IFIP WG 2.5 INACTIVE PROJECTS IFIP WG 2.5 INACTIVE PROJECTS
The first individual of the "Principal participants" is the project leader.
Project Project name Principal Began/ Comments
number participants completed
1. Machine parameters Ford 1975/78 Final version officially endorsed by
IFIP.
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2. Classification Fosdick 1975/82 Group will follow progress, but not
take any action at this time.
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3. Critique of Fortran John Reid 1975/77 Dropped in view of other interactions
Standards with X3J3.
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4. Minimal hardware Reinsch, Hull 1975/78 See C.H. Reinsch 'Principals and
requirements preferences for computer arithmetic',
SIGNUM Newsletter 14 (1979), 12-27.
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5. Fortran dialects Gear 1975/77 Dropped in view of other Fortran
activity. See project 20.
6. Transportability Battiste 1975/76 See B. Ford 'Preparing conventions for
parameters for transportable numerical
software'. In 'Portability of numerical
software', ed. W. Cowell, Lecture Notes
in Computer Science, 57 (1977), 68-91,
Springer-Verlag.
See also projects 1, 16, and 34.
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7. Guidelines for Smith 1975/81 Covered by Toolpack.
transportable
evaluation tools
8. Criteria for evaluating Stetter 1975/79 Interpreted as covered by Baden
quadrature, ODE and conference on performance evaluation,
integral equation software see project 18.
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9. Aids for software Einarsson 1975/81 Left 'for the present' in 1977.
generation and Covered by Toolpack.
evaluation
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10. Documentation Ford 1975/81 To be covered by information systems
work.
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11. Bibliography Einarsson 1975/79 Final version in Berkeley Report and
in J. Comp. Appl. Math.
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12. Hardware features Reinsch, Hull 1975/79 See IFIP/WG 2.5 (Toronto-14) 414 and
IFIP/WG 2.5 (Toronto-15) 415.
Superseded by Project 36.
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13. Communication languages Lawson, Gear 1975/81 Dropped.
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14. Desirable language Dekker, Hull, 1975/81 Covered by Boulder conference,
features for numerical Lawson, John Reid see project 23.
programming
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15. Non-numerical aids Einarsson 1975/81 Dropped in view of Toolpack.
for numerical testing
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16. Guidelines for Smith 1975/80 Covered by Argonne meeting and
transportable software superseded by transportability
tutorial, project 34.
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17. Proposals to X3J3 on John Reid, 1976/78 None included in Fortran 77.
intrinsics, MAP and Smith, et al.
double complex
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18. Performance evaluation Fosdick, Stetter 1975/79 Conference 1978.
(Wo Co 1) Proceedings published 1979.
Conference web site
19. Analytic algorithms Yanenko, Shokin, 1977/82
and symbolic Feldman,Gentleman,
manipulation Stetter, Ford,
Gaffney,
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21. Design objectives 1977/81 Added to the 'waiting list' at
Amsterdam. Dropped.
22. Certification Ford 1977/81 Dropped.
23. The relationship Lawson, 1977/82 Conference 1981.
between numerical John Reid, Proceedings published 1982.
computation and Fosdick
programming languages
(Wo Co 2)
Conference web site
24. Numerical software Rice, Einarsson 1977/84 Conference 1983.
for partial differential Proceedings published 1984.
equations
(Wo Co 3)
Conference web site
25. IEEE floating-point Cody, Brown, 1978/08 Supportive statement sent from IFIP
arithmetic standard Einarsson, Kulisch, to IEEE. Binary standard
Snyder approved in 1985. Radix-independent
version approved in 1987.
Revised standard in 2008.
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26. Review of Ada Dekker, Smith, 1978/86 Dropped in favour of project 33.
Ford, Gentleman,
Aird, Brown
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27. Open systems John Reid, 1978/90 Monitoring OSI activity at the
interconnection Einarsson, Vouk request of TC2. Closed 1990.
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28. Survey of distribution Lawson 1978/83 Dropped.
centres
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29. Intrinsic functions John Reid, 1978/79 Document 511 published in SIGNUM
Smith Newsletter, Algol Bulletin,
and SIGPLAN Notices. Continuing work
with X3J3 committee.
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30. Complex double John Reid, 1978/79 Document 510 published in SIGNUM
precision Smith Newsletter, IMANA Newsletter, and
IMA Bulletin.
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31. Array facilities in John Reid, 1978/85 Proposals made to X3J3. See Project 20.
Fortran 8X Rice, Smith, Paul
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32. General precision data Smith 1980/84 Letters sent to X3J3 after the Harwell
type for Fortran 8x and Boulder meetings. Now accepted
by X3J3 committee.
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33. Numerical features of Aird, Ford, 1980/92 Ford, Delves and Dekker are members of
Ada Gentleman, the Ada Europe Numerics Working Group.
Dekker, Lawson Cody, Ford, and Smith are members of
Smith, Delves, SigADANumerics Working Group.
Cody, Lawson,
Gaffney
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34. Transportability Ford, Smith, 1980/90 Closed. See also projects 6 and 16.
tutorial Fosdick, Vouk,
Feldman, Gentleman
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35. Information systems Ford, Schryer, 1981/87 Dropped.
Brown
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36. Hardware features Rice, Hull 1980/83 Dropped. See also projects 4 and 12.
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37. Array processing Paul, Rice, 1981/90
John Reid, Delves
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38. Pointers, dynamic John Reid, 1981/88 Proposals made to X3J3.
storage management, Smith, Feldman, See project 20.
list processing Brown
in Fortran
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39. Precision control Hull, Brent 1981/88 Completed.
