From fortran@vnet.IBM.COM Tue Nov 30 12:40:30 1993 Received: from vnet.ibm.com by dkuug.dk with SMTP id AA24166 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4j for ); Wed, 1 Dec 1993 05:40:29 +0100 Message-Id: <199312010440.AA24166@dkuug.dk> Received: from STLVM7 by vnet.IBM.COM (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 7691; Tue, 30 Nov 93 23:41:28 EST Date: Tue, 30 Nov 93 20:40:30 PST From: fortran@vnet.IBM.COM To: sc22wg5@dkuug.dk Subject: parallel tools consortium X-Charset: ASCII X-Char-Esc: 29 fyi Thanks, Dick Weaver IBM M77/E365,555 Bailey Ave,PO 49023,San Jose Ca 95161-9023 internet: fortran@vnet.ibm.com 408-463-2956, fax ...-3114 --------------------------- Subject: consortium announcement From: zosel@phoenix.ocf.llnl.gov (Mary E Zosel) Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1993 18:22:00 -0800 Message-Id: <9312010222.AA09561@phoenix.ocf.llnl.gov> Cc: scoleman@llnl.gov You or your organization may be interested in the Parallel Tools consortium that is being formed. The following annoucement was made at the recent SC93 conference in Portland Oregon. SInce the announcement does not spell it out, I will add that the initial intent of the consortium is that membership is defined by participation in projects - not by payment of fees. If you would like your name on the mailing list - send email to ptools-request@llnl.gov. This same address is to be used for requesting your name be deleted from the list. Mail to the general consortium list should be addressed to ptools@llnl.gov. My apologies if you get more than one copy of this announcement - it is being posted in multiple places. Mary Zosel ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Oregon State University announce the formation of the PARALLEL TOOLS CONSORTIUM Several recent conferences (including the DARPA/NSF 1993 Workshop on Instrumentation for Parallel Computer Systems, the HPCC Workshop on Grand Challenge Applications and Software Technology, and the 1993 ACM/ONR Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Debugging) have exposed the fact that tool use is appallingly low among the high-performance computing community, in spite of increasingly vocal demands for software support. Three factors have been cited as critical: * Current tools do not respond to the specific needs of scientific users, who must become quasi-computer scientists to understand and use the tools. * Tools vary widely across current parallel platforms, so the steep learning curve must be repeated each time a user migrates to a new machine. * The lack of specialized support for heterogeneous or scalable applications also deters users from investing the effort needed to parallelize scientific libraries or applications that could be used by third parties. The Parallel Tools Consortium brings together representatives from the federal, industrial, and academic communities to address these issues. Our mission is to take a leadership role in the definition, development, and promotion of parallel tools that meet the specific requirements of users who develop scalable applications on a variety of platforms. We plan to do this by: 1) Encouraging active collaboration on specific tool projects among users, developers and researchers. 2) Incorporating user input into tool requirements and user feedback on tool suitability. 3) Establishing consensus among users and developers of parallel tools. 4) Promoting parallel tools that help developers create robust, high-performance, scalable applications. 5) Sponsoring parallel tool development projects that: - offer a common look and feel, published interfaces, and public-domain prototypes - leverage existing standards and technology to shorten development time and to achieve wider user acceptance - support the development of applications for a variety of parallel architectures and programming paradigms. 6) Serving the parallel computing community by encouraging the dissemination and transfer of parallel tool technology. The organizers welcome the participation of all persons and organizations interested in achieving these goals. Official membership is by organization, not by individuals, although specific individuals from member organizations will be identified as voting representatives. The first general meeting of the group will be held in spring 93. The location and date will be announced in January. To join the Parallel Tools Consortium, or to receive announcements and other information, contact Sam Coleman (scoleman@llnl.gov). Organizing Committee: Cherri M. Pancake, Oregon State University, Chair (pancake@cs.orst.edu) Sam Coleman, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Secretary (scoleman@llnl.gov) Don Breazeal, Intel Corporation (donb@ssd.intel.com) Gary Brooks, CONVEX Computer Corporation (gbrooks@convex.com) Michael L. Koszykowski, Sandia National Lab (mikek@magus.ca.sandia.gov) James Cownie, Meiko Scientific Corporation (jim@meiko.com) David Culler, University of California, Berkeley (culler@cs.berkeley.edu) Daniel D. Frye, IBM Corporation (danielf@kgnvmt.vnet.ibm.com) Rusty Lusk, Argonne National Lab (lusk@mcs.anl.gov) Allen D. Malony, University of Oregon (malony@cs.uoregon.edu) Douglas M. Pase, Cray Research Inc. (pase@cray.com) Mark Seager, Lawrence Livermore National Lab (seager@llnl.gov) Steven J. Sistare, Thinking Machines Corporation (sistare@think.com) Jerry Yan, NASA Ames Research Center (jerry@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov) Mary Zosel, Lawrence Livermore National Lab (zosel@llnl.gov) ========================================================================= Sam Coleman Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (510) 422-4323 Mail Stop L-60 (510) 423-8715 (FAX) 7000 East Avenue scoleman@llnl.gov Livermore, CA 94550 =========================================================================