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For a free 6-week trial subscription, email: . -------------------- * -------------------- 7026) "The Reinvention of Supercomputing: Silicon Graphics and the Changing Technology" An IDC White Paper * The revolution in supercomputing technology * The architectural explosion * The SGI vision: plotting a course through the technology labyrinth _______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _____________________________ | | | 4980) Amdahl Announces First Major Contract for High-End Workstations | | 1527) Seymour Cray Sees Early 1995 Orders for 1-NS, GaAs CRAY-4 | | 4969) DEC/Oracle Unveil First 64-Bit In-Memory UNIX-Based Relational DB | |___________________________________________________________________________| S P E C I A L S U P P L E M E N T 1994 Presidents' Letters & Year In Review Lines 4961) CRAY RESEARCH'S JOHN CARLSON RECAPS A PRODUCTIVE YEAR...............115 Cray took a revenue leadership position in the massively parallel market, exceeded its scientific-technical sales projections, launched its J916 vector system and its first SPARC-compatible product, CS6400. 4962) INTEL'S PERSPECTIVE FROM ED MASI: BUILDING ON A YEAR OF SUCCESS......76 Despite considerable business turmoil, 1994 has been a year in which HPCC dividends rolled in, scalable MIMD systems assumed the mantle of the "new mainframe" and Intel SSD expanded its charter to become the Scalable Systems Division. IN THE NEWS ================================================================= COMMERCIAL NEWS 4963) AUSPEX EXPANDED PRESENCE IN COMMERCIAL MARKETS DURING 1994...........47 Successful expansion has been done by Auspex as it created a presence in the financial, medical and film animation markets with the addition of several new customers in 1994. 4964) MEIKO EXTENDS MPPC PRODUCT LINE/SUPPORTS COMPLEX INFO SYSTEMS.......154 Major extensions to Meiko's CS-2 product family yields quadrupled performance using symmetric multiprocessing elements. SCIENCE & ENGINEERING NEWS 4965) DISCOVERY 'SIMPLIFIES' 4-DIMENSIONAL EQUATIONS/MAY EXPLAIN QUARKS...146 Two physicists have devised a revolutionary mathematical technique that makes many problems in four-dimensional space dramatically easier to calculate. NEWS BRIEFS ================================================================= 4966) KSR1 to Be Removed from Service March 31 at Cornell Theory Center..43 4967) Queensland Parallel Supercomputing Facility Launches New SP2.......62 4968) Cray Research CEO Says Japan Business 'Good and Growing'...........37 4969) DEC/Oracle Unveil First 64-Bit In-Memory UNIX-Based Relational DB..73 4970) Database Products with Xplorer 2000 Integrate MPP DB Servers.......77 4971) Platform's Load Sharing Transforms Network into Virtual Mainframe..44 4972) EINet Receives Additional $4M for ARPA's Agile Manufacturing Net..102 4973) Cisco Systems Launches New Network Partner Programs................41 4974) MTI Announces Industry's First Dedicated FDDI Mass Storage.........37 ORDERS/INSTALLATIONS 4975) Churchill Insurance Orders 2 Cray Research Systems via Amdahl......48 4976) Cray Res. Enters Light Aircraft Industry with J916 System Order....42 4977) Sequent Delivers 3-Node Cluster to New Oracle Enterprise Center....94 4978) Encore Receives Order from Gruner + Jahr for Scalable System.......37 4979) Unisys Acquires $30 Million in Orders from Airline Industry........40 CONTRACTS/VENTURES/ACQUISITIONS 4980) Amdahl Announces First Major Contract for High-End Workstations....40 4981) Research Initiative Leads to Clockless Asynchronous Microprocessor.73 4982) MTI Acquires DEC's DESISCo for $10 Million.........................35 4983) Sun/LSI Logic/Sarnoff Research Jointly Develop Video Encoding......68 FINANCIAL WATCH - PEOPLE/PROMOTIONS/PROFILES 4984) Ten Most Active NASDAQ HPC Stocks..................................29 4985) Cray Research's Carlson Named to New Presidential Export Council...20 SUPERHIGHWAY REPORT 4986) FBI Enlists Help of Internet Users to Catch Mail Bomber............79 4987) SGI's Interactive Tech. Unveiled with Time Warner Cable Network....39 4988) Electronic Document Management to Reach $10 Billion by 1998........67 4989) Web Security Toolkits Available Late December from Terisa Systems..79 ___________________________ INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT ___________________________ | | | 7021) DEC AdvantageClusters Lead Industry in Single System Performance | | 7022) DEC's New Alpha 21066A Chip Puts Speed Into High End Applications | | 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 =========================================================== 1527) "We will give [Cray Research's] Triton a run for its money." -- Charles Breckenridge, Executive Vice President of Marketing, Cray Computer Corp. FEATURES ==================================================================== 1526) ORANGE COUNTY INSIDE: INTEL'S CRISIS IN CRISIS MANAGEMENT...........191 Commentary by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large Intel and Orange County have followed different paths to disaster, but both have neglected the fundamentals of crisis containment. These include the six Rs (good) and three Ds (bad). Will Intel and the Pentium be tattooed with a lasting negative public perception? 1527) SEYMOUR CRAY SEES EARLY 1995 ORDERS FOR 1-NS, GaAs CRAY-4...........155 News Analysis by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large Cray Computer's Seymour Cray hopes for orders in the first quarter of next year and first shipments in the second quarter for the CRAY-4, a competitively-priced, GaAs-based shared memory machine that will reach the market well in advance of Cray Research's not-yet-launched Triton. 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*, Thinking Machines Corporation* < * > New Listings This Week, 5 New Listings This Week! 604) IN SEARCH OF INTELLIGENT LIFE......................................96 CONFERENCES ================================================================= 2888) Calendar of Upcoming HPC Events (2 New Listings)..................112 New Listings: ATM Year Three Conference; High Performance Fortran Forum '95 ______________________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 *** 4935) HPC 1994-1995: Proice, The InterNewt, Gittens and More..........330 1524) Prescription for the HPCCI: Chill Out............................95 4936) IBM's Commercial Parallel Solution Improves Business Decisions..112 667) Employment Opportunities........................................150 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Copyright 1994 HPCwire. 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