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40. Testing methodology Hull, Wright, 1981/90 Closed.
Vouk, Cody
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41. Specification of Cody, Brent, 1981 Consider exceptions as part
elementary functions Hull, Lawson, of specifications.
Tang, Walter
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42. Problem solving Ford, Chatelin, 1981/86 Conference 1985.
environments Machura Proceedings published 1987.
(Wo Co 4)
Conference web site
43. Transportability for Battiste, Ford, 1981/92 Renamed "Programming and Presentation
micros Hanson, Gentleman, of Numeric Software for
Feldman Microcomputer Users" 1986.
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44. Arithmetic Hull, Smith, 1981/90 Merged with project 63.
specification Battiste, Cody,
Lawson
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45. Fortran as an assembler Brown, Feldman 1981/83 Dropped.
language
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48. Event handling in Hull, Ford, 1983/88 Merged with project 20.
Fortran 8X John Reid, Smith,
Stetter, Delves,
Feldman
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49. Real numbers in OSI Lawson, 1983/84 Dropped.
Einarsson,
John Reid
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50. Modules for linear Rice, Ford, 1983/90 Emphasis on language independence.
algebra John Reid, Smith, Closed.
Dekker, Delves,
Bercovier
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51. Use of special purpose Chatelin, 1983/92 Reopened 2009 as project 72
hardware for numerical Brent, Gentleman,
computation Paul, Lazarov
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52. Software for Gentleman, 1984/89 Conference 1988.
asynchronous execution Smith, Hanson, Proceedings published 1989.
(Wo Co 5) Rice, Huddleston,
Paul, Einarsson,
Aird, Chatelin,
Dekker, Delves,
Wright, Ford, Feldman
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53. Software for parallel Rice, 1984/94 Closed.
synchronous execution John Reid,
Gentleman, Sorensen
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54. Exception handling Hull, Smith, 1984/90 Merges with project 63.
John Reid
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55. Extensions of the BLAS Hanson, Rice, 1984/87 Standardization activity
Ford, John Reid, initiated. Workshop organized.
Smith, Lawson, Papers published in TOMS.
Aird, Reinsch
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57. Licensing of software Einarsson, 1985/87 Group will follow progress,
Battiste, Aird, but not take any action at
Ford, Wright this time (Argonne, 1986).
Dropped.
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58. Requirements for Stetter, 1985/88 Project merged with
documentation of Chatelin, Smith, project 56 (Como 1987
numerical software Paul, Cody, John Reid, and Stanford 1988).
Dekker, Vouk
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59. Measuring the Gentleman, 1985/94 Topic discussed at Wo Co 5,
effectiveness of Feldman, Rice, project 52. Closed.
parallel architecture Du Croz, Paul,
Kulisch, Chatelin,
Delves, Houstis
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60. Non-lingual programming Einarsson, 1985/92 New name: "Programming
(Wo Co 6) Gentleman, Rice, environments for high-level
Ford, Kulisch, scientific problem solving",
Feldman, Fosdick conference 1991,
Bercovier, Gaffney, proceedings published 1992.
Vouk, Houstis, Calmet,
Chang, Schreiner
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Conference web site
61. Numerical Software in Vouk, Smith, 1986/90 Merged with project 47.
fault-tolerant Stetter
environment
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62. Applications of Hanson, 1986
Extended BLAS Du Croz, Ford,
Hammarling,
John Reid, Lawson,
Smith, Dekker,
Dongarra, Dekker,
Gaffney, Delves,
Bercovier, Te Riele
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63. Semantics of Numeric Feldman, Hull, 1986 Projects 44 and 54 were
Computation in Aird, Stetter, merged-in in 1990.
Programming Languages John Reid, Paul, Cody,
Ford, Dekker, Hanson,
Hodgson, Smith, Battiste,
Lawson
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64. C-language Feldman, Ford, 1987 Including standardization
Delves, Gentleman, monitoring. Cody and Vouk
Smith, Vouk, have been members of NCEG
Lawson, Dekker, since 1989.
Paul, Einarsson,
Fosdick
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66. Wo Co 7 Feldman, Vouk, 1992 Mathematical and Scientific
Quality of Numerical Einarsson, Computation: Interfaces in
Software Fosdick,Dekker, and Integration of Scientific
Ford, Grosse, Houstis, Computation.
McAllister, Sorensen, Conference 1996.
Rice, Wright, Chatelin, Proceedings published 1997.
Hammarling, Du Croz Inspired by project 56.
Conference web site
67. Portability of Message Gropp, Hanson, 1994
Passing Systems Vouk, Walter
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68. Handbook on Accuracy Einarsson et al 1995/2005 Book published July 2005.
and Reliability Original title: "How to
in Scientific Computing describe Numerical Software"
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Complement to the book
Order form
70. Wo Co 8 Gentleman, 1996 Conference 2000.
The Architecture Ford, Rice, Proceedings published 2001.
of Scientific Hanson, Smith,
Software Vouk
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Conference web site
71. Open Math Stetter, 1996-2009
Gentleman, Ford,
Rice, Boisvert
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73. API for Discrete Tang, Ford, 1997-2009 Original title:
Fourier Transforms Smith, Kulisch Parallel FFTs and their
Implementations.
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DFTI - a new interface for Fast Fourier Transform libraries, P. T. Tang,
ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software. 31, 4 (Dec. 2005), 475-507.
75. Principles for API Douglas 2005-2012 New but inactive
Design for Numerical Gropp
Computing
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76. Wo Co 10 Boisvert, Ford, 2006-2012 Uncertainty Quantification
Smith, Pool, in Scientific Computation
Einarsson
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