HPF Minutes

Chicago
October 12-14, 1994
Prepared by Mary E. Zosel

Executive Summary

SofTech and Motorola now have formally announced a joint HPF effort. They have been added to the formal implementation list.

Numerous CCI issues were considered, wrapping up the round of considerations for this year.

CCI Considerations - Section 1
CCI Considerations - Section 2
CCI Considerations - Section 3
CCI Considerations - Section 4

Jerry Wagener made a report about the status of F95 and what the timing would be for release as an international standard if all reviews and votes are positive. The current version of the draft is available via ftp.

An HPF_SERIAL extrinsic interface was added to the appendix to allow programmers to indicate that a given routine should execute on only one processor, and that distributed data in the arguments should be reassembled prior to the call.

A collection of codes to provide to requirements for HPF2 is being assembled for FTP at hpsl.cs.umd.edu: pub/hpf_bench.

It was decided that the group of "requirements" gathered for HPF2 would be termed the "Scope of Activity". These issues grouped into topical areas will form the subgroups for HPF2 activity. A document containing these, along with a proposal that there be an HPF_kernel, and the benchmark appendix will be created as the primary report from the HPFF94 meetings.

Future meetings: An HPFF BOF is planned for SC94, and an HPFF Implementors Meeting scheduled for January 30, 31, 1995 in Houston. Schedule for HPF2 meetings will be determined at that time.

(end of executive summary)


October HPFF94 Meeting: RECORD OF ACTION

October 12 Working subgroup sessions were held to discuss requirements and requests for document correction/clarification.

October 13 The meeting formally began at 9:00, chaired by Ken Kennedy. The first topic was CCI group 2 report by Mary Zosel. The following subgroup recommendations were made:

10.1 Are the indexes returned by LOCAL_LINDEX/UINDEX global or local?
The answer is "local". This has already been resolved in the draft document.

10.2 Withdrawn.

10.3 Random numbers: Specific question/issue are needed, suggest bringing future questions to X3J3. As a side note - parallel random number generators have dark corners in implementation, such as possibly requiring a different seed on each processor, even though the language recognizes only one seed value.

10.4 In MAXLOC and MINLOC, the apparent DIM/MASK incompatibility is resolved by argument types. X3J3 approves of the HPF form of the call. Since this question has appeared before, text should be added to the document explaining the situation

10.5 Question about status of Annex A: Is HPF_LOCAL part of HPF?
HPF_LOCAL can't be implemented on some machines, but if you implement it this is how it should work. As such it is not a proper part of full HPF.

10.6 In some of the LOCAL library definitions, arguments are not fully specified because they are a duplicate of those in the HPF library. This may cause confusion - a text change would help.

10.7 Are mapping inquiry subroutines pure? Yes, change text page 73, line 7 to read "intrinsic and library functions and subroutines".

10.9 Each local gets its own local block A(1,local-block).

10.10 DO INDEPENDENT with call to subroutine, want to call subr on subset of the processors - can they use local data that is distributed? Yes, it it is up to the implementation to do the right thing. Implementation note text would be useful. For some implementations there may be serialization of execution.

All recommendations above were accepted without challenge.

3.2 Read-only use of distributed data in PURE routines. This is the same issue as 10.10.

6.10 Can a NEW variable be a pointer? Second reading. No problems have been identified. Recommend accept proposed text.

At this point there was discussion or an organizational voting issue. The formal organizations of some members have changed, even though faces have not. The proposal was made that all organizations present could vote, including those who had not been present at the previous two meetings. Accepted by vote on non-questioned organizations 23 yes, 0 no. 28 organizations are present. The vote on 6.10 was then formally taken.

Vote on proposal 6.10 - 27 yes, 0 no, 1 abstain

8.17 To find the bounds of a global array from a local argument in an HPF_LOCAL, on second reading four new library routines were proposed:
GLOBAL_LBOUND, GLOBAL_UBOUND, GLOBAL_SHAPE, and GLOBAL_SIZE - with text essentially all from F90. Boilerplate is needed to say can only invoke these from highest level HPF_LOCAL routines. Vote - 26 yes, 0 no, 2 abstain.

