krj@na.toronto.edu (Ken Jackson) (10/23/89)
NA Digest Sunday, October 22, 1989 Volume 89 : Issue 41 Today's Editor: Cleve Moler Today's Topics: Change of Address for Izzy Nelken Change of Address for Magnus Ewerbring Change of Address for Bruce Bukiet Positions at University of Kansas Visualization and Graphics Symposium Positions available at NASA Ames Research Center NSF Phases Out JvNC ------------------------------------------------------- From: Israel Nelken <israel@cs.toronto.edu> Date: Mon, 16 Oct 89 09:35:32 EDT Subject: Change of Address for Izzy Nelken Izzy Nelken has graduated from Rutgers University and can now be reached at: Izzy Nelken Department of Computer Science University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A4 CANADA Phone: (416) 978-5899 Fax: (416) 978-4765 Internet: israel@na.toronto.edu ------------------------------ From: Magnus Ewerbring <ewerbrin@antares.mcs.anl.gov> Date: Mon, 16 Oct 89 15:26:40 CDT Subject: Change of Address for Magnus Ewerbring Please note my new address: Magnus Ewerbring Mathematics and Computer Science Division Argonne National Laboratory 9700 South Cass Avenue Argonne, Il 60439 phone: (312)972-3118 e-mail: ewerbrin@mcs.anl.gov ------------------------------ From: Bruce Bukiet <brbuki@m.njit.edu> Date: Tue, 17 Oct 89 08:32:44 EDT Subject: Change of Address for Bruce Bukiet My new address is: Bruce Bukiet Department of Mathematics New Jersey Institute of Technology Newark, NJ 07102 (201)596-3495 e-mail: brbuki@math-gw.njit.edu ------------------------------ From: Ralph Byers <BYERS@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> Date: Mon, 16 Oct 89 18:21 CDT Subject: Positions at University of Kansas Job Announcement Department of Mathematics University of Kansas Applications are invited for tenure-track and temporary positions at all levels, commencing mid August 1990 or as negotiated. Field is unrestricted but preference will be given to numerical analysis, probability/statistics and to areas meshing well with the department's needs. A Ph.D. (or Ph.D. dissertation accepted with only formalities to be completed) is required. Application, detailed resume with description of research and three recommendation letters should be sent to C. J. Himmelberg, Chairman, Department of Mathematics, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045-2142. (The department may also be contacted by email at mailbox@ukanvax.bitnet or mailbox@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu.) For details, contact Ralph Byers at the above address, by email at byers@ukanvax.bitnet or by telephone (913)864-3651. Deadlines: December 1, 1989 for first consideration, then monthly until August 1, 1990. ------------------------------ From: George Sell <sell%csfsa@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu> Date: Mon, 16 Oct 89 19:27:13 cdt Subject: Visualization and Graphics Symposium UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA VISUALIZATION AND GRAPHICS A SYMPOSIUM 30 November 1989 at the Minnesota Supercomputer Center Presentations by Terry Lybrand Albert Marden Subbiah Ramalingam L.E. Scriven Paul Woodward Sponsored by Army High Performance Computing Research Center Institute for Mathematics and its Applications Geometry Supercomputer Project Minnesota Supercomputer Institute For further information please contact: MSI Symposium Coordinator Minnesota Supercomputer Institute 1200 Washington Ave S Minneapolis, MN 55455 (612) 625-1818 ------------------------------ From: Horst Simon <simon@sun230.nas.nasa.gov> Date: Thu, 19 Oct 89 16:28:02 -0700 Subject: Positions available at NASA Ames Research Center OPEN POSITIONS NASA Ames Research Center NAS Applied Research Office Mountain View, California The Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation (NAS) Systems Division at NASA Ames Research Center operates a national supercomputer center, with a 4-processor Cray-2, an 8-processor Cray Y-MP, a high-speed communications network, and high-performance color graphics workstations. Recently NAS established the Applied Research Office, one of whose missions is to perform state-of-the-art research in highly parallel computation for fluid dynamics applications. Our organization now operates a Connection Machine CM-2, with 32,768 processing nodes and floating-point hardware. Later this year a new generation hypercube system, with true supercomputer performance, will be added to this facility. The Applied Research Office is seeking additional personnel to take the lead in working with NASA fluid dynamicists to implement important applications on our highly parallel computer systems. Included in the effort is the development of new algorithms and computational techniques to obtain high performance on the target systems. Qualifications for these positions include the following: An advanced degree in computer science, mathematics, physics, or engineering. Programming experience on an advanced parallel computer system in a scientific application. Experience on a MIMD