Newsgroups: comp.parallel Subject: [LONG] Update to transputer,occam and parallel computing archive Summary: 3M more files Organization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK. In the last three weeks I've added the files below to the archive I maintain at unix.hensa.ac.uk in /parallel. It currently contains over 46 Mbytes of freely distributable software and documents, in the transputer, occam and parallel computing subject area. That's 3 Mbytes more than last month. The Changes file itself is 12K and is reproduced below. Statistics: Over 1900 users (400 more than last time), over 950 Mbytes transfered (190MB more) since the archive was started in early May. Top 10 files accessed, excluding Index files 454 /parallel/README 259 /parallel/reports/misc/soft-env-net-report.ps.Z 223 /parallel/pictures/T9000-schematic.ps.Z 190 /parallel/documents/inmos/occam/manual3.ps.Z 140 /parallel/reports/ukc/T9000-systems-workshop/all-docs.tar.Z 139 /parallel/software/folding-editors/origami.tar.Z 131 /parallel/Changes 87 /parallel/software/folding-editors/fue-ukc.tar.Z 86 /parallel/books/prentice-hall 69 /parallel/reports/misc/soft-env-net-report.announcement Looks mostly the same as last months... The material can be found at the HENSA (Higher Education National Software Archive) UNIX archive site. The HENSA UNIX archive is accessible via an interactive browsing facility, called fbr as well as email, DARPA ftp, gopher and NI-FTP (Blue Book) services. For details, see below. The files are all located in /parallel and each directory contains a short Index file of the contents. If you want to check what has changed in between these postings, look at the /parallel/Changes file which contains the new files added. NEW FEATURES ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Gopher access. See below. NEW AREAS ~~~~~~~~~ /parallel/faqs Frequently asked questions and summary postings (from USENET groups). FAQS held: 23167 Sep 14 15:04 PVM 1801 Sep 3 16:51 clusters-of-workstations 25678 Sep 14 12:10 dynamic-load-balancing-farming 4987 Sep 15 14:04 ksr-ipsc860-papers 4284 Sep 3 16:48 load-balancing-simd 4209 Sep 14 10:19 parallel-C++-classes-1 2637 Sep 14 10:18 parallel-C++-classes-2 1779 Aug 24 10:19 parallel-C++-extensions 44286 Sep 14 11:34 parallel-genetic-algorithms 14472 Sep 17 14:21 scalability 5715 Aug 25 10:00 systems-for-par-prog-development 15559 Sep 3 10:05 tools-for-clustered-workstations 30150 Sep 3 16:28 transputer-FAQ 47235 Sep 3 16:28 transputer-compilers 25828 Sep 3 16:29 transputer-ftp-sites See also the PARLIB FAQs in /parallel/parlib/faq. /parallel/software/maspar Added pointer to netlib MASPAR software /parallel/groups/ppc New area for the parallel processing connection (PPC) meetings /parallel/documents/vendors Moved vendor specific files here (product announcements, infomercials) /parallel/documents/misc Moved 'usenet' files here (really was miscellaneous) NEW FILES since 27th August 1993 (newest first) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ /parallel/conferences/tencon-94-par-tech-and-apps Call for papers for the IEEE TENCON '94 special session on Parallel Processing Technology and Applications being held from 22nd-26th August 1994 in Singapore. Deadline: 1st January 1994. /parallel/conferences/jssst-isotas-93 Call for attendance for the JSSST International Symposium on Object Technologies for Advanced Software (ISOTAS) '93 being held from 4th-6th November 1993 in Kanazawa, Japan. /parallel/conferences/intel-super-users-group Call for attendance for the Intel Supercomputer User's Group Conference being held from 3rd-6th October 1993 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. /parallel/faqs/scalability Summary of responses about scalability and how to measure it by Charles Viles with additions by Hugh LaMaster and Dyke Stiles . /parallel/conferences/mpp-apps-dev-programme Updated programme for the International Massively Parallel Processing Applications and Development Symposium being held from 21th-23th June 1994 in Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands /parallel/conferences/ifip-prog-env-mpp-par-dist-sys Call for papers for IFIP WG10.3 conference on Programming Environments for Massively Parallel Distributed Systems being held from 25th-30th April 1994 at Monte Verita, Ascona, Switzerland. /parallel/conferences/spdp-1993 Call for participation in the 5th IEEE Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing (SPDP) being held from 1st-4th December 1993 at Omni Mandalay Hotel, Irving, Texas. Sponsored by IEEE-Computer Society and IEEE-CS-Dallas Chapter /parallel/documents/misc/BeBOP.announcement Announcement of BeBOP language and bp V1.0 offering a combination of sequential and parallel Logic Programming (LP), object oriented programming and meta-level programming and details of how to get it via anonymous FTP. /parallel/courses/parallelism-for-HPC Comett course "Parallelism for HPC" on architectures of parallel machines and applications for scientists and