by Hans-Hermann Frese
Again, the Cray User Group (CUG) conference in Charlotte, North Carolina, proved to be a big success.The Software Tools Special Interest Committee met on Monday afternoon for its open meeting. A lively discussion developed concerning programming environments, compilers, and integrated tools for software development. The Software Tools SIC now has its own home page on the CUG World Wide Web server at http://www.cug.org/CUG/SIC_MIGs/tools_sic.html. Please stop by and take a look at the latest SIC news.
Also, the Software Tools SIC operates CUGDUS, the CUG Directory of User-submitted Software. CUGDUS is an information repository that helps to share information about tools and software packages developed by Cray users among the Cray User Group. CUGDUS is now available on the web at http://www.cug.org/CUG/CUGDUS/cugdus.html. You will find more information on CUGDUS in the CUG conference Proceedings.
Thursday afternoon was booked by two sessions on software migration, optimization, and programming environments. Ulrich Detert from the KFA Research Center in Juelich presented his experiences with the migration of applications from the CRAY Y-MP to the T90 and T3E. R.K. Owen from the National Energy Research Scientific Computing (NERSC) Center showed how over-optimization of a program can lead to wrong results. His utility bchop helps to isolate code that is sensitive to optimization. Victor Hazlewood from the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) presented his experiences with the new NQE Release 3.0 in a distributed computing environment.
The next session was dedicated to presentations on programming environments from Cray Research. Suzanne LaCroix presented a status report on the Cray Programming Environments. CF90 is now the preferred compiler for Fortran programmers, and the new Release 2.0 is available for all Cray PVP and MPP platforms.
Next in line, Dave Judd, who was accompanied by Ron Price from Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI) presented Cray's and SGI's future directions for programming environments and models. Then Bill Harrod showed us which extensions and performance improvements have been incorporated into the Cray Scientific Library.
As the next CUG conference in San Jose, California, will soon be approaching we would like to encourage volunteers to present a paper at the next conference. Presentations are welcome in all areas of software tools and programming environments. If you would like to submit a paper and you have not yet sent in an abstract, please contact me at frese@zib.de.
Last but not least, we would like to welcome our new deputy SIC chair Victor Hazlewood from SDSC. Welcome to the club again, Victor!
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