hypercube system is particularly desirable. Familiarity with computational fluid dynamics or other similar PDE applications. Published articles in parallel computing or numeric computation. Familiarity with Fortran and the Unix operating system. U.S. citizenship is not required, but candidates must be at least permanent U.S. residents. Both civil service and contractor positions are available. Interested persons should contact David H. Bailey NASA Ames Research Center Mail Stop T045-1 Moffett Field, CA 94035 Telephone: 415-694-4410 Internet: dbailey@ew11.nas.nasa.gov ------------------------------ From: David Salzman <salzman@jvnca.csc.org> Date: Tue, 17 Oct 89 21:54:28 EDT Subject: NSF Phases Out JvNC Press Release 17 October 1989 For Immediate Release For further information, contact : Dr. Doyle Knight, President Consortium for Scientific Computing The John von Neumann National Supercomputer Center Princeton, NJ Telephone : 609-520-2000 The Consortium for Scientific Computing has been informed by the National Science Foundation that NSF will not renew its funding for the John von Neumann National Supercomputer Center beyond September 1990, at the end of the current five year grant period. The NSF indicated that the reason for non-renewal was the collapse of ETA Systems, the Center's supercomputer vendor, in April 1989. "I was surprised and very disappointed by this decision," said Doyle Knight, President of the Consortium for Scientific Computing. "In our judgement, this action is inconsistent with the recommendation of the NSF's own Peer Review Panel and with the recommendations contained in the Federal High Performance Computing Program report issued just last month by the Office of Science and Technology Policy." In April, the Control Data Corporation, the owner of ETA Systems and the manufacturer of the ETA10 (the supercomputer currently employed at the Center), announced that it would be discontinuing its supercomputer activities, including support for the ETA10. Following that decision, the Consortium revised its program plan and submitted a new renewal proposal on June 1, substituting an eight-processor Cray Y-MP for the ETA10. The revised proposal was reviewed by an NSF Peer Review Panel, which recommended that the JvNC be renewed for another five-year period. "Our proposal involved major cost sharing from state, university and industrial sectors. The State of New Jersey and Consortium institutions committed $18 million in direct cash funding for the JvNC for the next five years," said Richard Spies, Vice President for Finance and Administration at Princeton University and Treasurer of the Consortium for Scientific Computing. "Based upon information provided to us by the National Science Foundation, this financial support is the second largest commitment from state and university sources among the five NSF supercomputer centers." "We hope that the National Science Foundation will reconsider this decision," said Bruce Ekstrand, Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the University of Colorado and Chairman of Board of Trustees for the Consortium for Scientific Computing. "In our judgement, the NSF decision does not fully recognize the quality of the JvNC program or the crucial contributions of the JvNC to the national scientific and engineering research communities." Edward Cohen, Executive Director for he New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology, agreed. "The JvNC has made a major contribution to the New Jersey academic and industrial research community. Its impact has been extraordinary in education, training and technology transfer." he said. The JvNC began operation in December 1985. Then Center currently supports more than 1400 researchers nationwide in a wide range of scientific disciplines including biology, chemistry, engineering, mathematics and physics. The JvNC operates a state- of-the-art high speed data communications network, the JvNCNET, which serves twenty academic and industrial research institutions and is a gateway to two international networks. The JvNCNET was the world's first T-1 (1.5 megabit/second) network connecting research universities when established in May 1986. The membership of the Consortium for Scientific Computing includes the University of Arizona, Brown University, University of Colorado, Columbia University, Harvard University, Institute for Advanced Study, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, New York University, Pennsylvania State University, University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, University of Rochester and Rutgers University. ------------------------------ End of NA Digest ************************** Reposted by Prof. Kenneth R. Jackson, krj@na.toronto.edu (on Internet, CSNet, Computer Science Dept., ARPAnet, BITNET) University of Toronto, krj@na.utoronto.ca (on CDNnet and other Toronto, Ontario, X.400 nets (Europe)) Canada M5S 1A4 ...!{uunet,pyramid,watmath,ubc-cs}!utai!krj (Phone: 416-978-7075) (on UUCP) (FAX: 416-978-4765)