jnv@cl.cam.ac.uk (Neil Viljoen) (03/01/90)
A friend of mine is interested in finite element analysis. He asked me what finite element systems were available on Transputers as this seemed a natural application for parallel processing. Now I know that some company in Wales had something to this effect but I think it was only for single Transputers. Has anybody got anymore information on this or other packages? Does Inmos publish a list of all software developers and packages available ?
bradshaw@TCGOULD.TN.CORNELL.EDU (Stephen J. Bradshaw) (03/02/90)
>A friend of mine is interested in finite element analysis. He asked me >what finite element systems were available on Transputers as this seemed >a natural application for parallel processing. Now I know that some >company in Wales had something to this effect but I think it was only >for single Transputers. Has anybody got anymore information on this or >other packages? The company you mention is Rockfield Software which indeed specialises in Finite Element analysis software. They are based in Swansea in Wales. Your suggestion that their software can only utilize single Transputers is not true. Many of the applications they are working on are ideal for implementation on 'highly parallel' arrays of Transputers. They have a number of different software products for the Transputer and I believe most of the are at lest capable of utilising multiple processors, although I cannot comment on the licencing restrictions the number of processors used. The range of softare products encompass Tranputer Systems hosted by PC's and Sun workstations. On the PC, they provide uFLOW for flow analysis and uPLAST for elast-plastic analysia as well as many others. On the Sun workstation they have developed a Transient Dynamic analysis package using the Transtech Multi-Computing Platform. Further information can be obtained direct from Rockfiled at the following address: Rockfield Software Ltd, The Innovation Centre, University College of Swansea, Singleton Park, Swansea, SA2 8PP West Glamorgan, Wales. Phone: [+44] (0)792 295551 >Does Inmos publish a list of all software developers and packages available ? Contact Inmos ! They have a database known as the White Pages which provides information on developers, hardware, and software products which utilise the Transputer. This should contain the sort of information you want. S.J.Bradshaw --------------------------------- / Transtech ----------- Manager, Systems Division, /_/ Transtech Parallel Systems Corporation, /_/_/ 120 Langmuir Laboratory, /_/ Parallel 95 Brown Road, / Technology Cornell Business and Technology Park, Ithaca, Phone: (607) 257 6502 NY 14850-9430 Fax: (607) 257 3980 USA. email: bradshaw@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu
J.Blair-Fish@edinburgh.ac.uk (03/03/90)
The company is Rockfield Software Ltd, The Innovation Centre, University College of Swansea, Singelton Park, Swansea, SA2 8TP. Phone (UK) 0792 295551. Fax 0792 295532. Their software runs on up to 5 transputers; a year ago it was demonstrated on a Quintek system. Richard Waite and others from Liverpool University have ported some of the SERC/NAG Finite Element Subroutine Library to Transputer Systems but I have not seen any product advertised. Liverpool University phone is 051-709 6022 and the transputer centre there has phone 051-708 5760. Haydyn Scholes (0209 860141) has ported PAFEC to run on a single transputer and this is available through Kevin Bradley of Bradley Associates (0344 761311). Parsys are said to be in colloboration with FEGS to produce something. Sorry I can not give E-mail addresses or be more definitive. John Blair-Fish Edinburgh University Computing Services