PINEAPL Workshop:
A Workshop on the Use of Parallel Numerical Libraries
in Industrial End-user Applications


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February 9 - 10, 1998
Toulouse, France






The Parallel Industrial NumErical Applications and Portable Libraries (PINEAPL) Project is a European Framework IV HPCN Project funded by the European Commission. It is a coordinated effort to produce a general purpose library of parallel numerical software suitable for a wide range of computationally intensive industrial applications and to port several application codes which use this library to parallel computers.

For more information, see the project web-page:

http://www.nag.co.uk/projects/PINEAPL.html



The workshop will provide a forum to discuss progress on enhancing the number of applications that can take advantage from the PINEAPL Project results.



Organizing Committee:

    Dr Mishi Derakhshan, NAG Ltd, UK                 (mishi@nag.co.uk)
    Dr Alan McCoy, CERFACS, France                   (mccoy@cerfacs.fr)
    Dr Vincent Toumazou, CERFACS, France             (toumazou@cerfacs.fr)
    Dr Len Freeman, University of Manchester, UK     (freeman@ma.man.ac.uk)
    Mr Graham Riley, University of Manchester, UK    (griley@cs.man.ac.uk)
    Dr Lucia Maddalena, CPS-CNR, Italy               (lucia@matna2.dma.unina.it)



Final Program:

Day 1: February 9

- 9:00 - 9:15
Welcome and Introduction
- 9:15 - 10:30
Tutorial session on the use of the NAG Parallel (and the PINEAPL) Libraries
- 10:30 - 10:45
Coffee Break
- 10:45 - 12:15
Continued - Tutorial session on the use of the NAG Parallel (and the PINEAPL) Libraries
- 12:15 - 13:00
Discussion on the use of PRECISE in the PINEAPL Project
- 13:00 - 14:30
Lunch

Industrial End-users Presentations

- 14:30 - 14:45: Dr Paolo Nobile (PIAGGIO, Italy)
The Use of KIVA-3 Code for the Design of New Two-Stroke Engines
- 14:45 - 15:00: Dr Pasqua D'Ambra (CPS-CNR, Italy)
The Integration of the PINEAPL Library in the KIVA-3 Application Software
- 15:00 - 15:30: Mr Mike Blakemore (British Aerospace, UK)
Utilising the PINEAPL Library for Applications within the field s of CFD and Electromagnetics
- 15:30 - 15:45:
Coffee Break
- 15:45 - 16:15: Mr Thomas Christensen & Mr Lars Sorensen (Math-Tech & DHI, Denmark)
Using Parallel Numerical Library Routines in a Hydrodynamics Application
- 16:15 - 16:45: Dr Yves Perreal (Thomson-CSF/LCR, France)
Thomson's Applications in the PINEAPL Project
- 16:45 - 18:30:
Clinic session/users' experience with the use of numerical li braries: This will be an interactive session in which participants are invited to consult with experts on the use of parallel routines in their applications. Participants may give short presentations of their own for general discussion, as well as meet directly with parallel library developers.

Day 2: February 10

- 9:00 - 9:15: Prof Sven Hammarling (NAG Ltd, UK)
Welcome and Short Introduction
- 9:15 - 9:30: Dr Mishi Derakhshan (NAG Ltd, UK)
Introduction to the PINEAPL Project
- 9:30 - 10:15: Prof David Walker (Cardiff, UK)
Problem Solving Environments in Academic and Industrial Research
- 10:15 - 11:00: Prof Iain Duff (RAL, UK)
The PARASOL Project and Sparse Matrix Applications
- 11:00 - 11:15:
Coffee Break
-11:15 - 12:00: Dr Arnold Krommer (NAG Ltd, UK)
Parallel Sparse Linear Algebra Computations Using the PINEAPL Library
- 12:00 - 12:30: Dr Carlo Poloni (Universita' di Trieste, Italy)
Optimisation Needs and Results in the FRONTIER Project
- 12:30 - 14:00:
Lunch Break
- 14:00 - 14:45: Dr Clemens-August Thole (GMD, Germany)
Port of Industrial Applications onto Parallel Architectures during EUROPORT-1: Overview with Special Emphasis on Numerical Kernels
- 14:45 - 15:30: Prof F. Chaitin-Chatelin (CERFACS, France)
The PRECISE Tool-box
- 15:30 - 15:45:
Coffee Break
- 15:45 - 16:30: Prof Sven Hammarling (NAG Ltd, UK)
ScaLAPACK: High Performance Software for Dense Linear Algebra
- 16:30 - 17:30:
Discussions and Closing Remarks

The workshop will be hosted by CERFACS located in Toulouse, France.
There is no registration fee but participants must register.
Automatic registration is available.

Registration information:

CERFACS travel information

PINEAPL library information:

Mishi Derakhshan
(mishi@nag.co.uk)
NAG Ltd,
Wilkinson House
Jordan Hill Road,
Oxford, OX2 8DR
UK

Fax: +44 (0)1865 310 139		 All other inquiries:

Alan Mccoy or Vincent Toumazou
({mccoy,toumazou}@cerfacs.fr)
CERFACS
42 av. G. Coriolis
31057 Toulouse Cedex
FRANCE


Fax: +33 (0) 5 61 19 30 00