From na-net@na-net.stanford.edu Sun Feb 12 20:46:25 1989 Received: from beauty.stanford.edu by antares.mcs.anl.gov (4.0/SMI-DDN) id AA23304; Sun, 12 Feb 89 20:46:01 CST Received: from patience.stanford.edu by beauty.stanford.edu (4.0/inc-1.5) id AA08546; Sun, 12 Feb 89 18:42:31 PST Received: from bravery.stanford.edu by patience.stanford.edu (4.0/inc-1.5) id AA03330; Sun, 12 Feb 89 18:33:43 PST Received: by bravery.stanford.edu (4.0/inc-1.5) id AA15522; Sun, 12 Feb 89 18:44:39 PST Date: Sun, 12 Feb 89 18:44:39 PST From: na-net@na-net.stanford.edu Message-Id: <8902130244.AA15522@bravery.stanford.edu> Return-Path: Subject: NA-NET distribution message Errors-To: nanet@na-net.stanford.edu Maint-Path: maintainer@na-net.stanford.edu To: na-net@na-net.stanford.edu Reply-To: na-net@na-net.stanford.edu Comment: requests, comments or problems to nanet@na-net.stanford.edu Comment: submissions to na@na-net.stanford.edu Comment: alternate address: na%na-net@score.stanford.edu Status: R NA Digest Sunday, February 12, 1989 Volume 89 : Issue 6 Today's Editor: Cleve Moler Today's Topics: Copper Mountain Multigrid Conference Euler's Constant Positions at the North Carolina Supercomputing Center Numerical Algorithms Papers Database SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing Fortran & Pascal for Scientific Computation Parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics Wilkinson - SIAM Prize FAX Kudos to Bill Gear ------------------------------------------------------- From: Steve McCormick Date: Mon, 6 Feb 89 14:54:47 mst Subject: Copper Mountain Multigrid Conference Fourth Copper Mountain Conference on MULTIGRID METHODS April 9-14, 1989 Organized by: The University of Colorado at Denver The Center for Applied Parallel Processing The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Sponsored by: The United States Air Force Office of Scientific Research The Gesellschaft fuer Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung * SPECIAL FEATURES * Multigrid Tutorial Advanced Workshop Parallel Multigrid Panel * THEME * Novel Parallel Methods Chairmen: Jan Mandel and Steve McCormick, CU-Denver Program Chairmen: Joel Dendy, Los Alamos National Lab. Seymour Parter, Univ. Wisconsin John Ruge, CU-Denver Klaus Stueben, GMD Tutorial Chairman: Bill Briggs, CU-Denver Panel Chairman: Oliver McBryan, CU-Boulder Theme Chairman: Charbel Farhat, CU-Boulder *ADDITIONAL INFORMATION* The authors, their affiliation, and titles are listed in the latest brochure which can be obtained by contacting either program chairman: Jan Mandel Steve McCormick (303) 556-4475 (303) 556-4812 jmandel@copper.colorado.edu smccormi@copper.colorado.edu (bitnet addresses jmandel@cudenver, smccormick@cudenver will also work, as well as na.mandel@na-net.stanford.edu and na.mccormick@na-net.stanford.edu) This brochure also contains information and forms for lodging and registration and other miscellaneous items. (If you have recieved the earlier form sent last fall, you should soon be getting this latest one.) PLEASE pay special attention to the lodging information because the rooms are quick to fill up. If you know others who are going, it is best to get a deluxe condo that includes two bedrooms with two beds each and a livingroom and kitchen with a hide-a-bed. They are generally very nice and most economical, but they go the fastest. *SCHEDULE* Following is a list of the session times and speakers by last name. In cases where we were unsure who the speaker will be, we simply list the first one. Please consult the brochure for other authors and titles. Updates to the brochure are: 1) G.Lonsdale will speak instead of J.Linden with same title 2) J.Swisshelm, G.Johnson talk cancelled 3) U.Ascher title: 'Semiconductor device simulation' DAY/TIME SESSION #1 SESSION #2 Sunday 1:30pm-5:30pm Basic Tutorial: Bill Briggs 7:00pm-8:30pm Software Tutorial: John Adams 8:30pm-10:00pm Reception Monday 8am-noon Flueck Boergers Lin Cai McBryan Goertzel Pasciak Gupta Quinlan Lee Szeliski Lubrecht Tylavsky Mittelmann 8:00pm-9:30pm Advanced Workshop: Achi Brandt Tuesday 8am-noon Barthelson