H P C w i r e The Text-On-Demand News Magazine for High-Performance Computing *** August 19, 1994: Vol. 3, No. 32 Circulation: 16,284 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 219 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 ______________________________ | | | 4492) IN THE NEWS: The Death of Supercomputing? | | 1484) COMMENTARY: Maui Center: Pioneers in Technology and Tech Transfer | | 4493) IN THE NEWS: Cray Computer Awarded CRAY-3/SSS Development Contract | |___________________________________________________________________________| For a free 6-week trial subscription, email: trial@hpcwire.ans.net Subscription Information: sub@hpcwire.ans.net IN THE NEWS ================================================================= LINES 4492) THE DEATH OF SUPERCOMPUTING?........................................129 An exclusive first in a series of interviews with HPC industry leaders. By Willie Schatz, Contributing Editor Can all the king's horses and all the king's men put TMC together again? After filing Chapter 11 and slashing a third of its staff, Thinking Machines is reorganizing and refocusing. 4493) CRAY COMPUTER AWARDED CRAY-3/SSS DEVELOPMENT CONTRACT................88 By Carol Cramer, Managing Editor The National Security Agency and Cray Computer entered into a joint development contract to produce a CRAY-3/Super Scalable System, a hybrid high performance system offering vector parallel processing, scalable parallel processing and the combination of both. 4494) MO' WEB WATCH.......................................................125 By Kari Walker, Staff Writer This week's new listings include: New Web Sites (UNIX related and ITI), Conferences/Meetings (Cornell Theory Center, WWW Conference, HPC sim.), Directory of Applications, Global List of computer science depart., WWW and Gopher servers. Submitted URLs are listed in our Directory <4300> by subject heading and cross-referenced alphabetically. ANNOUNCEMENTS RECEIVED THIS WEEK ============================================ 4512) Convex Scalable Parallel Processor Sets SPECrate Record............60 4513) Oracle Ends Talks with Gupta.......................................36 4495) NAG/SGI Launch IRIS Explorer: Scientific Visualization Software....61 4496) Tatung Delivers First SPARC-Compatible Workstations................12 4497) IBM Has Global Software Delivery/Distribution for Workstations.....60 4498) Sun Microsystems Ships Exabyte's Cartridge Tape Subsystem..........34 4499) Cisco Systems to Ship ATM HyperSwitch..............................28 INTERNATIONAL UPDATE 4501) Fujitsu Introduces Low-Priced UNIX-Based MPP Supercomputer.........15 4502) KSR Scales Back on European Operations.............................13 4503) Altech Computers to Market Full Range of Parsys Parallel Machine...15 4504) Fujitsu/ICL to Step Up Support for Amdahl..........................14 4505) Trends Influence MITI to Overhaul Intellectual Property System.....22 CONTRACTS/VENTURES 4506) Lockheed/Martin Marietta Select Mercury's RACE Architecture........53 4507) Optical Data/FORE Systems Sign Hub/ATM Agreement...................40 FINANCIAL WATCH 4508) H-P's Earnings Rise, Orders Are Up, Revenues Grow.................325 4509) 10 Most Active NASDAQ HPC Stocks...................................26 SUPERHIGHWAY REPORT 4510) Software Watchdog Offers Cash to Catch Pirates.....................39 4511) Maryland First State to Offer Residents Free Internet Access.......45 ___________________________ 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 =========================================================== 4492) "TMC declaring Chapter 11 means nothing as far as the industry goes. It's unfortunate for one of the pioneering companies in the high performance sector, but it's not a significant event." -- Jeff Canin, Vice President, Salomon Brothers ANALYSIS & FEATURES ========================================================= 1484) MAUI CENTER: PIONEERS IN TECHNOLOGY AND TECH TRANSFER...............130 Commentary by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large Maui's new high-performance center plans innovations in technology transfer (cooperating firms get all patent rights to joint projects) as well as pioneering work in large-scale parallel processing. Its IBM SP2 system, soon to grow from 80 to 400 processors, is reported to be highly reliable. 350 users are already running applications. 1485) HEART THROB: BLOOD CIRCULATION AND THE HEART........................114 FEATURE By Michael Schneider, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Calculations on a supercomputer bring heart model to life -- almost. In a computation that took nearly a week of C90 single-processor computing and 50 million words of memory, the main objective was to fix a problem that restricted flow through the aortic valve. 1486) IBM'S T. J. WATSON LAB FORMS SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER..................112 News Analysis By Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large IBM opens new supercomputing center at Watson Research Lab. Parallel pasha Irving Wladawsky-Berger reaffirmed IBM's two-track UNIX-MVS strategy for parallel computing which he described as "... the moon shot of the 1990s." ___________________________ 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 Listings from: HPCwire, Martin Marietta Tech Services, San Diego Data Processing Corp, Silicon Graphics, San Diego Supercomputer Center 604) Looking for that Someone Special? -- HPCwire is your answer!..........58 OTHER DEPARTMENTS =========================================================== FACTS & FIGURES 3103) Updated List of the World's Most Powerful Computing Sites.......1,028 CENTERS 3104) Cornell's SPUR Program Provides HPC Environment for Students......130 CONFERENCES 2888) Calendar of Upcoming HPC Events (9 New Listings/Updates/Changes)..114 PartnerMart cancelled; Listings: World-Wide Web Conf.; Boundary Elements; Cluster Workshop '94; Parallel Programming on IBM SP1 (Cornell Theory Center); Convex User Group Worldwide Conference; Update: CONPAR '94 Final Program; SIAM; Parallel Programming Workshop OSC. SCIENCE & HUMAN INTEREST 3105) Troubled Biosphere Has New Scientific Team from Columbia Univ......54 3106) NASA to Use Radar for Tracking Rwandan Gorillas...................109 3107) Contraves to Receive World's Largest Telescope Mirror..............61 _____________________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 *** 1481) Thinking Machines, KSR and Cray Seek Garage Sales.................156 667) JOB BANK..........................................................195 1482) Brookhaven Lab Uses IBM POWERparallel System to Study Universe.....82 4489) New Publication Shows Business Internet Users the Way..............54 ***************************************************************************** Copyright 1994 HPCwire. 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