The International Journal of Supercomputing Applications Co-Editors in Chief: Joanne Martin and Jack Dongarra Published 4 times a year. MIT Press ======================================================== Volume 1 Number 1 Spring 1987 ======================================================== 3 EDITORIAL 3 An Invitation to Participate 5 CENTERS OF SUPERCOMPUTING 5 Supercomputing and the Growth of Computational Science in the National Science Foundation, E. Bloch 9 PAPERS 9 Computational Approach to Large Quantum Dynamical Problems, R.A. Friesner, J.-P. Brunet, R.E. Wyatt, C. Leforestier 24 Particle Modeling of Plasmas on Supercomputers, J.M. Dawson, V.K. Decyk 44 Selective Neural Networks and Their Implications for Recognition Automata, G.N. Reeke, Jr., G.M. Edelman 70 Toward Efficient Implementation of Preconditioned Conjugate Gradient Methods on Vector Supercomputers, R. Melhem 99 CORRESPONDENCE 99 Algorithm Design for Large-Scale Computations, F. Sullivan 106 PERSPECTIVES 106 High-Speed Computing and Artificial Intelligence Connection, J.S. Kowalik, K.M. Chalfan 110 An Agenda for Improved Evaluation of Supercomputer Performance, J.M. Richardson 112 BOOK REVIEWS 112 The Connection Machine, by W.D. Hillis, Reviewed by J. Dongarra 113 High-Speed Computing: Scientific Applications and Algorithm Design, edited by R. Wilhelmson, Reviewed by J.L. Martin 114 ANNOUNCEMENTS 117 MEETINGS 119 INFORMATION FOR CONTRIBUTORS ======================================================== Volume 1 Number 2 Summer 1987 ======================================================== 3 EDITORIAL 3 A Walk Into the Future ..., R.B. Wilhelmson 6 CENTERS OF SUPERCOMPUTING 6 Science at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, M. Maisel 11 PAPERS 11 Status of Vectorized Monte Carlo for Particle Transport Analysis, W.R. Martin, F.B. Brown 33 Computer Simulation of Diffusion-Limited Chemical Reactions in Three Dimensions, D.C. Torney, T.T. Warnock 44 Parallel Programming with Recurrent Equations, B.K. Szymanski 75 An Experimental Implementation of Migration Algorithms on the Intel Hypercube, S.T. Kao, E.L. Leiss 100 PERSPECTIVES 100 Supercomputers: Value and Trends, B. Buzbee 104 ANNOUNCEMENTS 106 MEETINGS 107 INFORMATION FOR CONTRIBUTORS ======================================================== Volume 1 Number 3 Fall 1987 ======================================================== 3 EDITORIAL 3 The Missing Pieces, J.L. Martin 5 CENTERS OF SUPERCOMPUTING 5 Supercomputing in Wester Canada, T. Nunns 12 PAPERS 12 Implementation and Performance of the Large-Scale Finite Element Code SESAM on a Wide Range of Scientific Computers, P.E. Bjorstad, J. Brackhus 26 Concurrent Multifrontal Methods: Shared Memory, Cache, and Frontwidth Issues, R.E. Benner, G.R. Montry, G.G. Weigand 46 Performance Analysis of Vectorized Nuclear Codes on a FACOM VP-100 at the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute, M. Ishiguro, H. Harada, M. Makino 57 Monte Carlo Photon Transport on Shared Memory and Distributed Memory Parallel Processors, W.R. Martin, T.-C. Wan, T.S. Abdel-Rahman, T.N. Mudge 75 Disk Interleaving and Very Large Fast Fourier Transforms, M.Y. Kim, A. Nigam, G. Paul, R.J. Flynn 97 PERSPECTIVES 97 Networking Needs and Trends in Data Communications, A.F. Fath 101 ANNOUNCEMENTS 104 MEETINGS 106 INFORMATION FOR CONTRIBUTORS ======================================================== Volume 1 Number 4 Winter 1987 ======================================================== 3 EDITORIAL 3 The Mass Market for Supercomputing, B. McNamara 5 CENTERS OF SUPERCOMPUTING 5 Science and Technology at Cornell's Theory Center, D. Meridith 10 PAPERS 10 Progress in Sparse Matrix Methods for Large Linear Systems on Vector Supercomputers, C.C. Ashcraft, R.G. Grimes, J.G. Lewis, B.W. Peyton, H.D. Simon 31 Computer Simulation of Large-Scale Econometric Models: Project LINK, C.E. Petersen 54 Efficiency of the CYBER 205 for Stochastic Simulations of a Simultaneous, Nonlinear, Dynamic Econometric Model, A. Ando, P. Beaumon, M. Ando 