WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT:
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High Performance Fortran (HPF)  -  Four-Day Workshop
October 18 - 21, 1994
At the Swiss Scientific Computing Center, CSCS-ETHZ
Manno (Ticino), Switzerland
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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

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