H P C w i r e The Text-On-Demand News Magazine for High-Performance Computing *** July 22, 1994: Vol. 3, No. 28 Circulation: 15,801 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 187 Pages of Text -------------------- * -------------------- 766) Giant Paragon System at Sandia Predicts Comet Fireballs Few scientists expected fireballs as visible as the ones produced by this week's comet collision with Jupiter. Sandia National Laboratories physicists were right on the money with predictions based on simulations run on their 143 Gflops Intel Paragon supercomputer. ______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE ______________________________ | | | 1471) COMMENTARY: Microsoft Concedes but Wins Monopoly Game from Feds | | 4374) IN THE NEWS: DEC's New SMP Servers: 4 TO 16 Nodes from $200K Up | | 1472) FEATURE: NCSA Mosaic Exploits Internet | |___________________________________________________________________________| For a free 6-week trial subscription, email: trial@hpcwire.ans.net Subscription Information: sub@hpcwire.ans.net IN THE NEWS ================================================================= LINES 4374) DEC'S NEW SMP SERVERS: 4 TO 16 NODES FROM $200K UP..................100 By Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large DEC has committed itself decisively to the low-end multiprocessor market with aggressively-priced SMP systems, added to scalable parallel machines and small servers. DEC will find that life in the whirlwind from 4 to 32 processors is far from easy. 4375) MASPAR RAISES $5 MILLION IN EQUITY FINANCING.........................35 By Dianna Husum, Associate Editor Equity financing to the tune of $5 million has been raised from MasPar's existing investors to support its market strategy in the areas of decision support, bioinformatics and high-end image and signal processing marketplaces. 4376) LEADING CORPORATIONS TO DISCUSS USES OF MPP ARCHITECTURES AT CAPPS...66 By Carol Cramer, Managing Editor This October conference in Texas will feature two widely recognized analysts in high performance computing -- Debra Goldfarb and Gary Smaby. Institutions presenting are Booz-Allen & Hamilton, Citibank, Conrail, IBM, Intel, Lehman Brothers, Prudential Securities, Epsilon. 4377) MO' WEB WATCH........................................................97 By Kari Walker, Staff Writer URL listings for Mo' Web Watch for this week are Other Web Sites and Users & Vendors. Submitted URLs are listed in our on-going Web Watch Directory <4300> by subject heading and alphabetically. ANNOUNCEMENTS RECEIVED THIS WEEK ============================================ 4378) Middle East Technical University Installs 3 IBM 590s and 1 SP2.....28 4379) Fast TPC-C Benchmarks on Data General's AViiON Server Sets.........69 4380) DEC Accepts Applications for Field Test Sites of HPF Fortran 90....74 4381) Cray Showcases Supercomputer Technology for Petroleum Industry.....38 4382) Sun Enters Growing European UNIX Integration.......................55 4383) SBus-SCI Adapter Card for Clustering Applications Now Available....33 4384) H-P Broadens Graphics Workstation Array w/Fully Immersive VR.......70 4385) New Program Helps Defense Contractors Achieve ISO 9000 Cert........48 4386) DEC Launches Computer Systems Division to Increase Core Business...63 NETWORKING 4387) Switchable Fast Ethernet Adapter Shipped First by Sun..............47 4388) Fujitsu Unveils Multimedia/ATM Connectivity Strategy...............60 SOFTWARE 4389) NEC/Bolt Beranek Unit Expands ATM Pact.............................17 4390) Oracle7 DBs Can Store Objects in HP Odapter Software...............14 4391) Marine Corps Hires Boeing for Combat Software Upgrade..............26 FINANCIAL WATCH 4392) IBM Restructuring Progress to be Q2 Focus..........................60 4393) 10 Most Active NASDAQ HPC Stocks...................................28 CONTRACTS/VENTURES 4394) Division Group/Hewlett-Packard Sign Virtual Reality Agreement......69 4395) Gupta Confirms Merger Discussions with Oracle......................24 4396) Hewlett-Packard in OEM Alliance with Evans & Sutherland............75 SUPERHIGHWAY REPORT 4397) Committee Formed to Set InfoSuperhighway Standards.................50 4398) IRS Proclaims "Zero Tolerance"/Forges Ahead with Modernization.....91 4399) Legal Issues of Cyberspace Pornography Decided Locally.............63 4363) Computer Media Study Shows TV Viewership/Purchasing Influence......66 ___________________________ INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT ___________________________ | | | 771) Commercial Applications of Parallel Processing Sys. Conference Update| | 785) nCUBE Partners With Amdahl Corp, Oracle and Information Builders Inc.| | 743) ANS CO+RE Announces Lowest-Cost Nationwide Internet Access | | 739) 800 FLY CORP Announces Corporate Travel Savings Via Email | | 790) HPCwire's Electronic Publishing Software Provides TEXT-ON-DEMAND | |___________________________________________________________________________| QUOTE OF THE WEEK =========================================================== 4375) "This additional funding will ensure that MasPar is well capitalized to grow its core business, while allowing us to further ramp up our efforts in the decision support market." -- John Harte, President and CEO, MasPar ANALYSIS & FEATURES ========================================================= 1471) MICROSOFT CONCEDES BUT WINS MONOPOLY GAME FROM FEDS.................169 Commentary by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large Microsoft is unharmed following a brisk but toothless talking-to by federal trust-busters. Contrasts between the odd Intel-Microsoft duopoly in PCs and more conventional competition in workstations provide a context. Will there be more Monopoly games in the future? 1472) NCSA MOSAIC EXPLOITS INTERNET........................................73 FEATURE By Kenneth Chang, NCSA Research Programmer The age of a global information network arrived some time ago but few noticed because there was no easy way to navigate through nearly 10 terabytes of information that is publicly available on the Internet. 1473) CASH-SHORT DIGITAL SELLS STORAGE UNIT TO QUANTUM.....................78 News Analysis by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large Digital Equipment has transferred five thousand employees out of a targeted cut of 20 thousand and obtained $400 million in much-needed cash by selling its mass-storage business to Quantum as DEC focuses more sharply on core computer and service businesses. ___________________________ 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............................................126 Ads from: Rechenzentrum Garching der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Cray Research, HPCwire, Rensselaer, Rice U. and U. de Sherbrooke 604) NEED HELP? Place your next job ad in cyberspace!.....................58 OTHER DEPARTMENTS =========================================================== CONFERENCES 2888) Calendar of Upcoming HPC Events (3 New Listings)...................95 Listings from: Cornell, SPIE's Defining Global Info, HPC 95 Call for Papers SCIENCE & HUMAN INTEREST 3093) Virtual Simulation of Wheelchair Performance by OSC/OSU............28 3094) LLNL Scientists Use Computers to Design Anti-Cancer/Heart Drugs...145 _____________________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. | | | |*905) Maximum Strategy 902) IBM Corp. 904) Intel SSD | | 912) Avalon Computer 906) nCUBE 907) Digital Equipment | |*916) Maspar Computer 909) Fujitsu America 915) Genias Software | | Silicon Graphics 914) Applied Parallel Res 921) Cray Research Inc.| | Ampex HNSX Kendall Square Research| |_________________ *Updated information within last 30 days________________| *** LAST ISSUE'S MOST REQUESTED ITEMS FROM HPCwire *** 4354) FBI Investigates Pornography Scandal at LLNL.......................52 4371) Companies to Re-Write Mosaic for $20-$60 Million Market............93 4351) SGI Launches Two New Servers in Challenge Series...................53 1469) Binary File Transfers Between Workstation and Supercomputer.......130 ***************************************************************************** Copyright 1994 HPCwire. 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