82 CORRESPONDENCE 82 Implementation of a Distributed Interactive Graphics Systems, D. Choi, C. Levit 96 Distributed Interactive Graphics Applications in Computational Fluid Dynamics, S.E. Rogers, P.G. Buning, F.J. Merritt 106 PERSPECTIVES 106 Visualization in Scientific Computing: Summary of an NSF-Sponsored Panel Report on Graphics, Image Processing and Workstations, D. Salzman 109 BOOK REVIEWS 109 The Characteristics of Parallel Algorithms, edited by L.H. Jamieson, D. Gannon, R.J. Douglass, Reviewed by G.J. McRae 110 Supercomputers and Their Use, by C. Lazou, Reviewed by J.L Martin 112 ANNOUNCEMENTS 114 MEETINGS 116 INFORMATION FOR CONTRIBUTORS ======================================================== Volume 2 Number 1 Spring 1988 ======================================================== 3 EDITORIAL 3 Programming Environments for Supercomputing, D. Gannon 5 CENTERS OF SUPERCOMPUTING 5 Science at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, R.Z. Roskies, P.D. Sackett 12 PAPERS 12 Impact of Hierarchical Memory Systems on Linear Algebra Algorithm Design, K. Gallivan, W. Jalby, U. Meier, A.H. Sameh 49 Multitasking 3-D Forward Modeling Using High Order Finite Difference Methods on the CRAY X-MP/416, O. Terki-Hassaine, E.L. Leiss 66 Large-Scale Unconstrained Optimization on the FPS 164 and CRAY X-MP Vector Processors, M. Lescrenier, Ph.L. Toint 82 CORRESPONDENCE 82 A High-Performance FFT Algorithm for Vector Supercomputers, D.H. Bailey 88 PERSPECTIVES 88 Limits of Expectation, G.M. Amdahl 95 BOOK REVIEW 95 The Supercomputer Era, by S. Karin and N.P. Smith, Reviewed by J.W.D. Connolly 97 ANNOUNCEMENTS 99 MEETINGS 101 INFORMATION FOR CONTRIBUTORS ======================================================== Volume 2 Number 2 Summer 1988 ======================================================== 3 EDITORIAL 3 Supercomputers in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, R.A. Brown 5 CENTERS OF SUPERCOMPUTING 5 Supercomputer Chemistry at the University of Minnesota, J. Almlof, D.G. Truhlar, H.T. Davis, K.F. Jensen, M. Tirrell, T. Lybrand 16 PAPERS 16 Changing Roles for Supercomputing in Chemical Engineering, G.J. McRae, J.B. Milford, B.J. Slompak 41 Determination of Protein Structures in Solution Using NMR Data and IMPACT, D.A. Bassolino, F. Hirata, D.B. Kitchen, D. Kominos, A. Pardi, R.M. Levy 62 A Molecular Model for the Helicity of Polytetrafluoroethylene (Teflon), D.A. Dixon, F.A. Van-Catledge 82 BOOK REVIEW 82 Supercomputer Research in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, edited by K.F. Jensen and D.G. Truhlar, Reviewed by J.L. Martin 82 ANNOUNCEMENTS 86 MEETINGS 89 INFORMATION FOR CONTRIBUTORS ======================================================== Volume 2 Number 3 Fall 1988 ======================================================== 3 EDITORIAL 3 A Retrospective, J.L. Martin 6 CENTERS OF SUPERCOMPUTING 6 Science at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, W.H. Allen 10 PAPERS 10 Assessing the Benefits of Fine-Grain Parallelism in Dataflow Programs, Arvind, D.E. Culler, G.K. Maa 37 Multiprocessor Schemes for Solving Block Tridiagonal Linear Systems, M.W. Berry, Ahmed Sameh 58 Vectorized Calculations and Use of Fast Semiconductor Memories in the DV-Xa Method, K.Tago, H. Kumahora, N. Sadaoka, K.Kobayashi 73 CORRESPONDENCE 73 Flow Simulations by Parallel Computer MiPAX, H. Hara, K. Kanehiro, Y. Kodera 83 MEETINGS 85 INFORMATION FOR CONTRIBUTORS ======================================================== Volume 2 Number 4 Winter 1988 ======================================================== 3 EDITORIAL 3 IBM Bergen Scientific Centre and the International Conference on Vector and Parallel Computing, P. Gaffney 5 PAPERS 5 Domain Decomposition Methods for Partial Differential Equations on Parallel Computers, G. Meurant 13 Seeing in Parallel: The Vision Machine, J.J. Little, T. Poggio, E.B. Gamble, Jr. 29 Programming Parallel Vision Algorithms: A Dataflow Language Approach, L.G. Shapiro 45 Large-Scale Computing in