grob@cmcl2.NYU.EDU (Lori S. Grob) (03/26/88)
In article <1179@hubcap.UUCP> friedman@porthos.rutgers.edu (Gadi ) writes: >Does anyone know about work being done on parallel computers or >computation at NYU. A friend of mine got accepted to the PHD program >and would like some more information before he decides. > > Gadi >-- > > >uucp: {ames, cbosgd, harvard, moss}!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!friedman >arpa: FRIEDMAN@ARAMIS.RUTGERS.EDU There is a lot of work on parallel computers, parallel computation and parallel algorithms going on at NYU. For starters we have the Ultracomputer Research Project which is a shared memory MIMD architecture. We have several running prototypes and are in the process of designing some larger ones. There are a number of papers available describing the ideas behind our architecture and some new papers soon to be appearing describing our operating systems work. We have a group of people looking at numerical applications for machines of our type. Although we are a general purpose arch. our user community is largely numerical and so there is alot of interest in that. The department has very active vision and robotics groups and there is in general alot of interest in parallelism. If your friend gets in touch with the department I think they have an idea of what all the various groups and researchers and faculty members are doing. Lori S. Grob (NYU Ultracomputer Project) grob@nyu.arpa {mcvax!seismo,floyd,harpo,ihnp4,...}!cmcl2!grob [That's c-m-c-ELL-2] Courant Institute (NYU), 251 Mercer St., NYC 10012, 212-998-3350