H P C w i r e The Text-On-Demand News Magazine for High-Performance Computing *** June 3, 1994: Vol. 3, No. 21 Circulation: 15,090 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 183 Pages of Text -------------------- * -------------------- This week's edition of HPCwire is sponsored by: ADVANCED NETWORK & SERVICES, INC. 743) ANS CO+RE Systems has introduced two Internet attachment services, ANSRemote and ANSRemote/IP, that are the most inexpensive, low-speed connections to the commercial Internet available. ______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE ______________________________ | | | 1452) COMMENTARY: Software Paradox: PVM and the Problems of Success | | 4163) Premiere of Mo' Web Watch: URLs for HPC Centers | | 4167) 2nd NEC Supercomputer to be Installed in North America | |___________________________________________________________________________| FOR INSTRUCTIONS ON RETRIEVING STORIES, PAGE TO THE END OF THIS FILE For a free 6-week trial subscription, e-mail: trial@hpcwire.ans.net Subscription Information: sub@hpcwire.ans.net NEWS BRIEFS ================================================================= LINES 4163) MO' WEB WATCH PREMIERES -- HPCwire's NEWEST SECTION..................93 Welcome to Mo' Web Watch -- a new HPCwire section that points you to the latest HPC information available on the World Wide Web. To launch this section, we have compiled a list of HPC related links to research and computing centers worldwide. 4164) SPYGLASS SIGNS AGREEMENT WITH NCSA TO BROADLY RELICENSE MOSAIC......114 The National Center for Supercomputing Applications and Spyglass have entered into an agreement that gives Spyglass full rights to enhance, commercialize and broadly relicense Mosaic. 4165) HEXAR SOFTWARE AUTOMATICALLY CONVERTS RAW CAD DATA INTO 3-D MODELS...69 Cray Research introduced a pioneering software product that could save as much as six months of time and hundreds of thousands of dollars for engineers and researchers who develop new products and new techniques in medicine and other fields. 4166) LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Dear Mr. Smith, I greatly enjoy your articles in HPCwire. I have just a few comments on your Article 1399 "600-NODE CLUSTER & 16K MASPAR WIN 129-DIGIT PRIZE" published on April 29.....159 4167) 2ND NEC SUPERCOMPUTER TO BE INSTALLED IN NORTH AMERICA...............44 An SX-3 Model 44R will be the second NEC supercomputer installed at the Atmospheric Environment Service. This second phase of a three-phase upgrade will be operational this fall at AES Canadian Meteorological Centre in Dorval, Quebec. THIS WEEK =================================================================== 4168) Paragon to be Ruggedized for Military Signal/Data Processing.......50 4169) First Independent Parallel Performance Study Available.............39 4170) Sun Announces Six New Configurations for SPARCstation 5............63 4171) H-P Introduces APTREX X Terminals for Sun Workstations.............91 NETWORKING 4172) Saab Military Aircraft Selects Auspex's High-Performance Server....20 4173) Cisco/SPRY Partner to Enhance Cisco's MultiProtocol Routers........39 SOFTWARE 4174) Ohio Supercomputer Center Releases Full MPI Implementation for LAM.54 4175) New Version of Ada Available for AIX/SunOS/Solaris.................40 4176) DEC Unveils Advanced Relational Database/Open Client Server........34 4177) IBM to Reshape Software Management Team............................31 INTERNATIONAL UPDATE 4178) Nippon Steel Selects Sun as Integration Partner....................60 4179) ARCHIPEL Targets Applicative Markets in Reorganization Effort......13 4180) Parallel Processing Bursts into Blossom.............................9 4181) NEC to Open Research Lab at GMD TechnoPark..........................9 4182) European Projects: EUROPORT, ITU-Land, FTMPS.......................35 4183) Report on Dutch HPCN Initiative Now Available......................10 4184) New Copyright Laws to Boost India's Software Firms.................61 FINANCIAL WATCH 4185) DEC Denies Cash Problem/CFO Abruptly Resigns/Stock Under Review...113 4186) 10 Most Active NASDAQ HPC Stocks...................................25 CONTRACTS/VENTURES 4187) DEC/Insignia Agree to Support Windows Application on Alpha AXP.....28 4188) American Software and Synon Announce UNIX Platform Alliance........53 4189) Internet Shopping/InfoWorld Announce Joint Venture.................56 SUPERHIGHWAY REPORT 4190) High-Tech Gives Last Chance to Find D-Day Comrades.................48 4191) Like It or Not, the Internet