H P C S E L E C T N E W S *** March 12: Volume 2, Number 10 *** ========= News Special ========= News Special ========= News Special ======== 160) DELIGHTED WITH DELTA, CSCC MOVING TO 150-NODE PARAGON Pasadena, Calif. -- Dr. Paul Messina, director of the Concurrent Supercomputing Consortium, this week confirmed the group's plans to move to a 150-node Intel Paragon XP/S supercomputer this summer. ---------------------------- Also In This Issue ----------------------------- 830) BENCHMARKS: Linpack Results for Highly Parallel Computing 310) COMMENTARY: Worry Not -- NREN Is Alive and Well 161) NEWS BRIEFS: Meiko Refutes Security Concerns Over LLNL Super Purchase 831) FACTS & FIGURES: One Last Look at Steve Chen's Supercomputer Systems ============================================================================= WELCOME TO HPC SELECT NEWS Select News is a new weekly interactive news and information service covering high-performance computing, from workstations to supercomputers. ***************************************************************************** NEWS BRIEFS 161) MEIKO REFUTES SECURITY CONCERNS OVER LLNL SUPER PURCHASE Waltham, Mass. -- Meiko Scientific Corp. Tuesday said that a New York Times article on Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's decision to purchase a Meiko Computing Surface-2 supercomputer created false impressions that Livermore is damaging American economic competitiveness and taking a major national security risk. -------------------- 162) CLINTON'S TECHNOLOGY POLICY FACES ENTRENCHED OBSTACLES Washington, D.C. -- President Clinton's plan to help revive the American economy through government investment in advanced technology is littered with roadblocks that will be difficult to overcome, according to an article by Bert Robinson and Kristin Huckshorn of the San Jose Mercury News. -------------------- 163) NEW STUDY PREDICTS MASSIVE GROWTH FOR PARALLEL COMPUTING Mountain View, Calif. -- The parallel computer market, which reached $275 million in 1992, should grow by 70 percent annually to $4 billion in 1997, according to a study released by the Superperformance Computing Service. -------------------- 164) COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL TO CREATE "VIRTUAL LIBRARY" WITH CM-2 New York City, N.Y. -- The installation of a Thinking Machines CM-2 at Columbia University Law Library will enable researchers nationwide to research and instantaneously retrieve complete original documents from a database of the country's third-largest collection of materials. -------------------- ALSO THIS WEEK: (Full stories available from more@hpcwire.ans.net) 165) IBM, Apple Among Founding Members of PowerOpen Association 166) GE Research Center Installs Two Convex Supercomputers 167) Kendall Square Signs First Commercial Customers for KSR1 168) Intel Names Three Former Cray Staffers to Senior Positions 169) Deal to Port Software to HP Hardware Could Revive Wang 170) Convex Sells Parallel System to University of Erlangen 171) Archipel Backs New HPC Laboratory Based in Lyon, France 172) Meiko Installs UPM MPP System at University of Salford 173) Indian Automaker Orders $1 Million in Pro/Engineer Software 174) Novell Announces Next-Generation NetWare 4.0 at Interop 175) Analyst Raises 1993 and 1994 Earnings Estimates for IBM 176) University in East Berlin Installs Convex Meta System 177) SDRC Introduces I-DEAS Master Series for Mechanical Design 178) Rockwell Unveils Industry's Fastest GaAs 1-GHz Gate Arrays 179) Network Systems Reveals Plans to Integrate SNA, APPN, IP ***************************************************************************** QUOTE OF THE WEEK: 161) "I'm stunned that they would make this choice. Meiko doesn't have an established track record compared to others in the field." -- Jack Dongarra, speaking to the New York Times on Lawrence Livermore's decision to purchase a Meiko CS-2 supercomputer. ***************************************************************************** ANALYSIS & FEATURES 310) WHILE THE NII GESTATES, THE NREN IS ALIVE AND WELL Commentary by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large The science and engineering community has long been concerned that its requirements for high-bandwidth communication might be lost or compromised in the midst of the new administration's enthusiasm for the much broader "data superhighway" concept. But a few days with ears open in Washington reveal that, at least in the near term, this anxiety is misplaced. -------------------- 311) FEATURE STORY: PREVENTING OFFSHORE OIL SPILLS WITH FEA TECHNOLOGY The devastating environmental consequences of oil spills highlight the critical need for safety and reliability in offshore oil transportation systems. Dunlop Oil and Marine is using computer-aided design and analysis technology to improve its offshore hoses, which provide safe passage for oil between tankers, buoys, well heads and subsea pipelines. -------------------- 312) METACOMPUTING, HIGH-SPEED NETWORKING AND VISUALIZATION Feature Story by Marsha Jovanovic, San Diego Supercomputer Center Grand challenge research will accelerate when scientists and engineers can move problems directly to appropriate computer architectures without regard for where the systems are located or where the researchers have allocations. ***************************************************************************** SCIENCE NEWS 406) New Solar Panels, Mirrors Should Improve Hubble's Vision 407) Doctors Too Shy to Ask AIDS-Infected Women About Sex Habits 408) America's Health Habits "Terribly Disturbing" During 1980s ***************************************************************************** 501) ACTIVE HPC STOCKS CLOSING 02/10 CLOSING 03/10 CHANGE Hewlett-Packard Co. 68 1/4 78 1/4 +10 Storage Technology Corp. 19 3/8 24 1/4 + 4 7/8 Structural Dynamics Research 13 3/8 18 + 4 5/8 Vitalink Communications Corp. 13 1/4 8 1/2 - 4 3/4 (To receive a full list of 71 HPC stocks, order number 501.) ***************************************************************************** OTHER INFORMATION AVAILABLE THIS WEEK: JOBS 709) Unicos Systems Analyst for Supercomputer Site in New Orleans 710) Senior HPC Sales Representative in the Northeast. BENCHMARKS 830) Linpack Benchmark Results (March 1): Highly Parallel Computing FACTS & FIGURES 831) One Last Look at Steve Chen's Supercomputer Systems Inc. 832) Systems Comparison: MasPar MP-1 and MP-2 Series SOFTWARE INFORMATION 833) The Software Tools Group and NCSA Software Available COMPUTER CENTERS 834) National Center for Supercomputing Applications CALENDAR 835) Parallel Processing in Fortran, Apr. 14-16, in Placerville, CA 836) Parallel Computing on the KSR1, May 5-7, at Cornell BACK ISSUES 997) Menu of Items Published March 5, 1993 in HPC Select News 998) Menu of Items Published Feb. 26, 1993 in HPC Select News 999) Menu of Items Published Feb. 19, 1993 in HPC Select News ***************************************************************************** HPC SELECT NEWS' MOST REQUESTED ITEMS FOR THE WEEK OF MARCH 1-5 306) Q&A Interview: Forest Baskett, Senior VP of R&D at Silicon Graphics 147) Digital Announces Performance and Pricing for Alpha Chips 142) Los Alamos CM-5 Clocked at 59.7 Gigaflops on Linpack 403) Supernova Explosion May Have Caused Sunburn for Ancient Man ***************************************************************************** SPONSORS: Free information available from the following companies 901) ANS 902) IBM Corp. 903) Network Systems 904) Intel<> 905) Maximum Strategy<> 906) nCUBE 907) Digital Equipment 908) Hewlett-Packard 909) Fujitsu America 910) Convex Computer 911) Fed Data 912) Avalon Computers 913) The Smaby Group 914) Sky Computers 915) Genias Software 916) MasPar Computer 917) MMB Development 918) Portland Group 919) Severn 920) R.J. 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