======================================================= Availability of the DASH or SGI message-passing library ======================================================= After having cleared up some legal details, (one disadvantage for having too many sponsors...) the DASH team of the Stanford Com- puter Systems Laboratory is pleased to announce the availability of the iPSC message-passing library for public distribution. This distribution is intended for non-commercial purposes only. As you probably realize, Stanford University reserves all of its commercial rights to this library. The library is now available through anonymous ftp from mojave.stanford.edu, under the directory: /pub/dash-msg-library which sits parallel to the splash and tango directories. Please read the legal notice in that directory prior to download- ing any software. By downloading any portion of the library from mojave, you have agreed to abide by that legal notice. The library will be updated from time to time. Therefore, you are asked to send e-mail to (all three addresses): kellyj@leland.stanford.edu bernardl@vnet.ibm.com pleong@aplnxt.us.oracle.com after downloading the library, so that we can keep you informed of future updates. Please notice that the development team is NOT under obligations to Stanford or any of the sponsors of this project to support this library. Nonetheless, we do welcome informed and well- researched questions, and they will be answered as time is avail- able. All questions and answers will be logged in a FAQ file in the dash-msg-library directory. You are asked to review that file before sending any email to the development team. Thank you.