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HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM HPCwire!!!! ```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` H P C w i r e The E-zine for High Performance Computing and Commercial Processing *** November 23, 1994: Vol. 3, No. 46 Circulation: 18,781 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 201 Pages of Text ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Article Retrieval instructions at end of this file . -------------------- * -------------------- The Portland Group (PGI) is now shipping its High Performance Fortran (HPF) compiler. For more information, see the PGI home page at or retrieve the following HPCwire articles: 4815) Special PGI Program Promotes Parallel Computing in Education 4817) First Production Release of pghpf Compiler from PGI 4822) PGI Announces HPF Compilers on Silicon Graphics Systems 932) The Portland Group Backgrounder and Fact Sheet _______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _____________________________ | | | 1520) Two Faces of New Congress Will Weigh Future of HPCC and NII | | 4879) 1994 Gordon Bell Award Winners Announced at Supercomputing'94 | | 1521) FEATURE: Making the NII Real, SC'94 Keynote by Edward R. McCracken | |___________________________________________________________________________| For a free 6-week trial subscription, email: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ S P E C I A L S U P E R C O M P U T I N G '9 4 S U P P L E M E N T 950) We missed you at SC'94 and you still have a second chance! 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IN THE NEWS ================================================================= Lines GORDON BELL AWARD WINNERS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 4879) 1994 Gordon Bell Prize Winners Announced at Supercomputing'94........60 4880) SNL Wins Gordon Bell Prize for Large-Scale Scientific Computing......96 4881) Cornell Theory Center Researcher Wins Gordon Bell Prize at SC'94.....59 SCIENCE & ENGINEERING NEWS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 4882) MASSIVELY PARALLEL COMPUTING COULD HELP GUIDE BRAIN SURGERY.........100 MPP computing is helping Sandia National Lab scientists who are working with doctors to develop 3-D computer imaging techniques. 4883) NATIONAL SOFTWARE EXCHANGE (NSE) PROTOTYPE REPORT...................763 This report describes a short-term effort to construct a prototype for NSE which will demonstrate how the evolving NII can be used to facilitate sharing of software and information among members of the High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC) community. NEWS BRIEFS ================================================================= 4884) nCUBE 3 MPP Computer Provides TeraFLOPS Platform for HPC Market....90 4885) Convex's GSM Tech. Allows Data Access Anywhere in Parallel System.108 4886) Interoperability of Serial HIPPI Switches Showcased at SC'94.......47 4887) Japan Electric Purchases nCUBE Massively Parallel System...........42 4888) Thinking Machines Plans to Emerge from Bankruptcy..................58 4889) Cray Research Selects Essential Switch for Clusters................35 4890) SofTech to License Fortran 90 and HPF Compiler from DEC............61 4891) Portland Group Has SuperCompilers & Tools for Meiko's CS-2HA.......45 4892) First Installation in Thailand for Cray Research...................56 4893) DEC Partners with Customers to Implement Fast ATM Networks.........99 4894) Exabyte/Synnex Sign Distributor Agreement..........................33 FINANCIAL WATCH 4895) Most Active NASDAQ HPC Stocks......................................30 4896) Hewlett-Packard Earnings Up 60 Percent.............................58 PEOPLE/PROMOTIONS/PROFILES 4897) Scientist Peskin Honored for Heart Research at PSC.................55 4898) Derry Kabcenell Named Oracle Executive Vice President..............33 4899) Cisco President/CEO to Become Chairman of the Board................45 4900) Oracle Co-Founder Robert Miner Dies................................25 SUPERHIGHWAY REPORT 4901) Software Companies Offer Rewards for Conviction of Hackers.........25 4902) Spyglass Sees Name Change for Mosaic Communications as Solid Move..63 4903) SPRY's AIR Mosaic Express Chosen as MecklerWeb's Internet Browser..62 4904) BT Uses nCUBE Hardware Platform for New Interactive TV Service.....34 4905) Dutch PTT Stakes Claim to InfoBahn Action with "Planet Internet"...53 ___________________________ INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT ___________________________ | | | 7021) DEC AdvantageClusters Lead Industry in Single System Performance | | 7022) DEC's New Alpha 21066A Chip Puts Speed Into High End Applications | |___________________________________________________________________________| QUOTE OF THE WEEK =========================================================== 1521) "... the attack of the killer micros isn't going to end. It's not that vector machines aren't powerful or that they haven't done a good job solving problems. It's that microprocessors can get even more powerful, solve even more problems and do it at a fraction of the cost." -- Edward R. McCracken, Chairman and CEO, Silicon Graphics, Inc. ANALYSIS & FEATURES ========================================================= 1520) TWO FACES OF NEW CONGRESS WILL WEIGH FUTURE OF HPCC AND NII.........241 Commentary by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large The HPCC Act was passed by Republicans, but will today's Republicans honor that precedent? NII means Clinton & Gore, but will former bipartisanship prevail? While anxieties mount, the legislative future of telecommunications regulation may have wider impact on high- performance computing. 1521) MAKING THE NII REAL: Supercomputing'94 Keynote Address..............651 FEATURE by Edward R. McCracken, Chairman and CEO of Silicon Graphics The role of high-performance computing, its future, even the way we define it, is all changing, and it's critical that we embrace that change rather than fight it. ___________________________ 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.........................................150 Listings from: Centre d' Application du Calcul Parallele (CAPCUS)*, Convex, Cornell Theory Center, Cray Research, IBM POWERparallel, Intel SSD, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Silicon Graphics. < * > New Listings. 604) SEEK OUT NEW LIFE ... AND BOLDLY GO.................................58 CONFERENCES ================================================================= 3145) Report on the First European PVM Users' Group Meeting.............137 2888) Calendar of Upcoming HPC Events (4 New Listings)..................102 New Listings: DSP WORLD EXPO - ICSPAT'95; 3 Maui HPC User Workshops. ______________________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 905) Maximum Strategy | |*912) Avalon Computer 930) HNSX Supercomputers 906) nCUBE | | 921) Cray Research Inc. 902) IBM Corp. 932) Portland Group | | 907) Digital Equipment 904) Intel SSD 935) Silicon Graphics | | 909) Fujitsu America 916) MasPar Computer *931) Sony Corporation | | *Updated information within last 30 days | |___________________________________________________________________________| *** LAST ISSUE'S MOST REQUESTED ITEMS FROM HPCwire *** 1518) Hi-Demand, Lo-Price Dilemma for Scalable Vendors.................289 667) Employment Opportunities.........................................150 608) Boydell's Comments on: T3D Sets Performance/Scalability Records...42 1519) FEATURE: Collective Communication on Two-Dimensional Meshes......139 ***************************************************************************** Copyright 1994 HPCwire. 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