H P C   S E L E C T   N E W S
         The Electronic News Magazine for High-Performance Computing
        *** October 8, 1993: Vol. 2, No. 40. Circulation: 11,430 ***
          This Week's Table of Contents Represents 101 Pages of Text
                 -------------------- * --------------------
  To Subscribe: sub@hpcwire.ans.net. Subscription Information: Select 601
      For the Select News Masthead and Contact Information, select 603.
*****************************************************************************

                    740) SUPERCOMPUTING '93 ADVANCE PROGRAM
   Latest Conference Info on Supercomputing '93, Nov. 16-18, Portland, OR
    Complete guide includes conference information and list of exhibitors
                        Updated Version -- Select 740

=============================== IN THIS ISSUE ===============================
 2127) NEWS BRIEFS: Handler Loses CEO Post as Fishman Joins Thinking Machines
 1315) COMMENTARY: Maspar I: Questioning Mainstream Parallel Strategies
 1316) FEATURE: Your Cheatin' Heart: Modeling Cardiac Arrhythmias
 1317) NEWS ANALYSIS: New Meta Cluster Thriving at University of Kentucky
 2830) FACTS & FIGURES: Worldwide MPP Market By Industry Sector
=============================================================================
*****************************************************************************
NEWS BRIEFS
 2127) HANDLER LOSES CEO POST AS FISHMAN JOINS THINKING MACHINES     38 Lines
    Cambridge, Mass. -- In the wake of a Thursday Wall Street Journal article
 reporting the removal as CEO of Thinking Machines Corp.'s Sheryl Handler,
 the company announced that Richard Fishman has officially joined the firm as
 president.
--------------------
 2128) ULTRAHIGH-SPEED NETWORK ALLOWS SUPERCOMPUTERS TO "CHAT"       52 Lines
    Los Angeles, Calif. -- Participants in the Corporation for National
 Research Initiative's exploration into ultrahigh-speed computer networking
 have activated a testbed that will allow supercomputers scattered around the
 Southwest to chat about scientific problems at gigabit-per-second speeds.
--------------------
 2129) MSCI, SPRINT UNITE TO COMBINE ATM AND SUPERCOMPUTERS          38 Lines
    Washington, D.C. -- Minnesota Supercomputer Center Inc. (MSCI) and Sprint
 Wednesday announced a joint marketing agreement to combine Asynchronous
 Transfer Mode (ATM) technology and supercomputers for nationwide
 availability.
--------------------
 2130) ATM LINKS SUPERCOMPUTING AND MULTIMEDIA IN FINLAND            35 Lines
    Tampere, Finland -- A cluster using ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode)
 technology has been put into operational use at Tampere University of
 Technology, Finland.
--------------------
 2131) AT&T/3DO/U S WEST CHALLENGE SGI ON TV DECODER BOXES           34 Lines
    Redwood City, Calif. -- 3DO, a maker of upscale multimedia home
 entertainment systems owned in large part by AT&T, will join U S West, the
 regional Bell company serving the western edge of the Midwest, in a test of
 high-capacity TV decoder boxes.
--------------------
 2132) SURVEY: INDUSTRY LEADERS WANT FEDERAL HELP FOR DATA HIGHWAY   54 Lines
    Boston, Mass. -- Government should loosen its regulatory reins and
 provide tax incentives to support the creation of an information
 superhighway, according to a survey of business leaders released recently.
--------------------
ALSO THIS WEEK: (Full stories available from more@hpcwire.ans.net)
 2133) Even Supercomputer Makers Depend Upon Eye-Catching Designs    56 Lines
 2134) First C90 Series System in Japan Installed By Mitsubishi      15 Lines
 2135) Sense8 Announces Virtual Reality Tools for Kubota's Kenai     40 Lines
 2136) IBM Releases 60-GByte Fault-Tolerant 7135 RAIDiant Array      52 Lines
 2137) HP Donates Apollo 9000/700 Workstations to MIT's Media Lab    68 Lines
 2138) Cray Research and TeamQuest Offer System Analysis Service     27 Lines
 2139) CIOs Give Sun Microsystems Top Marks in Workstation Survey    27 Lines
 2140) IBM Broadens Multimedia Software Offerings for the RS/6000    50 Lines
 2141) ATM Forum Approves New Specs for User-to-Network Interface    42 Lines
 2142) Kohler Buys Pro/Engineer to Help Design Plumbing Products     25 Lines
 2143) HP's ORB Plus Helps Build Scalable, Object-Based Software     86 Lines
 2144) Australian Utility Awards DEC $30 Million Systems Contract    48 Lines
 2145) NCR Multiprocessors Offer Unix and NT for J.C. Penney         22 Lines
*****************************************************************************
INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT
  720) ANS CO+RE Announces Lowest-Cost Nationwide Internet Access    57 Lines
  739) 800 FLY CORP Announces Corporate Travel Savings Via E-Mail    96 Lines
  744) Conference: Commercial Applications of Parallel Systems      392 Lines
*****************************************************************************
QUOTE OF THE WEEK:
 2128) "The HIPPI/SONET gateway marries two standards to permit super-
    computers made by different manufacturers at various locations to
    share enormous amounts of data very quickly."
