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For full details, email or retrieve 601. ** IMPORTANT ** THIS OFFER EXPIRES SEPTEMBER 15 ** - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- H P C w i r e The Text-On-Demand News Magazine for High-Performance Computing *** September 2, 1994: Vol. 3, No. 34 Circulation: 16,182 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 260 Pages of Text -------------------- * -------------------- 782) DIGITAL RECEIVES R&D 100 AWARD FOR GIGASWITCH/FDDI PRODUCT ...World's only FDDI networking switch selected as one of the year's most technologically significant products... ______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE ______________________________ | | | 4539) Mosaic Communications/Mercury News in Development Agreement | | 4540) Multiprocessors in the Oil Patch: Cray Research & SGI | | 1491) 3D Seismic Imaging at HARC: Using SX-3 System in Energy Industry | |___________________________________________________________________________| For a free 6-week trial subscription, email: trial@hpcwire.ans.net Subscription Information: sub@hpcwire.ans.net IN THE NEWS ================================================================= LINES Our special series on the HPC power players continues next week! 4539) MOSAIC COMMUNICATIONS/MERCURY NEWS IN DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT..........60 By Carol Cramer, Managing Editor San Jose Mercury News and Jim Clark's Mosaic Communications intend to develop an electronic presence on the Internet using a customized version of the World Wide Web's Mosaic browser. 4540) MULTIPROCESSORS IN THE OIL PATCH: CRAY RESEARCH & SGI................68 By Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large Sales by Cray Research (to ARCO) and Silicon Graphics (to Chevron) suggest that symmetrical multiprocessing may at last draw the sword of profits from the fossil fuels stone. Have power and cost finally struck the right balance? 4541) MO' WEB WATCH.......................................................106 By Kari Walker, Staff Writer This week's new listings include: updated URL for "Managing the Internet as an Economic System"; Net Bytes on telecommunication information on the Infobahn; software exchange for the HPC community; Brazil's new WWW server at NSC and more! URLs are listed in Directory <4300> by subject heading and cross-referenced alphabetically. ANNOUNCEMENTS RECEIVED THIS WEEK ============================================ 4542) H-P to Supply NTT with $10M in HP 9000 Servers/Workstations........79 4543) UK Lab Purchases MasPar System for BioInformatics..................52 4544) Cray Research Numerical Library Available for SPARC Systems........56 4545) H-P to Ship One of Industry's First 100MHz Servers.................60 NETWORKING 4546) Interfuse Ships First Single-Mode Fiber ATM Adapter................59 4547) Optical Data Systems Quadruples FDDI Bandwidth & Capacity.........130 4548) IRE Network Security Products Ordered by Dept. of Energy...........26 4549) FORE Systems' New Tools for ATM Applications.......................52 4550) Test Shows ACC's Bridge/Router Has Fast Throughput................104 4551) Accton to Use DECchip 21140 for New Centium PCI Ethernet Adapters..45 SOFTWARE 4552) Oracle Media Objects: New Generation Multimedia Applications.......60 4553) Carnegie Mellon Given $1M to Develop Electronic Archive for Heinz..84 4554) Oracle to Release CD-ROM/Interactive Technology to Select Few......36 INTERNATIONAL UPDATE 4555) NKK to Market Supercomputer Co-developed with Convex...............16 4556) Samsung's 256M DRAM Chip Holds 2K Pages of Newspaper Data..........17 PEOPLE/PROMOTIONS/PROFILES 4557) KSR Appoints nCUBE's Jerry Clay Senior VP of Sales & Marketing.....34 4558) Estrin Resigns as CEO of Network Computing Devices.................37 4559) nCUBE Appoints Ronald Dilbeck VP Of Hardware Engineering...........28 SUPERHIGHWAY REPORT 4560) Internet Providers Face Disturbing Liability Issues................43 4561) EUNet Belgium Announces ISDN Connectivity for the Internet.........32 4562) Wellfleet Provides Frame Relay Backbone for Iowa..................215 4563) Average Age of the Internet User..................................218 4564) H-P to Provide CBS with Digital Video Server System................32 ___________________________ 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 =========================================================== 4539) "We're excited about the potential of the World Wide Web and about being the first newspaper to use Mosaic Communications' new software." -- Bob Ingle, President and Executive Editor, Mercury News ANALYSIS & FEATURES ========================================================= 1490) MEMORY, PERFORMANCE, TRUTH AND PRODUCT LAUNCHES.....................180 Commentary by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large Sudheendra Hangal of India points out that performance figures on hot new microprocessors mean little unless associated with indications of memory capacity. He is absolutely correct, but it will take time before the truth cycle coincides with the product launch cycle. 1491) 3D Seismic Imaging at HARC: Using SX-3 System in Energy Industry....114 FEATURE By Dr. Manik Talwani, Professor of Geophysics, Rice University A group of geophysicists at HARC has been working to solve oil and gas exploration problems using an NEC Supercomputer SX-3/22. The project is developing advanced imaging algorithms for 3D exploration seismic data. ___________________________ 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, Numerical Algorithms Group, San Diego Supercomputer Center 604) Looking for that Someone Special? -- HPCwire is your answer!..........58 OTHER DEPARTMENTS =========================================================== CENTERS 3112) Researchers Use PSC's CRAY C90 to Find Blood Substitute...........124 3113) Cornell Theory Center Invites Business Partnerships to Use SP2.....49 CONFERENCES 2888) Calendar of Upcoming HPC Events (2 New Listings)..................115 New Listings: OSF Technology Symposiums, Annual European SCI Workshop SCIENCE & HUMAN INTEREST 3114) Study Shows Electric Shocks May Control Brain Chaos................40 3115) Chemists Recreate Enzyme and Discover How It Governs Life..........52 _____________________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 *930) HNSX | |_________________ *Updated information within last 30 days________________| *** LAST ISSUE'S MOST REQUESTED ITEMS FROM HPCwire *** 4515) Newest Version of NCSA Mosaic to Ship August 26....................56 4514) "Intel's SSD Is Not for Sale!"....................................138 1487) New SGI Chemistry Results Reflect Benchmarking Issues.............172 1489) Seymour & NSA Revive SIMD As Thinking Machines Buried.............153 ***************************************************************************** Copyright 1994 HPCwire. Feel free to distribute this Table of Contents. *****************************************************************************