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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, MEDSTAT and Prudential Securities. ______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE ______________________________ | | | 4566) EXCLUSIVE: Cray Computer Corp.: Down to its Last Nanoseconds | | 1494) ANALYSIS: Hubris & Alpha: DEC Sells Database Business to Oracle | | 4567) NEWS: SPRY Offers Secure AIR Mosaic for Financial Transactions | |___________________________________________________________________________| For a free 6-week trial subscription, email: trial@hpcwire.ans.net Subscription Information: sub@hpcwire.ans.net IN THE NEWS ================================================================= LINES 4565) LETTER OF CELEBRATION: 2nd FOR HPCwire, 25th FOR INTERNET............67 From Tom Tabor, Publisher, and the HPCwire Staff We are celebrating the second anniversary of HPCwire very close to another, far more important celebration: the 25th anniversary of the first transmission over the ARPANET. 4566) CRAY COMPUTER CORP.: DOWN TO ITS LAST NANOSECONDS...................126 By Willie Schatz, Contributing Editor Exclusive interview in a series with HPC industry leaders. If there's no Cray 4 by December 31, when the company's creditors have sworn to pull the financial plug, Cray Computer will become one more stone in the supercomputing graveyard. 4567) SPRY OFFERS SECURE AIR MOSAIC FOR FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS.............65 By Carol Cramer, Managing Editor AIR Mosaic's Secure Encrypted Transaction architecture supports various security standards such as DES, RSA and others and enables companies to confidently offer products and services for sale over the Internet. ANNOUNCEMENTS RECEIVED THIS WEEK ============================================ NEWS/CONTRACTS & VENTURES/FINANCIAL WATCH 4568) Alpha Chip Breaks 300MHz Barrier...................................52 4569) PGS Tensor Adds 2 Paragons/Expands Lead in Seismic Depth Imaging...45 4570) Spyglass/FTP Software Adapt Mosaic for Corporate/Consumer Markets..62 4571) Oracle Wins Software Contract to Develop Student Info System.......61 4572) RSA Data/Premenos Team to Unveil Cryptography/Digital Signatures...39 4573) FTP Software Teams with Unipalm on Email Technology................57 4574) Sybase Awarded Major Contract in Germany...........................79 4575) 10 Most Active NASDAQ HPC Stocks...................................26 NETWORKING 4576) Grand Junction Doubles Fast Ethernet Bandwidth with CollisionFree..73 4577) Armed Forces Use High-Speed ATM Networking for JWID '94 Demo.......83 4578) H-P Announces LABS/Sets New Standards for Network Backup...........70 4579) LightStream 2020 Unveiled/Second Generation, Multi-Node Network....37 4580) IBM Announces Multiprotocol Strategy/New Network Products..........82 4581) H-P Debuts High-speed ATM Interface for Workstations...............96 INTERNATIONAL UPDATE 4582) Synopsis of U.S.-China Trade Mission...............................58 4583) NEC to Pick Scotland for New Chip Plant............................62 4584) Fujitsu/Hitachi Bid for Supercomputer Order from Atomic Power Lab..14 4585) Singapore Broadcast Laws Exclude Computer Bulletin Boards..........23 SUPERHIGHWAY REPORT 4586) Latest FBI Wiretapping Bill Calls for Common Carrier Penalties.....51 4587) N. Carolina Agencies/Educational Institutes Linked to Internet.....74 4588) The New York Times to Put Classified Ads Online....................90 4589) Pac Bell Survey Shows Telecommuting Remains Popular in S. Calif....68 4590) America Online Creates Four New Divisions.........................123 4591) Survey Shows PCs Beat TV As Major Info Appliance at Home...........41 ___________________________ INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT ___________________________ | | | 778) DEC: Alpha Systems Continue Explosive Growth & Leadership Performance| | 787) Digital Extends Introductory Pricing Offer for TechAdvantage Software| | 739) 800 FLY CORP Announces Corporate Travel Savings Via Email | | 790) HPCwire's Electronic Publishing Software Provides TEXT-ON-DEMAND | |___________________________________________________________________________| QUOTE OF THE WEEK =========================================================== 4566) "The burden of proof on us is monstrous, but it won't be if we achieve a price/performance ratio of 5 to 6 times lower than any machine out there. We believe we can offer a platform next year with half the price for the same performance." -- Terry Willcom, President, Cray Computer Corporation ANALYSIS & FEATURES ========================================================= 1492) MORE ON MEMORY, PERFORMANCE, TRUTH AND COMPLEXITY...................111 Commentary by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large Joe Grisillo of Fujitsu notes that everything in high-performance computing is even more confused than you might think. What happens when more performance and more affordability also mean more complexity and uncertainty? A soured Klondike? 1493) QUARKS IN PARALLEL: Hunting the Origins of Mass.....................143 FEATURE By Robert Sugar, University of California, Santa Barbara Hunters of the fundamental constituents of matter and their interactions find nature's smallest conceivable phenomena among supercomputing's grandest grand challenges. 1494) HUBRIS & ALPHA: DEC SELLS DATABASE BUSINESS TO ORACLE................95 News Analysis by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large Struggling to cut costs further, Digital has sold its database business to Oracle. Striving to conquer new domains in interactive TV and elsewhere, Oracle might do well to pause and consider how DEC, once equally invulnerable, was brought to its present state. ___________________________ 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 =========================================================== CONFERENCES 2888) Calendar of Upcoming HPC Events (1 New Listing/1 Update)..........115 New Listing: Future of Japan's NII; Update: Call for Papers for the First European PVM Users Group SCIENCE & HUMAN INTEREST 3116) SPARC-10 System Helps Scientists Study 2,200-Year-Old Mummy........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. | | | |*900) Ampex 915) Genias Software 928) Kendall Square Res | | 912) Avalon Computer *930) HNSX Supercomputers 916) MasPar Computer | | 921) Cray Research Inc. 902) IBM Corp. 905) Maximum Strategy | | 907) Digital Equipment 904) Intel SSD 906) nCUBE | | 909) Fujitsu America 935) Silicon Graphics | |_________________ *Updated information within last 30 days________________| *** LAST ISSUE'S MOST REQUESTED ITEMS FROM HPCwire *** 4540) Multiprocessors in the Oil Patch: Cray Research & SGI...........68 4563) Average Age of the Internet User...............................218 4539) Mosaic Communications/Mercury News in Development Agreement.....60 4560) Internet Providers Face Disturbing Liability Issues.............43 ***************************************************************************** Copyright 1994 HPCwire. 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