Has Gone Commercial!..................55 4192) Wall Street Journal Broadcast Provides Road Map to InfoHighway.....35 4193) Digital to Provide Mosaic with Its Computer Systems................58 4194) Bell Atlantic Moves Ahead to Build Interactive TV Systems..........55 4195) Regulation Issues May Be Key to European Union Infohighways........40 ___________________________ INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT ___________________________ | | | 771) Commercial Applic. of Parallel Processing Sys, Call for Papers....138| | 770) IBM Europe Sponsors $5,000 Parallel Computing Software Contest....231| | 739) 800 FLY CORP Announces Corporate Travel Savings Via E-Mail.........96| | 790) HPCwire's Electronic Publishing Software Provides TEXT-ON-DEMAND...38| |___________________________________________________________________________| QUOTE OF THE WEEK =========================================================== 1453) "While some of these [VHM] machines may have some inherent but limited heterogeneity, these still deserve the term 'monolith' since the heterogeneity is limited, fixed, and constant across the breadth of the machine. -- Richard F. Freund, NCCOSC/NRaD ANALYSIS & FEATURES ========================================================= 1452) SOFTWARE PARADOX: PVM AND THE PROBLEMS OF SUCCESS...................234 Commentary by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large To a degree unusual for non-profit enterprises, PVM dominates its specialized field: parallelization for clusters and as an auxiliary parallel resource for scalable parallel systems. Weird aspects of the software trade affect PVM's decisions as it adjusts to success. 1453) SMARTNET TESTS HETEROGENEITY AT WASHINGTON JUNE 7-9..................59 FEATURE by Richard F. Freund, NCCOSC/NRaD Two weeks ago, Norris Parker Smith wrote an HPCWire article on the dynamic heterogeneous scheduler, SmartNet. In this article, an overview is given of some technical features of SmartNet, to be demonstrated at the upcoming AFCEA convention. 1454) HPC OUTLOOK IN CHINA: STRONG PRODUCTS, TOUGH MARKET.................205 News Analysis by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large New products including multiprocessor servers, clusters, and scalable parallel systems now provide high-performance vendors with products more suitable to the broad Chinese market. The MFN decision removes one worry, but China remains a tough, uncertain market. ___________________________ HPCwire INFORMATION ___________________________ | | |601) Subscription Information for HPCwire...............................57 | |602) Contribute Your News, Tips, and Information to HPCwire.............24 | |603) How to Get On/Off Distribution List................................18 | |608) Letters to Editor/Masthead/E-Mail Contacts/Submission Guidelines...70 | |950) A Complete Index of HPCwire Back Issues............................48 | |___________________________________________________________________________| JOB BANK ==================================================================== 667) Employment Opportunities (New listing from Convex)..................173 604) Post Your Help Wanted Listings in HPCwire's Job Bank.................58 OTHER DEPARTMENTS =========================================================== CONFERENCES 2888) Calendar of Upcoming HPC Events (Updated Weekly)...................64 SCIENCE & HUMAN INTEREST 3071) NCSA Has World's Largest Computer Simulation of the Universe......118 3072) How Brain Processes Visual Images May Aid Infohighway Scientists...70 3073) Hubble Telescope Confirms Gigantic Black Hole.....................120 3074) New Database Shows Climate Change Poses Global Threat..............40 _______________________H P C w i r e 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*| | 912) Avalon Computer* 909) Fujitsu America 915) Genias Software | | 916) MasPar Computer 914) Applied Parallel Res 921) Cray Research Inc.| | 927) ISR Corp. | |_________________ *Updated information within last 30 days _______________| *** LAST ISSUE'S MOST REQUESTED ITEMS FROM HPCwire *** 1450) Minnesota Supercomputer Center -- A Possible Cray Victim?.........119 667) JOB BANK..........................................................173 1451) IBM Pursuing Multi-Frontal UNIX Product Strategy..................172 1449) PVM Adds Non-Cluster Adoptions, Spawns Version 3.3................194 ***************************************************************************** Copyright 1994 HPCwire. 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