art@CS.UCLA.EDU (01/25/89)
[ I've kept a copy of this message in the anonymous ftp directory. Anyone else wanting their center added, contact me direct. If there are substantial changes, I'll repost the whole list. --- Steve ] In reply to this request I received the information summarized below. Thanks for all your responses. >I recall hearing that some university research center had set itself up >as a center for experimental parallel computing. They had purchased >a variety of parallel machines and were making them available to the >university research public over Arpanet or NFSnet. Perhaps the center >is at the University of Illinois, Urbana. Could someone with >knowledge of this center and the procedures for accessing it please >tell me about it. I suggest you send me mail and I'll summarize for >the network. >Thanks > ==================================================================== Facility: Northeast Parallel Architectures Center Organization: Syracuse University Funder: NSF/ARPA Machines: about one of everything Net addr: npac@cmx.npac.syr.edu US mail addr: Syracuse University Northeast Parallel Architectures Center 250 Machinery Hall Syracuse, N.Y. 13244-1260 (315) 443-1722 Told by: mckeeman%tle.DEC@decwrl.dec.com <Steve Boyle> sboyle@mbunix.mitre.org Notes: They publish a newsletter entitled "Parallel Computing News." The December 15th issue of the newsletter includes a description of how to receive a resource allocation packet, which includes procedures for requesting machine time. ==================================================================== Facility: Advanced Computing Research Facility (ACRF) Organization: Argonne National Laboratories Contacts: Jack Dongarra Rusty Lusk (lusk@mcs.anl.gov) - information on obtaining ACRF accounts Teri Huml (huml@mcs.anl.gov) - class registration David Levine (levine@mcs.anl.gov) - class content Machines: 24 processor Sequent Balance 21000 20 processor Encore MultiMax 8 processor Alliant FX/8 2 processors Ardent Titan (soon to be four) 16 processor Intel iPSC-VX hypercube 32 processor Intel iPSC hypercube 1024 processor Active Memory Technology DAP 16384 processor Thinking Machines CM-2 Net addr: The ACRF may be reached from most networks (Arpanet, mfenet, nsfnet, ...). US mail addr: Mathematics and Computer Science 9700 Cass Avenue South Argonne National Laboratory Argonne, Illinois 60439 Told by: eugene@eos.arc.nasa.gov mbellon@xenurus.gould.com <David Levine> levine@mcs.anl.gov Notes: Accounts on the machines are available (free of charge) to those doing research in parallel computing who submit and have approved a research proposal. Introductory classes in parallel computing on the ACRF machines are taught periodically. The upcoming schedule of (Fortran-based) classes for 1989 is: March 15-17, May 3-5, June 21-23, August 16-18, October 11-13, December 6-8. C-based classes are taught on a demand basis. ==================================================================== Facility: NCSA (National Center for Supercomputing Applications) Organization: University of Illinois Machines: Cray Told by: midkiff@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu (Sam Midkiff) ==================================================================== Facility: Cornell National Supercomputer Facility Organization: Cornell University Theory Center Contact: Ann Redelfs Machines: 2 3090`s with 6 vector processors each Net addr: cornellf.cornell.edu for the 3090 people tcgould.cornell.edu for the theory center people US mail addr: Ann Redelfs Manager, Information Services Center for Theory and Simulation in Science and Engineering 265 Olin Hall Ithaca, NY 14853 607/255-8686 Told by: braner@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Moshe Braner) ==================================================================== Facility: Cornell Advanced Computing Facility (ACF) Organization: Cornell University Contact: Linda Morris, ACF director Machines: Intel iPSC/2 (32 nodes, each with 386/387/4megs/vector-processor) Niche NT1000 (16 T800 transputers, each 1MFLOPS, 10MIPS, 2megs) <Topologix board (4 T800s) FPS T-20 (18 T414s) Net addr: <morris@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu> (INTERNET) <morris@crnlthry> (BITNET) US mail addr: Linda Morris, ACF director Cornell Theory Center, 265 Olin Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-8686 <morris@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu> (INTERNET) <morris@crnlthry> (BITNET) Told by: Steve Cavrak <cavrak@uvm-gen.uvm.edu> ==================================================================== Facility: Center for Parallel Computing Research Organization: Rice, Los Alamos, and Caltech Funder: NSF Machines: one of each parallel machine Net addr: messina@wega.caltech.edu chuck@vlsi.caltech.edu Told by: dougf@wega.caltech.edu ==================================================================== Facility: OACIS, Oregon Advanced Computer Institute Organization: Oregon Graduate Center Funder: an industry-sponsored group Told by: Shannon Nelson <shannon@intelisc.intel.com> Arthur Goldberg 3680-D Boelter Hall UCLA Computer Science Department LA, Ca. 90024 (213) 825-2864 art@cs.ucla.edu