Reservoir Simulation, R.E. Ewing 54 Statistical Mechanics of Neural Computation, J.A. Hertz 63 Comparison of Supercomputers and Mini-Supercomputers for Computational Fluid Dynamics Calculations, W. Gentzsch 72 Domain Decomposition Algorithms and Computational Fluid Dynamics, T.F. Chan 84 ParaScope: A Parallel Programming Environment, C.D. Callahan, K.D. Cooper, R.T. Hood, K. Kennedy, L. Torczon 100 Parallel Programming with Ada, J. Kok 109 On the SUPRENUM System, H. Mierendorff, K. Solchenbach, U. Trottenberg 118 PERSPECTIVES 118 Supercomputing as a Tool for Product Development, A.M. Erisman 122 ANNOUNCEMENTS 125 MEETINGS 126 INFORMATION FOR CONTRIBUTORS ======================================================== Volume 3 Number 1 Spring 1989 ======================================================== 3 EDITORIAL 3 Supercomputers, Networks, and Privacy, J.L. Martin 5 CENTERS OF SUPERCOMPUTING 5 Supercomputing in Japan: Institute for Supercomputing Research, C. Eoyang, R.H. Mendez 10 PAPERS 10 Solving Two-Dimensional Partial Differential Equations on Vector and Scalar Machines, L. Kaufman, N. Schryer 34 Parallel and Serial Variational Inequality Decomposition Algorithms for Multicommodity Market Equilibrium Problems, A. Nagurney, D.-S. Kim 59 Massively Parallel Mathematical Sieves, G.R. Montry 75 CORRESPONDENCE 75 Solving Tridiagonal Linear Systems on the Butterfly Parallel Computer, S.P. Kumar 82 PERSPECTIVES 82 Parallel Processing of Large-Scale Applications on Powerful Multiple Processors, K.J.M. Moriarty 89 ANNOUNCEMENTS 91 MEETINGS 93 INFORMATION FOR CONTRIBUTORS ======================================================== Volume 3 Number 2 Summer 1989 ======================================================== 3 EDITORIAL 3 The Impact of Supercomputers: Global, Pervasive, Positive, J.E. Aldag 6 CENTERS OF SUPERCOMPUTING 6 CERFACS: A European Center for High-Performance Computation, I.S. Duff 10 PAPERS 10 Animation of Interactive Fluid Flow Visualization Tools on a Data Parallel Machine, J.A. Sethian, J.B. Salem 40 Level 3 BLAS in LU Factorization on the CRAY-2, ETA-10P, and IBM 3090-200/VF, M.J. Dayde, I.S. Duff 71 Analytic Models of Supercomputer Performance in Multiprogramming Environments, D.A. Menasce, V.A.F. Almeida 92 CORRESPONDENCE 92 Parallel Processing a Three-Dimensional Free-Language Code: A Case History, D.A. Mandell, H.E. Trease 100 Toward a General Model for Evaluating the Relative Performance of Computer Systems, F.A. Van-Catledge 109 ANNOUNCEMENTS 111 MEETINGS ======================================================== Volume 3 Number 3 Fall 1989 ======================================================== 3 EDITORIAL 3 Supercomputing: Beyond the Daily Planet, J.L. Martin 5 PAPERS 5 The PERFECT Club Benchmarks: Effective Performance Evaluation of Supercomputers, M.Berry, D. Chen, P. Koss, D. Kuck, S. Lo, Y. Pang, L. Pointer, R. Roloff, A. Sameh, E. Clementi, S. Chin, D. Schneider, G. Fox, P. Messina, D. Walker, C. Hsiung, J. Schwarzmeier, K. Lue, S. Orszag, F. Seidl, O. Johnson, R. Goodrum, J. Martin 41 Vectorization of a Multiprocessor Multifrontal Code, P.R. Amestoy, I.S. Duff 60 CORRESPONDENCE 60 The Element by Element Method as a Preconditioner for Linear Systems Coming from Finite Element Models, A. de La Bourdonnaye 69 Supercomputer Throughput Benchmarks for the CRAY-IS and Cyber 205 with Estimates for Class VII Supercomputers, B. McNamara 86 PERSPECTIVES 86 Floating Point Arithmetic in Future Supercomputers, D.H. Bailey, H.D. Simon, J.T. Barton, M.J. Fouts 91 Applications Development on the Very Long Instruction Word CYDRA-5, P.Y.