Adams Chan Ascher Chen Bank Douglas Carey El-Giar Chin Farhat Dendy Pan Ruge 8:00pm-9:30pm Parallel Panel Wednesday 8am-noon Arakawa Goldstein Dick Heroux Dimitriadis Holter Gustafsson Hoppe Haenel Khalil Holland Kornhuber Koren Mandel 7:30pm-9:30pm Banquet Thursday 8am-noon Lallemand Brenner Linden Kamowitz Liu Huang Mavriplis Parter Mulder Reusken Napolitano Van der Wees Wesseling Widlund 5:00pm-10:00pm Special Workshops: rigorous mode analysis (A.Brandt) nonlinear multigrid (A.Reusken) meteorology and oceanography Friday 8am-noon Xu Brandt McKay Decker Ong Dervieux Ruede Lemke Vanderwalle Padmanabhan Wittum Witsch Yserentant Zhu ------------------------------ From: Vincent Broman Date: Mon, 6 Feb 89 12:38:51 pst Subject: Euler's Constant Does anyone have Euler's constant, gamma, to at least 35 places, with a reference for the source? A note about the method of computation would also be appreciated, if available. Thanks. Vincent Broman, code 632, Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego, CA 92152, USA Phone: +1 619 553 1641 Internet: broman@nosc.mil Uucp: sdcsvax!nosc!broman ------------------------------ From: Gary Johnson Date: Mon, 6 Feb 89 20:01:59 EST Subject: Positions at the North Carolina Supercomputing Center NORTH CAROLINA SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER ANNOUNCEMENT OF EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES The North Carolina Supercomputing Center (NCSC) is a state-supported Supercomputing Center and Research Institute currently under construction in the Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. NCSC will promote educational and research activities in high-performance computing and its applications in science, engineering and other disciplines. The Center will work in close collaboration with universities and industry to enhance the economic development of North Carolina and to support the national high-performance computing initiative. NCSC's computational environment will include a Cray Y-MP which will be operational beginning in September 1989. The Center will be accessible at high bandwidth (T1/T3) by means of North Carolina's existing data communications network and will be connected to the appropriate national networks. Qualified applicants with backgrounds in supercomputing operations, support, engineering, technology or applications research are encouraged to apply for employment immediately, since staffing plans are currently being developed. A competitive salary and benefits package will be offered to the staff of NCSC. Please send a resume and cover letter to: North Carolina Supercomputing Center Human Resources PO Box 12732 Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-2732 NCSC is a division of the Microelectronics Center of North Carolina (MCNC), a private, non-profit organization. MCNC is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer M/F/H/V ------------------------------ From: Giuseppe Paruolo Date: Tue, 07 Feb 89 14:05:12 ITA Subject: Numerical Algorithms Papers Database Does anybody know if there exist an "ad-hoc" bibliographical database containing information on all the published papers in the field of numerical algorithms for vector and/or parallel computers (and related)? I already know Inspec but, even if it contains a good amount of information, the fields covered are too many and its use is quite expensive. Thank you in advance. Giuseppe Paruolo - CINECA ( agg0@icineca.bitnet ) ------------------------------ From: SIAM@wharton.upenn.edu Date: Wed, 8 Feb 89 09:47 EST Subject: SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing Conference Date: December 11-13, 1989 Title: Fourth SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing Organizer: Jack J. Dongarra, Argonne National Laboratory Abstract Deadline: June 1, 1989 Contact: SIAM Conference Coordinator 117 S. 17th Street, 14th Floor Philadelphia, PA 19103-5052 USA 215-564-2929 E-Mail: SIAM@WHARTON.UPENN.EDU FAX: 215-564-4174 Place: Chicago, Illinois Topics: Massively parallel computing, visualization of scientific computation, tools for parallel algorithm development, and many other related subjects. Speakers: W. Danny Hillis, The Thinking Machines Corporation James Sethian, University of California, Berkeley Alan Egolf, United Technologies Research Center Karl-Heinz A. Winkler, Los Alamos National Laboratory Andries van Dam, Brown University William Goddard, California Institute of Technology Dennis B. Gannon, Indiana University, Bloomington Ken Kennedy, Rice University David Gelernter, Yale University. ------------------------------ From: George Corliss <6591CORLISSG%MUCSD.