H P C w i r e The Text-On-Demand News Magazine for High-Performance Computing *** July 1, 1994: Vol. 3, No. 25 Circulation: 15,560 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 192 Pages of Text -------------------- * -------------------- ******************************************************* THIS WEEK'S EDITION OF HPCWIRE IS SPONSORED BY: 764) IEEE COMPUTER SOCIETY PRESS ******************************************************* ______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE ______________________________ | | | 4295) NEWS BRIEFS: Kendall Square Research in Throes of Layoffs This Week | | 1464) COMMENTARY: Oracle Spurns nCUBE in BellSouth Multimedia Deal | | 608) LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: CORRECTION: Sponsorship/Maui Computer Center | |___________________________________________________________________________| TO RETRIEVE ARTICLES: send a blank email to . On subject line, type article number(s). FOR EXAMPLE ON RETRIEVING ARTICLES, 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 IN THE NEWS ================================================================= LINES 4294) INTEL'S SHIFT INTO THE BIG BAD WORLD OF BUSINESS - PART II..........105 Exclusive interview with Ed Masi by Willie Schartz, Contributing Editor Having gone to commercial marketing school for a year, Intel believes its SSD is ready for prime time, making the announcement last week official that the SSD is expanding its scope of work into the high end enterprise server marketplace. 4295) KENDALL SQUARE RESEARCH IN THROES OF LAYOFFS THIS WEEK...............12 By Carol Cramer, Managing Editor, HPCwire Layoffs are pending this week for KSR, according to a Boston Globe writer. 4296) PALLAS/THINKING MACHINES TO DEVELOP MESSAGE PASSING TECHNOLOGY.......43 By Dianna Husum, Associate Editor, HPCwire Thinking Machines has signed an agreement with Pallas GmbH to develop optimized version of PVM message passing interface for the Connection Machine CM-5 computer system. 4297) LLNL RESEARCHERS CAPTURE SIX "OSCARS" OF INDUSTRIAL INVENTION.......189 By Dianna Husum, Associate Editor, HPCwire Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory garnered six R&D- 100 awards dubbed by the Chicago Tribune as the "Oscars of invention, the Nobel Prize of applied research." ANNOUNCEMENTS THIS WEEK ===================================================== 4298) Parsys Shipping T9000-Based Systems/First Goes to U. of Palermo....53 4299) NASA Div. Installs 5th Maximum Strategy Gen 4 Server for SCC.......60 4323) 15 Vendors Test for Simple Network Management Protocol Compliance..75 4301) DEC to Phase Out Westfield Enclosure Manufacturing Operations......37 4302) Sun Micro to Form New Interactive Unit.............................40 4303) PDC Announces Availability of New Exabyte 8MM Tape Library.........27 SOFTWARE 4304) IBM S/390 Parallel Software Development Gains Momentum.............79 4305) Cray Res./Livermore Software Run Complex Problems on MPP System...106 4306) TeamQuest 5.2 Available for Cray Research Systems..................29 INTERNATIONAL UPDATE 4307) China's Time Runs Out/Pirated Software Seized......................18 4308) Singapore Telecom to Launch Internet Link..........................19 4309) European Projects: HAMLET Addresses Real-Time MPP Applications.....19 4310) German Government/Industry Launch Multimedia Offensive.............14 FINANCIAL WATCH 4311) Oracle Reports Record Q4 Revenues of $668 Million..................62 4312) 10 Most Active NASDAQ HPC Stocks...................................26 CONTRACTS/VENTURES 4313) Cray Superservers to Join with Illustra Server.....................43 4314) Platform/SGI Sign Co-Marketing Agreement for Cluster Software......42 4315) Vangard Delivers on Harris Contract for High Performance Storage...35 4316) Informix Software/Newbridge Networks in Pact.......................73 4317) E-Systems/Lockheed Enter Commercial Remote Sensing Market..........33 SUPERHIGHWAY REPORT 4318) BellSouth's Atlanta Trial Run a Good Test of Profit Potential......73 4319) Study Shows Penn. Infohighway Costs to be $2 Billion/No Subsidies.118 4320) Interactive Info/Texas Network Puts 81,000 People Back to Work.....58 4321) American Greetings Co. to Launch Cards on Infohighway..............66 4322) DEC's Alpha AXP System to Power Virtual Reality....................35 ___________________________ INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT ___________________________ | | | 771) Commercial Applications of Parallel Processing Sys. Conference Update| | 788) Citibank Global Derivatives Org. Purchases CRAY SUPERSERVER 6400 | | 764) More New Hits in Parallel, Distributed and High-Performance Computing| | 774) NASA Division Installs 5th Maximum Strategy Gen 4 Server for SCC | | 785) nCUBE-Amdahl Partner/Provide Advanced Massively Parallel Servers and | | Four-Company Alliance to Result in Broad-based Usage of MPP Technology | |___________________________________________________________________________| QUOTE OF THE WEEK =========================================================== 4294) "I know the competition is going to seize on this and say we are abandoning the technical marketplace, but we are not." -- Ed Masi, President of Intel SSD ANALYSIS & FEATURES ========================================================= 1462) SILICON GRAPHICS LAUNCHES NEW LOW-END SERVERS.......................136 Commentary by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large Silicon Graphics completes its Power Challenge line with two new servers. This will add breadth to SGI's strategy in the lower end of high-performance computing, where a few bucks now buy lots of GFLOPS; a crowded segment but not as jammed as the upper-end scalable market. 1463) LEADING HPC FIGURES CONSIDER PETAFLOPS COMPUTING....................255 FEATURE By Paul Messina, Thomas Sterling, Jarrett Cohen and Paul Smith Building a computer ten times more powerful than all the networked computing capability in the U.S. is the subject of a new report by leading figures in the high performance computing community. 1464) ORACLE SPURNS nCUBE IN BELLSOUTH MULTIMEDIA DEAL.....................89 News Analysis by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large Oracle has jilted nCUBE in its new deal with BellSouth for a 1995 multimedia experiment in Atlanta. Hewlett-Packard got the pick. Oracle is eager to edge determined adversaries in interactive TV field. Will 1995 bring a resolution? ___________________________ 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 (Updated Weekly)............................92 Ads from: Convex, NCSA, NPAC, Rensselaer, SGI, Univ. de Sherbrooke. 604) NEED HELP? Place your next job ad in cyberspace!.....................58 OTHER DEPARTMENTS =========================================================== CONFERENCES 2888) Calendar of Upcoming HPC Events (Updated Weekly)...................93 SCIENCE & HUMAN INTEREST 3085) Eight-Legged Robot Prepares for Exploration Mission of Mt. Spurr...90 3086) British Scientists Warn: Planes Should Look Out for the Ozone......44 3087) LLNL Employee to be First Chinese-American in Space................44 _______________________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.| |__________________________________________________________________________| *** LAST ISSUE'S MOST REQUESTED ITEMS FROM HPCwire *** 1459) IBM's SP2 and SGI's Power Challenge: A Comparison.................254 4267) Mo' Web Watch......................................................85 4264) AT&T and SGI Wed, Give Birth to Multi-Media Venture...............141 667) JOB BANK..........................................................100 ***************************************************************************** Copyright 1994 HPCwire. 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