-T. Hsu, B.r. Rau, K.J.M. Moriarty 99 ANNOUNCEMENTS 101 MEETINGS 103 INFORMATION FOR CONTRIBUTORS ======================================================== Volume 3 Number 4 Winter 1989 ======================================================== 3 EDITORIAL 3 6 CENTERS OF SUPERCOMPUTING 6 9 PAPERS 9 64 CORRESPONDENCE 64 73 BOOK REVIEW 73 75 ANNOUNCEMENTS 78 MEETINGS 80 INFORMATION FOR CONTRIBUTORS ======================================================== Volume 4 Number 1 Spring 1990 ======================================================== 3 EDITORIAL 3 A U.S. High-Performance Computing Program, S. Fernbach 6 CENTERS OF SUPERCOMPUTING 6 Research at the Ohio Supercomputer Center, A. Brown, A. Burns, K. Wohlever 10 PAPERS 10 Supercomputer Methods for the Solution of Fundamental Problems of Particle Physics, K.J.M. Moriarty, C. Rebbi 31 Three-Dimensional Dip Moveout on the SX-2: An XMU Implementation, E.L. Leiss, R.H. Thapar 49 Serial and Parallel Equilibration of Large-Scale Constrained Matrix Problems with Application to the Social and Economic Sciences, A. Nagurney, D.-S. Kim, A.G. Robinson 72 CORRESPONDENCE 72 Solving Navier-Stokes Equations on a Massively Parallel Processor: Beyond the 1 GFLOP Performance, A. Saati, S. Biringen, C. Farhat 81 PERSPECTIVES 81 The Direction of Numerically Intensive Computing in Higher Education, M.-A. Mahaffy 88 Are Highly Parallel Systems Ready for Prime Time?, M.-A. Mahaffy 95 Workshop on Scientific Computing Performance Analysis, Executive summary by E.D. Lazowska, K.C. Sevcik 98 ANNOUNCEMENTS 99 MEETINGS 101 INFORMATION FOR CONTRIBUTORS ======================================================== Volume 4 Number 2 Summer 1990 ======================================================== 3 EDITORIAL 3 About This Issue, S. Follin 5 PAPERS 5 Computer Simulation of the Global Climatic Effects of Increased Greenhouse Gases, W.M. Washington, T.W. Bettge, G.A. Meehl, J.B. Yost 20 A Study of the Evolution of a Numerically Modeled Severe Storm, J.B. Yost, R.B. Wilhelmson, F.F. Jewett, C. Shaw, L.J. Wicker, M. Arrott, M. Bajuk, C.B. Bushell, J. Thingvold 37 Modeling the Pacific Ocean, M.A. Johnson, J.J. O'Brien 48 Global Four-Band Spectral Classification of Jupiter's Clouds: Color/Albedo Units and Trends, W.R. Thompson 66 Flow Visualization in Computational Fluid Dynamics, S. Shirayama, K. Kuwahara 81 Supercomputer Applications in Gas Turbine Flowfield Simulation, S. Gavali, N.K. Madavan, P. Kelaita 96 Numerical Simulation of Flow Through Biofluid Devices, S.E. Rogers, D. Kwak, C. Kiris, I-D. Chang 107 Simulation of Automobile Side Member Collapse for Crash Energy Management, I. Hagiwara, M. Tsuda, Y. Sato, Y. Kitagawa 115 Visual Simulation of a Chemical Reaction, A. Koide 124 Glass Transition, F. Yonezawa, S. Sakamoto, S. Nose 134 Quantum Chemical Molecular Models for Fluorinated Polymers: Visualization of Structures and Vibrational Motions, D.A. Dixon, W.B. Farnham, P.J. Capobianco 150 PERSPECTIVES 150 Scientific Visualization: What's Beyond the Vision?, R.B. Haber 154 Scientific Data Visualization Software: Trends and Directions, J.D. Foley ======================================================== Volume 4 Number 3 Fall 1990 ======================================================== 3 EDITORIAL 3 The U.S. Department of Energy's "Grand Challenge" Program, T. Kitchens 6 CENTERS OF SUPERCOMPUTING 6 The National Energy Research Supercomputer Center, A.A. Mirin 11 PAPERS 11 Atomic Resolution Structures of DNA and DNA Modified by Carcinogens, B.E. Hingerty, S.Broyde 22 Quantum Molecular Dynamics: A New Algorithm for Linear and Nonlinear Electron Transport in Disordered Materials, R.K. Kalia, P. Vashishta, L.H. Yang, F.W. Dech, J. Rowlan 34 Methods for the Efficient Calculation of the Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) Stability Properties of Magnetically Confined Fusion Plasmas, D.V. Anderson, W.A. Cooper, R. Gruber, S. Merazzi, U.Schwenn 48 The High Energy Monte Carlo Grand Challenge: Simulating Quarks and Gluons, K.M. Bitar, R. Edwards, U. Heller, A.D. Kennedy, W. Liu, K.C. Wang, T.A. DeGrand, S.A. Gottlieb, A. Krasnitz, J.B. Kogut, R.L. Renken, M.C. Ogilvie, P. Rossi, D.K. Sinclair, R.L. Sugar, M. Teper, D. Toussaint 61 Lattice Calculation of Electroweak Amplitude, C. Bernard, R. Gupta, G. Kilcup, S.R. Sharpe, A. Soni 72 Hadron Structure and Interaction from Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics Calculations, K.