NAGJDC@vax.oxford.ac.uk (08/29/89)
This is a response to a message which was broadcast by John Blair-Fish on 21 July. We wish to expand on that message, and to correct some details in it. Mark 12 of the NAG Fortran Library has been implemented to run on a single transputer, with an IBM PC front-end, using the INMOS 3L compiler. This software is available from NAG Ltd. The implementation was done by Liverpool University. Mark 13 of the NAG Fortran Library is currently being implemented, again to run on a single transputer, using the Meiko Fortran compiler: a) on a Meiko Computing Surface b) on a Meiko PC card This implementation is being done by the Cambourne School of Mines. As soon as this work has been completed and certified, it will be available from NAG Ltd. There are no other implementations of the NAG Fortran Library on transputers which are authorised by NAG. We are aware that some individual users have transferred selected NAG Library routines to various transputer-based systems, having obtained a copy of the source-text from their local NAG Site Representative. In such cases they should always sign a NAG source-text release form, and it should be understood that the routines are only to be used for bona fide research purposes. For the future, NAG are currently working with Liverpool University on the development of a parallel numerical library for the transputer-based Supernode machine. The work is being undertaken as part of the EC-funded Esprit 2 project, Supernode 2. This parallel library will cover the same principal areas of numerical computation as the NAG Fortran Library, but, at least initially, it is likely to be much less extensive in its coverage and not directly compatible with the NAG Fortran Library. The library will be callable from Fortran programs, and is intended to be transportable to other transputer-based systems. When completed, the library will be marketed by NAG Ltd. Liverpool University developed a small pilot library of parallel numerical routines under the Supernode 1 project, and this is available from NA Software Ltd. NAG is also planning other collaborative research projects to develop parallel numerical software for various types of parallel architecture, including transputer-based systems. Jeremy Du Croz, NAG Ltd