Arthur Wouk - Army Research Office <wouk%brl.arpa@CSNET-RELAY> (12/22/85)
ARO WORKSHOP
on
PARALLEL PROCESSING AND MEDIUM SCALE MULTIPROCESSORS
CENTER FOR EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH (CERAS)
STANFORD UNIVERSITY
STANFORD, CALIFORNIA
6-8 January, 1986
The Mathematical Sciences Division is planning a research workshop on the to-
pic of "Parallel Processing and Medium Scale Multiprocessors" to be held at
Stanford University with the cooperation of the Computer Science Department on
6-8 January 1986. The workshop is to be held at the Center for Educational
Research (CERAS), which is where the preceding ARO workshop at Stanford was
held.
As the need to solve larger and larger problems on computers is felt by the
engineering and scientific community, architects are moving in three different
directions: ever larger and faster supercomputers, minisupercomputers offering
the power of yesterday's supercomputers at a sharply reduced price, and mul-
tiprocessors involving substantial numbers (say 16-100) of relatively inex-
pensive processors engaged in simultaneous computation on the same problem.
This workshop will focus on the latter direction. With the first commercial
releases of machines with such architectures, and continued exploratory work
on home-brewed multiprocessors, the time is ripe for a workshop on the prob-
lems which have been uncovered as these systems get into the hands of experi-
mental users, and their solutions.
The following is a current list of speakers and titles (as available):
George F. Adams, Ballistic Research Laboratory: Applied quantum chem-
istry on a parallel computer
George B. Adams III, RIACS: Image Contour Extraction with Hypercube
and Bus-Structured Multiprocessor Computers
George Cybenko, Tufts University: Heterogeneous Processes on a Homo-
geneous Multi-Processor
Dennis B. Gannon, Indiana University: Scheduling Recurrences and Re-
cursion across Multiple Processors
W. Morven Gentleman* and Darlene A. Stewart, National Research Coun-
cil, Ottawa, Canada: Debugging Multi-Task Programs
Michael Heath, Oak Ridge National Laboratories: Sparse Matrix Compu-
tations on a Hypercube Multiprocessor
Jung Pyo Hong* and Bob Tomlinson, Los Alamos National Laboratories,
and Nisheeth Patel, Ballistic Research Laboratory: Solving a Hydro-
dynamics Problem on a Hypercube Simulator
Harry Jordan, University of Colorado, Boulder: The Force on the Flex:
Global Parallelism and Portability
Lennart Johnsson, Yale University: "Fast" linear algebra routines on
boolean cubes
Oliver A. McBryan, Courant Institute, New York University: Architec-
tural and Software Issues for Large-scale Multiprocessors
Cleve Moler and David Scott*, Intel: Programming the Hypercube: Ma-
trix Computations and Game Playing
Michael Raugh, RIACS: Parallel and Distributed Processing: the RIACS
Program
Robert B. Schnabel*, Richard Byrd, Cees Dert and Alexander Rinnooy
Kan, University of Colorado, Boulder: Concurrent Algorithms for Glo-
bal Optimization on a Network of Computers
Joel Saltz, ICASE: Decision Making in Executing Scientific Algorithms
on Multiprocessors
Danny Sorensen* and Jack Dongarra, Argonne National Laboratories &
CEDAR: SCHEDULE - An aid to writing explicitly parallel programs in
Fortran
Dianne P. O'Leary, G. W. Stewart* and Robert van de Geijn, University
of Maryland: DOMINO A Transportable Operating System For Parallel
Computation
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PARKING
Parking space on the Stanford Campus is very limited and hard to find. There
are pay parking lots at Encino Hall and the Tennis Courts, which are about a
block away from CERAS. The parking fee should be about $0.75 per day.
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SOCIAL NOTES
There are several activities planned to increase interaction among the
attendees at the workshop. Among them are a banquet, selected by the MASTER
OF THE CHINESE BANQUET, our host Gene Golub, at a location to be revealed only
at the meeting. The cost of the banquet will be $20.00.
There will be a registration fee of $10.00 to cover the costs of facilities,
etc., incidental to running the workshop.
Please complete the following form and mail it, together with with a check for
the relevant amount payable to Gene H. Golub - ARO Conference, to
Gene Golub
ARO Conference
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305.
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future workshops to be organized by ARO, please send a copy of the following
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ACCOMMODATIONS
There is a block of 20 rooms available at:
Mermaid Motor Hotel
727 El Camino Real
Menlo Park, CA 94025
Telephone: 415-323-9481
Single $40.00 plus tax Double (2persons) $46.00 plus tax
Reservations must be confirmed by December 15, 1985 by check or credit card.
Individual rooms are also available at the Flamingo in Palo Alto (415-493-
2411) with somewhat more elegant rooms slightly farther from the campus.
Individual rooms are also available at the Courier Motel, Palo Alto (415-493-
9085) which is less expensive and somewhat farther from the campus.
ANNOUNCEMENT
I wish to announce that the proceedings of the Workshop: New Computing
Environments: Parallel, Vector, Systolic, held at Stanford in November of
1984 are now in press. The publisher is SIAM, and deliveries are to take
place in January.
A preliminary version was present at the Second SIAM Conference on Parallel
Processing for Scientific Computing held at Norfolk last month.
For further information,. contact SIAM Publications.
There will be a poroceedings for the current workshop.
For any further information about this workshop, please contact
Arthur Wouk
Arpanet: wouk@brl-bmd
Usenet: ...!decvax!brl-bmd!wouk
Na.wouk@su-score
919-549-0641
US Mail: USARO MATH
P.O.Box 12211
Research Triangle Park NC 27709mcbryan <mcbryan@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu> (04/01/87)
SUMMER WORKSHOP IN PARALLEL COMPUTATION
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO
(Preliminary Announcement)
The Department of Computer Science and the Academic Computing
Center will hold a two-week Workshop in Parallel Computation on
the campus of the University of Colorado from 15 June 1987 to 26
June 1987. The Workshop will consist of lectures by leading ex-
perts in parallel computation and laboratory work on local memory
and shared memory multiprocessors. The tentative list of speakers
includes Jim Browne (U. Texas), Oliver McBryan (Courant Insti-
tute), James McGraw (Livermore), Cleve Moler (Intel), Danny
Sorensen (Argonne), David Waltz (Thinking Machines), Harry Jordan
(U. Colorado), Gary Nutt (U. Colorado), Bobby Schnabel (U.
Colorado). Lectures will cover a broad range of topics including
languages, architectures, numerical and non-numerical applica-
tions. The Workshop is intended for graduate students and recent
PhD's in computer science as well as a smaller number of espe-
cially promising undergraduate students. It is expected that
these participants will bring with them a project to be worked on
during the laboratory sessions.
Participants may receive a stipend of approximately $500, the ex-
act amount depending on the estimated costs of the workshop to
the participant and his or her need for support. The selection of
participants will depend on the following criteria: brief state-
ment of research activities and interests; two letters of recom-
mendation; transcript of grades; and, description of parallel
computation project for the Workshop.
It is anticipated that this workshop will be supported in part by
the Office of Advanced Scientific Computing of the National Sci-
ence Foundation.
Inquiries should be addressed to:
Professor Lloyd Fosdick
Department of Computer Science
Campus Box 430
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309
(303) 492-7507, lloyd@boulder.colorado.edu (csnet)