Only 2 weeks left to take advantage of HPCwire's Holiday Subscription Special ***************************************************************************** ANNOUNCING: HPCwire's 2nd annual 50% off Holiday Subscription Special!! Order your paid subscription to HPCwire by December 23 and receive a 50% discount. A one year subscription to HPCwire for the first person at your site is now just $97 (regularly $195). If there are already subscribers at your site, the cost of an additional subscription is $49. For full details and order forms, email . HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM HPCwire!!!! ````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` H P C w i r e The Text-on-Demand E-zine for High Performance Computing *** December 9, 1994: Vol. 3, No. 48 Circulation: 18,734 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 207 Pages of Text ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Article Retrieval instructions at end of this file . For a free 6-week trial subscription, email: -------------------- * -------------------- 7025) SUPERCOMPUTING'95: Call for Participation December 4-8, 1995 - San Diego Convention Center - San Diego, CA, USA SC'95 will broaden the traditional audience for this conference, creating a program that integrates fully with HPCC and the NII, highlighting a broader arena of research, administration, and products. _______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _____________________________ | | | 4935) YEAR END: HPC 1994-1995: Proice, The InterNewt, Gittens & More | | 4936) IBM's Commercial Parallel Solution Improves Business Decisions | | 1524) COMMENTARY: Prescription for the HPCCI: Chill Out | |___________________________________________________________________________| S P E C I A L S U P P L E M E N T Year End Outlook Lines 4935) HPC 1994-1995: PROICE, THE INTERNEWT, GITTENS AND MORE..............330 YEAR END OUTLOOK COMMENTARY by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large In excerpts from a TV debate on high-performance computing in 1994 and the outlook for 1995, Rosie C. Narryo and Grimm X. Pecktations state contrasting views. Narryo says "proice", price (low) and choice (wide), is the watchword. Pecktations sees an industry tearing itself apart. IN THE NEWS ================================================================= COMMERCIAL NEWS 4936) IBM'S COMMERCIAL PARALLEL SOLUTION IMPROVES BUSINESS DECISIONS......112 POWERquery for the SP2, a set of highly scalable and flexible building blocks of IBM hardware, software and consulting services, will enable each installation to be optimized for present/future customer needs. 4937) MASPAR INTRODUCES RDBMS FOR HIGH-END DECISION SUPPORT...............105 The MasPar Decision Series is designed to provide very high performance to complex queries on very large data sets. 4938) BOEING COMMERCIAL SELECTS SEQUENT TO AID MOVE TO CLIENT/SERVER.......45 Sequent will provide Boeing with consulting and support services, as well as hardware, for the client/server-based information system. SCIENCE & ENGINEERING NEWS 4939) PARAGON SYSTEM AT OAK RIDGE AIDS NEXT-GEN CAR DESIGN EFFORT.........129 As the national labs look toward making the U.S. a tougher industrial competitor, one of the first places being eyed is the auto industry. Oak Ridge National Lab and its 512-node Intel Paragon Supercomputer are part of a broad-based effort to apply the best of American technology to designing next-generation automobiles. NEWS BRIEFS ================================================================= 4940) MasPar Makes Key Data Warehouse Alliances & Debuts Decisionware...103 4941) Concurrent Unveils Real-Time 200 MHz Multiprocessing System.......119 4942) Workstation Tools from CXSOFT Replace Traditional UNIX Commands....59 4943) Family of Internet AlphaServers Announced by DEC...................93 4944) Informix-OnLine Dynamic Server Sets New TPC-C Performance Record...81 4945) IBM Establishes Network Technology Research Lab in Beijing.........44 4946) DEC Discussing Sale of Alpha Chip Scottish Plant with Motorola.....34 ORDERS/INSTALLATIONS 4947) Harvard Places First Order for Cray Research Supercomputer.........34 4948) Stanford/NASA Buy Ampex Tape Libraries for Solar Physics Project...40 CONTRACTS/VENTURES/ACQUISITIONS 4949) Cisco to Acquire LightStream Assets from Bolt Beranek & Newman.....24 4950) Fujitsu/TeamWARE Select Fulcrum's Scalable Text-Retrieval Software.42 4951) Sybase Selected to Replace Database for Canadian Life Insurance Co.75 4952) Landmark/Kazakhstan Ministry Sign Natural Resources Agreement......39 4953) Oracle Completes Acquisition of DEC's Rdb Database Business........81 FINANCIAL WATCH - PEOPLE/PROMOTIONS/PROFILES 4954) Ten Most Active NASDAQ HPC Stocks..................................28 4955) Cray Research Appoints Six New Management Positions................54 SUPERHIGHWAY REPORT 4956) New Spyglass Enhanced Mosaic Software Speeds Up Internet Commerce..62 4957) Instant Internet Access to WWW with SPRY's AIR Mosaic Express......71 4958) IBM's New Security Product to Protect Businesses on Internet......107 4959) China Cracks Down on Piracy........................................39 4960) NASA Technical Report Server Now Available.........................41 ___________________________ INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT ___________________________ | | | 7022) DEC's New Alpha 21066A Chip Puts Speed Into High End Applications | | 7020) Fujitsu America Supercomputer Group - Statement of Direction | | 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 | |___________________________________________________________________________| QUOTE OF THE WEEK =========================================================== 1524) "If the business community is given a chance to explain it, it will be clear that the HPCCI is the kind of precompetitive, generic research supported by the two previous Republican administrations. It will ultimately be noncontroversial." -- Ken Kay, Executive Director, Computer Systems Policy Project FEATURES ==================================================================== 1524) PRESCRIPTION FOR THE HPCCI: CHILL OUT................................95 COMMENTARY by Willie Schatz, Contributing Editor Everybody's jumping to very negative conclusions, but it's way too early for that. There's no way the Congress is going to trash HPCCI. 1525) A WORK IN PROGRESS - IBM VISUALIZATION DATA EXPLORER CAVE MODULE.....89 FEATURE by Richard E. Gillilan, Cornell Theory Center Visualization at Cornell is conducted largely using a program called IBM DataExplorer, a new paradigm of visual computing which allows scientists rapidly and easily to create visual simulation programs resembling flow charts. HPCwire INFORMATION ========================================================= 7000) Subscription Information / How to Get On-Off / Letters to the Editor/ Complete Index of Back Issues / Masthead-Email Contacts-Submission Tips JOB BANK ==================================================================== 667) Employment Opportunities..........................................150 Listings from: Centre d'Application du Calcul Parallele (CAPCUS), HNSX Supercomputer Inc.*, IBM POWERparallel, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center*, Intel SSD < * > New Listings This Week 604) IN SEARCH OF INTELLIGENT LIFE......................................96 CONFERENCES ================================================================= 2888) Calendar of Upcoming HPC Events (67 New Listings).................110 New Listings: HPC-SIP Calendar Dec. '94 - May '98 (67 listings). BOOKSHELF 3146) 4 ON THE FLOOR: New Books on Gearing Up for the Internet...........55 ______________________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 *** 1522) Ken Kennedy: "Is Parallel Computing Dead?" Reply: Not at All.....288 4906) Linking the Hemispheres of High-Performance Computing............107 4931) 'Visible Man' on Internet Allows Science New Views of Human Body..46 1523) ORNL's Ken Kliewer on How to Put the Sizzle Back in HPCC.........126 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Copyright 1994 HPCwire. Feel free to distribute this Table of Contents. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~