To: sondjaap@horus.sara.nl, meuer@rz.uni-mannheim.de Subject: TOP500 Articles Cc: actstea@cc.ruu.nl, dongarra@cs.utk.edu, emmen@sara.nl, franklin@caos.caos.kun.nl, llurba@rc.tudelft.nl, erich@cs.utk.edu Message 607: From meuer@rumbo2.rz.uni-mannheim.de Thu Nov 2 06:48:25 1995 From: "Hans-Werner Meuer" Date: Thu, 2 Nov 1995 12:35:13 +0100 To: sondjaap@horus.sara.nl (Jaap Hollenberg) Subject: Re: TOP500 REPORT'95 Cc: actstea@cc.ruu.nl, dongarra@cs.utk.edu, emmen@sara.nl, erich@cs.utk.edu, franklin@caos.caos.kun.nl, llurba@rc.tudelft.nl Mime-Version: 1.0 >------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Dear Prof. Meuer, it is not as much the cutting of the number of pages that > wories me, it is the oposite. > I talked to the publisher, he plans a certain number of pages per year and > the TOP500 report seems to take away the bulk of these pages. Printing more > pages than anticipated will upset his budget and publishers don't like > that. Moreover large reports have to be stiched which takes more time and > our schedule is already shaved down to the limit. > > So, could you consider to reduce the number of pages (e.g. by omitting the > architectures part this time and by including only contributions in the > variable part that relates strongly to the list). > > Best regards > > Jaap Hollenberg > Jaap, we certainly see your problem with the new TOP500 REPORT. But it is now too late to cancel our invitation for contributions. After accepting to write an article for this Report it would be more than impolite to uninvite them. I have asked all authors to cut their number of pages, here is the result as an approximation : Preface 2 pages !! Meine *0.95 Worldwide Situation 10 USA 10 Japan 10 8 7 Europe 10 Architectures 8 8 7 Centers 10 Trottenberg +Co 10 11 10 Nagel/Solchenbach 10 14 13 Dongarra/Walker 10 15 14(13) November'95 list 30 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 120 pages Jaap, I am afraid that I cannot provide you with more reductions (the 94-Report has had 194 pages) and I am very confident that you will make it ! Kind regards, Hans Meuer -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans-Werner Meuer e-mail: meuer@rz.uni-mannheim.de Computing Center phone : ++49 621 292 5258 University of Mannheim fax : ++49 621 292 5012 L15,16 WWW: D-68131 Mannheim http://www.uni-mannheim.de/members/rum/meuer.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------------