H P C w i r e The Text-On-Demand News Magazine for High-Performance Computing *** August 26, 1994: Vol. 3, No. 33 Circulation: 16,434 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 229 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 ______________________________ | | | 4515) IN THE NEWS: Newest Version of NCSA Mosaic to Ship August 26 | | 1487) COMMENTARY: New SGI Chemistry Results Reflect Benchmarking Issues | | 4517) NEWS BRIEFS: National Software Exchange Created for HPCC Community | |___________________________________________________________________________| For a free 6-week trial subscription, email: trial@hpcwire.ans.net Subscription Information: sub@hpcwire.ans.net IN THE NEWS ================================================================= LINES 4514) "INTEL'S SSD IS NOT FOR SALE!"......................................138 By Willie Schatz, Contributing Editor Exclusive interview in a series conducted with HPC industry leaders. Being taken off the government's life support system does not mean that the SSD is folding its tent and going home. Ed Masi contends that the government market is still a very significant one. It's just no longer the one and only. 4515) NEWEST VERSION OF NCSA MOSAIC TO SHIP AUGUST 26......................56 By Carol Cramer, Managing Editor AIR Mosaic, the most advanced version of NCSA Mosaic, is being shipped on Aug. 26. It integrates various Internet services through a common interface making navigation through the Internet easier. 4516) SYBASE/H-P LAUNCH DATABASE LAB TO PERFECT TERABYTE-CLASS DBs.........80 A very large database engineering laboratory has been formed by Sybase and Hewlett-Packard Company which will create hardware/software environments capable of handling terabyte-class databases. ANNOUNCEMENTS RECEIVED THIS WEEK ============================================ 4517) National Software Exchange Created for HPCC Community..............55 4518) MasPar System Selected to Convert MEDSTAT Database.................75 4519) SHL/Oracle Announce New Turnkey Migration Product..................65 4520) ICL to Supply SCO Versions of Key Technologies/Moves UK Div........89 4521) Universities Choose Parsys' New T9000-based Systems................44 NETWORKING 4522) Systech Announces New Low-Cost Etherplex UNIX System...............26 4523) NiceCom Unveils Streamlined Ethernet-to-ATM........................93 4524) Cisco Boosts X.25 Performance, Scalability.........................89 INTERNATIONAL UPDATE 4525) Cray Japan's Hexar Automates Mesh Production on Supercomputers.....15 4526) MITI's Proposed Tax Incentives to Affect Supercomputer Purchases...18 4527) First Supercomputer Converter Developed by Omron/Cray Japan........13 4528) IBM Japan to Strengthen Marketing of SP2 UNIX Server...............15 4529) NEC to Invest $1 Billion in New Chip Plant.........................59 4530) Computer Expert Raps Chinese Research..............................33 CONTRACTS/VENTURES/FINANCIAL WATCH 4531) Tandem's Calif. Contract Win Investigated..........................16 4532) DISC Wins $7 Million Navy Mass Storage Contract....................39 4533) 10 Most Active NASDAQ HPC Stocks...................................26 PEOPLE/PROMOTIONS/PROFILES 4534) KSR's Carl Named Intel SSD's Regional Manager......................14 4535) IBM Communications Scientist Receives ACM SIGCOMM Award............31 SUPERHIGHWAY REPORT 4536) Computers/Video Conferences Create "Virtual Courts" of the Future..32 4537) Create Your Own Online Info Service with CyberMedia Technology.....93 4538) British Public Sector Opens Up to Information Highway..............84 ___________________________ INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT ___________________________ | | | 778) DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORP: Alpha Systems Continue Explosive Growth and | | Leadership Performance | | 739) 800 FLY CORP Announces Corporate Travel Savings Via Email | | 790) HPCwire's Electronic Publishing Software Provides TEXT-ON-DEMAND | |___________________________________________________________________________| QUOTE OF THE WEEK =========================================================== 4514) "We're [Intel] the market leader and we intend to stay there. We've got tremendous opportunities to reduce our costs. We've got the advantage of multiple market thrusts. No other company has a strategy as good as ours." -- Ed Masi, President of Intel SSD ANALYSIS & FEATURES ========================================================= 1487) NEW SGI CHEMISTRY RESULTS REFLECT BENCHMARKING ISSUES...............172 Commentary by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large Users are perennially annoyed by the slow availability of benchmarks which is due to many institutional factors. Computational chemistry results on new Silicon Graphics Power Challenge series illustrate the value of numbers -- when they eventually appear. 1488) CODE PORTABILITY: SUPERCOMPUTERS AND WORKSTATIONS....................96 FEATURE By Bob Boland, Los Alamos National Lab Users who move code between the Cray supercomputers and the CIC clusters often grapple with certain code portability issues, or the problem of validating code on multiple platforms. 1489) SEYMOUR & NSA REVIVE SIMD AS THINKING MACHINES BURIED...............153 News Analysis By Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large Thinking Machines dumped SIMD in 1991; did this heresy cause its bankruptcy? Cray Computer has been rescued from the brink by an NSA contract for a vector/SIMD hybrid. This design could suit NSA's needs but seems unlikely to worry MIMD vendors selling to broader markets. ___________________________ 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.............................................185 Listings from: Cray Research, 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 =========================================================== CONFERENCES 2888) Calendar of Upcoming HPC Events (1 Update/1 New Listing)..........115 Update: HPCN Europe '95; New Listing: Marketing on the Internet BOOK SHELF 3108) Developing Computer Science Agendas for HPC.......................134 SCIENCE & HUMAN INTEREST 3109) Dante's Tumble Hasn't Lessened Success of This 8-Legged Robot.....125 3110) Japan's H-II Rocket Rescheduled for August 28 Liftoff..............21 3111) U.S. Moon Mapping Spacecraft Flies Out of Earth's Orbit............26 _____________________H P C w i r e S P O N S O R S______________________ | Full background information on all Sponsoring Companies, listed below, | | is available to all readers. See TO RECEIVE THE FULL TEXT at the end | | of this file. | | | |*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 *** 4492) The Death of Supercomputing?......................................129 4493) Cray Computer Awarded Cray-3/SSS Development Contract..............88 1486) IBM's T. J. Watson Lab Forms Supercomputing Center................112 1484) Maui Center: Pioneers in Technology and Tech Transfer.............130 ***************************************************************************** Copyright 1994 HPCwire. Feel free to distribute this Table of Contents. *****************************************************************************