5.3 This item presents "a very ugly slice that you could pass into LOCAL". The subgroup recommended that - yes, it is ugly, may want to insert advisory text "this may result in copies" David Loveman moved, and Shapiro seconded - local routines cannot accept CYCLIC(N) dummies - argument that these parameters do not look like F90 arrays, thus different compiler technology. A straw poll was taken: is there support, in principle, to hear a formal proposal tomorrow? Straw poll 17 yes, 8 no, 6 abstain. Further action was postponed until Friday.

5.8 Additional LOCAL library support requested by this item was addressed by some changes to the arguments to the routines GLOBAL_TO_LOCAL and LOCAL_TO_GLOBAL - pages 165+ in the draft document. Second reading to accept proposed changes: 25 yes, 0 no, 2 abstain. After further discussion about changes to LOCAL_BLKCNT & related routines further discussion was postponed.

2.13, 6.16, 6.17, 8.15 All related to new extrinsic proposal discussed in first reading at the previous meeting. These will be reviewed after lunch.

5.5 Proposed HPF_"scalar" interface. The issues include sequential dummies, location of execution, and what should we call it, is there HPF_XXX or just F90_XXX? A presentation will be made later.


CCI 1 - Rich Shapiro Report:

9.1 Leave static mapping of allocatable arrays as it is.

9.2 If a template is in a module, there is no way to access it's name if the USE / ONLY feature of Fortran 90 is used.

9.3 No mapping of assumed-size dummy arguments was discussed, but the issue was unresolved.

9.4 Why can sequential scalars be mapped? No change.

9.5 Mapping sequential assumed-size arrays: no change.

9.6 Duplicate sequence/nosequence directive: add a constraint against this in scoping unit.

9.7 Some syntactic restrictions are missing for object-name distributees. Recommend Page 26 line 38 strike everything from "in" to the end.
... define alignee and distributee more carefully (GLS)
page 31 24-25 strike "in" to the end.
page 31 another constraint ---- 1st constraint from page 26 needs to be here too.

9.8 Typos identified.

9.9 Withdrawn.

10.8 Is a pointer still associated if the target is remapped across a subroutine call. We need to explicitly include this case so that the pointers don't become undefined. Guy will discuss this one later.

7.11 Postponed until later.

7.1 Drop constraint about array-valued function results and add in function name to syntax. Second reading 25 - 0 - 2.

7.3 Circular definitions: Second reading of addition text: "and there may be no subsequent static mapping directive affecting the mapping of the array". 25 - 0 - 2

A final vote was taken to approve editorial changes from both CCI1 and CCI2 reports: 27 - 0 - 0.


Break, restarting at 11.

Ken announced changes in the implementation status list. SofTech and Motorola now have formally announced efforts. The current list now is:


Survey of Vendor HPF Implementation Status
                                 Oct. 94

                               Announced Products
                           Applied Parallel Research, 
                           Digital, Intel, KAI, Meiko,
                                Portland Group

                             Formally Announced Efforts
                ACE, Archipel, Convex, Cray Computer, Fujitsu, Hitachi, 
                   IBM,  Lahey, Maspar, Motorola, NAG, NA Software, 
                        nCUBE, NEC, Pacific Sierra Research, 
                             SofTech, Thinking Machines

                                      Interested
                               ACSET, CRI,  HP, SGI, Sun

Since it has been some time since we had contact with ACE, Archipel, (Lahey), MasPar, and nCUBE Chuck Koelbel agreed to check with these organizations to make sure that they still have active efforts.

At this time, some of the postponed CCI issues were addressed further:

7.11 Proposed new text is: page 24 line 26 (new doc)
No entity may be given a particular attribute more than once. An entity is a distributee if it is a given the distribute attribute, it is an alignee if it is given the align attribute.

No attribute may be specified more than once for a given execution.
some sets of attributes are incompatible, these are answered in the text where defined ...

Chuck requested that we review the use of italics for distributee in the text. The new text was approved: 26 - 0 - 1.

