Newsgroups: comp.parallel,comp.sys.super From: eugene@sally.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya) Reply-To: eugene@george.arc.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya) Subject: [l/m 3/10/98] finding ||-ism references -- comp.parallel (14/28) FAQ Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA Date: 14 Mar 1998 14:58:07 GMT Message-ID: <6ee5tv$ed0$1@cnn.nas.nasa.gov> Archive-Name: superpar-faq Last-modified: 10 Mar 1998 14 References 16 18 Supercomputing and Crayisms 20 IBM and Amdahl 22 Grand challenges and HPCC 24 Suggested (required) readings 26 Dead computer architecture society 28 Dedications 2 Introduction and Table of Contents and justification 4 Comp.parallel news group history 6 parlib 8 comp.parallel group dynamics 10 Related news groups, archives, test codes, and other references 12 Who runs the ||ism-comunity? Like Dickens: this is the best of times, and it's the worst of times. First, you should always consider commercial services like DIALOG. They cost money, and they attempt to maintain quality, but you should also be very wary of these services. I have tested them, and they all lack. But you have legal recourse. Second: consider the Web. Quite a few references, mostly newer exist. Quite impressive if you know how TO PHRASE YOUR QUERY. Impressive are NCSTRL, Alf's and other sources. Most recently, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM: www.acm.org) has placed many of their proceedings on line with their digital library. At this time, this service is free, and will likely remain free to ACM members, BUT it is likely that non-members will have to pay for use in the future. Third: Specialization: Parallel I/O (Dave Kotz) [does a particularly nice job] ------------ http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/cs_archive/pario/ Parallel debugging (Cheri Pancake) ------------------ Fragments of these are slowly being incorporated into.... If not specialized (generalist): Fourth: consider my biblio (NASA.TM-86000). It attempts to be comprehensive. It's main advantage is the collected set of comments, errata, flames, etc. (annotations). This is possibly a very nice biblio in many respects. It helps to have real tools and not just a text editor. DISADVANTAGES: needs lots of catch up work. Volunteers? In particular I am seeking a copy of: %A Ulrike Bernutat-Buchmann %A Dietmar Rudolph %A Karl-Heinz ScholBer %T Parallel Computing I Eine Bibliographie %I Rechenzentrum und Ruhr-Universitat Bochum %D September 1983 %K book, text, paper, %O ISSN: 0723-2187 %X An extremely large printed bibliography on the subject. It is probably in a machine readable form. It has over 5000 entries, many in European languages. Should try to merge it with this list. It does not appear to have annotations, does have a cross reference list, does have keywords but they are not printed. ADVANTAGES: Free. If a reference isn't inside my biblio (especially older), then it might be questionable. Ask. I might not have it, or I might not yet have integrated inside. The idea behind my biblio is to be able to 1) locate useful information, 2) not merely cite sources, 3) reformat information as needed, 4) have useful assessments, errata, etc. to steer clear of less and useful information, but this can create conflicts. Other biblios posted to the net on topics like load balancing, neural nets, APL, etc. have been reformatted and incorporated as time permits. The purpose of my biblio is to use it. It's way beyond promotion time. My biblio is not meant as advertising, yet it can be construded to a limited degree. Where it differs from commercial services is that ANYONE can provide an intelligent comment, I'll even take semi-intelligent comment (you can express your opinion). ANYONE CAN SUGGEST A COMMENT, AND NO OTHER BIBLIO ALLOWS THAT. Some of the best computer people in the world have commented inside this biblio. Formats: refer Slowly disappearing. Advantages: can be used for reformating as well as search. bibTeX Advantages: powerful, can be used with reformatting. Disadvantages: some people give references w/o giving Macros. This can really suck (a real pisser). Bulky. Scribe Slowly disappearing. Advantages: can be used for