Papers and reports

MetaPhysica

MetaPhysica: theory and reality
Status report on distributed PHYSICA implementation.
Tim Oliver. February 1999.
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PHYSICA: A distributed multiphysics application
Distributed PHYSICA design.
Tim Oliver. August 1998.
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Distributed objects
This short note presents background information about distributed object technologies.
Tim Oliver. March 1998.
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MPI-2 I/O

A parallel I/O test suite
This is a paper given at the EuroPVM/MPI 1998 conference.
David Lancaster, Cliff Addision, Tim Oliver. September 1998.
User Guide for the Parallel Input/Ouput Test Suite
This is a User Guide to the parallel I/O test suite.
David Lancaster. February 1998.
Specification of the Parallel Input/Ouput Test Suite
This is the specification of the parallel I/O test suite.
David Lancaster. August 1997.

C-SSL II

Basic design specification
This document details the implementation of the first version of the C-SSL II.
Tim Oliver. January 1998.
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Original design specification
This old document details the initial proposed implementation of the C-SSL II.
Tim Oliver. April 1997.
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Performance issues
This document presents our early understanding of some of the issues involved in the development of a C language interface to the SSL II VP. Our main consideration in this document is the performance of such a library but we also discuss some other important aspects of the design of the library.
Tim Oliver. March 1997.
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Documentation
This report discusses the issues involved in the development and production of technical documentation in multiple formats: printed, hypertext and man-page. We focus especially on two issues: the emerging hypertext formats, and facilities which simplify the production of multiple output formats. The study is directed by our need to produce technical documentation for the C library, but it has a much wider applicability.
Tim Oliver. March 1997.
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DDL

Sparse DDL version 2.1: User Guide
DDL user guide.
Tim Oliver. August 1995.
Sparse DDL version 2.1: Technical Guide
DDL technical guide.
Tim Oliver. August 1995.

PhD thesis

The Design of Numerical Algorithms for Transputer Systems
PhD thesis.
Tim Oliver. July 1993.

PUMA

Parallel Algorithms for the BFGS Update on a PUMA Machine
PUMA BFGS.
Tim Oliver. September 1991.
The Bitonic Sort on Transputer Architectures
PUMA sorting.
Tim Oliver. September 1991.
Occam on T8 and T9 machines: coding and conversion issues
PUMA conversions.
Gabriel Howard, Tim Oliver. August 1991.
A Communications Model for a PUMA Machine
PUMA communication modelling.
Tim Oliver. October 1990.
An Overview of Parallel Methods for Unconstrained Optimisation
PUMA optimization methods.
Tim Oliver. January 1990.
A Parallel Newton Method for Unconstrained Optimisation
PUMA Newton method optimization.
Tim Oliver. September 1989.
Writing numerical applications for the T9000
PUMA coding.
Rod Cook, Gabriel Howard, Tim Oliver, Bruce Stephens.

Odds and ends

Cheap distributed systems
This short note presents background information about cheap distributed systems based on commodity PC technology.
Tim Oliver. March 1998.
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