[sci.lang.japan] Kahaner Reports: summary of lists

eugene@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya) (07/03/90)

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From: David Kahaner, ONRFE [kahaner@xroads.cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp]
Re: Reports I have written as of 2 July 1990

All except those noted are available by electronic mail.
Questions should be addressed to me, electronically if possible. For 
other correspondence use the address below.
    From within the USA...
        Dr. David K. Kahaner
        Office of Naval Research, Far East
        APO SF 96503-0007
    From other locations...
        Dr. David K. Kahaner
        Office of Naval Research, Far East
        Roppongi 7-23-17
        Minato-ku, Tokyo 106 Japan
    Tel: (03) 401-8978, Fax: (03) 403-9670            


Apr 11 12:16 trprpt.290
    (1) Trip report 20-24 Feb 1990, Hiroshima and Ehime Universities
    (2) Brief reports:
                 9 Feb, Quantum Magneto Flux Project
                13-14 Feb, UTokyo
                15 Feb, Hitachi Central Research Lab
                26 Feb, Nat Res Lab Metrology, Tsukuba
                 1 Mar, Parallel computing meeting, Keio University

Apr 11 12:19 quality.sw
     The Second International Workshop on Software Quality Improvement
     was held in Kyoto, Japan, from 22-24 January 1990. The workshop was
     jointly organized by Professor Torii (Osaka University) and
     Professor Basili (University of Maryland). The workshop is
     summarized from the perspective of a numerical analyst. The major
     conclusions are that some Japanese companies are better at managing
     the software development process than comparable U.S. companies and
     that more interaction is needed between numerical and nonnumerical
     software developers.

Apr 11 12:23 trp12-89
     Accompanying Professor Gene Golub, Computer Science Department,
     Stanford University to Institute of Statistical Mathematics, PAX
     computer project at University of Tsukuba, IBM's Tokyo Research
     Laboratory, Kyoto University's Research Institute for Mathematical
     Sciences, and Ryukoku University.

Apr 11 12:26 speech.etl
    Summary of the report, Researches of the Electrotechnical Laboratory, 
    Number 905, December 1989.  "Studies on a Vocal Tract Model for 
    Speech Synthesis and Analysis" (126 pages including 124 item 
    bibliography) by
                       Hiroshi Ohmura 
                       Speech Processing Section
                       Machine Understanding Division
                       Electrotechnical Laboratory

Apr 11 12:52 sna90
     The First International Conference on Supercomputing in Nuclear
     Applications (SNA90) was held from 12-15 March 1990 in Mito City,
     Japan.  This paper summarizes the significant presentations and
     vendor exhibits associated with Japanese software and hardware.

Apr 11 14:56 jifip (Not available electronically)
     Titles and authors of March 1990 meeting of Japan Information
     Processing Society (more than 1000).

Apr 12 08:55 pax
     The PAX parallel processing project developed at the University of 
     Tsukuba by T. Hoshino is summarized. PAX is a two dimensional array 
     of processors which operate in MIMD form. QCDPAX has a fast floating 
     point unit, specially programmed for QCD calculations.  Peak 
     performance is 12.5 Gigaflops.  

Apr 25 10:01 crc
     This report illustrates the breadth of applications and research 
     areas of a "service bureau" organization, Century Research 
     Corporation (CRC), Tokyo.

Apr 25 13:52 scj90
     Supercomputing Japan 90, 27-29 March 1990, Tokyo, Japan, and visit 
     to NEC to see SX/3 supercomputer.  

Apr 25 15:46 fujitsu.3d
    Fujitsu's 3D movie generated partially via CAP 256 parallel computer.

Apr 28 11:31 anritsu
    Commercialization of PAX by Anritsu Corporation.

May  1 14:55 yosh
    Report by H. Yoshihara on Japanese Supercomputer Performance on 
    specific computational fluid dynamics benchmark program and 
    comparison with Cray.  

May  9 10:55 isdn
    Papers on ISDN (Integrated Service Digital Network).

May 24 10:09 j-supers.590
    List of supercomputers in Japan.

May 24 15:22 ohbayashi
    Computer Modeling in the Construction Industry--
    Ohbayashi Corporation's Research Lab

May 30 09:30 sony
     An overview of Sony's Computer Science Laboratory (CSL) is given.  
     CSL specializes in research on object-oriented programming and 
     distributed operating systems.  

Jun  4 12:22 ibm-nic
     The IBM Tokyo Numerically Intensive Computation Center is reviewed.  
     This center mainly supports users who wish to develop vectorized 
     versions of programs on IBM's 3090 VF computers. The Tokyo Research 
     Laboratory performs longer term research in computer science, 
     mathematics, graphics, and languages.  

Jun  5 11:33 pp90
     Titles of papers presented at Information Processing Society of 
     Japan Symposium on Parallel Processing '90, 17-19 May 1990.  

Jun 14 09:57 atr
     The Advanced Telecommunication Research Institute (ATR) 

Jun 21 13:39 japgovt
     A brief outline of Japanese Government ministries and agencies is 
     shown with an emphasis of those that support science and technology.  
     Several major projects related to computing are described.  

Jun 26 10:33 nipt
     A proposed new MITI national project "New Information Processing 
     Technology" (NIPT) merging soft information processing with massive 
     parallelism is described. The proposed project is also compared to 
     related work in other countries. I am told that the project, in some 
     form, has a good chance of being supported in the near future.  

Jul  2 07:36 10ssymp
     The tenth meeting of Software Symposium, held in Kyoto Japan 6-8 
     June 1990 is briefly summarized. The most interesting aspects were 
     discussions by the Chinese of their national project.  

Jul  2 07:37 etl
     A visit to the Data Flow project at ETL is summarized. The Dataflow 
     SIGMA-1 computer project is ending. The new project EM-4, will have 
     1,024 processors and is designed to have less overhead. EM-4 was 
     originally proposed for symbolic rather than numeric computation, 
     but the designers now feel that with the inclusion of floating point 
     hardware it will also be used for numerical computation. Currently 
     an 80 processor version of EM-4 is running at 997 MIPs.  

Jul  2 09:53 spice
     We review research at Toshiba in vectorizing the circuit simulation 
     program SPICE, and research at NEC at building a special purpose 
     multiprocessor for circuit simulation modeling.  

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