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May 6, 2002: CDS goes open source.

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Sept 24, 2005: In celebration of the release of ScalPL, Elepar is removing the password protection to its other documentation (including its Software Cabling tutorial) for a limited time. No longer will it be necessary to register through our survey form to access these reports and illustrations through our "What we can do for you today" page.

Sept 10, 2005: Elepar broadens the market of Software Cabling, morphing it into Scalable Planning Language (ScalPL, pronounced "scalpel"), described in a new paper available through this website. In addition to the traditional application areas for Software Cabling (especially high-performance applications on parallel, distributed, and grid platforms), ScalPL is designed to be used as a specification language for all sorts of plans and algorithms. Unlike modeling language alternatives like UML, ScalPL is not just a model of the "real" plan or program: It becomes the real plan or program.

Feb 4, 2004: Think of it as HPC's version of "hello world". A paper showing coding of a portable parallel (traditional) matrix multiply algorithm in Software Cabling is now available on this website (using password obtainable through free registration). Abstract: Some of the data parallelism and modularity capabilities of Software Cabling are shown using a simple matrix multiply example, built in turn upon dot product and scalar reduction modules also implemented in Software Cabling. Complete descriptions are given of each, so a background in Software Cabling is not required of the reader, and in fact, these examples can be used as an introduction to many common Software Cabling constructs and techniques.

Jul 10, 2003: Is Software Cabling the "Silver Bullet" whose existence Fred Brooks denied in his seminal paper? The promise was recognized in a recent Usenet discussion on that topic.

Mar 14, 2003: Elepar Software Cabling and PICA technology is included in a presentation to federal security agencies at the Oregon RAINS (Regional Alliances for Infrastructure and Network Security) Security Summit in Portland, OR.

May 16, 2002: Dr. DiNucci gave a seminar at NASA Ames Research Center (NAS Division) in Mountain View, CA, entitled "A Three-Tiered Approach to Grid Design" describing Elepar's SC/CDS/PICA toolset integration.

Oct 2, 2001: Dr. DiNucci gives a seminar entitled "Computational Grids & Peer-to-Peer: Distributed Resource Collectives" at the Center for Professional Development at Oregon Graduate Institute (school of science and engineering for OHSU).

May 2001: Dr DiNucci presents Elepar's Software Cabling and CDS technologies to the Advanced Computing Lab at Los Alamos National Lab.

Dec 17, 2000: A paper co-authored by Dr. DiNucci describing AO (a predecessor of PICA) is presented by Rajkumar Buyya at the GRID 2000 workshop in Bangalore, India.

Nov 6-17, 2000: Some discussion on Grid Forum Advanced Programming Models WG discussion board about F-Nets (the underlying model for Elepar's technologies) and what makes it ideal as a grid programming model.