Subject: NA Digest, V. 94, # 34 NA Digest Sunday, August 21, 1994 Volume 94 : Issue 34 Today's Editor: Jack Dongarra University of Tennessee / Oak Ridge National Labs dongarra@cs.utk.edu (Cleve's still away on travel.) Today's Topics: A National Software Exchange for the HPCC Temporary address change for Roger Alexander 11th GAMM-Seminar Kiel on Numerical Treatment of Coupled Systems GNU Survey Seeking Research Assistant or Postdoc Position FTP and WWW site at TU Munich New Address for Leopoldo Franca High Performance Fortran Workshop Change of IP address -- Interval FTP site Workshop on Wavelets and Large-Scale Image Processing Postdoc position in numerical analysis at IPS / ETH Zurich Wayne State University Department of Computer Science Faculty Positions Submissions for NA Digest: Mail to na.digest@na-net.ornl.gov. Information about NA-NET: Mail to na.help@na-net.ornl.gov. ------------------------------------------------------- From: Jack Dongarra Data: Fri, Aug 19 16:00:29 1994 Subject: A National Software Exchange for the HPCC To facilitate the development and distribution of software enabling technologies for high performance computing we have set up a National Software Exchange (NSE) for the High Performance Computing and Communications community. The project has the following goals: o Wide availability of high-quality, public-domain software for high performance computers. o Promotion of software reuse. o Collaboration and information sharing between universities, research laboratories, and industry. o Active participation by Grand Challenge groups and other research scientists, both in contributing to and in using the NSE. o Promotion of technology transfer and software capitalization. A prototype system is in place and can be accessed through the URL: http://www.netlib.org/nse/home.html As an overview to the system, information is provided on the following topics: HPCC Programs and Activities Grand Challenges Software / Enabling Technologies Repositories Packages Application Level Library Software Parallel Programming Environments Parallel Programming Languages Performance Visualization Information Databases Commercial Vendor Catalog Reports, Journals, and Professional Societies Related Network Resources Please send comments and suggestions to nse@cs.utk.edu. This project is being funded by NASA and is a collaborative effort coordinated through the NSF S&T Center CRPC by the following individuals: Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory Geoffrey Fox, Syracuse University Ken Kennedy, Rice University Jim Pool, Caltech Rick Stevens, Argonne National Laboratory ------------------------------ From: Roger Alexander Date: Mon, 15 Aug 94 11:46:05 NZS Subject: Temporary address change for Roger Alexander Effective immediately until 1 June 1995, my postal address will be: Roger Alexander Department of Mathematics The University of Auckland Private Bag 92019 Auckland, New Zealand ------------------------------ From: Jens Burmeister Date: Mon, 15 Aug 1994 10:58:44 +0200 Subject: 11th GAMM-Seminar Kiel on Numerical Treatment of Coupled Systems First Announcement The GAMM Committee "Efficient numerical methods for pde" in cooperation with the Christian-Albrechts-Universit"at Kiel organizes the 11th GAMM-Seminar Kiel on Numerical Treatment of Coupled Systems Chairmanship: W. Hackbusch (Kiel), G. Wittum (Stuttgart) Date: January 20 to 22, 1995 Location: Institut f"ur Informatik und Praktische Mathematik, Universit"at Kiel (Germany) Topics: Solving coupled systems of pde, coupling of different physical processes e.g. multiphase flow or flow around elastic structures, coupling of different discretiza- tions (e.g. FEM/BEM, FEM-spectral methods), coupling of separate local refinements. Abstracts: Please send abstracts (10-20 lines) of your lecture by Nov. 15, 1994. Notice of acceptance will be given by Nov. 30. All participants, whether giving a talk or not, have the possibility of sending an abstract of their work on the topic of the conference. The collection of abstracts will be available at the conference. Conference fee: DM 50,- (to be paid after arrivel) The first ten GAMM-Seminars were held at Kiel in 1984, 1986- 1994. The corresponding proceedings have been published in the series "Notes on Numerical Fluid Mechanics" (Vieweg, Braunschweig; vols. 10, 16, 21, 23, 30, 31, 41). please give notice to by post : Prof. Dr. W. Hackbusch Praktische Mathematik, CAU Olshausenstr. 