-F. Liu 81 DNA Dynamics in Aqueous Solution: Opening the Double Helix, A. Pohorille, W.S. Ross, I. Tinoco, Jr. 97 Plasma Turbulence Calculations on Supercomputers, B.A. Carreras, L. Garcia, N. Dominguez, J.B. Drake, J.-N. Leboeuf, L.A. Charlton, J.A. Holmes, D.K. Lee, V.E. Lynch 111 Total Energy Calculations for Structural Phase Transformations, Y.-Y., Ye, C.-T. Chan, K.-M. Ho, b.N. Harmon 122 First Principles Molecular Dynamics Studies of Liquid and Solid Sodium, J.W. Davenport, G.-X. Qian, G.W. Fernando, M. Weinert 131 INFORMATION FOR CONTRIBUTORS ======================================================== Volume 4 Number 4 Winter 1990 ======================================================== 3 CENTERS OF SUPERCOMPUTING 3 The North Carolina Supercomputing Center: A Study of Economic Development Impact, L. Lee, S. Christensen 9 PAPERS 9 Implementation of Iterative Methods for Large Sparse Nonsymmetric Linear Systems on a Parallel Vector Machine, S. Ma, A.T. Chronopoulus 25 Calculational Aspects of the Assessment of Dielectric Response Function and Energy Loss in Materials: Applications to Ice and Polyacetylene, M. Zaider, J.L. Fry, D.E. Orr 40 A Technique to Evaluate Benchmarks: A Case Study Using the Livermore Loops, C.M. Wang, J.M. Gary, H.K. Iyer 56 Computer-Aided Software Development Tools for the Supercomputer Environment, B. McNamara, K.J.M. Moriarty 71 CORRESPONDENCE 71 Eliminating Distance in Scientific Computing: An Experiment in Televisualization, R.B. Haber, D.A. McNabb, R.A. Ellis 90 PERSPECTIVES 90 Issues in Applying Massively Parallel Computing Power, G. Demos 106 ANNOUNCEMENTS 109 MEETINGS ======================================================== Volume 5 Number 1 Spring 1991 ======================================================== 5 PAPERS 5 Concurrent Vector Algorithms for Spline Solutions of the Helium Pair Equation, C. Froese Fischer 21 Predicting High-Pressure and Excited-State Properties of Real Materials, X.W. Wang, S.G. Louie, M.L. Cohen 34 Stability, Electronic Structure, and Phase Diagrams of Novel Inter-Semiconductor Components, L.G. Ferreira, S.-H. Wei, A. Zunger 57 Accurate First Principles Calculation of Many-Body Interactions, G.J. Tawa, J.W. Moskowitz, P.A. Whitlock, K.E. Schmidt 72 An Ab Initio Theoretical Study of the CH + H 90 CORRESPONDENCE 90 Parallel Processing for Large-Scale Nonlinear Control Experiments in Economics, H.M. Amman, D.A. Kendrick 96 ANNOUNCEMENTS 98 MEETINGS 100 INFORMATION FOR CONTRIBUTORS ======================================================== Volume 5 Number 2 Summer 1991 ======================================================== 3 CENTERS OF SUPERCOMPUTING 3 Supercomputing at Los Alamos National Laboratory, C. Barrett, F. Bobrowicz, R.G. Brickner, B.A. Clark, R. Gupta, A.H. Hayes, H. Trease, A.B. White, Jr. 10 PAPERS 10 Early Experience with the Intel iPSC/860 at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, M.T. Heath, G.A. Geist, J.B. Drake 27 Financial Simulations on a Massively Parallel Connection Machine, J.M. Huthcinson, S.A. zenios 46 Multiprocessing on Supercomputers for Computational Aerodynamics, M. Yarrow, U.B. Mehta 73 Simulating Lattice QCD on a Caltech/JPL Hypercube, H.-Q. Ding 81 A Microtasking Algorithm for Optimization of Structures, H.-L. Hsu, H. Adeli 91 PERSPECTIVES 91 Decoupled Asynchronous I/O for Data Processing Applications on Supercomputers, M.P. Persons, L.L. Halcomb 95 Role of High-Performance Computing in Science Education, N.H. Sabelli 99 ANNOUNCEMENTS 101 MEETINGS 103 INFORMATION FOR CONTRIBUTORS ======================================================== Volume 5 Number 3 Fall 1991 ======================================================== 3 EDITORIAL 3 In Memoriam-Sidney Fernbach (1917-1991), J.L. Martin 4 CENTERS OF SUPERCOMPUTING 4 Computational Science at the Supercomputer Computations Research Institute, D.W. Duke 13 PAPERS 13 Physics Modeling of Tokamak Transport, a Grand Challenge for Controlled Fusion, J.M. Dawson, R.D. Sydora, V.K. Decyk, P.C. Liewer, R.D. Ferraro 