DDL v2.1.2: Distributed Data library
------------------------------------

Tim Oliver
Aug 95

The Distributed Data Library (DDL) is an environment to support the
development of sparse applications for distributed memory systems
running MPI.

The DDL was developed under the ESPRIT PARSIM project by members of
the Institute of Advanced Scientific Computation, University of
Liverpool, UK.

This software is available for anonymous FTP from

	supr.scm.liv.ac.uk

in directory

	pub/tim/ddl2.1.2.

Please read the copyright notice in the file COPYRIGHT.

The files in this directory are:

README.ftp		this file
COPYRIGHT               copyright information for the DDL
README			instructions for installing and using the DDL
INSTALL			problems (and possible fixes) with DDL installation
CHANGES			changes since earlier versions of the DDL
ddl2.1.2.tar.Z 		compressed tar file containing all source for the DDL
ddl2.1.2.tar.gz		gzipped tar file containing all source for the DDL
datasets.tar.Z 		compressed tar file containing PARSIM datasets
datasets.tar.gz		gzipped tar file containing PARSIM datasets
user.ps.Z		DDL v2 user guide in compressed postscript file 
user.ps.gz		DDL v2 user guide in gzipped postscript file 
tech.ps.Z		DDL v2 technical guide in compressed postscript file 
tech.ps.gz		DDL v2 technical guide in gzipped postscript file 
mpich-1.0.8.tar.Z	a version of MPI if you do not already have it

You should get all of the text files README.ftp, COPYRIGHT, README,
INSTALL and CHANGES, and the postscript Guides.  You also need the ddl
source files and datasets. If you already have the datasets from a
previous ddl version you do not need to download the datasets
tarfile. If you do not already have mpi this should be downloaded as
well. Some of the files are available either as .Z or .gz files.

The v.2 DDL Guides are also available online on the World-Wide
Web. Just point your Web browser to

	http://supr.scm.liv.ac.uk/~tim/parsim/parsim.html

The current online doc has problems with cross-references and TeX
macro expansions. These will be fixed eventually.

Other information, including new software releases, will be put here
in the future.