7.3 Still don't know exactly where this should go.

10.8 Guy Steele proposed text to address when pointers become undefined. This was addressing a problem related to a recent X3J3 interpretation for F90. The problem comes up if within the subroutine where the data has been remapped, another global pointer might be made to point to the remapped item and still be alive on exit . Possible text for discussion:
If dummy is a TARGET attribute, then it must be {explicitly} mapped either descriptively or transcriptively (so that no implicit remapping occurs).

Discussion ensued. There was a suggestion to strike explicitly. After more discussion, the issue was postponed for more discussion after lunch.


Status of F95

Jerry Wagener gave a report on the status of F95. The working process is that WG5 sets Fxx requirements and X3J3 implements the requirements in the form of a draft standard. The draft is processed as international standard. Individual countries accept it if they want to. The F95 requirements were finalized in Aug. and there were no new ones.

Initial F2000  requirements  have the following emphasis:
level 1 - high performance ... 
level 2 object oriented (task force created)
             interpretoperability (task force created)
level 3 - other stuff
Next X3J3 will meet in November. Issues are to resolve status of ENABLE and clean up integration in 007R3 including FORALL PURE elemental procedures. The goal is to produce 007R4 in Dec. 94.

X3J3 will meet again in Jan. 95 (Houston) to complete integration. They expect to produce draft 95-00 in March 95. Following that the schedule (if all steps are approved) would be: WG5 meeting, April 95 (Tokyo) to accept forwarded 007 as an ISO CD (committee draft).
Country ballots will be during June-August, with a probably US public review in June-July. X3J3 would meet ~Aug. to determine the US vote on the CD. WG5 meeting ~Oct or Nov somewhere in US to prepare JTC1 ballot. The language can then become an international standard, if comments are positive - but may also require iteration rereviews etc.

The draft 94-007r3 document is available from ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu or ftp.dfrf.nasa.gov in several formats.


Break for lunch
reconvened at 1:45

After lunch, we resumed discussion of CCI issues postponed earlier.

9.5 / 9.3 about assumed size dummies
Assumed size dummies (ASDs) are sequence associated by definition because F90 says they are. An ASD cannot be mapped because its size and shape are not knowable, so any mappings must be transcriptive - but this is what the compiler will do anyway, so ONLY transcriptive mappings can be used for an A.S.D.
So, the recommendation is to prohibit use of an ASD in an explicit mapping. See the text in cci (maybe). Accepted 25-0-2

10.8 About status of pointers after calls was discussed again. Guy Steele prepared the following analysis.
(Part 1) If, on invocation of a procedure P,

(a) a dummy argument has the TARGET attribute; and
(b) the corresponding actual argument has the TARGET attribute and is not an array section with a vector subscript (and therefore is an object A or a section of an array A),

then the program is not HPF-conforming unless

(a) no remapping of the actual occurs during the call; OR
(b) the remainder of program execution would be unaffected if
    (i) all pointers associated with any portion of the dummy argument or of A during execution of P were to acquire undefined pointer association status (UPAS on exit from p; and
    (ii) all pointer associated with any portion of A before the call were to acquire UPAS on entry to P and, if not reassigned during execution of P, were to be restored on exit to the PAS they had before entry.

(Part 2) If a dummy argument has the TARGET attribute and no explicit mapping attributes, then INHERIT is assumed - thus falling under case (a) of rule 1. This was accepted 24-0-2 (An a comical aside, the comment was made that this fell into the "trust Guy" category. Guy said he would feel better if it were "trust Guy and Rob", but then Rob said it would have to be "trust Rob trusting Guy." We hope we have this right. :-)


6.16 (Extrinsic interface issues) Second reading was the next topic. The proposed last time was reviewed. It is repeated here.
Allow the EXTRINSIC(...) prefix to appear at the beginning of PROGRAM, MODULE, and BLOCK DATA statements. As with FUNCTION and SUBROUTINE program units, if the first statement of the program unit has no extrinsic prefix, then an HPF compiler assumes EXTRINSIC(HPF).