engineers writing parallel applications. Course will be given by/held from 5th-7th October at Telmat Informatique, Soultz Cedex, France. /parallel/groups/ppsg/RAID-in-real-time-lecture BCS PPSG free public lecture on RAID Technology & Its Application in a Real-Time Environment by Chris Cuthbert of Storage Concepts on Tuesday 21st September 1993, 6.15 for 6.30 pm in the Ambrose Fleming Lecture Theatre, University College, London, UK. /parallel/documents/misc/cico-shmem-perf-model.announcement Announcement of paper - CICO: A Practical Shared-Memory Programming Performance Model by James R. Larus, Satish Chandra and David A Wood and details of how to obtain it. /parallel/conferences/mpp-apps-dev-update Update to call for papers for International Massively Parallel Processing Applications and Development being held from 21th-23th June 1994 in Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands /parallel/conferences/par-image-analysis-workshop Call for papers for the Third International Workshop on Parallel Image Analysis: Theory and Applications being held from 7th-9th June 1994 in the Washington, DC, USA area. /parallel/faqs/ksr-ipsc860-papers Summary of responses about papers on KSR and iPSC/860 machines by Philippe Meunier /parallel/conferences/ipps94-scalable-shared-memory-workshop Call for papers for the Scalable Shared Memory Systems Workshop at IPPS (International Parallel Processing Symposium) 94. The workshop will be held on 26th April 1994 at Hotel Regina, Cancun, Mexico. /parallel/courses/fortran-forge90-workshop Applied Parallel Research (APR) Inc. three-day workshop in parallel processing techniques in Fortran and the use of the FORGE 90 parallelization tools. Workshop will be held from 26th-28th October 1993 in Placerville, CA, USA. /parallel/documents/vendors/parsytec/ems-package Announcement of Electro Magnetic Simulation Package developed by Parsytech Inc., EMA Inc. (Electro Magnetic Applications) and FEGS Ltd. (Finite Element Graphics Systems) for aeronautics/ aerospace industry. /parallel/documents/misc/timeline/timeline-final.txt Last ASCII version of the timeline history of parallel computing and supercomputing by Greg Wilson /parallel/conferences/sigmetrics1994 Last call for papers for 1994 ACM SIGMETRICS Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems being held from 16th-20th May 1994 at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA Deadlines: Tutorials: 15th September, Papers: 22nd October /parallel/documents/misc/sisal-initiative Announcement of Sisal Scientific Computing Initiative: Proposals are solicited by the Computing Research Group at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), USA with the award being free Cray C90 time and support to researchers willing to work in the Sisal language. /parallel/conferences/sisal93 Call for participation in Streams and Iterations in a Single-Assignment Language (SISAL) 93 conference being held from 3rd-5th October 1993 in Hyatt Islandia, San Diego, CA, USA. /parallel/conferences/par-comps-in-computational-chemistry Call for papers and participation in the symposium: Parallel Computing in Computational Chemistry being held from 13th-18th March 1994 in San Diego, CA, USA as part of the American Chemical Society Meeting. Abstracts by 29th October 1993. /parallel/documents/misc/NAS-benchmarks How to obtain source code/information about the NAS serial and parallel benchmarks by J. Eric Townsend /parallel/conferences/dimacs-par-algorthims-workshop Call for participation in DIMACS Workshop on Parallel Algorithms: From Solving Combinatorial Problems to Solving Grand Challenge Problems being held from 17th-19th November 1993 at DIMACS at Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA. DIMACS is the USA's NSF science and technology center for discrete mathematics and computer science. /parallel/software/environments/sr/README /parallel/software/environments/sr/sr-2.2-announcement /parallel/software/environments/sr/sr.tar.Z SR (Synchronizing Resources) - a language for writing concurrent programs. Documented in "The SR Programming Language: Concurrency in Practice" by Gregory R. Andrews and Ronald A. Olsson from University of Arizona, USA. /parallel/faqs/dynamic-load-balancing-farming Summary of responses about query on load balancing/processor-farms by Sanjay Kumar /parallel/conferences/ipps94-mpp-optical-workshop Call for participation at the 1st International Workshop on Massively Parallel Processing using Optical Interconnections being held from 26th-27th April 1994 at Hotel Regina, Cancun, Mexico. /parallel/faqs/parallel-genetic-algorithms Summary of responses about parallel/distributed genetic algorithms by Sanjay Kumar /parallel/courses/parasoft-par-prog-course Introductory course on the theory and practice of distributed and parallel computing held by ParaSoft Corporation in conjunction with Genias Software GmbH in Regensburg, Germany from 11th-13th October 1993. /parallel/papers/yale/par-prog-workstation-clusters.ps /parallel/papers/yale/par-prog-workstation-clusters.txt A Comparison Paper of C-Linda, P4, POSYBL, PVM, and TCGMSG: "Parallel Programming Systems for Workstation Clusters Craig C. Douglas, Timothy G. Mattson and Martin H. Schultz, Yale University Department of Computer Science Research Report YALEU/DCS/TR-975, August 1993. /parallel/documents/misc/NQS-2.4 Details of the CERN Network Queueing system (CERN/NQS) v2.4 and how to obtain it (ftp to shift.cern.ch and look in pub/NQS) by Christian Boissat /parallel/faqs/parallel-C++-classes-1 Summary of responses about a query on C++ classes for implementing data parallel variables by Russell Standish /parallel/faqs/parallel-C++-classes-2 More parallel C++ like languages details and CC++ for distributed machines by Dennis Gannon /parallel/faqs/systems-for-par-prog-development List of environments/packages for developing parallel parallel programs by John Kapenga /parallel/papers/utexas/matrix-multiply-on-dist-memory.ps /parallel/papers/utexas/matrix-multiply-on-dist-memory.txt J. G. Lewis and R. A. van de Geijn, "Implementing Matrix-Vector Multiplication and Conjugate Gradient Algorithms on Distributed Memory Multicomputers," Supercomputing '93. /parallel/conferences/scalable-par-libs-form Application form for Scalable Parallel Libraries conference (see /parallel/conferences/scalable-par-libs) /parallel/documents/misc/dslinks-paul-walker-routing-switches Article by Paul Walker describing two new DS-Link routing switches for T9000s from Nottingham Trent University and INMOS respectively. /parallel/software/iservers/wiserver-203.zip Version 2.03 of MS Windows Iserver (WIServer) written by Mike Morgan . Changes from version 2.02 to 2.03 are: 1 Increased the maximum packet size for both directions from 512 to 2048 bytes. 2 Added the CR/LF server option. Allows the action of CR and LF ASCII codes to be defined. 3 New text window style constants to allow flexible positioning of text windows. 4 New option to allow windows to interpret either WIServer or ANSI screen codes. 5 New default value for set_cmd_line in the initialisation file. 6 Improved the code for reading from standard input. Should allow C toolset programs to run. 7 Slight source change for compilation by Borland Pascal with Objects 7.0 8 Major and functional change for handling DLLs. sp.get.free.resources changed slightly as a result. (No more DLL index ranges) 9 Added new PROCs to the wiserver I/O library. PROC enter.real32, PROC enter.real64, PROC enter.int, PROC option.list, PROC message.box, PROC cancel.cancel (sic) and PROC read.binary. See dialog.btl in Demos for PROC option.list and PROC message.box. 10 Boot files >64K can now be booted. /parallel/conferences/ipps94-reconfig-arch-workshop Call for papers for the Reconfigurable Architectures Workshop at IPPS (International Parallel Processing Symposium) 94. The workshop will be held on 26th April 1994 at Hotel Regina, Cancun, Mexico. /parallel/conferences/ISCA94 Call for papers for the 21st Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture being held from 18th-21st April 1994 at Chicago, Illinois, USA sponsored by ACM/SIGARCH, IEEE Computer Society, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in cooperation with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. /parallel/conferences/par-rendering-1993 Details of the Parallel Rendering Symposium 1993 being held at the Red Lion Hotel, San Jose, California, USA from 25th-26th October 1993. /parallel/faqs/clusters-of-workstations Summary of information on using clusters of workstations by Duncan Campbell . /parallel/faqs/load-balancing-simd Summary of responses about load balancing systems on SIMD architectures by Dominik Henrich /parallel/conferences/ipccc94-cfp Last call for papers for International Phoenix Conference on Computers and Communications (IPCCC '94) being held in April 1994. Submission deadline is 1st October 1993. /parallel/faqs/PVM PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine) FAQ list from newsgroups comp.parallel.pvm by Eugene N. Miya /parallel/faqs/transputer-FAQ General INMOS transputer FAQ of 02-September-1993 by Tom Bj|rkholm /parallel/faqs/transputer-compilers Transputer commercial and public domain compilers survey by Tom Bj|rkholm /parallel/faqs/transputer-ftp-sites Transputer ftp sites FAQ by Tom Bj|rkholm OTHER HIGHLIGHTS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ /parallel/documents/occam/manual3.ps.Z The latest draft (March 31 1992) of the occam 3 reference manual by Geoff Barrett of INMOS. This is freely distributable but is copyrighted by INMOS and is a full 203 page book in the same style of the Prentice Hall occam 2 reference manual. Thanks a lot to Geoff and INMOS for releasing this. /parallel/journals/trcom* LaTeX (.sty) and BibTeX (.bst) style files and examples of use for the forthcoming Wiley journal - Transputer Communications, organised by the World occam and Transputer User Group (WoTUG). See /parallel/documents/journals/transputer-communications.cfp for