H P C w i r e The Text-On-Demand News Magazine for High-Performance Computing *** July 15, 1994: Vol. 3, No. 27 Circulation: 15,639 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 164 Pages of Text -------------------- * -------------------- 785) nCUBE nCUBE Partners With Amdahl Corp, Oracle, and Information Builders, Inc. to offer Advanced Massively Parallel Database Servers for Commercial Customers. Agreement allows Broad-based Usage of MPP Technology Which Addresses the Needs of Large Scale Commercial Accounts. ______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE ______________________________ | | | 1468) COMMENTARY: Mass Storage: IBM's Density and Triada's Compression | | 1469) FEATURE: Binary File Transfers Between Workstation & Supercomputer | | 4351) NEWS BRIEFS: SGI Launches Two New Servers in Challenge Series | |___________________________________________________________________________| For a free 6-week trial subscription, email: trial@hpcwire.ans.net Subscription Information: sub@hpcwire.ans.net IN THE NEWS ================================================================= LINES 4351) SGI LAUNCHES TWO NEW SERVERS IN CHALLENGE SERIES.....................53 By Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large Silicon Graphics has added yet another pair of servers to its growing family of products that reach outside SGI's traditional visualization franchise. The new products are in the Challenge series, equipped with the MIPS R4400 and R4600 microprocessors. 4352) IRISH AEROSPACE CO. CHOOSES ALPHA AXP/ACHIEVES STRONG RESULTS........31 By Dianna Husum, Associate Editor Preliminary results show the Alpha AXP systems obtaining approximately one third the performance of a Cray 2 or Cray YMP-EL supercomputer at 1/20th to 1/30th the price. 4353) CISCO AND NEWPORT: "ROUTERs-R-Us" ABSORBS "PCs-R-Us".................34 By Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large Cisco Systems has routed itself into an especially fast-growing market with the planned absorption of Newport, a leader in software-based routers for PCs based upon Intel microprocessors and network systems. 4354) FBI INVESTIGATES PORNOGRAPHY SCANDAL AT LLNL.........................52 By Carol Cramer, Managing Editor Officials at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories discovered their computers were being used to store pornography. No unauthorized use or "hacking" of laboratory computers had been attempted and no security had been breached. ANNOUNCEMENTS RECEIVED THIS WEEK ============================================ 4355) H-P Product Cuts DCE Development Time/Easy for C++ Programmers.....70 4356) Australian Researchers Cluster MPPs................................25 4357) Oracle Expands CDE Open for Client/Server Development..............58 4358) Intel Adds Scalable Server Group to Supercomputer Operation........51 4359) Cray Research's Carlson Says Japan's Market Still Closed...........31 INTERNATIONAL UPDATE 4360) Hitachi Sole Bidder for Hokkaido University Supercomputer..........14 4361) NEC Revises Parallel Computer Sales Projection Upward by 15%.......14 4362) Convex's SPP1000 Runs CGG's Parallel Geovecteur....................11 4364) European Project: Parallel Picture Archiving/Communicating Systems.17 4365) New Working Group Aims to Define Parallel C++......................13 FINANCIAL WATCH 4366) 10 Most Traded NASDAQ HPC Stocks...................................26 CONTRACTS/VENTURES 4367) UK's McDonnell Signs U.S. Marketing Pact with Sun/Cray Research....45 4368) Sun/Thomson in Multimedia Venture..................................27 PEOPLE/PROMOTIONS/PROFILES 4369) SGI Opens South African Branch/Names Tandem's McGowan Director.....33 SUPERHIGHWAY REPORT 4370) DEC/General Instr. Align to Deliver End-to-End Interactive Video...45 4371) Companies to Re-Write Mosaic for $20-$60 Million Market............93 4372) NII Opinion Survey Reveals Few Choose to Cruise InfoHighway.......107 4373) Virtual Reality Vest Adds Sensation of Feeling to Video Games......14 ___________________________ INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT ___________________________ | | | 771) Commercial Applications of Parallel Processing Sys. Conference Update| | 788) Citibank Global Derivatives Org. Purchases CRAY SUPERSERVER 6400 | | 739) 800 FLY CORP Announces Corporate Travel Savings Via Email | | 790) HPCwire's Electronic Publishing Software Provides TEXT-ON-DEMAND | |___________________________________________________________________________| QUOTE OF THE WEEK =========================================================== 4354) "We are tracking over 1,600 pirate sites on the Internet in a joint investigation with the FBI. It is a very serious and costly problem." -- Peter Beruk, Software Publishers Association ANALYSIS & FEATURES ========================================================= 1468) MASS STORAGE: IBM'S DENSITY AND TRIADA'S COMPRESSION................192 Commentary by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large Petabyte storage needs will be a side effect of Teraflop computing. Where will we put all that stuff? IBM is achieving higher data density, now 2 GB per 3.5 inch disk, while Triada, with new data compression tricks, has made a major deal with German partners. 1469) BINARY FILE TRANSFERS BETWEEN WORKSTATION AND SUPERCOMPUTER.........130 FEATURE By Bob Boland, Los Alamos National Laboratories Because of the increasing popularity of C and C++, the accuracy of [the Fortran] prediction is not certain; however, it is probable that Fortran will be an important language in the foreseeable future. 1470) SANDIA PREDICTS FIREBALLS AND SHOCK WAVES FROM P/SHOEMAKER-LEVY 9....85 By Carol Cramer, Managing Editor Researchers at Sandia National Labs warn that shock waves will shake Jupiter and send fireballs hundreds of miles high during the week-long series of comet collisions predicted for July 16-22. ___________________________ 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..................................................13 | |670) Masthead/Email Contacts/Submission Guidelines......................58 | |950) A Complete Index of HPCwire Back Issues............................48 | |___________________________________________________________________________| JOB BANK ==================================================================== 667) Employment Opportunities.............................................90 Ads from: Rechenzentrum Garching der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Rensselaer, Rice U., SGI and U. de Sherbrooke 604) NEED HELP? Place your next job ad in cyberspace!.....................58 OTHER DEPARTMENTS =========================================================== CONFERENCES 2888) Calendar of Upcoming HPC Events (1 New Listing)....................92 Listing from: Scalable Parallel Libraries Conference II, Miss. SCIENCE & HUMAN INTEREST 3091) Supercomputer Summer at LLNL for Native Americans..................39 3092) Giant Structure Discovered/Believed Largest in the Universe........43 _____________________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 *** 4327) Mo' Web Watch.....................................................105 1467) Kendall Square to License Technology; A New Chip?..................80 4328) New Cray Research Software Makes MPP Programming Easier............31 4326) KSR Slashes Staff by 30% in Effort to Target Commercial Markets....39 ***************************************************************************** Copyright 1994 HPCwire. 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