Extrinsic kind keywords whose names begin with "HPF" are reserved for present or future definition by this specification. At present only the keywords HPF and HPF_LOCAL have defined meaning. A program unit whose extrinsic kind keyword begins with "HPF" is said to be "of an HPF extrinsic kind".

Within any module of an HPF extrinsic kind, every module-subprogram must be of that same extrinsic kind and any module-subprogram whose extrinsic kind is not given explicitly is assumed to be of that extrinsic kind. Similarly, within any main-program or external-subprogram of an HPF extrinsic kind, every internal-subprogram must be of that same extrinsic kind and any internal- subprogram whose extrinsic kind is not given explicitly is assumed to be of that extrinsic kind.

A function-stmt or subroutine-stmt that appears within an interface-block within a program unit of an HPF extrinsic kind may have an extrinsic prefix mentioning any extrinsic kind supported by the language processor; but if no extrinsic-prefix appears in such a function-stmt or subroutine-stmt, then it is assumed to be of the same HPF extrinsic kind as the program unit.

If a module of one HPF extrinsic kind is used from a program unit of another HPF extrinsic kind, then the effect must be that only names of procedures, procedure interfaces, and type definitions in the module are made accessible to the using program unit; names of data objects may not be used. Any data defined by the module must be private, or else the USE statement must have an ONLY option that specifies only name of procedures, procedure interfaces, and type definitions.

[Note, however, that the existing prohibition on calling a global HPF routine from an HPF_LOCAL routine remains as a separate restriction. See section A.2.1, second paragraph.]

A named COMMON block in any program unit of an HPF kind will be associated with the COMMON block, if any, of that same name in every other program unit of that same extrinsic kind; similarly for unnamed COMMON. But a COMMON block in a program unit of one HPF kind is distinct from and not associated with any COMMON block in a program unit of any other HPF kind. (Implementors are advised to follow a similar rule for all extrinsic kind keywords, not just those starting with "HPF_".)


Henry Zongarro asked about the case where an interface block tells you that it is some other extrinsic-kind ... then that interface block in turn contains another interface block (one of the dummies is a function). What is the default assumption of that inner one? (MULL over)

Another problem identified: if you want to give distribution directives for the local, they are HPF-global directives, but we can't give these in a local module.

Text changes were proposed: in paragraph 4 last two words ... change as the program unit, to as the host scoping unit.

In paragraph 7, be sure that there is still just a single name space --- can't have a common for hpf-global with the same name as a common for hpf- local.---- there are possible ways to do this, but we are not going to go to extra lengths for a feature like common.

There was a vote about accepting these - realizing that we have identified a few more issues to resolve about how to describe an hpf-local in hpf-global terms and how to describe hpf-local function return values. Remainder of specification approved: 24 - 0 -5


5.3 The next issue was the proposal from David Loveman to limit use of cyclic(n) in HPF_LOCAL. The following motion was made and discussed:
(a) A dummy arg of function result for an HPF_LOCAL procedure may not be aligned either prescriptively or descriptively (in an interface block) to an ultimate align target that is distributed CYCLIC (n), for n>1, in any dimension.
(b) If a dummy arg for an HPF-LOCAL procedure is declared transcriptive (in an interface block), or no explicit mapping is stated, then the actual argument at the time of the call may not be aligned to an ultimate align target that is distributed cyclic (n) {for n>1} in any dimension. (note that CYCLIC is ok).

With the video camera gone, the group now registered dissent. The motion failed 5-14-10.


HPF_SERIAL

#5.5b The next issue considered was the (scalar) Extrinsic proposal that was outlined at the last meeting. Henry provided a handout with the details of the proposal. At the last meeting we voted that SCALAR was not the right name, so for the purpose of the discussion, the proposal was labeled "ynh" (for "your name here") . This caused a good laugh when Ken admitted that he had been reading the "ynh" as 1/n+1 - and indeed the hand-written version did look a bit like that.

The first issue discussed was whether the ynh extrinsic kind could be called from an HPF_LOCAL. David Loveman gave the example of calling the TIME routine from locals. Saday made an amendment to specify that HPF_ynh CANNOT be called from within HPF_LOCAL. This passed 11-8-10.

