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Welcome!
Welcome, dear visitor, to the Parawiki! This is a wiki dedicated to provide a single online resource for all questions regarding parallel computing. Its target audience are the creators and users of parallel programming systems, as well as everyone interested in parallel computing in general. While a neutral point of view is encouraged, the Parawiki is also a place where actual user experiences with parallel programming systems are described (which cannot be neutral by definition). The wiki went online in March 2005 and uses the Mediawiki software. All contributions are licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
Parawiki News
| 12.9.2007 | Because of spam and lack of interest, we have chosen to disable registration of new users for now. If you are interested in contributing, please contact Michael Suess. |
| 19.1.2006 | From now on this site is accessible through our new domain www.parawiki.org. |
| 7.11.2005 | We have closed the Parallel Programming Survey now, the results will be available shortly. Thanks to all 262 participants, the winners of the gift certificates will be announced shortly as well! |
| 24.10.2005 | We are preparing to evaluate the results of the Parallel Programming Survey. It will therefore close on November the 5th. If you have not participated yet, please consider doing so as it will make the results even more interesting! |
| 29.7.2005 | More than 50 people have participated in the Parallel Programming Survey up to this time. The results are starting to look really interesting, and will be published soon! If you have not filled out the survey yet, please consider doing so! Thank you! --Msuess 13:59, 29 Jul 2005 (CEST) |
| 2.3.2005 | Our Parallel Programming Survey is now online as well. It will only take ten minutes, and you can win two book gift certificates from amazon.com! Thank your for your participation. |
How to contribute
This website is organized as a wiki. This means that everyone is invited to contribute. To find out more about the general workings of a wiki, please read this page in the Wikipedia and try out our Sandbox. As a protection against spammers and because we would like this to be not just an anonymous resource, we ask everyone to register and login before posting.
Classification
The wiki is a part of a bigger project, with the working title: Evaluation of parallel programming systems. This project is described in more detail in this short introductory paper. A second noteworthy part of this project is a Parallel Programming Survey, presently conducted to gather more information about parallel programmers and their work on parallel programming.
Features
Thanks to the Mediawiki software, the Parawiki provides all the usual wiki features. On top of the system, a feature called trees was implemented by a graduate student, using a custom PHP script and the Webdot software. They are meant to give a quick overview over certain topics. At the same time they can be used as tables of content. These trees are not static, new ones can be created and existing ones can be changed by any contributor. See the Editing rules for details. If you want to toy around with the formatting of this wiki, please do so in the Sandbox. Rules for doing so can be found in the MediaWiki User's Guide.
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