40-60 24098 Kiel, Germany or by e-mail : jb@informatik.uni-kiel.d400.de or by fax : ++49-431-880-4054 ------------------------------ From: Fred Fritsch Date: Mon, 15 Aug 94 11:07:58 PDT Subject: GNU Survey I thought that some NA Digest readers may wish to respond to the enclosed survey by Project GNU: Project GNU of the Free Software Foundation is conducting a survey to determine the kinds of mathematical software commonly utilized by scientists and mathematicians. Your answers will help us to determine the programming tasks we present to our volunteers. This will ultimately result in a more complete set of math programs and subroutines available as free software. Please answer the following questions with regard to scientific, mathematical, and/or statistical software: 1. What packages are commonly used? 2. What programs and subroutines are desired, but not available? 3. What freeware currently exists? 4. Where else can we ask these questions? Please give as much detail as you can, including package name, author, language, and where it can be found. Send responses to math-sw-survey@gnu.ai.mit.edu Thank you! ------------------------------ From: J.B.GAO Date: Tue, 16 Aug 94 11:09 GMT Subject: Seeking Research Assistant or Postdoc Position Looking for Research Assistant or PostDoc Position I come from the mainland of China. I obtained my Ph.D in July 1991 in China. I hope to have a chance to do my research abroad, so I am therefore looking for a possible PostDoc or Research Assistant position. Fields of interest for research are: Approximation theory Spline interpolation Wavelet analysis and its application Finite element methods I also have an extended practical experiences in computer. Interested institutions/organizations can contact me by E-mail (RA340805@ HKPCC.HKP.HK) and I will send them an extended CV and publication list (LaTeX-format). THANKS advance. Dr. J.B.GAO Department of Applied Mathematics Hong Kong Polytechnic Kowloon, Hong Kong email: RA340805@HKPCC.HKP.HK fax: 852-3629045 tel: 852-7666959 ------------------------------ From: Ralf Hiptmair Date: Mon, 15 Aug 1994 14:08:59 +0200 Subject: FTP and WWW site at TU Munich The Department of Mathematics at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has finally established its own FTP and WWW servers: Files from the FTP server can be accessed via anonymous ftp to ftp.informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Address: 131.159.0.198) in the directory /pub/science/math/tum. Eventually all research reports published by the Department of Mathematics should be available as PostScript documents. Currently a few papers can be found in subdirectories named after their respective authors. The URL of the WWW home page of the Department of Mathematics is http://www.mathematik.tu-muenchen.de/. It provides an entry point from wich a variety of information about the Department of Mathematics can be accessed. However, most contributions are in German thus far. ------------------------------ From: Leopoldo Franca Date: Tue, 16 Aug 1994 16:53:53 -0600 Subject: New Address for Leopoldo Franca Leopoldo P. Franca Center for Computational Mathematics Department of Mathematics University of Colorado at Denver P.O. Box 173364, Campus Box 170 Denver, CO 80217-3364 USA Phone: (303) 556-8460 Fax: (303) 556-8550 e-mail: franca@titan.Colorado.EDU ------------------------------ From: Karsten M. Decker Date: Thu, 18 Aug 1994 09:04:38 --100 Subject: High Performance Fortran Workshop WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT High Performance Fortran (HPF) - Four-Day Workshop October 18 - 21, 1994 At the Swiss Scientific Computing Center, CSCS-ETHZ Manno (Ticino), Switzerland Applied Parallel Research (APR), in cooperation with the Swiss Scientific Computing Center (CSCS-ETHZ), offers a four-day workshop on High Performance Fortran (HPF). This will be an intensive training session with hands-on experience using APR's HPF compilation system, xhpf. Attendees are encouraged to prepare their own application codes for parallelization over a distributed memory workstation cluster during the workshop. This workshop will feature a programming tutorial on MPP systems and HPF, and offer an opportunity to gain experience parallelizing real Fortran applications using APR's newest parallelization tools. Ample time has been allocated to allow each attendee, working at their own pace and with the instructors and CSCS staff, to parallelize and evaluate real benchmark programs and their own application codes. CSCS will provide access to MPP systems on which to run parallelized codes. The instructors will be John Levesque and Richard Friedman of Applied Parallel Research. The workshop languages will be English and Fortran. Workshop Outline: Day 1 Morning INTRODUCTION o Distributed Memory Parallel Architectures Overview o Data vs. Task Parallelism o SPMD Programming Paradigm Day 1 Afternoon HIGH PERFORMANCE FORTRAN (HPF) o The Fortran 90 Subset in HPF o HPF Data Distribution Directives o Extrinsics Day 2 Morning