H P C w i r e The Text-On-Demand News Magazine for High Performance Computing *** October 14, 1994: Vol. 3, No. 40 Circulation: 16,785 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 191 Pages of Text -------------------- * -------------------- Date: Thu, 13 Oct 94 22:18:00 PDT 789) SUPERCOMPUTING'94 - PRE-REGISTRATION DUE OCTOBER 14 o Nation's premier conference on o Advance program High Performance Computing and available on SC'94 Communications takes place in info server. the nation's capital. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 795) LIVE FROM WASHINGTON, D.C. IT'S SUPERCOMPUTING '94 DAILY COVERAGE! _______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _____________________________ | | | 4695) IN THE NEWS: Cray Computer Announces Private Equity Financing | | 1504) COMMENTARY: Cray Research's New J916 Is Cray All the Way for $225K | | 4694) IN THE NEWS: SGI Adds R8000 Workstation, Beefs Up R4400 Products | |___________________________________________________________________________| For a free 6-week trial subscription, email: IN THE NEWS ================================================================= LINES 4694) SGI ADDS R8000 WORKSTATION, BEEFS UP R4400 PRODUCTS.................117 IN THE NEWS by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large In a widespread midcourse enhancement, Silicon Graphics has launched workstations powered with its new R8000 microprocessor while adding punch to its existing products: accelerating the R4400 by one-third and upping caches on multiprocessor systems from 1 to 4 MB. 4695) CRAY COMPUTER ANNOUNCES PRIVATE EQUITY FINANCING.....................53 IN THE NEWS by Carol Cramer, Managing Editor A private placement of $3,850,000 has been completed of Cray Computer's unregistered shares of Common Stock to foreign and private investors. Proceeds will provide working capital for manufacturing, R&D and marketing of its supercomputer products. 4696) SYBASE ACHIEVES BEST PRICE/PERFORMANCE TPC-C BENCHMARKS..............55 IN THE NEWS A new record for price/performance in TPC-C benchmarks was announced by Sybase, Inc. The TPC-C benchmark results reflect the combined strengths of advanced product offerings from Sybase and AT&T. ANNOUNCEMENTS RECEIVED THIS WEEK ============================================ 4697) Mosaic Communications Releases Free Version of Netscape............23 4698) H-P Has Get-Tough Reorganizing Strategy for Storage Business.......29 4699) Parsytec Benelux B.V. Founded/Rosenberg Named Managing Director....40 4701) Data General to Port Trusted Oracle7 for Defense Security Option...54 4702) PostModern Computing Announces CORBA for Cray's Y-MP and T3D.......23 4703) New High Performance Channel Interface Processor from Cisco........66 4704) IDNX Software Creates Global Networks of Unprecedented Size........51 4705) DEC Announces Key Agreements for Its FDDI Network Technology.......60 INTERNATIONAL UPDATE 4706) Mitsubishi to Develop Workstation with Supercomputer Power.........15 4707) Sony Introduces Top-of-the-Line and Low-End Workstations...........21 4708) IBM Japan Delivers UNIX Parallel Computer to Kyoto University......14 4709) Mexico's Institute of Transport Buys Cray EL94......................9 4710) Meteorological Office to Buy Fujitsu Supercomputer.................13 4711) Deutsche Bahn AG Invests $10 Million to Design National Network....48 CONTRACTS & VENTURES/FINANCIAL WATCH 4712) $38 Million Follow-On Navy Contract Won by GM Hughes Unit..........23 4713) GTSI to Provide X-Terminals in NASA Workstation Contract...........23 4714) Philips Joins as New MIPS Licensee of RISC Processors..............19 4715) Oracle Hopes to Gain Database Market Share Next Year...............34 4716) Ten Most Active NASDAQ HPC Stocks..................................29 PEOPLE/PROMOTIONS/PROFILES 4717) Brad Allen Joins Cray Research as New Investor Relations Leader....34 4718) Intel's Craig Barrett Elected to National Academy of Engineering...30 4719) H-P Names Vice President Nawratil Managing