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU> Date: Thu, 9 Feb 89 08:31 CST Subject: Fortran & Pascal for Scientific Computation This is an advertisement for Fortran-SC and Pascal-SC. I am not associated with the authors or distributors. I am a satisfied user; if you try either of these products, you might like them too. FORTRAN-SC is an extension of Fortran written at the University of Karlsruhe for scientific computation. It is particularly suited for the development of numerical algorithms which deliver high accuracy and automatically verified results. The language allows the declaration of functions with arbitrary result type, operator overloading and definition, and dynamic arrays. 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Pascal-SC is available for about $100 for MS-DOS machines and the Atari-ST. Contact Dr. Louis B. Rall FBSoftware 5101 Odana Road Madison, WI 53711 (608) 273 3702 I find both of these tools useful. You might too. Direct questions or comments to Dr. George F. Corliss Dept. Math., Stat. & Comp. Sci Marquette Univerity Milwaukee, WI 53233 (414) 224 6599 na.corliss@na-net.stanford.edu george@marque.mu.edu 6591corl@mucsd.BITNET . . . !uwvax!marque!georgec ------------------------------ From: Geoff Chesshire Date: Thu, 9 Feb 89 10:55:09 pst Subject: Parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics PARALLEL CFD Implementations and Results Using MIMD Computers Los Angeles, May 8-9, 1989 ONR, RIACS and INTEL are pleased to participate as sponsors for a conference designed to discuss recent developments in the use of MIMD parallel computers in high performance computational fluid dynamics. Each of the invited speakers has experience and specific results to report using an Intel iPSC/2 system. The issues discussed, however, will pertain to a broad class of similar MIMD systems. INVITED SPEAKERS: Antony Jameson James S McDonnell Distinguished Professor of Aerospace Engineering Princeton University "Transonic and Supersonic Flow Calculations Using the Euler Equations" Anthony T. Patera Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Solution of the Incompressible Navier-Stokes Equations on Medium Grained Parallel Processors" William T. Thompkins Manager, Computer Science Laboratory, Northrop Research and Technology Center "Data Storage Concurrency and Portability: An Object Oriented Approach to Fluid Mechanics" Akin Ecer Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University at Indianapolis "Applications of a Hypercube for Solving Three Dimensional Flow Problems" Mark E. Braaten Mechanical Engineer, General Electric Research and Development Center "Solution of Fluid Flows by a Pressure Correction Method on a Hypercube Computer" Geoff Chesshire Senior Scientist, Applications Research, Intel Scientific Computers "Fluids Codes and Distributed Memory: Techniques, Tools and Examples" PANEL DISCUSSION: Are Highly Parallel Systems Ready for Prime Time? The NASA sponsored panel session will discuss issues in parallel computations related to a broad class of alternative architectures. Moderator: Horst Simon, NASA Ames Research Center, Panelists: Creon Levit, NASA Ames Research Center; Gary Montry, Sandia National Laboratories; Ken Neves, Boeing Computer Services; Anthony Patera, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Justin Rattner, Intel Scientific Computers. SHORT PAPERS The Parallel CFD organizing committee is soliciting contributed presentations of 10 minutes or less on subjects which will complement the in-depth titled papers described above. Proposed title