August 1995

Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing

Since we had a paper on the PAPERS library at the 8th International Workshop on Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing, at Ohio State University, we decided it might be a nice idea to bring a little hardware. So, just after the last presentation ended on August 12, 1995, we set-up our hardware and gave a brief demonstration....

We didn't want to make a big deal out of this, so we did everything using a pair of 486DX2/66 laptops (running Linux) and the November 1994 version of the four-processor TTL_PAPERS. No, that library wasn't designed to work with just two machines connected to a four-processor unit, but we made the appropriate change to the check-in procedure so that we could run a simple barrier speed benchmark. It is strange to see the unit working with two cables dangling.

We also demonstrated a few things with the TTL_LIB_950614 library's four-processor VAPERS simulator on one of the laptops... while the TTL_PAPERS hardware demo continued to run across the laptops.

Not many people saw our little demo; anyway, it's quality, not quantity, that counts. ;-)

The next public demonstration of PAPERS at a conference was August 1995 at the International Conference on Parallel Processing.

The only thing set in stone is our name.