rick@cs.arizona.edu (Rick Schlichting) (10/02/90)
Back issues of the reports on Japanese computing by Dr. David Kahaner
are now available by anonymous FTP from host cs.arizona.edu. The reports
can be found in directory "japan/kahaner.reports," which also contains
an INDEX file summarizing each report. (That information is also appended
below.)
To help keep track of demand, we would appreciate it if you would send an
email note to rick@cs.arizona.edu upon retrieving a report.
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Dept of Computer Science, The University of Arizona
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INDEX OF KAHANER REPORTS
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10ssymp
The tenth meeting of Software Symposium, held in Kyoto Japan 6-8
June 1990 is briefly summarized. The most interesting aspects were
discussions by the Chinese of their national project.
anritsu
Commercialization of PAX by Anritsu Corporation.
atr
The Advanced Telecommunication Research Institute (ATR)
control.34
Proceedings of 34th annual Conference of Institute of Systems,
Control and Information Engineers. The papers cover topics in
optical computing, neural computing, fuzzy logic, control theory,
robotics, parallel computing, vision, knowledge engineering,
imaging, feature extraction, probability, communications networks,
etc., as well as applications to car location, fish school size
estimates, mathematical programming, factory automation and many
others.
crc
This report illustrates the breadth of applications and research
areas of a "service bureau" organization, Century Research
Corporation (CRC), Tokyo.
dataflow
Bulletin Board for DATAFLOW computing information from ETL.
etl
A visit to the Data Flow project at ETL is summarized. The Dataflow
SIGMA-1 computer project is ending. The new project EM-4, will have
1,024 processors and is designed to have less overhead. EM-4 was
originally proposed for symbolic rather than numeric computation,
but the designers now feel that with the inclusion of floating point
hardware it will also be used for numerical computation. Currently
an 80 processor version of EM-4 is running at 997 MIPs.
fgcs
Announcement of report by T. Kurozumi on ICOT Fifth Generation
Computer Systems Project.
flexible
A summary of "1990 Japan-USA Symposium on Flexible Automation" 9-13
July in Kyoto, Japan is given. Plant visits to IBM's 3090
manufacturing plant, Sumitomo Electric, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries,
and Matshushita Electric are described.
fujitsu.3d
Fujitsu's 3D movie generated partially via CAP 256 parallel computer.
fuzzy
A survey of recent developments is given, with particular
emphasis on Japanese contributions.
highspd
The major topics at the Conference of the Achievements of the
National R & D Program "High-Speed Computing System for Scientific
and Technological Uses", held 21 June 1990, at the Electrotechnical
Laboratory in Tsukuba Japan are summarized.
hitachi
Hitachi's research plan for the 1990's and computer related research
in the company's research laboratories are summarized. At the
Advanced Research Laboratory, the long term view is explicitly
manifest in the General Manager's office and also evident in the
researchers plans.
ibm-nic
The IBM Tokyo Numerically Intensive Computation Center is reviewed.
This center mainly supports users who wish to develop vectorized
versions of programs on IBM's 3090 VF computers. The Tokyo Research
Laboratory performs longer term research in computer science,
mathematics, graphics, and languages.
ieice
Papers presented at the joint Japanese Institute of Electronics,
Information and Communications Engineers (IEICE) and the Japanese
Information Processing Society meeting, July 18-20 1990 on parallel
processing.
info90
Announcement of meeting to be held in Tokyo early October 1990.
iscm
The International Symposium on Computational Mathematics Matsuyama
(Shikoku Island) 30 August--4 September 1990 is summarized, with
special emphasis on the contributions from Japanese and Chinese
researchers. Visits by Kelley to Kyushu University, Kyoto
University, and the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, with
special emphasis on optimization research, are described.
isdn
Papers on ISDN (Integrated Service Digital Network).
j-supers
List of Supercomputers in Japan.
japan.rpt
Availability of two Japanese reports, Visions from MITI, Trends from
AIST.
japgovt
A brief outline of Japanese Government ministries and agencies is
shown with an emphasis of those that support science and technology.
