DGM@UNB.CA (David G. Macneil) (06/02/90)
Archive-name: supersft/01-Jun-90
Original-posting-by: DGM@UNB.CA (David G. Macneil)
Original-subject: IBM Supercomputing Program Data Base
Archive-site: listserv@psuvm.psu.edu
Reposted-by: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti)
IBM Supercomputing Program Data Base
The IBM Supercomputing Program Data Base is a listing of information
concerning programs that have been written or converted to use IBM 3090
vector or parallel processing. The data base is accessible to academic
researchers through BITNET or the internet via a LISTSERV machine named
SUPERSFT. The data base is maintained by the Center for Academic
Computing at the Pennsylvania State University in University Park
with support from IBM as a service to SUPER!, Supercomputing by
University People for Education and Research. SUPER! is a higher
education user group dedicated to issues of high-performance computing
on IBM systems. Data provided for each program include the program's
application area, name, a description, the environment under which
it operates, the person to contact for more information and the
approximate cost for academic users. The programs themselves are not
available through the data base.
The intent of this database is to provide academic researchers using
the IBM 3090 machine with a forum which can be used to either find the
best packages available for their research, or to offer their own
research codes to fellow researchers in their field.
Information in the data base can be retrieved either as an index or
as individual files describing single programs. If you have access to
BITNET through a VM system, you can communicate with the LISTSERV
virtual machine by using the command
tell listserv at psuvm get filename filetype
where "filename filetype" will be replaced by the filename and filetype
of the file in which you are interested. If you have access to the
internet via mail, you can communicate with the LISTSERV virtual
machine by mailing a note to "listserv@psuvm.psu.edu". The note should
have no subject line, and the body of the note should be the command
get filename filetype
The filetype is SUPERSFT for all of the individual program information
files. The filename is the name of the file, reduced to a maximum of
eight alphanumeric characters. The exact filename is listed in the
SUPERSFT INDEX.
SUPERSFT INDEX contains a full index of all programs in the data
base arranged by application area:
Chemical Engineering Mathematics and Statistics
Chemistry and Biochemistry Nuclear and Power Eng.
Computational Fluid Dynamics Reservoir Simulation/Seismology
Electronics and Electrical Eng. Simulation/Math. Programming
Graphics and Imaging Structural and Mechanical Eng.
Other Science and Engineering
Individual files can be retrieved once you know the name of the
appropriate file. For example,
tell listserv at psuvm get supersft index
would retrieve the file SUPERSFT INDEX, the index of the data base.
tell listserv at psuvm get ansys supersft
would retrieve the file ANSYS SUPERSFT, about the ANSYS package.
Copies of this help file can be retrieved using the command
tell listserv at psuvm get supersft help
Submissions to the data base can be made either electronically or by
mail. The information submission form is in the file named FORM
SUPERSFT which can be obtained from LISTSERV by using the command:
tell listserv at psuvm get supersft form
The LISTSERV software also allows you to request to be informed of
any updates to certain files by means of the AFD and FUI commands.
LISTSERV will also send you information about its own commands. You
can get this information by using the commands like:
info ?
info refcard
get listafd memo
These commands are used as the message of "tell listserv at psuvm", or
as the body of a mail file addressed to listserv@psuvm.psu.edu.