H P C w i r e The Text-On-Demand News Magazine for High-Performance Computing *** July 8, 1994: Vol. 3, No. 26 Circulation: 15,393 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 209 Pages of Text -------------------- * -------------------- 776) APPLIED PARALLEL RESEARCH Applied Parallel Research announces the availability of multi-dimensional data distribution in Fourth Quarter 1994. This new capability of its distributed memory Fortran parallelizers xHPF and FORGE 90 DMP will be demonstrated at SuperComputing 94. ______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE ______________________________ | | | 1467) NEWS ANALYSIS: Kendall Square to License Technology; A New Chip? | | 4324) Cray Research/Fujitsu Enter Joint Cross Licensing Agreement | | 1466) FEATURE: Geosciences Parallel Computation Project | |___________________________________________________________________________| For a free 6-week trial subscription, email: trial@hpcwire.ans.net Subscription Information: sub@hpcwire.ans.net IN THE NEWS ================================================================= LINES 4324) CRAY RESEARCH/FUJITSU ENTER JOINT CROSS LICENSING AGREEMENT..........34 By Carol Cramer, HPCwire Managing Editor A worldwide patent cross-licensing agreement has been completed between Cray Research and Fujitsu Limited covering each company's current and future supercomputer and mainframe patents. 4325) FUJITSU INTRODUCES PARALLEL COMPUTER PRICED BELOW 20 MILLION YEN.....17 By Dianna Husum, HPCwire Associate Editor A parallel computer priced below $202,000 has been introduced by Fujitsu. It can be equipped with 4-64 25 mhz Sparc or 50 mhz Supersparc RISC processors and 4 Gbytes of memory, and is capable of achieving a processing speed of 3.2 gigaflops. 4326) KSR SLASHES STAFF BY 30% IN EFFORT TO TARGET COMMERCIAL MARKETS......39 By Carol Cramer, HPCwire Managing Editor Kendall Square has a change in business strategy. The focus is now on sales efforts in the commercial marketplace. 4327) MO' WEB WATCH.......................................................105 By Kari Walker, HPCwire Staff Writer The Mo' Web Watch with new specialty listings points you to the latest HPC information available on the World Wide Web. Our on-going Mo' Web Watch Directory <4300> is now available. It will be updated weekly as we receive new URLs. Check it out. ANNOUNCEMENTS MADE AVAILABLE TO HPCwire ===================================== 4328) New Cray Research Software Makes MPP Programming Easier............31 4329) PVM Researchers Garner R&D-100 Award...............................27 4330) Cray Research Succeeds in Bid for Tohoku University Supercomputer..35 4331) Sluggish DEC May Sell Disk-Drive Business/Cut Work Force by 20%....54 4332) Grumman Data Pays $2.2M/Settles Supercomputer Installation Dispute.28 4333) TPC-C Results Show Tandem Parallel Servers Shatter Records.........90 4334) New Europa Working Group Aims to Define Parallel C++...............68 4335) Marcam Object Technology Chosen for Use in IBM Plants..............25 4336) DEC: First Major Non-UNIX Server w/Full DCE Core Services for AXP..39 INTERNATIONAL UPDATE 4337) Itochu in Pact to Sell Cray Servers................................16 4338) China Stiffens Piracy Penalties in Face of U.S. Trade Sanctions....59 4339) Japan/US/Europe High-Tech Firms to Support Global Infohighway......24 4340) S. Korea Shortlists AT&T/Tandem for Computer Deal..................23 4341) Deutsche Telekom Sees Rapid Growth in Multimedia...................16 4342) New Belgian Network Link Between Antwerpen and Leuven..............25 FINANCIAL WATCH 4343) Cray Research Says Q2 Orders Are Under Expectations................12 4344) 10 Most Active NASDAQ HPC Stocks...................................26 CONTRACTS/VENTURES 4345) Panttaja Consulting Joins Sybase Open Solutions....................46 4346) Hewlett-Packard Joins UnixWare Technology Group....................49 SUPERHIGHWAY REPORT 4347) Avoid Scam 'Potholes' with Self-Defense Tips for Online Investors.129 4348) New Jersey Acts to Stop Online Chain Letter Schemes................25 4349) VR Simulation System Proposed for Hazardous Environments...........50 4350) America Online Surges Past 900,000 Subscribers.....................24 ___________________________ INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT ___________________________ | | | 771) Commercial Applications of Parallel Processing Sys. Conference Update| | 788) Citibank Global Derivatives Org. Purchases CRAY SUPERSERVER 6400 | | 785) nCUBE-Amdahl Partner/Provide Advanced Massively Parallel Servers and | | Four-Company Alliance to Result in Broad-based Usage of MPP Technology | | 739) 800 FLY CORP Announces Corporate Travel Savings Via Email | | 790) HPCwire's Electronic Publishing Software Provides TEXT-ON-DEMAND | |___________________________________________________________________________| QUOTE OF THE WEEK =========================================================== 4326) "With our near-term litigation and financing issues largely behind us, we are clearly focused on selling into growth markets and exploiting our ALLCACHE technology with [an] unbeatable combination." -- William I. Koch, Chairman, Kendall Square Research ANALYSIS & FEATURES ========================================================= 1465) HPC IN CANADA: DIVERSITY, VIGOR AND CIRCUMSPECTION..................188 Commentary by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large High-performance computing in Canada includes ATM in Alberta, a KSR in Toronto, a NEC vector machine near Montreal, creative eccentricity in Nova Scotia, a cautious national network, clusters in Newfoundland, and sophisticated research on diverse topics. 1466) RESEARCH - APPLICATIONS: GEOSCIENCES PARALLEL COMPUTATION PROJECT...233 FEATURE from CRPC, Rice University The CRPC supports applications projects for several reasons: they are testbeds for the development of core parallel algorithms, software, and other basic computer science research and are demonstrations of parallel computing technologies in real scientific computations. 1467) KENDALL SQUARE TO LICENSE TECHNOLOGY; A NEW CHIP?....................80 News Analysis by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large In a murky announcement, Kendall Square has declared a shift to commercial customers and efforts to find licensees for its ALLCACHE technology. Reports say KSR's next generation hardware will use mass- market microprocessors. Outlook in overcrowded market is not bright. ___________________________ 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/Email Contacts/Submission Guidelines....70 | |950) A Complete Index of HPCwire Back Issues............................48 | |___________________________________________________________________________| JOB BANK ==================================================================== 667) Employment Opportunities (1 New Listing).............................75 Ads from: Convex, NCSA, NPAC, Rensselaer, Rice U., SGI, U. de Sherbrooke. 604) NEED HELP? Place your next job ad in cyberspace!.....................58 OTHER DEPARTMENTS =========================================================== FACTS & FIGURES 3088) Updated List of the World's Most Powerful Computing Sites.......1,037 CONFERENCES 2888) Calendar of Upcoming HPC Events (2 New Listings)...................93 Listings from: PartnerMart, Austin, Texas; HICSS-28, Maui, Hawaii SCIENCE & HUMAN INTEREST 3089) PSC's C90 Says Jupiter-Comet Collision Will End in a Bang..........80 3090) Russians to Test Stress on Simulated Space Mission.................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.| |__________________________________________________________________________| *** LAST ISSUE'S MOST REQUESTED ITEMS FROM HPCwire *** 1463) Leading HPC Figures Consider PETAFLOPS Computing..................255 4294) Intel's Shift into the Big Bad World of Business - Part II........105 4295) Kendall Square Research in Throes of Layoffs.......................12 1462) Silicon Graphics Launches New Low-End Servers.....................136 ***************************************************************************** Copyright 1994 HPCwire. 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