36 Quantum Monte Carlo Simulations of a CuO Model, R.T. Scalettar, D.J. Scalapino, R.L. Sugar, S.R. White 46 Queuing Model Analysis of he Fujtsu VP2000 with Dual Scalar Architecture, M. Ishiguro 63 The NAS Parallel Benchmarks, D.H. Bailey, E. Barszcz, J.T. Barton, D. Dagum, D.S. Browning, R.L. Carter, D. Dagum, R.A. Fatoohi, H.D. Simon, P.O. Frederickson, T.A. Lasinski, R.S. Schreiber, V. Venkatakrishnan, S.K. Weeratunga 74 The Stefan Problem Solved via Conjugate Gradient-like Iterative Methods on a Parallel Vector Machine, A.T. Chronopoulos, C.R. Swaminathan, V.R. Voller 92 CORRESPONDENCE 92 Use of Level 3 BLAS in LU Factorization in a Multiprocessing Environment on Three Vector Multiprocessors: The Alliant FX/80, the CRAY-2, and the IBM 3090 VF, M.J. Dayde, I.S. Duff 111 ANNOUNCEMENTS 113 MEETINGS 115 INFORMATION FOR CONTRIBUTORS ======================================================== Volume 5 Number 4 Winter 1991 ======================================================== 3 EDITORIAL 3 The National Science Foundation Supercomputer Centers Program, T.A. Weber 4 CENTERS OF SUPERCOMPUTING 4 A History and Prospectus for the NSF Supercomputer Centers, L.E. Brandt 10 PAPERS 10 Computer Simulation of Crystal Growth and Dissolution in Metals and Semiconductors, P. Clancy 34 Numerical Modeling of Axisymmetric Laminar Diffusion Flames by a Parallel Boundary Value Method, M.D. Smooke, V. Giovangigli 50 Hadron Thermodynamics on the Connection Machine, S.A. Gottlieb, K.C. Wang, A. Krasnitz, U.M. Heller, A.D. Kennedy, W. Liu, J.B. Kogut, R.L. Renken, D.K. Sinclair, R.L. Sugar, D. Toussaint 61 Studying Quarks and Gluons on MIMD Parallel Computers, C. Bernard, M.C. Ogilvie, T.A. DeGrand, C.E. DeTar, S.A. Gottlieb, A. Krasnitz, R.L. Sugar, D. Toussaint 71 The Fueling of Active Galaxies, L. Hernquist 84 Simulations of Discrete Quantized Gravity, H.W. Hamber 98 Molecular Simulations on Supercomputers, C.L. Brooks III, W.S. Young, D.J. Tobias 113 MEETINGS 115 INFORMATION FOR CONTRIBUTORS ======================================================== Volume 6 Number 1 Spring 1992 ======================================================== 3 EDITORIAL 3 J.L. Martin 4 CENTERS OF SUPERCOMPUTING 4 Science and Engineering at the Texas A&M University Supercomputer Center, B. Nassersharif 13 PAPERS 13 Large-Scale Sparse Singular Value Computations, M.W. Berry 50 Management and Analuysis of Large Scientific Datasets, L. Sirovich, R. Everson 69 Parallel Block Matrix Factorizations on the Shared-Memory Multiprocessor IBM 3090 VF/600J, K.Dackland, E. Elmroth, B. Kagstrom, C. Van Loan 98 An Efficient Parallel Algorithm for Extreme Eigenvalues of Sparse Nonsymmetric Matrices, S.K. Kim, A.T. Chronopoulos 112 PERSPECTIVES 112 What Should We Expect from Parallel Language Standards?, C.M. Pancake 118 ANNOUNCEMENTS 120 MEETINGS 122 INFORMATION FOR CONTRIBUTORS ======================================================== Volume 6 Number 2 Summer 1992 ======================================================== 127 EDITORIAL 127 The Frankenstein Project: Building a Man in the Machine and the Arrival of the Computational Physician, M. Witten 138 PAPERS 138 Protein Sequence and Structure Comparison on Massively Parallel Computers, R. Jones 147 Parallel Computation for Medicine and Biology Applications of Linda at Yale University, D.F. Sittig, M.A. Shifman, P. Nadkarni, P.L. Miller 164 Computational Methods for Bond Mechanics Studies, R.T. Hart, Z.M. Oden, S.W. Parrish, D.B. Burr 175 Solid Modeling on a Massively Parallel Processor, D. Strip, M. Karasick 193 History Matching for Multiphase Reservoir Models on Shared Memory Supercomputers, J. Zhu, Y.M. Chen 207 ANNOUNCEMENTS 208 MEETINGS 210 INFORMATION FOR CONTRIBUTORS ======================================================== Volume 6 Number 3 Fall 1992 ======================================================== 215 CENTERS OF SUPERCOMPUTING 215 The University of Minnesota Army High Performance Computing Research Center, D.M. Austin 224 PAPERS 224 Experiences with the Parallelization and Vectorization of Simulation Codes for Heavy-Ion Reactions, H.