and abstract (not to exceed 250 words) should be sent to Lynn McDaniel, AlTek/Parallel CFD, 8321 N. Woolsey, Portland, Oregon 97203. Abstracts deadline February 28, 1989. Notification of acceptance March 13, 1989. LOCATION AND DATE Radisson Plaza Hotel 1400 Park View Avenue Manhattan Beach, California 90266 (3 miles south of LAX Airport, just west off I-405 at Rosecrans) 8:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Monday, May 8 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Tuesday, May 9 A block of rooms has been reserved at the Radisson Plaza Hotel. Please contact the hotel at 1-800-228-9822 to make hotel reservations. Be sure to identify yourself as a participant in Parallel CFD to receive the discounted conference rate. CONFERENCE INFORMATION Registration for Parallel CFD is limited to 200 people. Advance registrations of $100 will be accepted until March 10, 1989. Registration at the conference, $125 will be on a first come, first served basis for those without reservations. Day of Conference registration will begin at 7:00 a.m. May 8, 1989. If you have questions regarding the conference, please call Lynn McDaniel at (503) 289-7735. ------------------------------ From: Gene H. Golub Date: Sat, 11 Feb 1989 17:17:39 PST Subject: Wilkinson - SIAM Prize The 1989 Wilkinson Prize in Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing is being awarded by SIAM to Paul Van Dooren of Philips in Brussels. Paul's main contributions have been to the development and analysis of algorithms for linear problems in systems theory. This is a very vital and active area of research at this time. Wilkinson had a high opinion of Paul; he was on his the reading committee and often said only a few people realized the quality of this work. Paul was subsequently awarded the Householder Prize. Beyond Paul's research abilities is his lovely sense of humor and human qualities. Congratulations, Paul! The award will be given at the national SIAM meeting in San Diego. Hope to see you there, Gene Golub ------------------------------ From: Gene H. Golub Date: Sat, 11 Feb 1989 17:20:33 PST Subject: FAX Have you tried the FAX technology? I was in Europe a few months ago and I needed by notes which were in Australia. The next day my own hand written notes appeared before me and I was able to give my lecture! I'm trying to collect FAX addresses and I have a few. If you have one, please send it to me. Gene Gene Golub Director, Scientific Computing/ Computational Math Office: Margaret Jacks Hall, Room 306 Office Phone: 415/723-3124 Home Phone: 415/323-0105 FAX number: (415) 725-7411 ------------------------------ From: Gene H. Golub Date: Sat, 11 Feb 1989 17:39:16 PST Subject: Kudos to Bill Gear Here's kudos to Bill Gear who completed the job of President of SIAM in December. (He's now officially Past-President.) In case you didn't notice, SIAM seems to be as thriving as ever and much of that is due to Bill's efforts. As his predecessor, I sat back with admiration in seeing him handle the many complexities of the job with ease. Here's a quote from Margaret Wright who is on the Council and observed Bill first hand. "In addition to Bill's overall vision for and leadership of SIAM, his remarkable skills in ``chairmanship'' have been evident at meetings of the SIAM Council and Board. An a posteriori analysis of meetings chaired by Bill reveals that he always manages to achieve stable and accurate solutions, even to problems that might appear at first to be ill-posed! The meetings are well organized, smoothly run and productive---never meandering or regimented. Bill's equanimity and sense of humor maintain a balanced and reasonable atmosphere, even in the midst of disagreements among the participants." Bill not only was Prez of SIAM but he was the chairman of his department and managing editor of SISSC. (How did he do it?) Thanks, Bill for all your efforts. We have all benefited. I hope you carry on all your activities and research as successfully as you have in the past. Gene ------------------------------ End of NA Digest ************************** -------