aglew@oberon.crhc.uiuc.edu (Andy Glew) (08/01/90)
I recently posted seeking parallel programs for use in research into
parallel computer architectures, offering one, gravsim, for use by
other researchers, and mentioning a number of others.
I have just emailed a tar-compress-uuencode-split-sharred gravsim to
the several people who requested it. If you do not receive this
either I'm having email problems, or I didn't get your request.
I have also learned of several other sources of parallel applications
that may be useful:
Stanford University is assembling a parallel benchmark suite, that
will include locusroute and pthor and others. It will soon be
publicized. Thus, waiting for this benchmark suite may be easier than
bothering the authors of these programs.
The DECUS public domain software library tapes apparently contain
a number of parallel programs written for VAX VMS with symmetric
multiprocessing. Notable among these is Cayenne, a parallel version
of SPICE. I have not yet obtained these, but they sound very useful.
Contact DECUS for membership and ordering info.
Finally, several people contacted me saying that they have lent their
parallel applications to other researchers in the past, but refuse to
do it any more because they have been "burnt" by the experience - the
other researchers have "trashed" the contributed codes and attacked
the authors of the contributed benchmarks.
This is a sad commentary on the lack of basic etiquette in the
research community.
--
Andy Glew, andy-glew@uiuc.edu
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