David made an amendment that HPF_ynh could call HPF_GLOBAL. The motivation being that codes might initialize with a "ynh" extrinsic and then branch out to the parallel code. This failed 5 - 8 - 14.

There was the question about whether pointers / targets can be dummies arguments to HPF-ynh. This was left to reconsider overnight . The procedure was to vote with the restriction and later entertain a proposal to remove the restriction if appropriate.

The following matrix summarizes the allowed calls.

     callee   glb  local ynh
 caller  
     glb       x    x     x
     local          x
     ynh                  x
The proposal was modified to include a call to get the global number of processors. This proposed extrinsic would go in appendix a. The vote on the proposal - without knowing the name: 18-2-7.

Many possible names were suggested for "ynh". A preference vote where each person was allowed a first/second/third choice narrowed the list to (uniprocess/uni/unilocal), serial, or lpf. Another preference vote narrowed the choice to "uni*" vs serial. And a strawpoll between these favored serial 17-13. An institutional vote on the same choice again favored serial 15-11. If was observed that lpf made a good try to be a serial killer.

So, in summary, the new extrinsic interface name is HPF_SERIAL.

Break


Benchmark requirements for HPF2

Following the break, Paul Havlak made the benchmark report. He provided a handout about the status of gathering benchmarks. These are currently being assembled at an ftp site: hpsl.cs.umd.edu: pub/hpf_bench Write-ups are due by next week so that we can have a document for SC94.

I/O benchmarks were discussed briefly. The scalable I/O consortium should have some codes. Ohio has an out-of-core FFT code.

Joel Saltz proposed the benchmark report be incorporated with the HPF2 requirements document.


The requirements report prepared by Ian Foster and list of potential requirements prepared by Rob Schreiber was the next topic. The list of items was considered in strawpolls in a working group the previous evening. Several items were identified to be added to the list, including pipelines, persistent arrays, real-time I/O, view distribute(block) as distribute(cyclic), and array aliasing.

There was an extended discussion about what this list means. It is a long list including items with strong agreement along with items of strong controversy. In what sense is it binding instruction to HPF2? The items will be grouped by the topics in Ian's document. We can't in this one meeting make a decision that anything is "out".

Ken proposed that we get a document that categorizes items into groups that give us a feel of the subareas where we will have working HPF2 subgroups. We can group these, and perhaps even prioritize --- but not constrain HPF2. Ian and Rob will merge.

The group broke for the evening.

Friday Oct. 14, 1994 Meetings started at 8:30.

The first topic was organization of the SC94 HPF BOF (Birds of a Feather).

There will be reports ~15 min each: - Ken will go over the survey status. He would like detailed information on announced products and references to other conference demos, activities, etc. - Ian & Rob will go over the requirements document. - Paul will go over the benchmarks.

The purpose of this BOF is to update people on what we've done in HPFF94. We will assume basic familiarity with HPF 1, but not at the Furtney test level. The January HPF Meeting will be announced at the BOF. We will need a one-page announcement for the BOF, possibility with the list of activities/demos on the back.

We will try to have ~40 copies of the 1.1 document, and lots of pages with instructions of how to get a copy. Also ~150 copies of the requirements document. Plan for ~2000 copies of the one-page announcement - these can also be handed out at the CRPC exhibit. Paul volunteered to get copies made.


Guy Steele led a continuation of the discussion of extrinsic problems (6.16 ), specifically how and where to describe the mapping of the args and the result. In the case of the result, there is an additional problem of specification of shape.

Given the example:

Subroutine foo(a,b)
real  a(:), B(:)
!hpf$ align  b(j,j) with A(j)

This is what happens when the declaration is in an extrinsic HPF_LOCAL module:
function foo(n) result(r)
real r(2,10)
There are 3 different possible ways that this could be recomposed on the global with 4 processors: as a 2,40 , as a 8,10 or as a 4,20 and the distribution of the result variable will tell us.

