulos@cs.bham.ac.uk>
/parallel/jobs/job-paradyne
"Research Staff, Paradyn Project, Dept. CS, University of Wisconsin, USA" by Barton Miller <bart@asiago.cs.wisc.edu>
/parallel/jobs/job-soton-sci-comp
"Research Fellow in Scientific Computation, Dept. ECS, University of Southampton, UK" by Europar 98 Organiser <europar98@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
/parallel/jobs/job-une-au
"Lecturer in Computer Science, University Of New England, Australia" by ian a. mason <iam@turing.une.edu.au>

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