H P C w i r e The Electronic News Magazine for High-Performance Computing *** February 18, 1994: Vol. 3, No. 7, Circulation: 15,108 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 150 Pages of Text -------------------- * -------------------- This week's edition of HPCwire is sponsored by: ADVANCED NETWORK & SERVICES (ANS) Announcing Secure LAN-to-LAN Interconnect Service For complete specifications, select 743. ____________________________IN THIS ISSUE_______________________________ | | | 1370) REBUTTAL: Synergy of Computing/Communications: NII Future of HPC | | 2463) EXCLUSIVE: Load-Balancing Cluster Utopia Cures Sociophobia | | 1371) ANALYSIS: Renewed Trade War with Japan: Pain or Gain for HPC? | |________________________________________________________________________| FOR INSTRUCTIONS ON RETRIEVING STORIES, PAGE TO THE END OF THIS FILE For a free 4-week trial subscription, email: trial@hpcwire.ans.net Subscription Information: sub@hpcwire.ans.net. or Select 601 NEWS BRIEFS ================================================================= LINES 2463) EXCLUSIVE: LOAD-BALANCING CLUSTER UTOPIA CURES SOCIOPHOBIA..........193 A report exclusive to HPCwire/Select News describes results at a number of sites with LSF (formerly code-named Utopia), a new entry from Platform Computing Corporation in the race to bring dynamic load balancing to clusters and cure workstations of "sociophobia." 2464) U.S. SUPERCOMPUTER MAKERS AWARDED SIX JAPANESE CONTRACTS.............35 U.S. supercomputer makers outbid their Japanese competitors on 6 of 11 contracts to supply the Japanese government with equipment allowed in the supplementary budget. 2465) KSR/CANON SUPERCOMPUTING ANNOUNCE SALE OF KSR SYSTEM IN JAPAN .......36 Kendall Square Research Corporation and Canon SII announce sale of a KSR1-96 parallel computing system to the ATR Interpreting Telecommunications Research Labs in Kyoto, Japan. 2466) JAPANESE NATIONAL CANCER CENTER PURCHASES IBM POWERparallel SYSTEM...11 IBM POWER Parallel Systems confirms the purchase of two of its next- generation scalable, parallel systems by the Japanese National Cancer Center. ALSO THIS WEEK ============================================================== 2467) Foreign Computer Firms Threatened by Farmers in India..............40 2468) CRAY SUPERSERVERS Announces Fastest SPECrate92 Performance........100 2469) NEC Shifts ATM Switch Manufacturing Back to U.S....................13 NETWORKING UPDATE 2470) Exide Electronics Demonstrates Prestige EXT UPS....................72 2471) Boca Research Expands Networking Products/Ethernet Hub & Adapter...41 SOFTWARE 2472) Oracle Has Series of Announcements for "On-Demand" Services .......66 2473) FTP Software Introduces New Troubleshooting Utility................35 2474) USL Settlement Clears Path for BSDI's Expansion in New Markets.....30 2475) Bellcore's Q.Port Eases Compliance with ATM Forum Specs............36 EUROPEAN UPDATE 2476) University of Ulm Gets 128-Node nCUBE/2............................10 2477) Julich HPC Center Replaces Mainframe with IBM's SP-1 & Clusters.....8 2478) France's EPFL and UK's Meteorological Office Purchase CRAYs........96 2479) Fujitsu Supercomputer for Seismic Data Processing...................8 2480) Edinburgh to Host SERC's T3D........................................7 CONTRACTS/VENTURES 2481) Apogee-C/FORTRAN Compliers Available on CRAY SUPERSERVER 6400......47 2482) Industry Leaders to Support Oracle's Media Products...............112 2483) Newbridge Wins GTE Unit Contracts for ATMs.........................13 2484) Philips/Compression Labs Form Oracle Alliance for Video-on-Demand..76 FINANCIAL WATCH 2485) Active HPC Stocks..................................................19 2486) Hewlett-Packard Earns $368 Million During First Quarter............31 2487) Cisco Systems Reports Second Quarter Earnings.....................135 2488) Softimage Stock Soars After Microsoft Buyout.......................41 2489) ATM WAN and LAN Developer Newbridge Has Record Sales for Q3........84 2490) Informix Announces Record Revenues for 4th Quarter/Full Year 1993.263 2491) Network Computing Devices Have Record Q4 Revenues of $38 Million...56 PEOPLE/PROMOTIONS/PROFILES 2492) Former Thinking Machines CEO Weiss Named to Unisys Public Sector...27 2493) Intel Names New Chief Financial Officer............................33 2494) Personnel Changes at Cray Research, Germany.........................9 2495) Parallel Profile: Andrew White/Director ACL, Los Alamos Nat'l Lab..68 SUPERHIGHWAY REPORT 2496) nCUBE Provides Information Superhighway Hardware Foundation........46 2497) Electronic Privacy -- A Call to Action............................155 2498) Gore: Federal Encryption Plan "Not Set in Concrete"................85 2499) FBI Probe Targets Internet Break-Ins...............................47 2500) New Group Feels Pain of Internet's Sting...........................80 2501) IRS Tax Forms Available On Internet................................36 2502) The Boston Globe Ventures Into Cable News & Internet...............33 ___________________________ INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT ___________________________ | | | 739) 800 FLY CORP Announces Corporate Travel Savings Via E-Mail........96 | | 755) Licenses Available for HPCwire Electronic Publishing Software....105 | |___________________________________________________________________________| QUOTE OF THE WEEK =========================================================== 2495) "Very few people understand how to integrate all the pieces in advanced computing. Today's computing environment is very complex and it requires a team to put all those pieces together." -- Andrew White, Los Alamos National Laboratory ANALYSIS & FEATURES ========================================================= 1369) RECENT PERFORMANCE FIGURES FOR IBM'S SCALABLE SP1...................160 Commentary by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large Figures from IBM show that SP1 equals or beats its competitors in raw computer power, especially with new message-passing protocol. Results on communications-intensive benchmarks mixed, and scalability remains issue. 1370) REBUTTAL: Exception Taken to Norris Parker Smith's Commentary (Article Number 1351) with Synergy of Computing & Communications: NII is the Future of HPCC & That's Good, Geoffrey C. Fox....................................136 The large user base (namely, everybody) promised by the NII will support a significant number of entrepreneurial MPP vendors. In contrast, one might doubt if the modest size of the science and engineering simulation market is sufficient to support very many MPP vendors. 1371) RENEWED TRADE WAR WITH JAPAN: PAIN OR GAIN FOR HPC?.................359 News Analysis by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large White House bellicosity about trade with Japan is based on obsolete "Japan, Inc." mythology, insensitivity towared the shock of recession, and undervaluing the pace of change. 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