                    --Wally St. John, Los Alamos National Laboratory
*****************************************************************************
ANALYSIS & FEATURES
 1315) MASPAR I: QUESTIONING MAINSTREAM PARALLEL STRATEGIES         161 Lines
       Commentary by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large
  Is SIMD dead? No. Is the mainstream of parallel computing flowing in the
wrong direction? Yes. This capsulizes the views of MasPar CEO Jeff Kalb,
contrasted in this column with the evolving mainstream. A second column next
week will describe in detail MasPar's own strategy, including new I/O
features and other innovations.
--------------------
 1316) YOUR CHEATIN' HEART: MODELING CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIAS            132 Lines
       Feature Story by Steve Eisenberg, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
  Teresa Chay is a biophysicist at the University of Pittsburgh who suffers
from cardiac arrhythmia. Using supercomputers at the Pittsburgh
Supercomputing Center, she has developed a mathematical model that explains
why arrhythmia begins and why it stops when electric shocks are applied.
--------------------
 1317) NEW META CLUSTER THRIVING AT UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY          132 Lines
       News Analysis by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large
  The University of Kentucky, traditionally as blue in IBM loyalty as in
basketball, has, after an intense bidding contest, chosen a Convex-H-P Meta
hybrid cluster as an interim system to serve until a longer-term solution is
selected. This anticipates 1994, when tight money will dominate everywhere
and green will be the only fashionable color.
--------------------
 1318) MESSAGE-PASSING: LETTERS TO THE EDITOR/CORRECTIONS            29 Lines
  -- PVM Developed at University of Tennessee/Oak Ridge National Lab
*****************************************************************************
SCIENCE NEWS
  496) Four Winners Named for Nation's Top Medical Research Award    33 Lines
  497) ORNL Process Produces Powder for Superconducting Materials    29 Lines
  498) Overweight People Face High Risk of Bring Poor and Single     50 Lines
*****************************************************************************
SELECT NEWS INFORMATION
  601) Subscription Information 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
  950) A Complete Index of HPC Select News Back Issues               36 Lines
*****************************************************************************
JOB BANK
  658) NEW THIS WEEK: Director of HPC Center, Maui, Hawaii;
       Research Programmers, Rice University, Houston, TX            31 Lines
  604) Post Your Help Wanted Listings in Select News' Job Bank       95 Lines
*****************************************************************************
                             OTHER DEPARTMENTS:
FACTS & FIGURES
 2830) Current & Projected Worldwide MPP Market By Industry Sector   22 Lines
RESEARCH REGISTER
 2831) Parallel Atmospheric Circulation Model at Argonne             38 Lines
 2832) Aviation Gridded Forecast System on the Intel Delta           32 Lines
WORKSHOP ROUNDUP
 2833) SDSC Introduces Engineers and Scientists to Intel Paragon    102 Lines
RESOURCES
 2834) "Geek of the Week" Audiotapes From Internet Talk Radio        86 Lines
BOOKSHELF
 2835) Multiprocessor System Architectures Using SPARC/Solaris      100 Lines
*****************************************************************************
            LAST WEEK'S MOST REQUESTED ITEMS FROM HPC SELECT NEWS
 1311) Cray's T3D: Mercedes Costs in a Chevy Pickup Market          189 Lines
 2109) Cray Research Unveils Its T3D Massively Parallel System      286 Lines
 1313) DEC's High-Performance Strategy: Farms "R" Us                 96 Lines
 2824) List of the World's Most Powerful Computing Sites            898 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.             904) Intel SSD
 905) Maximum Strategy    906) nCUBE                 907) Digital Equipment
 908) Hewlett-Packard     909) Fujitsu America       910) Convex Computer
 912) Avalon Computer     914) Applied Parallel Res. 915) Genias Software
 916) MasPar Computer     919) Transtech Parallel    921) Cray Research Inc.
*****************************************************************************
Copyright 1993 HPCwire. Feel free to distribute this Table of Contents.
*****************************************************************************
NEXT WEEK IN SELECT NEWS:
  * Feature: Shake and Bake -- Parallel Solutions in X-Ray Crystallography
  * Facts & Figures: Projected Worldwide MPP Shipments -- SIMD Versus MIMD