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
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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