So the basic proposal is that the HPF_LOCAL would have the a set of global mapping directives. The other option is to disallow the inter-module kind inclusion completely.

Shapiro moved that A module of one extrinsic kind cannot be used in a module of another extrinsic kind. This was amended to specifically exclude the case the case of global using local so that an hpf-extrinsic-kind can only include same kind extrinsic modules and hpf_global can use hpf_serial.

There was a discussion about what kinds of things might be used between extrinsic. The following "unilocal" diagram was discussed where D stands for data, P for procedures, and T for types.

      callee global     local     serial
   caller
     global    DTP       T P         TP
     local      T        DTP          T
     serial     T         T          DTP
The amendment was restated: can only use hpf-kind modules within hpf- kind modules of same type. This failed. 7-14-8.

Now Guy "moved" the diagram above AND that HPF directives can be used in HPF_LOCAL code for the dummy arguments and the results.

Piyush M moved that it applies the same for serial: that directives can be used in serial too. There was no second for this.

SO NOW formally the motion is that 6.16 from yesterday is amended to drop "as an interface block" and add that global directives in local code for dummy arguments and function results. This passed: 19 - 1 - 9.

There was a break from 10 to 10:15.

After break, Andy Meltzer led a discussion of a proposal for kernel HPF. He proposed that we take the kernel HPF requirements and add them to HPF2 requirements - i.e. that there be an HPF_Kernel extrinsics . The goal is a proper subset allowing for high-performance on many architectures:

with few performance surprises
easy for users to predict behavior
commonly - generally useful
valuable for all (almost all?) platforms

To get greatest benefit it may be necessary to tell compiler that it is compiling kernel code, e.g. and hpf_kernel extrinsic or a command line switch.

Rich Shapiro moved that we add this kernel requirement and part of a document introduction at least, maybe more, to the HPF2 requirements doc. The straw poll on this was :28 - 0 - 1.


Ian led a further report on the requirements document. The issue list from yesterday was reorganized. These will be an executive summary. To complete the document, need people to describe the 6 sections. There was some discussion of regrouping topics, especially if these define the subgroups for future meetings. Chuck Koelbel with help from U Maryland will take responsibility for enhanced distributions section. Ian will do the control/parallelism section. Alok Choudhary the I/O section.. For the communication optimizations, Rob will take the responsibility and he will get help from Joel.

The group was uncomfortable calling this a "requirements" document because of the breadth of suggestions and lack of agreement about what really required. It was decided to call this a "scope of activities" document - thinking of it more as a call for participation. Our requirements are that we get some coverage for the benchmarks. The scope of activities is to consider these general language areas plus the hpf kernel. It was decided to add section about language processor environment. Jim Cowie will do this. Topics for this section are interacting with tools and interoperability.

The hope is that the document will be concise, an introduction, justifications kernel, and benchmarks in the appendix. This general approach was approved 31-0-0.


The schedule for HPF2 Scope document is:
drafts into Ian: Oct. 21th ...
circulate by: Oct. 27th ...
comments back by Sunday night Nov 6th.
final copy by Nov 10
benchmarks to Paul
The schedule for HPF 1.1 language document update:
updates in to DL: Sunday Oct. 30
circulate draft: send out on Oct. 31 ...
comments back --- Sunday night 6th ..
final copy by Nov. to printer on the 8th
HPF2 will be the subject of a January meeting. Ken will take the scope document to make a proposal and get funding set aside as a two year proposal.
Mary led a brief discussion of the suggestion that the group standardize some data formats for HPF-related tools to work from. This will go into the HPF2 document in the interoperability section.
Ken reported on copyright issues. There have been vendor requests about using the HPF document. David noted that this kind of permission to "copy" is typically noted on the copyright page of the other document. X3J3 .... would like to use the text too, but ANSI copyrights their document. There should be a mutual agreement on this - they can use our text and we can use theirs. Jerry Wagener will take this to ANSI.
The January implementors meeting was discussed. The dates determined were Jan. 30-31, 1995. The meeting will start Monday morning and finish Tuesday noon. This will be a conference meeting, with a business meeting at the end to discuss the plan for HPF2 meetings. Mary will chair a program committee, with David, Rob, Alok, Chuck, Ian, Robbie, Piyush, Robbie, Andy J, Joel, Saday, and Chau-Huang volunteering to help. The purpose will be product and usage reports and initial experience with ideas proposed for HPF2. There will be a call for formal presentation abstracts.

