Acknowledgements

This book would not have been completed without the help and encouragement of a lot of people and organizations. Los Alamos National Laboratory funded the writing of this manual and the development of the POOMA Toolkit. John Reynders conceived, advocated, and headed POOMA development in its early days, and Scott Haney continued the leadership. Susan Atlas, Subhankar Banerjee, Timothy Cleland, Julian Cummings, James Crotinger, David Forslund, Salman Habib, Scott Haney, Paul Hinker, William Humphrey, Steve Karmesin, Graham Mark, Jeffrey D. Oldham, Ji Qiang, John Reynders, Robert Ryne, Stephen Smith, M. Srikant, Marydell Tholburn, and Timothy Williams all helped develop POOMA. Rod Oldehoeft and Jeff Brown of Los Alamos National Laboratory supported CodeSourcery's and Proximation's work, including the development of this manual. John Hall, Don Marshall, Jean Marshall, and the rest of the BLANCA team at Los Alamos worked closely with the developers and provided valuable suggestions for improvements.

I am grateful to James Crotinger, Mark Mitchell, and Stephen Smith who answered my many questions during the writing of this book.