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 ****************************************************************************** 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. ****************************************************************************** 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ARO WORKSHOP Amount _________ I will attend the banquet Monday night: $20.00 |_________| __________ Registration Fee: $10.00 |_________| Total __________ NAME: Address:.................................. ARPANET:...................... .................................. USENET:....................... .................................. BITNET:....................... CSNET:........................ Organization:............................. 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Telephone:................................ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 27709
mcbryan <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)