We announce the anonymous ftp access to the latest research reports from Dr. V. Kumar's parallel computing group at the University of Minnesota. The reports are stored in standard postscript format and can be printed on any postscript printer. The files can be accessed by ftp'ing to the anonymous ftp site ftp.cs.umn.edu (128.101.230.100). The files are in users/kumar. The file 'abstracts' contains a listing of abstracts of all the papers along with information on the file names to ftp for the same. It also contains latex bibliography entries of the research report. This file is an ASCII file to facilitate searching for specific references. A transcript of a sample ftp session is included here. --- ananth@knife> ftp 128.101.230.100 (or ananth@knife> ftp ftp.cs.umn.edu) Connected to 128.101.230.100. 220 stimpy FTP server (Version 6.27 Wed Feb 26 22:38:02 CST 1992) ready. Name (128.101.230.100:ananth): anonymous 331 Guest login ok, send e-mail address as password. Password: 230-Welcome, fellow net adict. ftp> cd users/kumar 250 CWD command successful. ftp> ls 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list. fft.ps readme sort.ps spath.ps survey.ps lb_MIMD.ps fem_partitioning.ps optimization_tutorial.ps abstracts matrix.ps performance.ps conjugate-gradient.ps dp.ps.Z lb_SIMD.ps.Z 226 Transfer complete. 189 bytes received in 0.067 seconds (2.7 Kbytes/s) ftp> get abstracts 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for abstracts (18696 bytes). 226 Transfer complete. local: abstracts remote: abstracts 19187 bytes received in 0.39 seconds (49 Kbytes/s) ftp> ........ And whichever other files one might want to get. ---------------