H P C w i r e The Text-On-Demand News Magazine for High-Performance Computing *** August 12, 1994: Vol. 3, No. 30 Circulation: 16,158 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 197 Pages of Text -------------------- * -------------------- 771) CAPPS '94 draws wide-spread interest from HPC community. Updated CAPPS '94 program. This October conference in Texas will feature: IDC and The Smaby Group, Booz-Allen & Hamilton, Citibank, Conrail, Cray Research, Epsilon, FirstBank, Forward Trust House, IBM, Intel, IRS, Lehman Brothers, MasPar, MEDSTAR and Prudential Securities. ______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE ______________________________ | | | 1481) COMMENTARY: Thinking Machines, KSR and CRAY Seek Garage Sales | | 1482) FEATURE: Brookhaven Uses IBM POWERparallel System to Study Universe | | 608) LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Exception taken to NPS's Article 1476 | |___________________________________________________________________________| For a free 6-week trial subscription, email: trial@hpcwire.ans.net Subscription Information: sub@hpcwire.ans.net IN THE NEWS ================================================================= LINES 4464) LOS ALAMOS LAB ADOPTS WORKSTATIONS FROM TATUNG AS SPARC STANDARD....208 IN THE NEWS By Ira A. Agins, Facilities Management, LANL Scientific workstations have become the primary computing platform at the Los Alamos National Lab for scientific and engineering applications. There are approximately 2,800 such workstations here. 4465) STORAGE TEK/NETWORK SYSTEMS TO MERGE IN $300 MILLION DEAL............43 By Carol Cramer, Managing Editor Storage Technology and Network Systems reached an agreement to merge and expand storage management products. In this alliance, each share of Network Systems' common stock would be exchanged for .2618 of a share of StorageTek common stock. 4466) CRAY RESEARCH TO SUPPLY C90 TO TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY.........45 By Dianna Husum, Associate Editor Cray won a contract to provide a CRAY C90 supercomputing system to the Tokyo Institute of Technology beating out NEC Corp. of Japan in the first direct competition between the two countries this fiscal year. The new system will be installed in December 1994. ANNOUNCEMENTS RECEIVED THIS WEEK ============================================ 4467) New Strategy Brings DEC Closer to Customers/VP Brebach Departs.....50 4468) Informix/Hewlett-Packard Achieve New TPC Benchmark Results.........54 4469) Alta Debuts Personal Supercomputers Based on Alpha Processor.......64 4470) Fujitsu Launches New Multimedia Unit...............................35 4471) H-P Has Scalable/High-Speed Fibre Channel Interface for Clusters...81 PACIFIC RIM REPORT 4472) Parasoft to Supply Parallelware for Hitachi Supercomputer..........17 4473) Fujitsu to Shift Supercomputer CPUs from Bipolar to CMOS LSIs......16 4474) MITI to Survey State of Multimedia Development in Europe/U.S.......14 4475) Yokogawa Electric/CRAY Japan Tie-Up in Small Supercomputer Sales...13 4476) IBM to Market Supercomputer MCM in Japan via Tokyo Electron........12 NETWORKING 4477) Cisco Has Cross-Platform ISDN Products/High Perf. Regional Router.115 4478) EPS-2015 Ethernet Switch Increases Throughput/UNIX Flexibility.....38 CONTRACTS/VENTURES 4479) Mercury in Pact to Improve Quality of Oracle's CDE.................32 4480) Macromedia/Microware Align to Target Interactive TV Market.........49 4481) Tricord/FORE Systems Sign ATM Agreement............................53 4482) Disney in Interactive Video Plan with Major Telecom Companies......67 4483) ISI/IBM to Jointly Develop Prototype Digitized Library System......92 4484) DEC/MEGATEK to Pursue 3-D Graphics Solutions w/Alpha AXP...........28 FINANCIAL WATCH 4485) Kendall Square Research Reports Second-Quarter Results............141 4486) Cabletron Systems Announces 2.5-for-One Split......................15 4487) Exabyte Board of Directors Authorizes Stock Repurchase Program.....19 4488) 10 Most Active NASDAQ HPC Stocks...................................26 SUPERHIGHWAY REPORT 4489) New Publication Shows Business Internet Users the Way..............54 4490) Upper Class Consumers Deciding Our Interactive TV Future...........31 4491) Study Shows Businesses Turning to Telecommuting for Solutions......47 4437) Pac Bell Helps Educators Build Learning Lanes on Superhighway......86 ___________________________ 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 =========================================================== 1482) "We purchased the SP[1] not only because of what it could do for us now, but also for what it could do for us in the future." -- Dr. Tom Throwe, Scientist, Brookhaven National Laboratory ANALYSIS & FEATURES ========================================================= 1481) THINKING MACHINES, KSR AND CRAY SEEK GARAGE SALES...................156 Commentary by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large Thinking Machines, Kendall Square and Cray Computer are seeking buyers, licensees or investors, hoping to avert disaster. Credible buyers are few, and in any event history suggests that cruelly low values will be placed on their assets. 1482) BROOKHAVEN LAB USES IBM POWERPARALLEL SYSTEM TO STUDY UNIVERSE.......82 FEATURE By David Connolly, Freelance Writer for Technical Solutions Scientists at the NY lab use the IBM POWERparallel to run simulations of atomic particle collisions that may have produced a form of matter which existed shortly after the formation of the universe. 1483) PARSYTEC SHIPPING FIRST POWER PC-BASED SUPER SYSTEM..................40 News Analysis By Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large Parsytec, a Germany company, has started series production of its GC/PowerPlus, based on the PowerPC, which follows the sale so far of 150 PowerXplorer systems, with four to 32 processors. ___________________________ 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: Cray Research, Martin Marietta Tech Services, San Diego Data Processing Corp, Silicon Graphics, SDSC 604) Looking for that Someone Special? -- HPCwire is your answer!..........58 OTHER DEPARTMENTS =========================================================== CONFERENCES 2888) Calendar of Upcoming HPC Events (4 New Listings)..................108 Listings from: AIPR/SPIE Workshop, Reengineering in Practice, PPoPP '95 Call for Papers, Scientific Visualization Workshops (Cornell) SCIENCE & HUMAN INTEREST 3101) Stone Age Remains Found in Austria.................................33 3102) Oak Ridge Lab Designs Revolutionary Auto Engine...................108 _____________________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 *** 4438) Big Changes Expected in TCP/IP Market Following Internet Meeting...63 667) JOB BANK..........................................................195 4439) Mo' Web Watch: Archives/Links, Benchmarks, UK Center, Papers, NII.122 1479) Global Climate Modeling in Parallel/CCM on Intel Touchstone Delta.156 ***************************************************************************** Copyright 1994 HPCwire. 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