art@CS.UCLA.EDU (01/19/89)
[ I believe that Syracuse, Cornell, and U. of Maryland may fit this description. Any others, please post. -- Steve ] 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 Arthur Goldberg 3680-D Boelter Hall UCLA Computer Science Department LA, Ca. 90024 (213) 825-2864 art@cs.ucla.edu
braner@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Moshe Braner) (01/20/89)
The Advanced Computing Facility (ACF) at the Cornell Theory Center has parallel machines that we'd like to have users on. Current users are mostly from Cornell, but some are from farther places. The machines include an Intel iPSC/2 (32 nodes, each with 386/387/4megs/vector-processor), a Niche NT1000 (16 T800 transputers, each 1MFLOPS, 10MIPS, 2megs) and a Topologix board (4 T800s). The transputer boards are plugged into a Sun 3 and run the Trollius OS. (We also have an FPS T-20 (18 T414s) but that is getting sort of obsolete now that we have T800s.) All these machines support C and FORTRAN. - Moshe Braner To ask about access, contact: 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)
sboyle@mbunix.mitre.org (Stephen V. Boyle) (01/24/89)
In article <4135@hubcap.UUCP> art@CS.UCLA.EDU writes: >[ I believe that Syracuse, Cornell, and U. of Maryland may fit this > description. Any others, please post. > -- Steve >] > >I recall hearing that some university research center had set itself up >as a center for experimental parallel computing. .... As Steve mentioned in his comment, Syracuse has a parallel computing center - the "Northeast Parallel Architectures Center at Syracuse University." 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. I do not know what (if any) restrictions apply to access to NPAC's machines. They may be contacted at: npac@cmx.npac.syr.edu Syracuse University Northeast Parallel Architectures Center 250 Machinery Hall Syracuse, N.Y. 13244-1260 (315) 443-1722 ------------ sboyle@mbunix.mitre.org Steve Boyle The MITRE Corporation Burlington Road Bedford, MA. 01730 (617) 271-7030