-G. Reusch 241 All-to-All Broadcast and Applications on the Connection Machine, J.-P. Brunet, S.L. Johnsson 257 Increasing Our Understanding of Biological Models Through Visual and Sonic Representations: A Cortical Case Study, M. Witten, R.E. Wyatt 281 CORRESPONDENCE 281 Benchmarking High-Performance Computing Systems by Means of Local-Creutz Simulations of the d = 2 Ising Model, R.C. Brower, C. Rebbi, P. Tamayo, K.J.M. Moriarty, S. Sanielevici 288 PERSPECTIVES 288 NSF Suprcomputer Centers Study, Scientific Supercomputing Subcommittee, Technical Committee on Supercomputing Applications, IEEE Computer Society 304 ANNOUNCEMENTS 305 MEETINGS 308 INFORMATION FOR CONTRIBUTORS ======================================================== Volume 6 Number 4 Winter 1992 ======================================================== 313 EDITORIAL 313 J. Dongarra 314 CENTERS OF SUPERCOMPUTING 314 Center for Research on Parallel Computation, K. Tinson, A. Redelfs 322 PAPERS 322 Local Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines (LBLAS) for Distributed Memory Architeccctures and Languages with Array Syntax, S.L.Johnsson, L.F. Ortiz 351 Efficient Parallel Implementation of a Full configuration Interaction Algorithm for Circular Polyenes on a CRAY Y-MP, R. Ansaloni, E. Rossi, S. EvaEvangelisti, G. Paruolo 361 Parallel Processing and the Sustained Production Performance of the CRAY Y-MP: Benchmarks Using Optimized Microtasked Lattice SU(3) Code, K.J.M. Moriarty, S. Sanielevici, D.W. Kuba 371 Multitasking for Local Parallelism in Applications to Chemically Reacting Supersonic Flows on CRAY Y-MP, S.Y. Moon, C.S. Yoon, T.J. Chung 383 CORRESPONDENCE 383 FLO67: A Case Study in Scalable Programming, S. Wholey,C. Lasser, G. Bhanot 389 ANNOUNCEMENTS 390 MEETINGS 392 INFORMATION FOR CONTRIBUTORS ======================================================== Volume 7 Number 1 Spring 1993 ======================================================== 3 CENTERS OF SUPERCOMPUTING 3 The Center for Computational Sciences at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, J.B. Drake, G.A. Geist, H.R. Hicks, K.L. Kliewer, G.M. Stocks, L.E. Toran, P.H. Worley 15 PAPERS 15 Exact Monte Carlo Calculations for Fermions on a Parallel Machine, S. Zhang, M.H. Kalos 25 Using Parallel Computers to Solve the Phase Problem on X-Ray Crystallography, C.-S. Chang, G. DeTitta, H. Hauptman, R. Miller, P. Thuman, C. Weeks 50 A Fully Vectorized Code for Nonequilibrium RF Glow Discharge Fluid Modeling and Its Parallel Processing on a CRAY X-MP, F.F. Young, C.H.J. Wu 64 Memory Management Issues in Sparse Multifrontal Methods on Multiprocessors, P.R. Amestoy, I.S. Duff 83 ANNOUNCEMENTS 85 MEETINGS 87 INFORMATION FOR CONTRIBUTORS ======================================================== Volume 7 Number 2 Summer 1993 ======================================================== 91 CENTERS OF SUPERCOMPUTING 91 The 0th Heterogeneous Computing Challenge: Fun and (Sometimes Too Much) Excitement, J. Rew, D.C. Aston, K.W. Gordon, K. Wheeler 97 PAPERS 97 A Massively Parallel Digital Processor for Spotlight Synthetic Aperture Radar, G.A. Mastin, S.J. Plimpton, D.C. Ghiglia 113 Large Dense Numerical Linear Algebra in 1993: The Parallel Computing Influence, A. Edelman 129 Computation of Equilibrium Vortex Structures for Type-II Superconductors, M.T. Jones, P.E. Plassmann 144 Simulation of the Deployment Process of Multiunit Deployable Structures on a CRAY-2, C. Gantes, J.J. Connor, R.D. Logcher 155 A Concurrent Adaptive Conjugate Gradient Learning Algorithm on MIMD Shared-Memory Machines, H. Adeli, S.L. Hung 167 Visualizing Complex Patterns in the Spread of Head and Neck Cancers, L. Gray, S. Klasky, R. Byers 179 ANNOUNCEMENTS 180 MEETINGS 182 INFORMATION FOR CONTRIBUTORS ======================================================== Volume 7 Number 3 Fall 1993 ======================================================== 187 EDITORIAL 187 Introduction to