Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ogicse!dali!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!math.lsa.umich.edu!math.lsa.umich.edu!emv From: DGM@UNB.CA (David G. Macneil) Newsgroups: comp.archives Subject: [bit.listserv.vector-l] IBM Supercomputing Program Data Base Message-ID: <1990Jun1.202753.25233@math.lsa.umich.edu> Date: 1 Jun 90 20:27:53 GMT Sender: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) Reply-To: "David G. Macneil" Followup-To: bit.listserv.vector-l Organization: University of Michigan, Department of Mathematics Lines: 92 Approved: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) X-Original-Newsgroups: bit.listserv.vector-l Archive-name: supersft/01-Jun-90 Original-posting-by: DGM@UNB.CA (David G. Macneil) Original-subject: IBM Supercomputing Program Data Base Archive-site: listserv@psuvm.psu.edu Reposted-by: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) IBM Supercomputing Program Data Base The IBM Supercomputing Program Data Base is a listing of information concerning programs that have been written or converted to use IBM 3090 vector or parallel processing. The data base is accessible to academic researchers through BITNET or the internet via a LISTSERV machine named SUPERSFT. The data base is maintained by the Center for Academic Computing at the Pennsylvania State University in University Park with support from IBM as a service to SUPER!, Supercomputing by University People for Education and Research. SUPER! is a higher education user group dedicated to issues of high-performance computing on IBM systems. Data provided for each program include the program's application area, name, a description, the environment under which it operates, the person to contact for more information and the approximate cost for academic users. The programs themselves are not available through the data base. The intent of this database is to provide academic researchers using the IBM 3090 machine with a forum which can be used to either find the best packages available for their research, or to offer their own research codes to fellow researchers in their field. Information in the data base can be retrieved either as an index or as individual files describing single programs. If you have access to BITNET through a VM system, you can communicate with the LISTSERV virtual machine by using the command tell listserv at psuvm get filename filetype where "filename filetype" will be replaced by the filename and filetype of the file in which you are interested. If you have access to the internet via mail, you can communicate with the LISTSERV virtual machine by mailing a note to "listserv@psuvm.psu.edu". The note should have no subject line, and the body of the note should be the command get filename filetype The filetype is SUPERSFT for all of the individual program information files. The filename is the name of the file, reduced to a maximum of eight alphanumeric characters. The exact filename is listed in the SUPERSFT INDEX. SUPERSFT INDEX contains a full index of all programs in the data base arranged by application area: Chemical Engineering Mathematics and Statistics Chemistry and Biochemistry Nuclear and Power Eng. Computational Fluid Dynamics Reservoir Simulation/Seismology Electronics and Electrical Eng. Simulation/Math. Programming Graphics and Imaging Structural and Mechanical Eng. Other Science and Engineering Individual files can be retrieved once you know the name of the appropriate file. For example, tell listserv at psuvm get supersft index would retrieve the file SUPERSFT INDEX, the index of the data base. tell listserv at psuvm get ansys supersft would retrieve the file ANSYS SUPERSFT, about the ANSYS package. Copies of this help file can be retrieved using the command tell listserv at psuvm get supersft help Submissions to the data base can be made either electronically or by mail. The information submission form is in the file named FORM SUPERSFT which can be obtained from LISTSERV by using the command: tell listserv at psuvm get supersft form The LISTSERV software also allows you to request to be informed of any updates to certain files by means of the AFD and FUI commands. LISTSERV will also send you information about its own commands. You can get this information by using the commands like: info ? info refcard get listafd memo These commands are used as the message of "tell listserv at psuvm", or as the body of a mail file addressed to listserv@psuvm.psu.edu.