krj@utcsri.UUCP (05/19/87)
NA Digest Monday, May 18, 1987 Volume 87 : Issue 43 This weeks Editor: Gene Golub Today's Topics: USENET hypercube news group Parallel Short Course at ORNL - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mail-From: GOLUB created at 17-May-87 22:40:43 Date: Thu, 14 May 87 09:34:22 edt From: steve@hubcap.clemson.edu (Dennis Stevenson) To: na-request@score.stanford.edu ReSent-Date: Sun 17 May 87 22:40:43-PDT ReSent-From: Gene H. Golub <GGOLUB@Score.Stanford.EDU> ReSent-To: na@Score.Stanford.EDU Subject: USENET hypercube news group. I am trying to set up a news group on USENET with the following outline: Purpose. The purpose of the news group is to (1) Provide a technical forum for exchange of information concerning hypercubes. This information may be vendor specific or vendor independent (such as general algorithms). Special attention to scientific programming (not hardware oriented!). (2) Provide a means for users to get to know one another. (3) Provide for timely dissemination of special meetings and/or activites directily relating to hypercubes. (4) "LIMITED" announcements by manufacturers. Focus. The focus will be on scientific programming on all manner of hypercubes. Eventually, I would expect the focus to expand to scientific programming issues on general non von Neumann architectures. If you would like to see this news group come about, please respond to dsteven@clemson.csnet steve@hubcap.clemson.edu hubcap@hubcap.clemson.edu Thanks: Steve Stevenson (803) 656-5880 - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 May 87 10:15:01 EDT From: mth@ORNL-MSR.ARPA (Michael T. Heath) To: na@score.stanford.edu Subject: Parallel Short Course at ORNL ORNL Short Course on Parallel Computing The Mathematical Sciences Section of Oak Ridge National Laboratory will offer a one-week short course on the practical use of multiprocessors for solving computational problems in science and engineering. The course is intended primarily for new staff members of ORNL and for visiting faculty and students under various summer programs and the upcoming Special Year in Numerical Linear Algebra, but others are also welcome to attend subject to availability of space; priority will be given to DOE-supported researchers. Primary emphasis will be on distributed-memory multiprocessors, typified by hypercubes. Participants will learn "hands-on" parallel programming techniques using the Section's Intel iPSC d6 Hypercube, which has 64 processors and 32 Mbytes of local memory. An NCUBE hypercube is also available at ORNL, although it will not be the primary vehicle for the course. In addition, parallel programming techniques for shared-memory multiprocessors will be covered, using the Section's Sequent Balance 8000, which has 8 processors and 8 Mbytes of shared memory. All of these machines have Unix-based operating systems and support both the C and Fortran programming languages; prior familiarity with Unix would be an extremely helpful but not absolutely necessary prerequisite. Participants will be encouraged to gain practical experience by completing a small project on each type of parallel architecture as part of the course. In addition to a general orientation on both machines, the course will also discuss important issues in parallel algorithm development, including techniques for partitioning algorithms for parallel implementation and efficient communication procedures. Following the course, continued access to these parallel machines will be provided to the extent that machine time is available. In order that we may allocate these limited resources fairly, prospective users may apply for access to either of the parallel machines by submitting a brief proposal outlining a proposed project for parallel implementation. Depending on demand, we anticipate offering the course twice, once in summer and again in the fall. Tentative dates are June 22-26 and September 28-October 2, 1987. For further information, please contact: Mike Heath Mathematical Sciences Section Oak Ridge National Laboratory P.O. Box Y, Bldg. 9207A Oak Ridge, TN 37831 Phone 615-574-3130 mth@ornl-msr.arpa - ------------------------------ End of NA Digest **************************