the Special Issue, A. Nagurney 189 PAPERS 189 Computational Issues in the Statistical Design and Analysis of Experimental Games, M.A. El-Gamal, R.D. McKelvey, T.R. Palfrey 201 Forward Looking Behavior and Learning in Stochastic Control, H.M. Amman, D.A. Kendrick 212 A Numerical Algorithm for Solving Models with Incomplete Markets, D.H. Jones, A. Imrohoroglu, S. Imrohoroglu 231 Simulating Normal Rectangle Probabilities and Their Derivatives Effects of Vectorization, V.A. Hajivassiliou 254 Econometric Model Simulation on Parallel Computers, M. Gilli, G. Pauletto 265 Globally Convex Agricultural Production System Parameter Estimation, A.L. Somwaru, K. Hanson 272 INFORMATION FOR CONTRIBUTORS ======================================================== Volume 7 Number 4 Winter 1993 ======================================================== 277 PAPERS 277 An Interactive, Animated Visualization Environment for Three-Dimensional Fluid Flow, K. Lowther, J.B. Salem, J.A. Sethian 292 Efficient, Massively Parallel Eigenvalue Computation, Y. Huo, R. Schreiber 304 Performance Attributes for Code and Workload Analysis on CRAY X-MP and Y-MP Systems, G. Delic 337 Domain Decomposition Methods for Semiconductor Device Problems on a Matrix Coprocessor, C.-H. Lai 349 Massively Parallel Proximal Algorithms for Solving Linear Stochastic Network Programs, S. Nielsen, S.A. Zenios 365 MEETINGS 367 INFORMATION FOR CONTRIBUTORS ======================================================== Volume 8 Number 1 Spring 1994 ======================================================== 3 EDITORIAL 3 Joanne Martin 5 INTRODUCTION 5 Introduction to the Theme Issue, Fred Hausheer 6 PAPERS 6 Supercomputing Studies of Biomembranes, Terry R. Stouch, Howard E. Alper, Donna Bassolino-L;o,as 24 Solution Structure of Taxol Determined Using a Novel Feedback Scaling Procedure for NOE-Restrained Molecular Dynamics, R.E. Cachau, John W. Erickson, R. Gussio, J.A. Beutler, G.N. Chmurny, B.D. Hilton, G.M. Muschik 35 Relative Energies and Strutural Features of Small Amines and Their Ammonium Analogs: Results from 6-31G* Optimizations and An MM2 Ammonium Force Field, Sal Profeta, Jr., Ray Unwalla, Daniel Russell 47 Molecular Dynamics at a Constant pH, John Mertz, B.M. Pettitt 54 Massively Parallel Monte Carlo Simulations on CM2 for Gas Adsorption in Zeolite Molecular Sieves, Ai Chen, C.S. Hirtzel 64 CORRESPONDENCE 64 Application of a Distributed Network in Computational Fluid Dynamic Simulations, Manish Deshpande, Jinzhang Feng, Charles L. Merkle ======================================================== Volume 8 Number 2 Summer 1994 ======================================================== 73 CENTERS OF SUPERCOMPUTING 73 Making Parallel Computers Truly Usable, K. Kennedy, K. Timson 80 PAPERS 80 Integrated Support for Task and Data Parallelism, M. Chandy, I. Foster, K. Kennedy, C. Koelbel, C-W. Tseng 99 CRPC Research Into Linear Algebra Software for High Performance Computers, J. Choi, J. Dongarra, R. Pozo, D.C. Sorensen, D.W. Walker 119 Compositional Oil Reservoir Simulation in Fortran D: A Feasibility Study on Intel iPSC/860, U. Kremer, M. Rame 129 PERSPECTIVES 129 Fast Parallel Tree Codes for Gravitational and fluid Dynamical N-Body Problems, J.K. Salmon, M.S. Warren, G.S. Winckelmans 143 Numerical Optimization at the Center for Research on Parallel Computation, B. Averick, C. Bischof, B. Bixby, A. Carle, J. Dennis, M. El-Alem, A. El-Bakry, A. Griewank, G. Johnson, R. Lewis, J. More, R. Tapia, v. Torczon, K. Williamson ======================================================== Volume 8 Number 3/4 Fall/Winter 1994 ======================================================== MPI Issue 165 Acknowledgments 167 Preface 169 1 INTRODUCTION TO MPI 175 2 MPI TERMS AND CONVENTIONS 185 3 POINT-TO-POINT COMMUNICATION 267 4 COLLECTIVE COMMUNICATION 311 5 GROUPS, CONTEXTS, AND COMMUNICATORS 357 6 PROCESS TOPOLOGIES 373 7 MPI ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT 383 8 PROFILING INTERFACE 389 BIBLIGRAPHY 393 A Language Binding