eugene@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya) (07/03/90)
[This list can probably be forwarded to other news groups. Software, AI, math, numerical methods, parallel, etc. Please credit Kahaner.] To: Distribution From: David Kahaner, ONRFE [kahaner@xroads.cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp] Re: Reports I have written as of 2 July 1990 All except those noted are available by electronic mail. Questions should be addressed to me, electronically if possible. For other correspondence use the address below. From within the USA... Dr. David K. Kahaner Office of Naval Research, Far East APO SF 96503-0007 From other locations... Dr. David K. Kahaner Office of Naval Research, Far East Roppongi 7-23-17 Minato-ku, Tokyo 106 Japan Tel: (03) 401-8978, Fax: (03) 403-9670 Apr 11 12:16 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 Apr 11 12:19 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. Apr 11 12:23 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. Apr 11 12:26 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 Apr 11 12:52 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. Apr 11 14:56 jifip (Not available electronically) Titles and authors of March 1990 meeting of Japan Information Processing Society (more than 1000). Apr 12 08:55 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. Apr 25 10:01 crc This report illustrates the breadth of applications and research areas of a "service bureau" organization, Century Research Corporation (CRC), Tokyo. Apr 25 13:52 scj90 Supercomputing Japan 90, 27-29 March 1990, Tokyo, Japan, and visit to NEC to see SX/3 supercomputer. Apr 25 15:46 fujitsu.3d Fujitsu's 3D movie generated partially via CAP 256 parallel computer. Apr 28 11:31 anritsu Commercialization of PAX by Anritsu Corporation. May 1 14:55 yosh Report by H. Yoshihara on Japanese Supercomputer Performance on specific computational fluid dynamics benchmark program and comparison with Cray. May 9 10:55 isdn Papers on ISDN (Integrated Service Digital Network). May 24 10:09 j-supers.590 List of supercomputers in Japan. May 24 15:22 ohbayashi Computer Modeling in the Construction Industry-- Ohbayashi Corporation's Research Lab May 30 09:30 sony An overview of Sony's Computer Science Laboratory (CSL) is given. CSL specializes in research on object-oriented programming and distributed operating systems. Jun 4 12:22 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. Jun 5 11:33 pp90 Titles of papers presented at Information Processing Society of Japan Symposium on Parallel Processing '90, 17-19 May 1990. Jun 14 09:57 atr The Advanced Telecommunication Research Institute (ATR) Jun 21 13:39 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. Jun 26 10:33 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. Jul 2 07:36 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. Jul 2 07:37 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. Jul 2 09:53 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. --------------END OF REPORT----------------------------------------------