H P C w i r e The Text-On-Demand News Magazine for High-Performance Computing *** June 10, 1994: Vol. 3, No. 22 Circulation: 15,221 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 185 Pages of Text -------------------- * -------------------- 770) CONTEST FOR PARALLEL COMPUTING SOFTWARE THREE PRIZES of 5,000 DOLLARS EACH FOR: Best Parallel Software Development Tool, Best Parallel Application & Best Student Parallel Program. Sponsored by IBM European parallel Computing Consortium (ECCO). For instructions and registration information, retrieve 770 ______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE ______________________________ | | | 1455) HPC in 1998: "I Recall Supercomputing. Such a Quaint Idea." | | 4196) Cray Computer Officials Seek Financing to Keep Firm Afloat | | 4197) SGI's Clark Sees Internet/Not Interactive TV/as Highway to Follow | | 1456) New PVM Version Available on Netlib Has Many New Features | |___________________________________________________________________________| 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 4196) CRAY COMPUTER OFFICIALS SEEK FINANCING TO KEEP FIRM AFLOAT...........42 Officials at Cray Computer are optimistic they'll put together a financing package before the company runs out of money this month. 4197) SGI'S CLARK SEES INTERNET/NOT INTERACTIVE TV/AS HIGHWAY TO FOLLOW....33 The founder and former chairman of Silicon Graphics says he now expects the information superhighway to develop via the Internet rather than interactive television. 4198) CRAY RESEARCH/DOE LAUNCH $52M TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER PROGRAM...........101 A Cooperative Agreement was signed between Cray Research and the Dept. of Energy, in collaboration with Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore Labs and 15 U.S. industrial firms, for a cost-shared program to develop scientific and commercial software for MPP systems. 4199) LATIN AMERICA'S FIRST MPP COMPUTER INSTALLED.........................23 The Universidad Metropolitana has purchased and installed a CM-5 system from Thinking Machines Corporation. The CM-5 system outperformed all other candidates in bidding process and easily passed acceptance. THIS WEEK =================================================================== 4200) Cray SUPERSERVER/Oracle7 Break TPC-B DB Performance/Set Record....102 4201) LANL Ocean Model Honored as Best Use of Information Technology....100 4202) Computer Model of Heart & Blood Flow Wins Smithsonian Award........52 4203) MIPS R8000 Touted Fastest Microprocessor/Performs at Super Levels..54 4204) Concurrent Introduces New Real-Time UNIX for MAXION Systems........75 4205) New Exabyte Product Wins QIC Development Standard..................39 4206) DEC Announces New Reduced Prices for Alpha AXP Microprocessors.....27 4207) Parallel-Processing Accelerator Board Furthers PowerPC Efficiency..43 4208) DEC Awarded Most Complete Set of XPG4 Components in Industry.......77 4209) Support Sought for Global Electronic Petroleum Newsgroup Creation.212 NETWORKING 4210) Retix Introduces Scaling Ethernet Switch/8 to 64 Ports.............81 4211) Optical Data Systems Joins Fast Ethernet Alliance..................50 PACIFIC RIM REPORT 4212) Hitachi to Release Next Generation VP Supercomputer in 1996........14 4213) U.S./Japan Trade Improves/Opens Market to U.S. MultiMedia Products.40 4214) ARM Plans World Domination of Consumer RISC Processor..............20 4215) Singapore Telecom in $50 Million System Upgrade....................27 4216) Japan's Fujitsu to Sell Internet Access Software...................29 FINANCIAL WATCH 4217) High Technology Stocks Take a Beating..............................25 4218) 10 Most Active NASDAQ HPC Stocks...................................24 CONTRACTS/VENTURES 4219) Intel/Hewlett-Packard in Joint R&D Venture.........................54 4220) Silicon Graphics Signs with NTT to Provide Multimedia in Japan.....54 4221) Hewlett-Packard/Fujitsu in Middleware Agreement for UNIX Systems...52 4222) Taiwan National HPC Center/MSC in Agreement for Joint Development..49 4223) Digital/MecklerWeb Form Core Technology Partnership................64 PEOPLE/PROMOTIONS/PROFILES 4224) CRPC's Ann Redelfs Now Heads Public Relations for SDSC.............13 4225) Mercury Computer Appoints TMC's Steenman to New European Office....32 SUPERHIGHWAY REPORT 4226) New "Junkie" Computer Virus Could Pose Serious Security Threats....68 4227) Survey Says: Large U.S. Firms Slowly Buying into Superhighway Idea.45 4228) Mecklermedia Yellow Pages/Shopping Mall to Market on Internet......51 4229) America Online: WAIS/Gopher Available-TCP/IP Connection Underway...19 ___________________________ INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT ___________________________ | | | 771) Commercial Applic. of Parallel Processing Sys. Update June 10.....138| | 762) AP PROFL.'s New Computer Catalog: Books, Code, Software & More...1432| | 775) APR's Latest xHPF Benchmark Results on PARAGON, SP1 and T3D........40| | 786) New Hits in Parallel, Distributed and High-Performance Computing..263| | 760) Maximum Strategy & the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence..110| | 770) IBM Europe Sponsors $5,000 Parallel Computing Software Contest....231| |___________________________________________________________________________| QUOTE OF THE WEEK =========================================================== 4197) "In three years, I would be hard pressed to see a million users of interactive television, maybe even five years. But the Internet is growing 10 to 15 percent a month and, with the explosion in the PC market, can quickly reach most people." -- James Clark, Co-founder, Mosaic Communications ANALYSIS & FEATURES ========================================================= 1455) HPC IN 1998: "I RECALL SUPERCOMPUTING. SUCH A QUAINT IDEA.".........318 Commentary by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large Whatever happened to supercomputing? What is happening right now? How will the future look? This item, excerpted from a talk at the annual Canadian Supercomputing Syposium, held this year in Toronto, examines these issues from a forecasted perspective of 1998. 1456) NEW PVM VERSION AVAILABLE ON NETLIB HAS MANY NEW FEATURES...........180 FEATURE by Al Geist, Oak Ridge National Lab Researcher PVM software is a byproduct of the Heterogeneous Distributed Computing research project ongoing at Oak Ridge National Lab and the University of Tennessee. 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