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>A friend of mine is interested in finite element analysis. He asked me
>what finite element systems were available on Transputers as this seemed
>a natural application for parallel processing. Now I know that some
>company in Wales had something to this effect but I think it was only
>for single Transputers. Has anybody got anymore information on this or
>other packages? 


The company you mention is Rockfield Software which indeed specialises in
Finite Element analysis software.  They are based in Swansea in Wales.

Your suggestion that their software can only utilize single Transputers is
not true.  Many of the applications they are working on are ideal for 
implementation on 'highly parallel' arrays of Transputers.

They have a number of different software products for the
Transputer and I believe most of the are at lest capable of utilising
multiple processors, although I cannot comment on the licencing restrictions
the number of processors used.

The range of softare products encompass Tranputer Systems hosted by PC's and
Sun workstations.   On the PC, they provide uFLOW for flow analysis and uPLAST
for elast-plastic analysia as well as many others.   On the Sun workstation
they have developed a Transient Dynamic analysis package using the Transtech
Multi-Computing Platform.

Further information can be obtained direct from Rockfiled at the following address:

Rockfield Software Ltd,
The Innovation Centre,
University College of Swansea,
Singleton Park,
Swansea,
SA2 8PP
West Glamorgan,
Wales.

Phone: [+44] (0)792 295551



>Does Inmos publish a list of all software developers and packages available ?

Contact Inmos !  They have a database known as the White Pages which provides
information on developers, hardware, and software products which utilise the
Transputer.  This should contain the sort of information you want.



S.J.Bradshaw    ---------------------------------    /  Transtech  -----------
Manager, Systems Division,			    /_/
Transtech Parallel Systems Corporation,		   /_/_/
120 Langmuir Laboratory,			    /_/ Parallel
95 Brown Road,					     /  Technology
Cornell Business and Technology Park,
Ithaca,				      Phone:   (607) 257 6502
NY 14850-9430			      Fax:     (607) 257 3980 
USA.				      email:   bradshaw@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu