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Australian National University, Centre for Information Science Research

                Connection Machine Programming course

                        March 1 - 5, 1993


The Parallel Computing Research Facility is holding three courses on
programming the Connection Machine.  The Connection Machine is a
massively parallel supercomputer. The first course is programming in
CMFortran, the second course is programming in CMMD, the third course
is programming in C*.  The course should give you all the basic
knowledge to access and program the machine in the relevant language.
You may enrol in all courses if you wish.

The CMFortran course will be on Monday and Tuesday the 1st and 2nd.
This course is relevant to both the CM-2 and the CM-5.  CMFortran is a
language similar to Fortran 90.  Experience in programming in Fortran,
using an editor (vi, emacs or uemacs), and using Unix is assumed.

The CMMD course will be on Wednesday the 3rd.  CMMD is the message
passing programming package for the CM-5.  It can be used with any
compiler for the SPARC processor, although we will only focus on C,
Fortran, C*, CMF, and C++.  Experience using an editor (vi, emacs or
uemacs) using Unix is assumed.

The C* course will be Thursday and Friday the 4th and 5th.  C* is an
extension of the C programming language.  This course is relevant to
both the CM-2 and the CM-5. Experience in programming in C, using an
editor (vi, emacs or uemacs), and using Unix is assumed.

The courses will be a combination of lecture and laboratory sessions.
Each course will provide you with several programming problems (and
example solutions), but users are encouraged to bring along their own
code for examination and porting towards the end of the course.

The cost for CMFortran and C* courses is $50 each, the cost for the
CMMD course is $30.  If you want a copy of the relevant language manual
they will be $50 for the CM Fortran manual, $30 for the CMMD manual,
and $30 for the C* manual.

Morning and afternoon tea will be provided.  Morning tea 11am till
11:30am, afternoon tea 3:30pm till 4pm.

The course will be held in the Computer Services Centre user area
(level 1, CSC Building) Each course attendee will have access to a Sun
IPC running X windows, attached to AARNet.

Applicants must apply for an account (or already have one).  We can
issue temporary accounts if required.  Applicants will be provided with
a copy of the CM technical summary as soon as practical, all applicants
are expected to have read some of this manual (areas of required
reading will be noted in the manual).

Courses are limited to 8 people - get in early.  Priority will be given
to existing users and users with good research proposals.

Please forward your enquiries to John Barlow, I-Block, ANU (phone x2930).
(email jdb@octavia.anu.edu.au)

jdb = John Barlow, Parallel Computing Research Facility,
Australian National University, I-Block, PO Box 4, Canberra, 0200, Australia.
email = jdb@octavia.anu.edu.au
[International = +61 6, Australia = 06] [Phone = 2492930, Fax = 2490747]

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John Barlow, Parallel Computing Research Facility, I-Block,
Australian National University, Canberra, 0200, Australia.
email = John.Barlow@anu.edu.au
[International = +61 6, Australia = 06] [Phone = 2492930, Fax = 2490747]