From NA-Request@Score.Stanford.EDU Sat Apr 25 21:34:34 1987 Received: from Score.Stanford.EDU (score.stanford.edu.ARPA) by anl-mcs.ARPA (4.12/4.9) id AA12472; Sat, 25 Apr 87 21:33:57 cst Message-Id: <8704260333.AA12472@anl-mcs.ARPA> Date: Fri 24 Apr 87 17:19:25 PDT Subject: NA Digest V87 #37 From: NA Digest Errors-To: NA-request@Score.Stanford.EDU Maint-Path: NA-request@Score.Stanford.EDU To: NA.Distribution.List:; Reply-To: NA@Score.Stanford.edu Status: R NA Digest Friday, April 24, 1987 Volume 87 : Issue 37 This weeks Editor: Gene Golub Today's Topics: Re: Where is Oliver McBryan ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 23 Apr 87 08:14:12 cst From: Suter Bruce To: NA%score.stanford.edu@RELAY.CS.NET Gene, Please send the following message out over NAnet. Thanks, Bruce _____________________________________________________________________________ GRADUATE STUDENTS WANTED to participate in research that will lead to the development of the next generation of partial differential equation solvers using parallel processing technology. This endeavor will take place in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and will include interactions with several researchers from both Livermore and Argonne National Laboratories. This project will utilize the department's 30-processor Sequent Balance 21000 computer ( the largest number of processors commercially available in a tightly coupled shared memory architecture ) as well as the new Cray XMP supercomputer being acquired by the Alabama Supercomputer Authority and accessible January 1988. The minimum student background should include the following: Mathematics Computer Science ------------- ------------------ Calculus Data Structures Differential Equations Computer Organization / Architecture Linear Algebra Operating Systems Numerical Analysis Since this research will involve topics from both Mathematics and Computer Science, perspective students should feel comfortable in both areas. Student Support is available. U.S. Citizenship is required. For more information contact: Prof. Bruce Suter Dept. of Computer and Information Science University of Alabama at Birmingham University Station Birmingham, AL 35294 e-mail: suter@uab (csnet) suter%uab.csnet@csnet-relay (arpanet) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Apr 87 08:48:03 EDT From: mcbryan@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (mcbryan) To: na.dis@score.stanford.edu, wouk@brl.arpa Subject: Re: Where is Oliver McBryan Oliver McBryan was reportedly seen near the summit of Mt. McKinley looking for an outlet for his modem. He was muttering something about escaping from conference proceeding editors and indicated he felt he had found the right location. He was hoping not to find an outlet under the snow, but later reports indicate that he was seen peering into a screen with several vultures hovering overhead. He indicated that his attempt to develop an SIMD parallel paper generation approach had failed when one paper required a period at the same moment that another required a comma. He also hinted at a problem with send/receive protocols - something about too many send requests per receive I think it was - and said that having to always write a power-of-two papers at once was an unnecessary restriction. He is now developing parallel techniques for the Brooks Range, involving climbing with one foot on each of two mountains. Since the mountains are of equal height he expects the SIMD approach to work. He was worried about some long-range communication overheads however. He closed with the promise that if the new techniques are successfull he will submit parallel grant proposals to all funding agencies. ------------------------------ End of NA Digest ************************** -------