Subj : Re: How to reach users of parallel programming systems?
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Randy
Date : Thu Jun 09 2005 01:50 pm

To reach parallel programmers, crosspost to:

comp.parallel
comp.parallel.mpi
comp.parallel.pvm
comp.sys.super
comp.programming

Like the rest of Usenet, a lot more folks lurk than post.

    Randy


Michael Suess wrote:
> 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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Randy Crawford   http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~rand   rand AT rice DOT edu

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