Subj : How to reach users of parallel programming systems?
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Michael Suess
Date : Thu Jun 09 2005 11:18 am

Hi,

do you know of ways to reach the users of parallel programming systems?

Let me tell you why I need that. I am presently conducting a survey on
parallel programming, to find out about what languages and libraries
(short: pps - parallel programming systems) are in actual use today. The
address is here, if you are interested:
http://www.plm.eecs.uni-kassel.de/parasurvey/

This is part of a bigger project, described here:
http://www.plm.eecs.uni-kassel.de/plm/index.php?id=534

Another big part of this project is the Parawiki, which might be of interest
to you as well:
http://parawiki.plm.eecs.uni-kassel.de

As you can see, most of the projects I mentioned here live from the
participation of actual users. I tried to make all of this more known, by
sending a call for help to several mailing lists / newsgroups / forums and
got a good start from that (about 50 participants in the survey). You can
see which communication channels I already tried here:
http://parawiki.plm.eecs.uni-kassel.de/parawiki/index.php/Parallel_Programming_Groups

Of course, I would like to reach more people, and of course only the right
people who are involved in parallel programming somehow (do not want to
spam a lot of people who are not into parallel programming either). If you
have any ideas about communication channels I missed, it would be very kind
if you could share them with me! Oh, and of course it would also be nice if
you filled out the survey and contributed to the Parawiki :-).

Thanks a lot for your help,

Best Regards, Michael Suess

P.S.: Actually, I wanted to post this to comp.parallel, but the group seems
a little low on traffic and so I chose this one, as always something is
happening around here. I hope you forgive me this slightly OT-post!


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