bjnw@castle.ed.ac.uk (B Wylie) (11/27/90)
The EPCC would like to contact other institutions and organisations involved in research into parallel computation. A summary of our activities is listed below; similarly detailed responses from interested groups which would like to be added to our mailing list are invited. Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre ----------------------------------- The University of Edinburgh has been investigating massively-parallel SIMD and coarse-grained MIMD parallelism since 1982, recently culminating in the initiation of the new Centre. Current staffing totals over 30, including 6 full-time research staff, about 10 staff on software development and several more responsible for industrial liaison and servicing a user community of around 300. This year's Project Directory lists some 150 active projects. Current multiprocessor hardware: * Meiko Computing Surface: 430+ Inmos T800s (1.7 Gbytes memory) * Meiko Computing Surface: 64 Intel i860s (1.0 Gbytes memory) * AMT Distributed Array Processor: DAP-608/64 (4096 PEs) * AMT Distributed Array Processor: DAP-510/8 (1024 PEs) * Parsytec Multicluster II: 16 T800 nodes * Transtech: 16 T800 nodes * Silicon Graphics 4D-220 GTXB dual processor system Existing software environments and utilities: * Tiny - performance-optimised message-router for transputer-based machines * Rian - Meiko OPS configuration and debugging environment * CAPE & DAP-CellSim - cellular automaton programming environments * Rhwydwaith - distributed neural networks simulator * D3 - distributed polygon-renderer * Also: OPS, MeikOS, gfx, CStools, Linda, TDS, Helios, X, GKS, DGL, ... Primary research interests include: * numerical algorithms & optimisation * parallelisation tools from algorithmic templates * mapping & load-balancing in relation to data decomposition strategies * tools for interactive parallelisation on multicomputers * object-orientated programming systems for parallel computers * performance measurement & visualisation of message-passing traffic * application development support from tools & environments Selected recent or on-going applications include: * quantum chromodynamics * cellular automata for computational fluid dynamics * generative communications systems (Linda) * protein and gene sequence comparison algorithms * surface detection & display within three-dimensional datasets For more information, or to reply, please contact: Brian Wylie Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre E-mail: EPCC-contacts@uk.ac.ed James Clark Maxwell Building University of Edinburgh Mayfield Road tel: [+44] (31) 667-1011 x5030 Edinburgh EH9 3JZ fax: [+44] (31) 667-4712 Scotland