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For specifications on APR and its FORGE 90 products, select 914. =============================== IN THIS ISSUE =============================== 2016) NEWS BRIEFS: Squires Removed From ARPA Post, Named "Special Assistant" 392) COMMENTARY: Lean, Open Work Style Shapes New Blue Dawn for IBM's SP1 394) ANALYSIS: Sizzling Linpack Numbers Boost Fujitsu VPP500 Launch 1888) BENCHMARKS: Updated Performance Study of Fortran 90 Compilers 1889) FACTS & FIGURES: Specifications for Sun's Accelerated Graphics Family ============================================================================= ***************************************************************************** NEWS BRIEFS 9011) HANDLER PROVIDES BACKGROUND ON TMC'S INCOMING PRESIDENT 73 Lines Cambridge, Mass. -- Thinking Machines co-founder, chairman and CEO Sheryl Handler told Select News Thursday that the MPP vendor's next president has worked with the company and its customers for over a year and will help it compete more aggressively, especially in the commercial sector. -------------------- 2015) JAPAN GETS WARNING WITH 11 PUBLIC CONTRACTS UP FOR BIDDING 68 Lines Tokyo, Japan -- The United States will retaliate against Japan if its review of a bilateral pact on supercomputer trade shows that Japan is not complying with the agreement, a senior U.S. official said this week. -------------------- 2016) SQUIRES REMOVED FROM ARPA POST, NAMED "SPECIAL ASSISTANT" 26 Lines Washington, D.C. -- Officials with the Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency confirmed this week that Stephen Squires has been removed as director of the Computing Systems Technology Office. -------------------- 2017) NCSA RESEARCHERS BUILD PROTEIN-RECEPTOR PREDICTION MODEL 75 Lines Chicago, Ill. -- Opening a way to more easily designed therapeutic drugs, a University of Illinois research group Tuesday said it has used a Cray-2 supercomputer and a Silicon Graphics Crimson workstation to develop a three- dimensional model that may predict where hormonal steroids bind to proteins. -------------------- 2018) CLINTON ADMINISTRATION STILL COMMITTED TO DATA HIGHWAY 39 Lines San Francisco, Calif. -- A top official from the Office of Science and Technology Policy said that despite the nation's budget crisis, the "information highway" remains a top priority of the Clinton administration. -------------------- 2019) CABLE CUSTOMERS TO GAIN ACCESS TO THE INTERNET THROUGH TV 56 Lines San Francisco, Calif. -- The third-largest cable TV company in the United States Tuesday said it is working with Internet connection provider Performance Systems International to offer cable viewers Internet access. -------------------- 2020) CERFNET LINK TO SDSC HELPS ENGINEERS DESIGN SPACE SHUTTLE 33 Lines San Diego, Calif. -- Internet regional access provider CERFnet said its connection to the San Diego Supercomputer Center is being used by engineers in the design of the Space Shuttle Freedom. -------------------- 2021) INTEROPNET INTEGRATES 3,000 PRODUCTS IN LARGE-SCALE NETWORK 41 Lines San Francisco, Calif. -- A large-scale enterprise network deployed at the Interop '93 trade show this week in San Francisco was equivalent to networking a facility twice the size of the TransAmerica building. -------------------- ALSO THIS WEEK: (Full stories available from more@hpcwire.ans.net) 2022) IBM Gives Software Developers Free Access to Scalable SP1 17 Lines 2023) Cray Releases UniChem 2.0 Computational Chemistry Software 54 Lines 2024) Fibre Channel's First Profile Available Over the Internet 47 Lines 2025) Vendors Hail Large-Scale Demonstration of FDDI Over Copper 46 Lines 2026) IBM's New Storage Method Enables 10 GBits Per Square Inch 94 Lines 2027) Wabi Will Allow Windows Applications to Run on IBM RS/6000s 43 Lines 2028) InterNIC Nears Its 100,000th Internet Registration Request 43 Lines 2029) SGI and Nintendo Announce 64-Bit, Mips-Based Game System 64 Lines 2030) DEC Ships New Unix Distributed Software Engineering Tools 68 Lines 2031) IBM, DEC to Collaborate on Networking, Systems Management 43 Lines 2032) Sun SPARCcenter 2000 Gets Top Results on Server Benchmarks 48 Lines 2033) Changing Storage Trends Force DEC to Layoff 600 in Germany 44 Lines 2034) MicroStation CAD Software Coming to SGI Indigo Workstations 38 Lines 2035) For the Record: Miscellaneous HPC News & Notes -- 44 Items 442 Lines ***************************************************************************** INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT 742) Used 16-Node Intel iPSC/860 Supercomputer for Sale 76 Lines 743) ANS CO+RE Announces Secure LAN-to-LAN Interconnect Service 75 Lines ***************************************************************************** QUOTE OF THE WEEK: 2015) "U.S. makers' market share in Europe shows that U.S. supercomputers are the most competitive. There is no reason why the Japanese shouldn't buy American supercomputers unless there was a non-economic issue involved in the process." -- An unidentified senior U.S. official, speaking on fair trade ***************************************************************************** ANALYSIS & FEATURES 392) LEAN, OPEN WORK STYLE SHAPES NEW BLUE DAWN FOR IBM'S SP1 209 Lines Commentary by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large IBM's new SP1 scalable computing system, arising from management concepts and work styles unprecedented at IBM, is almost as surprising as a school of manatee frolicking in the Hudson River. Yet the SP1 seems headed for a no- surprises September rollout, with encouraging market prospects in the future. -------------------- 393) RESEARCH PROFILE: CYRUS UMRIGAR, CORNELL THEORY CENTER 87 Lines Physicist Cyrus Umrigar has worked on supercomputers at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and the Cornell Theory Center to study electronic structure of atoms, molecules, solids and solid surfaces. -------------------- 394) SIZZLING LINPACK NUMBERS BOOST FUJITSU VPP500 LAUNCH 154 Lines News Analysis by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large San Jose, Calif. -- Almost twice the Linpack gigaflops of a Thinking Machines CM-5, with one-seventh the number of processors. 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