reformating. Script Slowly disappearing. Advantages: can be used for reformating. Z39.50 and Dublin Core Watch for these. Disadvantages: must be reformatted. InterBib Too early to tell. Bibliographic citation: Largely irrelevant, the field either doesn't care or has minor significance. The field is diverse: some areas sensitive, other areas not. Potential land mines: Authors by last name alphabetic order Authors by order of importance to work Authors by first name initials Authors by full name Dennis Allison (Stanford and HaL) informs me that Satya got the copyright back and we have redistribution authority. The parallel/distributed processing bibliography (in machine readable form) is documented in ACM CAN: %A E. N. Miya %T Multiprocessor/Distributed Processing Bibliography %J Computer Architecture News %I ACM SIGARCH %V 13 %N 1 %D March 1985 %P 27-29 %K Annotated bibliography, computer system architecture, multicomputers, multiprocessor software, networks, operating systems, parallel processing, parallel algorithms, programming languages, supercomputers, vector processing, cellular automata, fault-tolerant computers, some digital optical computing, some neural networks, simulated annealing, concurrent, communications, interconnection, %X Notice of this work. Itself. Quality: no comment. Also short note published in NASA Tech Briefs vol. 12, no. 2, Feb. 1988, pp. 62. Also referenced in Hennessy & Patterson pages 589-590. About an earlier unmaintained version. TM-86000 and ARC-11568. Maintaining for ten years with constant updates (trying to be complete but not succeeding). Limited verification against bibliographic systems (this is better than DIALOG). Storing comments from colleagues (DIALOG can't do this.) Rehash sections on a Sequent as a test of parallel search (this work exhibits unitary speed-up). 8^). The attempt is to collect respected comments as well as references. Yearly net posting results hopefully updated "grequired" and "grecommended" search fields. Attempted to be comprehensive up to 1989. $Revision:$ $Date:$ It began with a bibliography published in 1980 by %A M. Satyanarayanan %T Multiprocessing: an annotated bibliography %J Computer %V 13 %N 5 %D May 1980 %P 101-116 %X Excellent reference source, but dated. Text reproduced with the permission of Prentice-Hall \(co 1980. $Revision: 1.2 $ $Date: 84/07/05 16:58:56 $ My work is considerably larger (over 100+ times now). # Next three lines to be removed shortly: In order to obtain a copy on the Internet, I am required to ask for a letterhead from an institution stating that they understand portions are copywritten. It's free, so that is not much to ask. Please also send any corrections, typos, additions to me. Annotations and keywords are particularly encouraged, since I can't read everything. Citation in any of your published work is appreciated since this supports my work. Send letterhead to: E. Miya MS 233-10 NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA 94035 FAX: US: 650-604-6999 (note area code change) Please include your return Email address. I maintain copies on some ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ sites, your site may have one already. Check with your site admin. The usual place is kept controlled to abide by terms of the copyright. I try to keep one point of contact to keep things simple. A list follows. If you are not on the Internet, you can obtain an older version (with source files) from COSMIC Univ. of Georgia 382 East Broad St. Athens, GA 30602 It's ASCII/refer (that's the format above) bibliographic, tar/Unix tape format. There is a tape handling charge. Special requests: IBM format tapes, VMS BACKUP format are also possible, ask me, not COSMIC for these. Tape distribution is now restricted to North America, but I am trying to get world-wide distribution again. Details: Why refer? (1) human readable ASCII, not a binary format, (2) easily convertable to other formats (EBCDIC), (3) at the time bibtex didn't exist, (4) less overhead than bibtex (fields smaller, however I decided in favor of full names for journals rather than abbrev. because many users don't know what ICPP or IDCS stand for...., (5) not only can you search it, but you can use it with a