Lecture: "Supercomputing at UofT", Friday, 31-March.

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Author: Dr. Edmund West
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1989 20:02

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	The Ontario Centre for Large Scale Computation presents
	
	    "Supercomputing at the University of Toronto"

Place: 	McLennan Laboratories, 60 St. George St., Room 102
Time:	2:00 to 5:00 PM, Friday, March 31, 1989.

2:10-	"What Makes the Cray X-MP a Supercomputer?"
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	Dr. Edmund West (Manager, Systems)

	- Cray X-MP hardware: CPU architecture,	memory, I/O processors.
	- Operating systems: COS, UNICOS (Cray UNIX).
	- Compilers: taking advantage of the architecture.
	- Benchmarking: methods and issues. 
	- Future plans. 

3:10-	"Role of the Supercomputer in the Overall Computing Environment"
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	Ms. Anna M. Pezacki (Manager, Technical Support)
	Dr. John Ross (Senior Computational Scientist)

	- Networking: TCP/IP, distributed computing, graphics. 
	- Supercomputer applications. 

4:10-	"The Supercomputer's Role in Research at UofT - Short User Papers"
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	 - Astronomy: Prof. P. Kronberg
	 - Atmospheric Physics: Prof. R. Peltier
	 - Geography: Prof. C. Amrhein 
	 - Geophysics: Dr. W. Williams
	 - Medical Biophysics: Jiles Santyr 


Everyone is welcome. This seminar is especially recommended for
undergraduate and graduate students who must use computers as research
tools. It is also recommended for computer science students interested
in computer architectures. All graduate students who are Supercomputer
Access Program grant holders are expected to attend this lecture.

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