H P C w i r e The Text-on-Demand E-zine for High Performance Computing *** November 18, 1994: Vol. 3, No. 45 Circulation: 18,378 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 187 pages of Text ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Article Retrieval instructions at end of this file . -------------------- * -------------------- INTEL FEATURES REAL WORLD USER APPLICATIONS AT SUPERCOMPUTING'94 Over 25 GigaFLOPS of Paragon Capacity Was Assembled To Support Continuous Demos During Three Day Event. Demonstrations highlighted work from California Institute of Technology / Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Lockheed Advanced Development Company, Sandia National Laboratories / Department of Veteran Affairs, McDonnell Douglas, San Diego Supercomputer Center, NOAA/FSL, Martin Marietta, ICASE, Honeywell Space Systems, and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Complete demo descriptions are available on the Intel Scalable Systems Division World Wide Web page [http://www.ssd.intel.com/homepage.html] _______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _____________________________ | | | 1518) Hi-Demand, Lo-Price Dilemma for Scalable Vendors | | 608) Boydell's Comments on: T3D Sets Performance/Scalability Records | | 4869) U. of Minn. Demos High-Perf. High-Res. Visualization at SC'94 | |___________________________________________________________________________| For a free 6-week trial subscription, email: IN THE NEWS ================================================================= COMMERCIAL NEWS Lines ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 4868) JCPENNEY TO TEST ADVANCED ATM, SONET-SPEED...........................50 One of the nation's largest department store and catalog retailers launched a trial with AT&T, Cisco Systems and Southwestern Bell Telephone to test a highly advanced, super high-speed communications network. SCIENCE & ENGINEERING NEWS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 4869) U. OF MINN. DEMOS HIGH-PERF. HIGH-RES. VISUALIZATION AT SC'94........82 The U. of Minnesota, with Silicon Graphics, Inc., Ciprico, Inc. and IBM Storage Products Division, has built and demonstrated a high- performance, high resolution visualization system called the PowerWall. 4870) BIONUMERIK/CRAY RESEARCH PARTNER TO COMBAT CANCER, HEART DISEASE.....99 Pharmaceutical research and development firm BioNumerik Pharmaceuticals will enter a beta site agreement for new supercomputer systems from Cray Research which are designed to speed the development of powerful new drugs to combat cancer and heart disease. 4871) POLARFLITE SETS OUT TO FLY THE FOUR CORNERS OF THE WORLD.............49 Nineteen aviation records could be broken or set as PolarFlite attempts an historic trip around the world via the North and South Poles. NEWS BRIEFS ================================================================= 4872) 3COM Announces Breakthrough Technology for Network Support........107 4873) DEC Expands Storage Platform & Environment Support ................49 4874) Electric-Vehicle Battery Capacitor Exceeds Development Specs.......45 SUPERHIGHWAY REPORT 4875) Premenos/Cisco Systems Provide Model for Secure 'Net Transactions..58 4876) Cray Research Announces the UniChem WWW Page.......................21 4877) Deutsche Telekom Lowers Tolls on the InfoBahn......................51 4878) Telecommunications News Briefs (23 brief articles)................261 ___________________________ INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT ___________________________ | | | 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 =========================================================== 4872) "Today, users are already wondering how to make their networks capable of handling the exciting real-time interactive applications being introduced..." -- John Hart, chief technical officer for 3Com. ANALYSIS & FEATURES ========================================================= 1518) HI-DEMAND, LO-PRICE DILEMMA FOR SCALABLE VENDORS....................289 By Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large Convex, Fujitsu, IBM, Intel, Meiko and nCUBE are writing different scripts to meet the new demands of the scalable box office in Parallelwood. IBM has the beginnings of a hit with the SP2. Can others adapt to the new reality of low ticket prices? 1519) FEATURE: COLLECTIVE COMMUNICATION ON TWO-DIMENSIONAL MESHES.........139 One important characteristic of all collective communication routines is that they generate a large number of messages and a great deal of traffic in the communication network. 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