H P C w i r e The Text-On-Demand News Magazine for High-Performance Computing *** August 5, 1994: Vol. 3, No. 30 Circulation: 16,985 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 219 Pages of Text -------------------- * -------------------- HPCwire Announces NEW SITE LICENSE PRICING 780) Now your entire company/class/research team can receive the HPCwire e-magazine at a substantial savings. Retrieve 780 or contact danielle@hpcwire.ans.net for full details. ______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE ______________________________ | | | 1478) COMMENTARY: Coalitions, X-Rays and Object-Oriented Software | | 1479) FEATURE: Global Climate Modeling in Parallel | | 608) LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Exception Taken to "U.S.-Japan Trade Dispute" | |___________________________________________________________________________| For a free 6-week trial subscription, email: trial@hpcwire.ans.net Subscription Information: sub@hpcwire.ans.net IN THE NEWS ================================================================= LINES 608) LETTER TO THE EDITOR: EXCEPTION TAKEN TO WILLIE SCHATZ'S "U.S.-JAPAN TRADE DISPUTE" (Article 1475) BY FUJITSU AMERICA.....................50 The article quotes John McPhee, director of Office of Computers and Business Equipment at the International Trade Administration, making unsubstantiated negative claims about Fujitsu's VPP500. 4438) BIG CHANGES EXPECTED IN TCP/IP MARKET FOLLOWING INTERNET MEETING.....63 By Carol Cramer, Managing Editor During the Internet Engineering Task Force meeting, a new Internet Protocol standard was chosen as the next generation of IP -- IPng. 4439) MO' WEB WATCH.......................................................122 By Kari Walker, Staff Writer This week's new listings include: Archives/Links, Benchmarks, a UK Center, Papers, and the NII. All submitted URLs are listed in our on-going Web Watch Directory <4300> and are listed by subject heading and alphabetically. ANNOUNCEMENTS RECEIVED THIS WEEK ============================================ 4440) Cray Superserver Group/Toshiba in Talks on Marketing Tie-Up........15 4441) Georgia Tech Upgrades to KSR2-64 System............................49 4442) Parsys Runs Latest Versions of Parallel Oracle.....................35 4443) H-P Announces GDMO Modeling Tools to Help Telecom Industry.........62 4444) KSR Re-listed with NASDAQ/Court Approves Settlement in Dispute.....40 4445) IBM Cuts 320 Jobs at San Jose/Rochester Plants.....................10 4446) Novell Settles U.S. Claim for $1.7 Million.........................28 4447) GTE to Use AT&T Switching Technology for Next Generation ATM.......27 4448) Sun's Curt Wozniak Named Xilinx's President/COO....................43 INTERNATIONAL UPDATE 4449) Eunetcom Pursues Big Contracts/Will Set Up Network for Bull........29 4450) Hong Kong Telecom Joins AT&T's World Partners Association..........19 4451) Suspected Software Pirates Caught in Singapore Raids...............31 4452) Parsys Launches German Subsidiary..................................33 CONTRACTS/VENTURES/FINANCIAL WATCH 4453) Instrumental Announces POWER CHALLENGE Pact with SGI...............50 4454) Ericsson Signs $400 Million Telecom Agreement with China...........34 4455) Wellfleet/Hewlett-Packard Company Sign Internetworking Pact........48 4456) DEC/Openware Provide UNISYS Mainframe Users Alpha AXP Alternative..54 4457) Sybase Signs Vendors to Client/Server CSA Program..................74 4458) Lockheed Wins $5 Billion Department of Energy Program..............72 4459) 10 Most Active NASDAQ HPC Stocks...................................28 4460) America Online Triples Subscribers/Revenues Up 204 Percent.........66 SUPERHIGHWAY REPORT 4461) Models Developed for Managing/Pricing Internet Services............99 4462) British Physicist Says Computer Viruses Are A "Life Form"..........35 4463) DEC Intensifies Focus on Internet Market with Business Group.......74 ___________________________ INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT ___________________________ | | | 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 =========================================================== 4438) "There is no question that, without a new IP address scheme, the Internet will run out of address space before the end of the decade." -- Carl Beame, Chairman/Chief Technologist, Beame & Whiteside Software ANALYSIS & FEATURES ========================================================= 1478) COALITIONS, X-RAYS AND OBJECT-ORIENTED SOFTWARE.....................130 Commentary by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large Taligent, an alliance of Apple, H-P, and IBM, appears at last to be providing object-oriented software tools that will reach the market in 1995. Another coalition, linking IBM, AT&T, Motorola, and Loral, may be formed to grasp a second nettle: X-ray processes in chip design. 1479) GLOBAL CLIMATE MODELING IN PARALLEL: CCM ON INTEL TOUCHSTONE DELTA..156 FEATURE By Drake, Flanery, Foster, Hack, Michalakes, Stevens, Walker, Williamson, and Worley of Argonne National Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The Computer Hardware, Advanced Mathematics and Model Physics program seeks to provide climate researchers with an advanced modeling capability for the study of global change issues. 1480) VROOM PERMITS IMMERSIVE REAL-TIME VIRTUAL REALITY...................126 News Analysis by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large Organizers of VROOM, the virtual reality exhibit at SIGGRAPH 94, hope to use a distributed, networked compute system with (perhaps) total power of a TFLOP to provide truly immersive real-time VR on real applications during Supercomputing '95 in San Diego. ___________________________ 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............................................195 Ads from: Rechenzentrum Garching der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Cray Research, HPCwire, Martin Marietta Technical Services, San Diego Data Processing Corporation, Silicon Graphics, SDSC 604) NEED HELP? Place your next job ad in cyberspace!.....................58 OTHER DEPARTMENTS =========================================================== CONFERENCES 2888) Calendar of Upcoming HPC Events (3 New Listings)...................99 SCIENCE & HUMAN INTEREST 3098) Machines Help Stroke Patients Relearn Lost Skills..................22 3099) Computer Model Shows: Quit Smoking = Better Lifespan Than Diet.....25 _____________________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 928)*Kendall Square Res. 921) Cray Research Inc.| | Ampex HNSX | |_________________ *Updated information within last 30 days________________| *** LAST ISSUE'S MOST REQUESTED ITEMS FROM HPCwire *** 4417) Quarter 2 Reports..................................................11 667) JOB BANK..........................................................147 1474) SGI's Entertainment Spinoff Rubs Magic Lamp for $$$................97 4434) Hackers Discovered Snooping in Defense Computers...................34 ***************************************************************************** Copyright 1994 HPCwire. 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