filter or formatter like troff with reasonable reformatting results, stylistic considerations like whether author names should have initials or full names can be automated. Contact points (not every Dept. is a CS dept). deliberate holes exist in this list. Don't ask, I won't tell unless you have a need to know. NASA: me ICASE: me (Linda Wilson) LLNL/MPCI/CRG/NERSC: me UCSC: me (Darrell Long) UC Berkeley: me (Eric Allman, formerly Mike Kupfer) AMT: Rex Thanakij Aerospace Corp: Anne Finestone AT&T: Steve Crandall ANL: Robert Harrison Aus.NU: David Hawking Battelle: Rick Kendall Baylor CM: Stanley Hanks BBN: Miles Fidelman Boston U: A. Heddaya Brown: John Savage Clemson: Steve Stevenson Columbia: Yoram Eisenstadter or Ella Sanders Cornell: Doug Elias CoState: Dale Grit (or RRO) Curtin, U Tech: Darren Brown Dartmouth: David Kotz DDt: Anders Ardo Denelcor (maybe Tera now): B. Smith DEC: Walter Lamia/John Sopka/C. Kiefer [no longer at DEC] Dorian Research: R. Levine DSTO (oz): Charles Watson Duke U.: Mark Jones Emory: V. Sunderam Encore: Roger Denton ETH: R. Ruhl EPFL: Lars Bombolt FPS (defunct): Tom Bauer Fr.-Alex. Univ. Erlangen-Nurnberg: J. Kleinoder Amdahl/Fujitsu America, Inc.: Ken Muira, (San Jose) : Hideo Wada (IBM format) GaTech: Karsten Schwan (Gene Spafford) GEC, NY: David O'Hallaron GMD MBH: Ernst-Joachim Busse GMD First: Diantong Liu HaL: Dennis Allison Harvard U: Stravos Macrakis Horizon RI: Craig Hughes Hope College: M. Jipping H-P/Convex: Greg Astfalk IBM: F. Darema, Greg Pfister@austin Indiana U: Dennis Gannon Inst. di Disica Cosmica, SIAM: G. Boella INRIA: Jean-Jacques Levy ISS: Jit Biswas Intermetrics: William White JVNC: Bruce Bathurst Loral: Ian Kaplan (Defunct) Katholieke Univ. Leuven: Prof. D. Roose KSR: M. Presser Martin Marietta Energy (OR,TN): Richard Hicks MCC: ??? Mitre: Thomas Gerasch MIT: Rich Lethin, Jerry Chen? Maspar: Peter Christy Mich. State U: Richard Enbody Minn.SC: Dennis Lienke Miss. State U: Donna Reese Monash U: W. Brown/Sim Or/Peter Sember Motorola: Fred Segovich Myrias: Jean Andruski (defunct) NAG: P. Mayes NEC: Eugen Schenfeld NM Tech: G. Francia, III NOSC: H. Smith Northrup: Jeff Crameron NYU: Allen Gottlieb OhioState: Jeff Martens OrGI: Robbie Babb (Dave DiNucci, defunct) OrSU: Lawrence Crowl, Gowri Ramanathan OSF: Dejan Milojicic Purdue: Andrew Royappa Rice: Ken Kennedy, Robert Fowler Rutgers: A. Gerasoulis Rutherford Appleton: David Greenaway Santa Clara U.: Hasan AlKhatib Sandia: Steve Plimpton Schlumberger: Peter Highnam SGI/Cray: Jim Denhert/Tim Hoel SMU: I. Gladwell SWRI: Richard Murphy SRI: Cliff Isberg Stanford: M. Flynn/V. Pratt/J. Hennessey/Andy Tucker Stony Brook: L. Wittie NPAC/Sycrause: Bill O'Farrell SSI: defunct SUN: Lisa Steiner/Bob Birss TAI: Lisa Vander Sluis TI: Bryon Davies TMC: Robin Perera Ultra: Bill Overstreet U. Adel.: Bruce Tonkin U. Ala.: Steve Wixson U. at Albany: Steven Sutphen Univ. AZ: Peter Wolcott/Matthew Saltzman UBC: Donald Acton U. Buff.: John Case UCLA: ??? 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Tx Dallas: Eliezer Dekel/Leslie Crawford U. Trond.: Petter Moe U U: Armin Liebchen USU: S. Cannon UWa: Jean Loup Baer U Waterloo: Peter Bain U. Wis.: Gregory Moses Utrecht U.: Lex Wolters Wa. St. U: Alan Genz Waikato U.: Matt Melchert W. Mi. U: John Kapenga Wright: Brian d'Auriol Yale U.: Miriam Putterman Wa. U (SL. Mo): Fred Rosenberger Zentralinst. fur Ang. Math.: J. Fr. Hake paulo rosado Where? HONOR SYSTEM: restrict copies to Pacific Standard/Daylight evenings or weekends. This is 10 MBs and we'd appreciate you not taking our bandwidth during prime time. For your institution's disk space sake, check with your point of contact first. Minimize your copying. See first: ftp::explorer.arc.nasa.gov/pub/parallel.bib/README ftp::explorer.arc.nasa.gov/pub/parallel.bib/NASA.TM-86000 And make certain that you take: ftp::explorer.arc.nasa.gov/pub/parallel.bib/copyright A refer to bibTeX convert is available. The best thing is that the point of contact can either ask me, or recopy (check change dates) every few months. Complete updated version get placed there. Articles to parallel@ctc.com (Administrative: bigrigg@ctc.com) Archive: http://www.hensa.ac.uk/parallel/internet/usenet/comp.parallel