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To sign up for SUPERCOMPUTING '94 LIVE, simply send an email message today to: and leave the inputting to us! ============================================================================== H P C w i r e The Text-On-Demand News Magazine for High Performance Computing *** October 28, 1994: Vol. 3, No. 42 Circulation: 17,470 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 208 Pages of Text -------------------- * -------------------- 7005) Maximum Strategy: Client/Server Data Serving for HPC High Performance Computing: Access to Data Today and Tomorrow _______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _____________________________ | | | 4758) New Industry Group Forms to Push HIPPI Networks | | 4760) Larry Ellison Accused of Using Oracle Corp. to Benefit nCUBE | | 4757) Multiprocessors for Fossil Fuels: SGI Selling by the Dozen | |___________________________________________________________________________| For a free 6-week trial subscription, email: IN THE NEWS ================================================================= LINES 4757) MULTIPROCESSORS FOR FOSSIL FUELS: SGI SELLING BY THE DOZEN..........122 IN THE NEWS by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large Multiprocessor servers, especially Silicon Graphics' new Power Challenge machines, have been making lots of sales to big-name customers in the oil and gas industry. Is the oil patch's uneasiness about parallel processing ending at last? Future trends in this crucial market could impact the wider HPC profile. 4758) NEW INDUSTRY GROUP FORMS TO PUSH HIPPI NETWORKS......................66 IN THE NEWS by Don Flanagan, Consultant to HIPPI Networking Forum An alliance of vendors and users announced the formation of an open, international group dedicated to advancing the High-Performance Parallel Interface (HIPPI) networking standard, and accelerating the growth of HIPPI connectivity for a broad range of applications. 4759) MEMORY OF A CORPORATION, A CAPPS CONFERENCE PRESENTATION............274 IN THE NEWS by Douglas J. Newell, Vice President HPC, Epsilon What is a corporate memory? It is all the relevant information about customers and prospects stored in one place, defined clearly, measured consistently, and accessible instantly. ANNOUNCEMENTS RECEIVED THIS WEEK ============================================ 4760) Larry Ellison Accused of Using Oracle Corp. to Benefit nCUBE.......69 4761) Cornell Theory Center Installs IBM POWERparallel SP2..............111 4762) Wayne State First Michigan Univ. to Get Cray Res. Supercomputer....23 4763) IBM Launches ATM Campus LAN Solutions..............................54 4764) Convex Selects CLARiiON Disk Arrays for Archival Data Management...37 4765) Energy Sec'y Validates Industrial Investment in National Labs......47 4766) Jet Cockpits Tested Before Being Built with IBM Software...........74 4767) Integration Group to Distribute NetStar GigaRouter in France.......52 CONTRACTS/VENTURES/ACQUISITIONS 4768) Mosaic Communications Seeks Partners in Japan......................45 4769) Wall Data Purchases Equity Position in SPRY........................26 4770) H-P Displaces Sun as UNIX System Supplier at Martin Marietta.......52 4771) PGI in Agreement with SofTek to Resell HPF Compilers in Japan......40 4772) Cisco to Acquire Kalpana, Leading Ethernet Switch Provider.........41 FINANCIAL WATCH 4773) Q3 Reports - A submenu listing: Amdahl, Convex, Cray Computer, Cray Research, Fujitsu, IBM and StorageTek 4781) Ten Most Active NASDAQ HPC Stocks..................................30 PEOPLE/PROMOTIONS/PROFILES 4782) Thinking Machines Names New Officers: Edson COO and Vestal VP......36 4783) SGI/AT&T Name Edward Birss to Head Interactive Digital.............53 SUPERHIGHWAY REPORT 4785) DEC Helps Calif. in First-Ever Live Election Returns on Internet...61 4786) Japanese Technology/Information Soon Available on World Wide Web...54 ___________________________ INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT ___________________________ | | | 795) LIVE FROM WASHINGTON, D.C. IT'S SUPERCOMPUTING DAILY COVERAGE! | | 7003) DEC's Alpha 21164 Keeps Top Spot as Competitors Debut New Chips | | 7004) Digital Announces Largest Alpha AXP System Sale In Brazil | |___________________________________________________________________________| QUOTE OF THE WEEK =========================================================== 4759) "Just as human society has evolved partially through technological breakthroughs, corporations also evolve with technology. Today corporate marketing is on the cusp of an evolutionary leap. This leap is being triggered in part by parallel processing." -- Douglas J. Newell, Vice President HPC, Epsilon ANALYSIS & FEATURES ========================================================= 1508) COMPUTER/TELECOMS CONVERGENCE: TECHNOSLOGAN OR REALITY?.............159 Commentary by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large It is fashionable to assert that computers and telecommunications are converging. But even in the U.S., the telecoms industry remains regulated, fond of protected markets, and fogged with telecomolepsy. The technological imperatives for an eventual pulling together are nevertheless very strong. 1509) MPP BENEFITS MOBIL/GECO-PRAKLA SEISMIC PROCESSING PROJECT............57 FEATURE by Dennis O'Neill, Geo-Prakla, and Stew Levin, Mobil A recent collaborative seismic processing project between Texas-based Mobil Exploration and Producing Center and Geco-Prakla using a CM-5 validated several promised benefits of the synergy of MPP, high-density mass storage and high-speed networking. 1510) INTEL'S LATEST PARAGON: 1024 NODES & THREE CHIPS PER NODE............98 News Analysis by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large Intel's 1K system at Oak Ridge and Cornell's 512 processor assemblage herald a new species: large numbers of powerful processors. 150 GFLOPS (Paragon) and 136 GFLOPS (Cornell) are impressive, but $30 million (Paragon) is still lots of cash. $200 per MFLOP is, however, not bad. ___________________________ 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 .............................................75 Listings from: Convex, Cornell Theory Center, Cray Research U.K., Los Alamos National Laboratory *. * - New Listing 604) SEEK OUT NEW LIFE ... AND BOLDLY GO...................................58 OTHER DEPARTMENTS =========================================================== SPECIAL EVENTS 3141) Superkids and Superteachers at Supercomputing '94..................85 CONFERENCES 2888) Calendar of Upcoming HPC Events (2 New Listings/1 Update).........106 New Listings: Internet Seminar; International Parallel Processing Symposium; Update: Dataquest Forum on Desktop Storage ______________________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 *** 4724) SGI/MIPS Unit Debut Next Generation MIPS RISC Chips -- R10000.....103 4725) HINT: John Gustafson's Latest Measure of Performance...............64 4726) Motorola/IBM Debut High-End PowerPC 620 Microprocessor............103 1506) Multiprocessor Servers: Rearranging HPC Landscape.................213 ***************************************************************************** Copyright 1994 HPCwire. 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