Several major projects related to computing are described.
japgovt.upd
Update to japgovt [21 June 1990] on Japanese governmental structure.
nipt
A proposed new MITI national project "New Information Processing
Technology" (NIPT) merging soft information processing with massive
parallelism is described. The proposed project is also compared to
related work in other countries. I am told that the project, in some
form, has a good chance of being supported in the near future.
ntt-rev.590
A new English journal from NTT is described.
ohbayashi
Computer Modeling in the Construction Industry--
Ohbayashi Corporation's Research Lab
optical
Optical computing activities in Japan are surveyed.
pax
The PAX parallel processing project developed at the University of
Tsukuba by T. Hoshino is summarized. PAX is a two dimensional array
of processors which operate in MIMD form. QCDPAX has a fast floating
point unit, specially programmed for QCD calculations. Peak
performance is 12.5 Gigaflops.
pp90
Titles of papers presented at Information Processing Society of
Japan Symposium on Parallel Processing '90, 17-19 May 1990.
pricai.90
Announcement of Pacific Rim International Conference on AI, Nagoya
14-16 November 1990.
quality.sw
The Second International Workshop on Software Quality Improvement
was held in Kyoto, Japan, from 22-24 January 1990. The workshop was
jointly organized by Professor Torii (Osaka University) and
Professor Basili (University of Maryland). The workshop is
summarized from the perspective of a numerical analyst. The major
conclusions are that some Japanese companies are better at managing
the software development process than comparable U.S. companies and
that more interaction is needed between numerical and nonnumerical
software developers.
scj90
Supercomputing Japan 90, 27-29 March 1990, Tokyo, Japan, and visit
to NEC to see SX/3 supercomputer.
sna90
The First International Conference on Supercomputing in Nuclear
Applications (SNA90) was held from 12-15 March 1990 in Mito City,
Japan. This paper summarizes the significant presentations and
vendor exhibits associated with Japanese software and hardware.
solvers.pde
DEQSOL and ELLPACK : Two Problem Solving Environments For Partial
Differential Equations are compared. By R. Boisvert and D. Kahaner.
sony
An overview of Sony's Computer Science Laboratory (CSL) is given.
CSL specializes in research on object-oriented programming and
distributed operating systems.
speech.etl
Summary of the report, Researches of the Electrotechnical Laboratory,
Number 905, December 1989. "Studies on a Vocal Tract Model for
Speech Synthesis and Analysis" (126 pages including 124 item
bibliography) by
Hiroshi Ohmura
Speech Processing Section
Machine Understanding Division
Electrotechnical Laboratory
spice
We review research at Toshiba in vectorizing the circuit simulation
program SPICE, and research at NEC at building a special purpose
multiprocessor for circuit simulation modeling.
sx3sale
Sale of SX-3 to National Aerospace Laboratory (NLR) of Holland
takagi
Text of paper by H. Takagi (Matshshita Electric), "Fusion Technology
of Fuzzy Theory and Neural Networks - Survey and Future Directions"
containing more than 90 references, many not known outside Japan.
trp12-89
Accompanying Professor Gene Golub, Computer Science Department,
Stanford University to Institute of Statistical Mathematics, PAX
computer project at University of Tsukuba, IBM's Tokyo Research
Laboratory, Kyoto University's Research Institute for Mathematical
Sciences, and Ryukoku University.
trprpt.290
(1) Trip report 20-24 Feb 1990, Hiroshima and Ehime Universities
(2) Brief reports:
9 Feb, Quantum Magneto Flux Project
13-14 Feb, UTokyo
15 Feb, Hitachi Central Research Lab
26 Feb, Nat Res Lab Metrology, Tsukuba
1 Mar, Parallel computing meeting, Keio University
workshop.isr
This report describes the 4th ISR Supercomputing Workshop: The Road
to Parallel Applications, held from August 29 to 31, 1990 in Hakone,
Japan. In addition, some observations on the trends and
characteristics of parallel supercomputing research in Japan are
presented.
yosh
Report by H. Yoshihara on Japanese Supercomputer Performance on
specific computational fluid dynamics benchmark program and
comparison with Cray.