animal@rice.edu (06/16/88)
Computer Science Dept.
Rice University
PO Box 1892
Houston, TX 77251
Researchers here at Rice's Computer Science Department are involved in
a number of projects aimed at improving the state of the art in programming
parallel computers. Our work is supported by a wide variety of industrial
sponsors and the National Science Foundation. Some of this work requires
a collection of computation intensive applications which can be used to
study the effectiveness of our techniques for automatic and semi-automatic
parallelism detection on real world programs. No such suite of applications
is currently available to researchers in computer science. Therefore, we
are committing ourselves to developing such a suite for use by the
general researcher. It will be made widely available through arpanet
and other computer networks.
We would like to solicit your help in this effort. We need to acquire
a large number of sequential FORTRAN programs that are reasonable candidates
for parallelization to include in this suite. The requirements for these
are
1. They be whole or abstracted applications (whole programs minus some
proprietary or secret code).
2. They come with internal or external data sets on which to run
the program.
3. A short history of the program or some documentation describing
the program be available.
4. The code must be freely redistributable.
If you have any such codes that you would be willing to allow us to use,
we would greatly appreciate the help. You can contact us at the above
address or call Natalia Alexandrov at (713)527-4834. If you have access
to the arpanet you can contact Natalia at natalia@math1.rice.edu.
We look forward to hearing from you and thank you for any help you may be
able to give.