details on how to submit a paper. /parallel/software/folding-editors/origami.zip /parallel/software/folding-editors/origami.tar.Z An updated version of the origami folding editor distribution as improved by Johan Sunter of Twente, Netherlands. The PKZIP 2.0 compatible origami.zip archive contains all the files needed for running the editor on MSDOS, but no sources and the origami.tar.Z file contains all the sources and keymaps as well as binaries for SPARC architectures and for MSDOS systems. /parallel/reports/wotug/T9000-systems-workshop/* The reports from the T9000 Systems Workshop held at the University of Kent at Canterbury in October 1992. It contains ASCII versions of the slides given then with the permission of the speakers from INMOS. Thanks to Peter Thompson and Roger Shepherd for this. Subjects explained include the communications architecture and low-level communications, the processor pipeline and grouper, the memory system and how errors are handled. /parallel/papers/ukc/peter-welch/* Eleven papers by Professor Peter Welch and others of the Parallel Processing Group at the Computing Laboratory, University of Kent at Canterbury, England related to occam, the Transputer and other things. Peter is Chairman of the World occam and Transputer User Group (WoTUG) /parallel/software/inmos/iservers/* Many versions of the iserver- the normal version, one for Windows (WIserver), one for etherneted PCs (PCServer) and one for Meiko hardware. /parallel/software/vcr/*,../parmacs/* Software from University of Southampton: VCR - an occam compiler with virtual channel support [requires INMOS occam toolset] plus a version of the parallel macros for FORTRAN that runs over it (using a port of F2C which is supplied) [requires INMOS C toolset]. /parallel/software/folding-editors/* Lots of different versions of folding editors including origami and folding micro-emacs, traditionally used for occam programming environments. Also available: /pub/misc/ukc.reports The internal reports of the University of Kent at Canterbury Computing Laboratory. Many of these contain parallel computing research. /netlib/p4, /netlib/pvm, /netlib/pvm3, /netlib/picl, /netlib/paragraph, /netlib/maspar Mirror of the netlib files for the above packages. There are several ways to access the files which are described below - log in to the archive to browse files and retrieve them by email; transfer files by DARPA FTP over JIPS or use Blue Book NI-FTP. Logging in: ~~~~~~~~~~~ JANET X.25 network: call uk.ac.hensa.unix (or 000049200900 if you do not have NRS) JIPS: telnet unix.hensa.ac.uk (or 129.12.21.7) Once connected, use the login name 'archive' and your email address to enter. You will then be placed inside the fbr restricted shell. Use the help command for up to date details of what commands are available. Transferring files by FTP ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ DARPA ftp from JIPS/the internet: site: unix.hensa.ac.uk (or 129.12.21.7) login: anonymous password: Use the 'get' command to transfer a file from the remote machine to the local one. When transferring a binary file it is important to give the command 'binary' before initiating the transfer. For more details of the 'ftp' command, see the manual page by typing 'man ftp'. The NI-FTP (Blue Book) request over JANET path-of-file from uk.ac.hensa.unix Username: guest Password: The program to do an NI-FTP transfer varies from site to site but is usually called hhcp or fcp. Ask your local experts for information. Transferring files by Email ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To obtain a specific file email a message to archive@unix.hensa.ac.uk containing the single line send path-of-file or 'help' for more information. Browsing and transferring by gopher ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >From the Root Minnesota Gopher gopher, select the following entries: 8. Other Gopher and Information Servers/ 5. Europe/ 34. United Kingdom/ 13. HENSA unix (National software archive, University of Kent), (UK)/ 3. The UNIX HENSA Archive at the University of Kent at Canterbury/ 9. PARALLEL - Parallel Computing / and browse the archive as normal. [The numbers are very likely to change] The short descriptions are abbreviated to fit on an 80 column display but the long ones can always be found under 'General Information.' (the Index files). Updates to the gopher tree follow a little behind the regular updates. In Progess ~~~~~~~~~~ The rest of the INMOS archive server files. WoTUG related papers and information. NATUG information and membership form. A HUGE bibliography of occam papers, PhD theses and publications - currently about 2000 entries. DONATIONS ~~~~~~~~~ Donations are very welcome. We do not allow uploading of files directly but if you have something you want to donate, please contact me. Dave Beckett Computing Laboratory, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK, CT2 7NF Tel: [+44] (0)227 764000 x7691 Fax: [+44] (0)227 762811 Email: djb1@ukc.ac.uk