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HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM HPCwire! ````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` H P C w i r e The Text-on-Demand E-zine for High Performance Computing *** December 2, 1994: Vol. 3, No. 47 Circulation: 19,347 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 197 Pages of Text ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Article Retrieval instructions at end of this file . -------------------- * -------------------- 7021) DEC AdvantageClusters Lead Industry in Single System Performance Expand Digital UNIX Cluster Family Compute Servers Designed to Meet the Needs of Customers with Applications Requiring Extremely High Compute Power ... "Tremendous Problem Solving Power at Very Low Cost" _______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _____________________________ | | | 1522) Ken Kennedy: "Is Parallel Computing Dead?" Reply: Not at All | | 4908) China Assisted in Oil Search with SGI's Power Challenge | | 4910) Stanford University Gets First Supercomputer from Cray Research | |___________________________________________________________________________| For a free 6-week trial subscription, email: IN THE NEWS ================================================================= COMMERCIAL NEWS Lines in Articles ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 4906) LINKING THE HEMISPHERES OF HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING...............107 Commentary by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large Technical and commercial applications are becoming like the two hemispheres of the brain: both are needed to sustain the whole. Vendors already grasp this point; will the broader high-performance community (and its annual Supercomputing gathering) also realize its importance? SCIENCE & ENGINEERING NEWS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 4907) PARAGON SYSTEM PROCESSES SPACEBORNE RADAR DATA AT JPL...............109 NASA's observational missions are generating staggering quantities of data. Its turn-of-the-century satellites could be sending a terabyte of data back to earth daily -- enough to fill a stack of magnetic tape reels as high as the Washington monument. 4908) CHINA ASSISTED IN OIL SEARCH WITH SGI'S POWER CHALLENGE..............61 A six-processor Power Challenge supercomputer sold to China National Petroleum Corp. is used for oil and gas prospecting in the Xinjiang province. 4909) SUN SPARC WORKSTATIONS HELP MAYO CLINIC'S NEW IMAGING SYSTEM.........40 Siemens SIENET Picture Archiving and Communications Systems, based on high-resolution Sun SPARC workstations and digital archives, allow medical centers to acquire, process, store and distribute medical images (without hardcopy film) to diagnostic and viewing locations. NEWS BRIEFS ================================================================= 4910) Stanford University Gets First Supercomputer from Cray Research....47 4911) AT&T Has Best-Ever TPC-C Results on UNIX Medium-Scale Server.......63 4912) Record Bandwidths Achieved Across the CASA Gigabit Testbed Network.29 4913) Maximum Strategy Announces New Data Server Gen5 for HPC............93 4914) Rapid Acceptance of Replication Server Reported by Sybase..........85 4915) Apple/AT&T/IBM/Siemens to Provide Communication Interoperability..111 4916) Semiconductor Industry Targets 0.07 Micron Technology by 2010......29 4917) Conference Link Allows Breakthrough in Control of Workstations.....39 4918) Sybase Query Acceleration Product Achieves Specialized DB Tech.....64 4919) Interphase to Host ATM Interoperability Testing in May '95.........60 4920) Inter-Tel Selects Sybase SQL Server as Standard....................65 4921) DEC Takes Top Honors at Comdex with Cluster Systems for UNIX.......36 4922) Auspex Introduces NS 7000 NetServer Enhancements...................69 4923) Sequent/MIT Announce IBI to Align Business and Technology.........103 INTERNATIONAL UPDATE 4924) NEC Singapore Unit Ties Up with SCS................................17 4925) Singapore Telecom Enhances Internet Link...........................38 CONTRACTS/VENTURES - PEOPLE/PROMOTIONS/PROFILES - FINANCIAL WATCH 4926) SAIC Joins Cornell Theory Center's Corporate Research Institute....88 4927) Tektronix X Terminals Added to NASA SEWP Contract..................53 4928) Newbridge Awarded Contracts Worth $12 Million in Brazil............51 4929) Cray Research's Les Davis to Retire/Robert Ewald Named New COO.....53 4930) Most Active NASDAQ HPC Stocks......................................20 SUPERHIGHWAY REPORT 4931) 'Visible Man' on Internet Allows Science New Views of Human Body...46 4932) European Phone Companies Launch Pilot Information Highway..........57 4933) New Player Stirs Competition for Dutch Internet....................30 4934) GE Joins CommerceNet as Largest Sponsor of Internet Consortium.....98 ___________________________ INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT ___________________________ | | | 7022) DEC's New Alpha 21066A Chip Puts Speed Into High End Applications | | 4817) First Production Release of pghpf Compiler from PGI | | 7023) 'Selling Your Story to the Business Press' Seminar for Hi-Tek Orgs | | 7024) WEBster Brings You Up to Speed on the InfoBahn -- An E-zine Devoted | | to the Hottest Ticket on the Net: Mosaic and the World Wide Web | | 777) Microsoft IMSL Mathematical/Statistical PC Libraries Now Available | | 604) Recruiting ... A Mission Impossible? | |___________________________________________________________________________| QUOTE OF THE WEEK =========================================================== 1522) "I have been asked whether parallel computing will soon be relegated to the trash heap reserved for promising technologies that never quite make it." -- Ken Kennedy, CRPC Director, Rice University ANALYSIS & FEATURES ========================================================= 1522) KEN KENNEDY: "IS PARALLEL COMPUTING DEAD?" REPLY: NOT AT ALL........288 Commentary by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large Parallel computing, which has changed greatly from the "MPP, heir to supercomputing" perspective of the early 1990s, may be changed again by the recent advent of vector/parallel systems. Fears that the demise of TMC portends a parallel crisis are based on outdated premises. 1523) ORNL'S KEN KLIEWER ON HOW TO PUT THE SIZZLE BACK IN HPCC............126 FEATURE INTERVIEW by Jan Rowell, Contributing Writer High performance computing must become more democratic in 1995, says director of Oak Ridge National Lab's Center for Computational Sciences. Kliewer also discusses ORNL's next-gen Intel Paragon MP supercomputer and tells how the national labs are working to create an "impedance match" between the labs and needs of industry and society. ___________________________ 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. 604) RECRUITING ... A MISSION IMPOSSIBLE?..............................96 CONFERENCES ================================================================= 2888) Calendar of Upcoming HPC Events (3 New Listings, 3 Updates).......109 New Listings: 2 BudTool Training Sessions; Selling Your Story to the Business Press; Updates: 3 Maui HPC User Training 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 *** 1521) Making the NII Real, SC'94 Keynote by Edward R. McCracken......651 4879) 1994 Gordon Bell Award Winners Announced at Supercomputing'94...60 4888) Thinking Machines Plans to Emerge from Bankruptcy...............58 1520) Two Faces of New Congress Will Weigh Future of HPCC and NII....241 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Copyright 1994 HPCwire. Feel free to distribute this Table of Contents. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~