APR's INTERACTIVE & BATCH PARALLELIZERS o xhpf Batch Parallelizer o FORGE 90 Distributed Memory Parallelizer (DMP) o APR's Extensions to HPF Day 2 Afternoon WORKSHOP o Using APR's Analysis and Parallelization Tools over CSCS's Parallel Cluster on Tutorial Example Codes Day 3 Morning WRITING DATA PARALLEL PROGRAMS o Data Parititioning and Loop Distribution o Data Storage Considerations o Inhibitors to DO Loop Parallelizations Day 3 Afternoon WORKSHOP/TUTORIAL o Parallelization of a Simple Grid Relaxation Code Day 4 All Day WORKSHOP o Parallelization of Attendee's Codes or Other Examples Using APR's Parallelization Tools. Spaces in this workshop are limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. It is recommended that you reserve a place by contacting APR as soon as possible. The tuition fee for this four-day workshop will be $1500 US. A reduced fee of $1250 applies to organizations with active FORGE licenses. Full payment must be received at APR by September 16, 1994 to hold a place. Requests for further information and advanced registration should be directed to APR at the addresses given below. CSCS will provide lists of recommended hotels in the area. Applied Parallel Research, Inc., based in California, is a leading developer of Fortran analysis and parallelization tools for supercomputing applications. Its FORGE family of tools include interactive FORGE 90 and Explorer, and the batch automatic parallelizers DPF and XHPF. APR is an active participant in the High Performance Fortran Forum (HPFF). Further information about APR and its FORGE products is available over the Internet, via finger forge@netcom.com | more The workshop host, CSCS, the Swiss National Scientific Computing Center, is part of the Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ), and is located in Manno, near Lugano in the Ticino region of Switzerland. Its basic mission is to provide computing services and consulting to Swiss universities, research institutes, and commercial companies. CSCS contributes its own research and development and education projects in High Performance Computing. This workshop is part of CSCS' Parallel Computer Systems and Education Laboratory, ParEdLab. Please direct all inquiries regarding this workshop to: Postal Address: CSCS Workshop 94 Applied Parallel Research, Inc. 550 Main Street, Suite I Placerville, CA 95667 USA Phone: + 916/621-1600 FAX: + 916/621-0593 Email: workshops@apri.com ------------------------------ From: Kearfott R. Baker Date: Thu, 18 Aug 1994 14:54:34 -0500 Subject: Change of IP address -- Interval FTP site The address of the anonymous FTP server that contains information about conferences, preprints, etc. concerning interval computations, as well as the working version of the Fortran 77 package INTLIB, has been changed. The old address was: math005.usl.edu The new address is: interval.usl.edu Please report questions or problems. ------------------------------ From: M.K.Kwong Date: Fri, 19 Aug 1994 11:45:53 -0500 (CDT) Subject: Workshop on Wavelets and Large-Scale Image Processing WAVELETS AND LARGE-SCALE IMAGE PROCESSING October 21 -- 22, 1994 MCS, Argonne National Laboratory Dept of Maths, Stat & CS, U. of Illinois at Chicago (Partially sponsored by the Institute for Mathematics and Applications, Minneapolis, MN) Purpose: The purpose of the workshop is to bring together leaders in wavelet theory and different aspects (methods and applications, academia and industry) of very large scale image processing: o to present the current state of the art in applying wavelet theory to image processing, o to explore the application of large-scale scientific computation, especially massively parallel supercomputers o to process and compress huge image data, o to investigate new challenges demanded by new technologies in medical imaging, HDTV, virtual reality, multimedia, 3D images, etc. The expectation is that new research ideas, motivation, appli- cations, and collaboration will be generated by this meeting. Location: The meeting will be held in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory. Partial List of Speakers: Dr. David Colella, the MITRE Corporation Dr. Peter Heller, Aware, Inc. Professor Maryellen L. Giger, University of Chicago Dr. Guy Nason, University of Bristol Professor Gilbert Strang, MIT Professor Gilbert Walter, University of Wisconsin Professor Victor Wickerhauser, University of Washington Contributed talks: We will accommodate a limited number of contributed talks of 20 minutes each. Please send title and a 1-page abstract before 10/1. Registration Fee: Prepaid: 80 (refreshments, Saturday lunch, proceedings) After 10/15: 100 (Speakers will be reimbursed.) Organizers: Dr. Man K. Kwong kwong@mcs.anl.gov (708) 252-7486 