by Hans-Hermann Frese
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The San Jose Cray User Group conference featured several interesting talks from Silicon Graphics/Cray Research on their future software tools directions.
Peter Rigsbee presented an overview on "UNICOS to IRIX Application Directions." In the future, it will be possible to run portable applications on the full suite of UNICOS, UNICOS/mk, and IRIX with respect to source code portability, which will be based on a common Supercomputing API. Dianna Crawford, Bill Harrod, and Mary Kay Bunde presented status updates on Cray programming environments, libraries, and performance tools. The new CF90 3.0 will support High-Performance Fortran (although this will be a separately licensed product) and extensions from Fortran 95. Full Fortran 95 support will be implemented in CF90 4.0. CrayLibs 3.0 will include an optimized libmfastv for the CRAY T3E that is based on the former Benchlib. Neal Gaarder presented performance measurements for this new library, which in some cases performs up to five times faster than the standard libm on the CRAY T3E. CrayTools 3.0 will include a new Performance Analysis Tools (PAT) for the CRAY T3E that provides a more detailed performance analysis and is less intrusive than MPP Apprentice. During the conference, two informal get-togethers on modules and NQE were held. The meeting on modules proved that several sites are still meditating about a feasible way to make the modules concept available to their users transparently. More information on modules is available at http://reality.sgi.com/dpm_craypark/on the Web. The next CUG conference with the theme "Calculating Engines" will take place in Stuttgart, Germany, in June 1998. If you would like to present a paper, please contact me (frese@zib.de) or the deputy chair, Victor Hazlewood (victor@sdsc.edu). And please do not miss visiting the Software Tools Special Interest Group home page at http://www.cug.org/CUG/SIC_MIGs/Tools_SIC.html. |
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