Director for Europe.....48 SUPERHIGHWAY REPORT 4720) Complete Listing of NTIA Awards to Local Governments............1,675 4721) Consortium Helps Navajo Nation Go Online with Internet.............54 4722) Next Gen Fractal Video for CD-ROM with MIPS & RISC Processors......53 4723) Telecommunications News Briefs (12 Brief Articles)................190 ___________________________ INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT ___________________________ | | | 796) WEBster's WWW Conference Daily Update ... Live! From Chicago | | 767) 2 New Books from AP Professional: HPC, and Parallel Processing | | 793) DEC: Alpha System Masks Geographic Borders for Online A/V Library | | 794) DEC: Major Supply Chain Software Vendor Moves To Alpha Platform | |___________________________________________________________________________| QUOTE OF THE WEEK =========================================================== 4695) "The key is that we are able to still attract capital from new investors and some from existing ones. This is very important as we continue to get into the marketplace." -- Bill Skolout, Chief Financial Officer, Cray Computer Corp. ANALYSIS & FEATURES ========================================================= 1504) CRAY RESEARCH'S NEW J916 IS CRAY ALL THE WAY FOR $225K..............157 Commentary by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large Cray Research's new J916 is pure Cray all the way except that each of 4 to 16 vector processors has been squeezed down to a few CMOS chips and prices start at $225K. The J90 should follow in the steps of Cray's successful EL; will it also impact sales of Cray's larger systems? 1505) ELECTRON-MOLECULE COLLISIONS FOR MODELING MATERIALS-PROCESSING PLASMAS.............................................................109 FEATURE by Carl Winstead and Vincent McKoy, Calif. Inst. of Technology Plasma processing plays a large and growing role in the manufacture of semiconductor microelectronics. Developing robust 3-D plasma models is a major computational challenge and one that is being addressed. ___________________________ 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 ............................................126 Listings from: Advantis, Convex, Cray Research, Martin Marietta 604) SEEK OUT NEW LIFE...AND BOLDLY GO.....................................58 OTHER DEPARTMENTS =========================================================== SPECIAL EVENTS 2959) UCLA CSD to Celebrate Internet/ARPANET Silver Jubilee.............172 3130) Experimental Internet Broadcast of CAPPS Conference Using MBONE...174 CONFERENCES 2888) Calendar of Upcoming HPC Events (1 New Listing)...................105 New Listing: UCLA CSD to Celebrate Internet/ARPANET Silver Jubilee BOOKSHELF 3131) O'Reilly Publishes First Privacy Guide for Files & Email...........44 SCIENCE & HUMAN INTEREST 3132) NASA's Magellan Mapping Mission Exceeds Expectations...............62 3133) Sun Workstation Uses Structural Analysis on SF Golden Gate Bridge..32 ______________________H P C w i r e S P O N S O R S_____________________ | | | Full background information on all Sponsoring Companies | | | |*900) Ampex 915) Genias Software 916) MasPar Computer | | 912) Avalon Computer *930) HNSX Supercomputers *905) Maximum Strategy | | 921) Cray Research Inc. 902) IBM Corp. 906) nCUBE | | 907) Digital Equipment *904) Intel SSD *932) The Portland Group| | 909) Fujitsu America 935) Silicon Graphics | |_________________ *Updated information within last 30 days________________| *** LAST ISSUE'S MOST REQUESTED ITEMS FROM HPCwire *** 4667) IBM Offers Low-Priced SP2, Pursues Commercial Sales...............215 1502) IBM Enters Multiprocessor Whirlpool with PowerPC..................154 4669) H-P in Agreement with Convex to Resell Exemplar Parallel Systems...92 4668) RAPID HPC Consortium Created to Promote Parallel Applications.....117 ***************************************************************************** Copyright 1994 HPCwire. 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