LPF

The last item of business for the meeting was the final report from LPF MCVXII, Andy Meltzer.

New LPF voting procedures were established.
Like HPF, LPF has voting categories. The LPF categories are more creative:
don't like it
hate it
don't like it
don't like it
Who can vote?
Me
Mickey Mouse, but he won't be here
Bill the Cat, but "Ack!" isn't a valid category
Ghengis Khan, but he's dead
Congress, but they're stuck in a filibuster
The LPF kernel language is the PAUSE statement. STOP was rejected because it completes too fast.
LPF2 committee members are becoming miffed that HPF2 might encroach on LPF2 territory so in response, LPF will accept HPF2 as a subset.
LPF has defined a new extrinsic interface: LPF_NOPROCS. This is for procedures which execute on zero procs and can't call LPF kernel from within.
Another new extrinsic is LPF_HPF. This is defined to be the slowest form of all.
At the last meeting we discussed illegal LPF program behavior. This time we'll cover fatal errors. The first question is fatal for whom? Anyone who dares to use LPF deserves to die. Anyone who works on an LPF compiler deserves to die. Uh, oh - that's probably us.

The meeting was adjourned at ~11:45.

Future meetings

Future meetings: A BOF is planned for SC94, and an HPFF Implementors Meeting scheduled for January 30, 31, 1995 in Houston. Schedule for HPF2 meetings will be determined at that time.
Attending the October HPFF Meeting:

Robert Babb U. of Denver    babb@cs.du.edu
Scott Baden UCSD        baden@cs.ucsd.edu
Ralph Brickner  LANL        rgb@lanl.gov
Alok Choudhary  Syracuse U. choudhar@cat.syr.edu
Jim Cowie   Cooperating Systems cowie-james@cs.yale.edu
Ian Foster  Argonne Lab.    foster@mcs.anl.gov
Paul Havlak U. Maryland havlak@cs.umd.edu
Chua-Huang Huang Ohio State U.  chh@cis.ohio-state.edu
Andrew Johnson  OSF RI      andyj@osf.org
Ken Kennedy Rice U./CRPC    ken@rice.edu
Chuck Koelbel   Rice U.     chk@cs.rice.edu
David Loveman   Digital Equip.  loveman@hpcgrp.enet.dec.com
Piyush Mehrotra ICASE       pm@icase.edu
Andy Meltzer    Cray Research   meltzer@cray.com
Doug Miles  PGI     miles@pgroup.com
Nicole Nemer-Preece U. of Missouri-Rolla nnemer@cs.umr.edu
E. Nunohiro HITACHI     nunohiro@hisoft.soft.hitachi.co.jp
Bruce Olsen Hewlett Packard bruce@apollo.hp.com
Terry Pratt CESDIS/NASA Goddard pratt@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
J. Ramanujam    Lousiana St U   jxr@max.ee.lsu.edu
P. Sadayappan   Ohio State U    saday@cis.ohio-state.edu
Joel Saltz  U. of Maryland  saltz@cs.umd.edu
Rob Schreiber   RIACS       schreiber@riacs.edu
Yoshiki Seo NEC     yoshiki@cs.rice.edu
Richard Shapiro Silicon Graphics rshapiro@boston.sgi.com
Guy Steele  Sun Microsystems Guy.Steele@east.sun.com
Roy Touzeau Intel SSD   rft@ssd.intel.com
Jeff Vanderlip  Pacific-Sierra Research jeff@psrv.com
Paula Vaughan   Miss. St. / NSF ERC paula@erc.msstate.edu
Jerry Wagener   Amoco       jwagener@amoco.com
Henry Zongaro   IBM Canada  zongaro@vnet.ibm.com
Mary Zosel   LLNL        zosel@llnl.gov