H P C w i r e The Text-On-Demand News Magazine for High-Performance Computing *** June 17, 1994: Vol. 3, No. 23 Circulation: 15,251 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 190 Pages of Text -------------------- * -------------------- 765) Cray Research Announces HEXAR Software This software 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. ______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE ______________________________ | | | 1458) FEATURE: Evolution of Parallel Processing: Science to Business | | 4230) Convex Unveils New Family of C4 High-End Supercomputers | | 4231) Columbia Univ. Using IBM's POWERparallel for Admin/Financial DBase | |___________________________________________________________________________| 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 4230) CONVEX UNVEILS NEW FAMILY OF C4 HIGH-END SUPERCOMPUTERS..............95 As it seeks to add customers and restore profits, Convex Computer Corp. unveils its long-awaited, fourth generation C4 series supercomputers. 4231) COLUMBIA USING IBM'S POWERPARALLEL FOR ADMIN/FINANCIAL DBASE.........66 IBM's high performance, UNIX-based POWERparallel system is being used by Columbia University in conjunction with its IBM ES/9000 mainframe to perform complex queries and analyses on Columbia's administrative and financial databases. 4232) NCSA PICKS SGI'S POWER CHALLENGE OVER CRAY...........................63 Univ. of Illinois' NCSA purchased a Power Challenge supercomputing system from Silicon Graphics. NCSA's CRAY Y-MP supercomputer and CONVEX C3880 supercomputers are being decommissioned in October 1994. 4233) PHILLIPS PETROLEUM ORDERS CRAY T3D MPP SYSTEM........................33 The Phillips' CRAY T3D system will be closely coupled with a CRAY Y-MP system that was also part of the order contract. The systems will be installed at Phillips' headquarters in the third quarter of this year. THIS WEEK =================================================================== 4234) DEC Board to Meet on Restructuring Troubled Company................43 4235) Videodiscovery Awarded $1.2 Million Grant from NSF.................66 4236) PSC's Digital AlphaCluster Now Available as Computing Resource.....85 4237) IBM Has Produced Disk Sensor with Capability of 10B Bits PSI.......16 4238) Cray's CF90 Programming Environment Available for SPARC Platforms..49 4239) Oracle to Add 700 Jobs for Research/Development Facility...........25 4240) IBM Client/Server Study Shows Culture/Organization Key to Success..90 4241) Silicon Graphics Introduces 64-Bit Operating System................56 4242) Network Peripherals Supplies High-Performance FDDI Link for Intel..50 INTERNATIONAL UPDATE 4243) China Beefs Up Copyright Protection................................58 4244) Peru Named in Super 301 Regs as Pirating Costs Soar to $35M........23 4245) Japanese/U.S. Companies Won't Wait for European Info Highway.......60 4246) Telecom Argentina in Information Superhighway Deal.................16 4247) German Government/Industry Launch Multimedia Offensive.............52 4248) Stern Computing Comes to Geophysics................................10 FINANCIAL WATCH 4249) High-Tech Stocks Draw Support from Book-to-Bill Figure.............30 4250) 10 Most Active NASDAQ HPC Stocks...................................24 CONTRACTS/VENTURES 4251) Cray Res/Legent in Licensing/Distrib. Agreement for OSM Software...63 4252) Exabyte Broadens UNIX Focus with Access Graphics Alliance..........31 4253) CSC Awarded $13 Million Marine Sciences Navy Contract..............23 4254) AT&T CommVault/Exabyte - Client/Server/UNIX Platform Storage.......44 SUPERHIGHWAY REPORT 4255) UPDATE: Junkie Computer Virus Spreading/Outsmarts Anti-Virus-Ware..52 4256) Sun's Scott McNealy Offers Insight/Advice on Info Superhighway.....60 4257) Consortium to Fund Information Highway Projects....................88 4258) Jasmine Multimedia Debuts Vid Grid/Interactive CD-ROM Technology..119 4259) High-Tech Wiretap Plan Runs into Static............................67 4260) Sci-Fi Channel to Conduct Electronic Focus Group June 20 via AOL...36 4261) Governor Takes First Ride on N.C. Information Highway..............33 ___________________________ 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| |___________________________________________________________________________| QUOTE OF THE WEEK =========================================================== 4234) "It will give us a glimpse into the world that the information superhighway will make available to everyone by the turn of the century." -- Larry Smarr, NCSA Director ANALYSIS & FEATURES ========================================================= 1457) SGI'S POWER CHALLENGE HAS HOT CHIP, GOOD SCALABILITY................101 Commentary by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large This first of series on articles discussing soon-to-be shipped Silicon Graphics' Power Challenge multiprocessors examines new R8000 (ex-TFP) microprocessor and selected benchmarks, including 310 SPEC marks on SPECfp and scalability on a NAS benchmark. 1458) THE EVOLUTION OF PARALLEL PROCESSING: SCIENCE TO BUSINESS...........188 FEATURE by Dr. George O. Gardner III, Arthur D. Little The theory of evolution, used by scientists to explain how things change over time, is being put into practice in the business community, where this popular scientific computing technology is showing the potential to change the face of commercial data centers. 1459) CANADIAN FORECAST FOR NEC SX-3: CLEAR AND WARM......................132 News Analysis by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large Supercomputing outsider NEC has shown over one year's impressive reliability and high performance at Canada's weather forecasting center, which is now adding an additional NEC SX-3. 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Place your next job ad in cyberspace!.....................58 OTHER DEPARTMENTS =========================================================== CONFERENCES 2888) Calendar of Upcoming HPC Events (1 New Listing)....................95 SCIENCE & HUMAN INTEREST 3079) $350 Million Mission Control Center Launches NASA into New Era.....60 3080) `Superkids' Take on Supercomputer Challenges.......................89 3081) Dust Pancakes Bolster Earth Formation Theory.......................39 _______________________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 *** 4197) SGI's Clark Sees Internet/Not Interactive TV/As Highway to Follow..33 1455) HPC in 1998: "I Recall Supercomputing. Such A Quaint Idea.".......318 4226) New "Junkie" Computer Virus Could Pose Serious Security Threats....68 4203) MIPS R8000 Touted Fastest Microprocessor/Performs at Super Levels..54 ***************************************************************************** Copyright 1994 HPCwire. Feel free to distribute this Table of Contents. *****************************************************************************