Dr. P.T. Peter Tang tang@mcs.anl.gov Fax: (708) 252-5986 MCS, Argonne National Laboratory Prof. Tom Bielecki tomasz.bielecki@uic.edu (312) 996-0752 Prof. Stephen S.T. Yau stephen.s.yau@uic.edu (312) 996-3065 Dept of Maths, Stat & CS, U. of Illinois at Chicago For registration form and further information contact kwong@mcs.anl.gov ------------------------------ From: Martin H. Gutknecht Date: Fri, 19 Aug 1994 20:08:03 --100 Subject: Postdoc position in numerical analysis at IPS / ETH Zurich POSTDOC POSITION IN NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AT IPS / ETH ZURICH At the Interdisciplinary Project Center for Supercomputing (IPS) of the Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, Switzerland, we anticipate the availability of funding for a two-year postdoc position linked to a project on iterative methods for solving very large (linear or nonlinear) systems of equations. We have a special interest in Lanczos-type methods, but other approaches may be considered too. Principal investigator is Martin H. Gutknecht, the head of IPS. The project aims at both theoretical work and at the production of reliable state-of-the-art software. Applicants should be qualified and interested in both these aspects of the project. The earliest possible starting date is October 1, but a postponing of several months is possible. Partial funding for a graduate student working in the same area may also become available. The Interdisciplinary Project Center for Supercomputing (IPS) was founded in 1988 to support and promote supercomputing at ETH Zurich. Its service duties include the individual support of supercomputers users and software developers at ETH, and the occasional organization of courses. Besides, research in numerical analysis, computational chemistry, computational physics, and other application areas is performed, partially in cooperation with other institutes. IPS also has a well equipped visualization lab. A wide variety of high-performance and parallel computers are accessible: NEC SX-3, Cray Y-MP, Cray T3D, Paragon, Parsytec, MasPar, workstation clusters, etc. However, the US Department of Commerce imposes restrictions on the usage of some of these computers. In particular, accounts cannot be opened for citizens of the People's Republic of China, Iran, Iraq, Lybia, North Korea, Syria, Vietnam, countries from the former Soviet union, and a number of other formerly communist countries. Applicants should submit their resume by Aug. 31 to Dr. Martin H. Gutknecht IPS, ETH-Zentrum CH-8092 Zurich Switzerland [mhg@ips.ethz.ch] They can also submit it by fax: (+41) (1) 632-1104 or by email to: schlegel@ips.ethz.ch Please do not have letters of recommendation sent without request. ------------------------------ From: Deb Mazur Date: Fri, 19 Aug 94 16:57:05 EDT Subject: Wayne State University Department of Computer Science Faculty Positions Wayne State University Department of Computer Science Faculty Positions The Wayne State University Department of Computer Science invites applications and nominations for several tenure-track positions: two in computer graphics and one in high performance computing. Candidates from related areas in computer science or computer engineering will also be considered. Candidates should have a Ph.D. in computer science/engineering or a closely related field, a strong interest in and commitment to both research and teaching and the potential for obtaining external research funding. Applications from minority and female candidates are especially encouraged. Wayne State University, located in Detroit's Cultural Center, is an urban, comprehensive research university serving 35,000 students. The Department of Computer Science has fourteen faculty members, approximately 75 Ph.D., 350 Masters and 350 undergraduate students. The faculty have many ties to local industries. Several research projects are currently being funded by these industries and federal agencies. Applicants should send a letter of intent, a statement of research and teaching interest, a resume with the names of at least three references, their addresses (including e-mail address) and telephone/fax numbers to: Dr. Narendra S. Goel, Chair Department of Computer Science Wayne State University 431 State Hall Detroit, MI 48202 Phone: (313) 577-2478 FAX: (313) 577-6868 e-mail: ngoel@cs.wayne.edu For full consideration applications should be submitted by November 1, 1994. However, applications will be accepted until the positions are filled. QUEST Wayne State University - People working together to provide quality service. Wayne State University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. ------------------------------ End of NA Digest ************************** -------