arhegde@vela.acs.oakland.edu (anupama hegde) (07/27/90)
I have looked up this newsgroup several times with the hope of finding something interesting but it appears even hypercube cronies seem to prefer comp.parallel or some other similar(parallel!) group where you have to sift through piles of other stuff to find something on hypercubes - if at all. I am interested in interacting with people who are working with/on hypercube architectures. I am engaged in the task of programming NCUBE's NCube/4 (2-D 4 node hypercube) and would be delighted to get in touch with others like myself. Am encountering some problems and would appreciate the opportunity to pick some more experienced person's brains! Or maybe I'll have some suggestions for you. Would also like to hear about experiences of other hypercube users.The recently held Ncube Users Group meeting at South Carolina triggered off an Ncube-users mailing list but I believe that will be inactive till Aug 18th. Here's to a more active newsgroup... *********************************************************************** Anupama Hegde _____ We are lucky when a person with ECE Dept,Oakland University |~+~| nothing to say chooses not to make Rochester,MI \ / a wordy exhibition of the fact
murray@vs2.scri.fsu.edu (John Murray) (07/28/90)
> Although this group "exists" on your machine (and ours), it doesn't > "officially" exist: i.e. it's not in the list of Usenet newsgroups > that is posted periodically to news.lists. If this was a legitimate > newsgroup at one time, I suspect the very narrow focus caused it to be > replaced by the broader-scoped comp.parallel. John, you're exactly correct. The old comp.hypercube was formed first and is still in the lists constructed by the news reader programs. The submission point is still the same: it all comes to me. I post only to comp.parallel. =========================== MODERATOR ============================== Steve Stevenson fpst@hubcap.clemson.edu (aka D. E. Stevenson), steve@hubcap.clemson.edu Department of Computer Science, comp.parallel Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634-1906 (803)656-5880.mabell
xxrich%alliant1@uunet.UU.NET (Rich Rinehart) (08/01/90)
> In article <2240@vela.acs.oakland.edu> arhegde@vela.acs.oakland.edu (anupama hegde) writes: > > > > > > I have looked up this newsgroup several times with the hope of finding > >something interesting but it appears even hypercube cronies seem to prefer > >[stuff deleted] > > I too have been watching this group. We're due to get 2 8 node iPSC/2's in > a month or two. Is anybody out there?? ? > -rich > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Rich Rinehart | phone: 216-433-5211 > NASA Lewis Research Center | email: xxrich@alliant1.lerc.nasa.gov > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The answer is no. The history is this. In 1986, I called for votes to comp.hypercube. It passed and I was made the moderator. In February or so, there was a readership who wanted another group for general parallel, one for hypercubes, one for CM's, ad nauseam. We submitted the whole thing to a vote, one of the alternatives being what is now comp.parallel. It was, obviously, the comp.parallel proposal which won out. Now, if I as moderator, try to post to comp.hypercube, it is rejected. Don't know what happens if you try to post to comp.hypercube. For the iPSC users, there is an mailing list run by Dave Fielding out of Cornell. His old address is fielding@tcgould.cornell.edu. As far as I know, there is not an equivalent NCube group. Perhaps someone from NCube can enlighten us. There are several regular listeners/contributors from Thinking Machines. The policy has been that as long as it it not too blatent a commercial, hardware and software announcements are posted to the net. This allows us to keep up with the comings and goings. Demises get talked about through normal gossip :-). Any comments sent by follow-up will get to me. =========================== MODERATOR ============================== Steve Stevenson fpst@hubcap.clemson.edu (aka D. E. Stevenson), steve@hubcap.clemson.edu Department of Computer Science, comp.parallel Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634-1906 (803)656-5880.mabell
rsb@ccvr1.ncsu.edu (R. Scott Bartlett) (08/02/90)
yes, we've got a 16+1 (i/o w/ VME) node iPSC/2 cube. Well, to keep this on the subject... I've gotten my hands on VM_pRAY, and i've gotten it to generate an output file, but i have no clue as to what or how to display it. What format is it? Does anyone have any utilities to conver it it to say sunraster, GIF, IFF, iris, etc...? thanks a lot!! rsb -- R Scott Bartlett holder o' many accounts rsb@[ccvr1|eceugs|...].ncsu.edu Remember: "Everything counts, in Coming soon: The grand re-opening of lobuck.UUCP large amounts"--DM Home of the lobuck Amiga 1000 (now w/ 105Mb)
Didier.Badouel@irisa.fr (Didier Badouel) (08/03/90)
In article <9971@hubcap.clemson.edu>, rsb@ccvr1.ncsu.edu (R. Scott Bartlett) writes: |> I've gotten my hands on VM_pRAY, and i've gotten it to generate an |> output file, but i have no clue as to what or how to display it. What |> format is it? Does anyone have any utilities to conver it it to say |> sunraster, GIF, IFF, iris, etc...? You have two ways to display images from VM_pRAY. In the latest version of VM_pRAY (VM_pRAYjul90.tar), the image format may be either ppm or mtv. ppm (portable pixmap file format) Copyright (C) 1989 by Jef Poskanzer. utilities to convert ppm file (24bit) to either sunraster, GIF, ... are available from ftp.ee.lbl.gov [128.3.254.68]: *pbmplus.tar.Z*. , via anonymous ftp mtv (output from Mark VanDeWettering's ray tracer) you can: 1) If you get the ppm package, a use of the ppm utilities may be ppmquant 256 < image.ppm | ppmtogif > image.gif xloadimage image.gif 2) If you don't want to install the ppm package, you can use utilities from our site irisa.fr [131.254.2.3]: */iPSC2/VM_pRAY/color This directory contains programs to display an image 24 bits on 8 bits screen running under X window system: The routines generated accept the image format procuced by VM_pRAY (either mtv or ppm): Xnb: display the image with grey level. use: Xnb < image.mtv or image.ppm Xrvb: a simple program to display an image color. (not very pretty but fast). use: Xrvb < image.ppm or image.ppm comp24to8: generate a 8 bits image color with a good colormap compression. The 8 bits image is stored as a sun rasterfile file. use: comp24to8 < image.rvb > image.ras or image.ppm display: xloadimage image.ras -Hope this help, -didier badouel.