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Subscription Information: Select 601 For the Select News Masthead and Contact Information, select 603. ***************************************************************************** This week's edition of Select News is sponsored by: ADVANCED NETWORK & SERVICES Announcing Secure LAN-to-LAN Interconnect Service For complete specifications, select 743. =============================== IN THIS ISSUE =============================== 2070) NEWS BRIEFS: Clinton/Gore Set Agenda for Information Infrastructure 1303) ANALYSIS: Linpack and NAS Parallel Benchmark Results for IBM's SP1 1304) FEATURE: Concurrent Design Makes Wearable Computer a Reality 1305) COMMENTARY: New SGI 320-CPU Array Gets 4.9 Sustained GFLOPS on 3-D CFD 2811) CENTERS: Finnish Metacomputing -- The Center for Scientific Computing ============================================================================= ***************************************************************************** NEWS BRIEFS 2070) U.S. GOVERNMENT SETS AGENDA FOR INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE 82 Lines Washington, D.C. -- The Clinton administration Wednesday moved to ensure universal access to its proposed "information highway," setting up a federal panel to promote the technology needed and propose changes in legislation. -------------------- 2071) COALITION TO BUILD PROTOTYPE NATIONAL INFORMATION HIGHWAY 66 Lines Washington, D.C. -- Representatives from U.S. industry, academia and government Wednesday announced an industry-led consortium formed to stimulate business and enhance American competitiveness by turning the vision of a national information highway to reality. -------------------- 2072) ARGONNE RESEARCHERS REPORT EXPERIENCES WITH THE IBM SP1 62 Lines Argonne, Ill. -- Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory have reported favorable results while porting software to a prototype version of IBM's newest parallel distributed-memory computer, the SP1. -------------------- 2073) INTEL, SANDIA TO WORK ON C++ FOR SCALABLE PARALLEL SYSTEMS 38 Lines Beaverton, Ore. -- Intel's Supercomputer Systems Division and Sandia National Laboratories Thursday announced the signing of a technology transfer agreement to accelerate the growth of software applications for scalable parallel processing supercomputers. -------------------- 2074) GORE COMPARES DECENTRALIZATION TO MPP SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES 35 Lines Washington, D.C. -- In a commentary published this week in the Washington Post, Vice President Al Gore used the example of massively parallel processing to present his vision for a more decentralized government. -------------------- 2075) GERSTNER PUTS A HALT TO DECENTRALIZATION EFFORTS AT IBM 45 Lines New York, N.Y. -- IBM chairman Louis V. Gerstner Jr. continued the computer company's restructuring Monday, discarding a top-level management committee and placing the former mainframe-based Enterprise Systems business under the same executive who runs IBM's mid-sized systems division. -------------------- ALSO THIS WEEK: (Full stories available from more@hpcwire.ans.net) 2076) BMW Buys nCUBE 2S for Computational Fluid Dynamics Projects 49 Lines 2077) Cray Purchases Synopsys HDLA Software for Circuit Design 29 Lines 2078) Sun Microsystems Introduces SunPHIGS 3.0 Graphics Library 21 Lines 2079) Beta Phase to Supply Custom Connectors to Kendall Square 28 Lines 2080) CRPC to Evaluate NASA Solvers for Multidisciplinary Design 61 Lines 2081) Visual Numerics Inc. Donates PV-Wave to SuperQuest Program 36 Lines 2082) DEC Unveils New Optical Libraries and Sun Deskside Storage 54 Lines 2083) Conner Releases 3.5-Inch Rigid Drives for IBM, Sun Machines 34 Lines 2084) Patient-Monitoring System Employs SPARCstation 10 Machines 58 Lines 2085) IBM Microelectronics Begins Volume Shipments of PowerPC 601 21 Lines 2086) DEC 10000-620 System Notches New High on TPC-A Benchmark 22 Lines 2087) For the Record -- Miscellaneous HPC News & Notes: 16 Items 158 Lines ***************************************************************************** INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT 739) 800 FLY CORP Announces Corporate Travel Savings Via E-Mail 96 Lines 740) Supercomputing '93 Conference Update & Advance Information 163 Lines 744) Conference: Commercial Applications of Parallel Systems 392 Lines ***************************************************************************** QUOTE OF THE WEEK: 2070) "Obviously, we are in the early stages of an information revolution as sweeping and powerful as any revolution in the history of mankind." -- Vice President Al Gore ***************************************************************************** ANALYSIS & FEATURES 