NA Digest Sunday, November 29, 1987 Volume 87 : Issue 81

This weeks Editor: Cleve Moler

Today's Topics:

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Date: Tue, 24 Nov 87 16:55:50 MST
From: Roland Sweet <sweet@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
To: na@score.stanford.edu
Subject: Pascal version of LINPACK

Can anyone direct me to (or send me) a Pascal version of LINPACK or just
SGECO and SGESL? Thanks.

sweet@boulder.edu or na.rsweet@score.stanford.edu

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Date: Tue, 24 Nov 87 17:11:49 cst
From: Constantine Polychronopoulos <cdp%uicsrd.CSRD.UIUC.EDU@a.cs.uiuc.edu>
To: na.moler@Score.Stanford.EDU
Subject: ICS88 -- International Conference on Supercomputing

CALL FOR PAPERS
&
ANNOUNCEMENT

1988 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SUPERCOMPUTING (ICS88)


JULY 4-8, 1988. SAINT MALO, FRANCE


SPONSORED BY
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM-SIGARCH)
IN COOPERATION WITH
Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique (INRIA, France)
Institut de Recherche en Informatique et Systemes Aleatoires (IRISA, France)
Center for Supercomputing Research and development (CSRD, USA)
Computer Technology Institute (CTI, Greece)
Purdue Center for Vector and Parallel Computing (USA)
Information Society of Japan



CONFERENCE CHAIRMAN: PROGRAM CHAIRMAN:
D. J. Kuck (Illinois) J. Lenfant (Rennes)



PROGRAM VICE-CHAIRMEN:

Europe & Middle East : W. Jalby (INRIA)
Japan & Far East : H. Terada (Osaka)
North and South America: C. D. Polychronopoulos (Illinois)

Local Arrangements: B. Philippe (IRISA) Publicity : J. Erhel (IRISA)
Proceedings : D. DeGroot (TI) Secretary : Y. Jegou (IRISA)
Treasurer : M. Raynal (IRISA) Registration: P. Quinton (IRISA)



COMMITTEES

EUROPE

I. Duff (Harwell) A. Lichnewsky (INRIA)
E. Gelenbe (ISEM) T. Papatheodorou (CTI)
W. Giloi (GMD/TUB) R.H. Perrott (Belfast)
J. Gurd (Manchester) P. Sguazzero (ECSEC)
F. Hossfeld (KFA) U. Trottenberg (Suprenum)
P. Lallemand (DRET) J.P. Verjus (Grenoble)

JAPAN

M. Amamyia (NTT) Y. Kanada (Tokyo)
K. Asai (JAERI) S. Suzuki (Fujitsu)
K. Fuchi (ICOT) H. Tanaka (Tokyo)
H. Horikoshi (Hitachi) M. Yamamoto (NEC)
Y. Muraoka (Waseda) T. Yba (EL, MITI)


USA

F. Allen (IBM) K. Kennedy (Rice)
Arvind (MIT) Y. Patt (Berkeley)
E. S. Davidson (Illinois) G. Pfister (IBM)
J. Dongarra (Argonne) J. Rice (Purdue)
G. Fox (Caltech) Y. Saad (Illinois)
D. Gannon (Indiana) J. Sopka (DEC)
E. N. Houstis (Purdue)

INVITED SPEAKERS


G. Bell (NSF) C. Ledbetter (ETA)
M. Farmwald (MIPS) G. Paul (IBM)
R. Glowinski (INRIA/Houston) A. Sameh (Illinois)
H. T. Kung (CMU)


SCOPE

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) supercomputer
architectures, technology, software (compilers, operating systems),
performance evaluation, languages, parallel numerical analysis,
applications.


PAPERS

Deadline for submission of contributed papers is FEBRUARY 1st, 1988.
Send five copies of complete paper to (Europe, Middle east, Africa):

W. JALBY
INRIA
BP 105
78153 LE CHESNAY CEDEX
FRANCE

or, (Japan and Far East):
H. TERADA
Dep. Electrical Engineering
OSAKA UNIVERSITY
YAMADAOKA 2-1 SUITA
OSAKA JAPAN 565

or, (North and South America):
C. D. POLYCHRONOPOULOS
CSRD
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
104 SOUTH WRIGHT STREET
URBANA, ILLINOIS 61801
USA


Proceedings will be published by ACM.

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Date: Fri, 27 Nov 87 13:27:46 EST
From: Gene Golub <golub@golubsun.cs.umd.edu>
To: NA@score.stanford.edu
Subject: Honorary degree for Gear

Bill Gear was awarded an honorary degree today from the Royal Institute
of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. Bill was recognized for his work
on the numerical solution of stiff ode's. As many of you know, the Institute
is the fountainhead of ode's. In his spare time, Bill has been president of
SIAM, chairman of his department and managing editor of SISSC. Congratulations,
Bill.

-- Gene

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