1303) IBM'S SP1 PRICE/PERFORMANCE UNDER $700 PER LINPACK MFLOP 172 Lines News Analysis by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large Initial benchmark results for IBM's new SP1 scalable computer show solid scalability and favorable price/performance on the Linpack and NASA Ames/NAS benchmarks. Linpack performance for systems up to 64 nodes tracks closely with Thinking Machines' CM-5 performance for configurations of similar size. -------------------- 1304) CONCURRENT DESIGN MAKES WEARABLE COMPUTER A REALITY 114 Lines Feature Story by Steve Eisenberg, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have used concurrent design and computer modeling on the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center's Cray Y-MP to develop VuMan, a first-generation wearable computer that scrolls information in front of your eyes as you manipulate buttons on a belt pack. -------------------- 1305) NEW SGI 320-CPU ARRAY GETS 4.9 SUSTAINED GFLOPS ON 3-D CFD 123 Lines Commentary by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large Silicon Graphics has clustered together 16 new Challenge XL scalable computers in an array totaling 320 processors that delivers 4.9 GFLOPS of sustained performance on a 1024x1024x1024 CFD problem developed at the Army High-Performance Computing Center in Minneapolis. -------------------- 1306) MESSAGE-PASSING: LETTERS TO THE EDITOR/CORRECTIONS 24 Lines -- Corrected E-Mail Address for the First Fibre Channel Profile ***************************************************************************** SCIENCE NEWS 487) New Global Positioning System Lands Jets Without Human Help 47 Lines 488) Study Shows Vitamin Intake Can Help Reduce Cancer Deaths 50 Lines 489) More Than a Million in the U.S. Have Used Illegal Steroids 18 Lines ***************************************************************************** 511) ACTIVE HPC STOCKS CLOSING 08/18 CLOSING 09/15 CHANGE Hewlett-Packard Co. 73 5/8 68 3/4 - 4 7/8 SynOptics Communications Inc. 30 3/8 25 - 5 3/8 Structural Dynamics Research 20 3/4 14 5/8 - 6 1/8 Cisco Systems Inc. 56 3/4 43 1/4 -13 1/2 (To see changes in the last month for 78 HPC stocks, select 511.) ***************************************************************************** SELECT NEWS INFORMATION 601) Extended Anniversary Subscription Rates for HPC Select News 57 Lines 602) Contribute Your News, Tips and Information for Select News 24 Lines 603) HPC Select News Masthead and Contact Information 41 Lines ***************************************************************************** JOB BANK 655) Cornell Theory Center; Intel; OSF; HPC Program Director 24 Lines 604) Post Your Help Wanted Listings in Select News' Job Bank 95 Lines ***************************************************************************** OTHER DEPARTMENTS: BENCHMARKS 2809) GPC Picture-Level Results for Kubota Pacific Workstations 92 Lines FACTS & FIGURES 2810) Specs and Performance for Sun SPARCserver 10 Systems 54 Lines COMPUTER CENTERS 2811) Finnish Metacomputing: The Center for Scientific Computing 92 Lines BOOKSHELF 2812) Handy Guides to Sun's Solaris Operating Environment 54 Lines BACKGROUNDER 2813) Charting the Path to a National Information Infrastructure 75 Lines RESOURCES 2814) Information on Obtaining the First Fibre Channel Profile 96 Lines CONFERENCES 2815) Computer-Aided Design of Molecular Systems, Oct. 14-16 41 Lines BACK ISSUES 950) A Complete Index of HPC Select News Back Issues 33 Lines ***************************************************************************** LAST WEEK'S MOST REQUESTED ITEMS FROM HPC SELECT NEWS 745) Alpha AXP Performance and VAX/AlphaCard Information 165 Lines 399) IBM's SP1 Strategy Emphasizes Broad Software Effort 156 Lines 1302) Message-Passing: Letters to the Editor/Corrections 146 Lines 2056) API Pact Creates Two-Horse Race: Microsoft Versus Unix 38 Lines ***************************************************************************** S E L E C T N E W S S P O N S O R S Product specifications and company information in this section are available to both subscribers and non-subscribers. 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) FDC Technologies 912) Avalon Computer 913) The Smaby Group 914) Applied Parallel Res. 915) Genias Software 916) MasPar Computer 917) MMB Development 918) FastComm 919) Transtech Parallel 920) R.J. Harvey & Assoc. 921) Cray Research Inc. ***************************************************************************** Copyright 1993 HPCwire. Feel free to distribute this Table of Contents. ***************************************************************************** NEXT WEEK IN SELECT NEWS: * GPC Picture-Level Benchmark Results for Sun SPARCstations * Feature Story: Earthquake Ground Motion Modeling in Large Basins