H P C w i r e The Text-on-Demand E-zine for High Performance Computing *** January 6, 1995: Vol. 1, No. 1 Circulation: 17,573 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 237 Pages of Text ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Article Retrieval instructions at end of this file . For a free 6-week trial subscription, email: . -------------------- * -------------------- 7027) DEC's POLYCENTER Products Win Top Honors at Enterprise Management Summit Digital's POLYCENTER network and system management products were honored with four top awards at the Enterprise Management Summit held in Santa Clara, Calif. _______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _____________________________ | | | 1529) Cray Research and AT&T/GIS Seek New Chiefs for Tough Tasks | | 4996) SDSC Prototype Provides Three-Dimensional Interface to WWW | | 1528) In a Pig's Year: Phearless Phinancial Phorecasts for 1995 | |___________________________________________________________________________| S P E C I A L S U P P L E M E N T 1994 Presidents' Letters & Year In Review Lines 4990) THE NSF SUPERCOMPUTER CENTERS PROGRAM................................99 By Robert Borchers, Director, Advanced Scientific Computing, NSF For the first time since the Centers' program began, the NSF broadened participation by announcing and awarding grants for MetaCenter Regional Alliances. 4991) DIGITAL'S SERVER BUSINESS VP PAULINE NIST REPRISES SUCCESSFUL 1994...93 1994 will be remembered as an exciting year for Digital Equipment Corp. Unquestionably, the company's single biggest achievement was the tremendous success of the Alpha platform. 4992) SGI'S VP RON BERNAL COMMENTS ON THE ADVENT OF POWERCOMPUTING........133 "Very tight integration between desktop workstations and supercomputers is key to increased productivity as affordable supercomputing enters the mainstream in industry usage." IN THE NEWS ================================================================= COMMERCIAL NEWS 4993) SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS ORDERS CRAY 6400 FOR TELECOM SWITCHING...........50 The CS6400 offered the highest performing and most scalable solution for Samsung's advanced telecommunications and switching applications. 4994) BANCO DE MEXICO BUILDS FIRST FRAME RELAY NETWORK WITH WELLFLEET......67 The network will eventually link the country's central bank with all private and public banks, financial institutions and government agencies throughout Mexico. SCIENCE & ENGINEERING NEWS 4995) PRESENTATION OF VIRTUAL REALITY FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH BY OSC..........36 Biomedical research projects currently being investigated by the OSC include research on integrating 3-D volume graphics and haptic displays or force-reflecting interfaces in training simulations for surgery allowing the user to "feel" realistic forces generated by simulation. 4996) SDSC PROTOTYPE PROVIDES THREE-DIMENSIONAL INTERFACE TO WWW...........55 Now researchers can manipulate complex scientific data on the Internet with state-of-the-art visualization techniques, due to the work of the Project Sequoia 2000 group at the San Diego Supercomputer Center. NEWS BRIEFS ================================================================= 4997) Cray Research/Interphase Deliver Record-Setting ATM Throughput.....69 4998) LINPACK Report..................................................1,639 4999) Sandia/Intel Set World Supercomputing Speed Record.................88 5000) Kendall Square Research Seeks Protection Under Chapter 11..........27 5001) Convex Announces Membership in Petrotechnical Open Software Corp...70 5002) Arizona State University to Standardize on Sybase Database.........92 5003) Hewlett-Packard to Test Samsung's 256-megabit DRAM.................24 ORDERS/INSTALLATIONS 5004) Five Organizations Order Cray Research Supercomputers Including: DWD, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Canadair, Singapore & Texas Universities.....94 CONTRACTS/VENTURES/ACQUISITIONS 5005) Los Alamos Selects Cray Research for Stockpile Stewardship.........44 5006) SunExpress/Cray Research in Distribution Pact......................38 5007) PDC Named Authorized Reseller of SGI Computing Systems.............54 5008) SuperPower Receives $1.3 Million Cray Research Order...............22 5009) Siemens Extends UNIX Partnership with UniComp for $2.6 Million.....42 FINANCIAL WATCH - PEOPLE/PROMOTIONS/PROFILES 5010) Ten Most Active NASDAQ HPC Stocks..................................20 5011) Cray's Carlson to Retire as CEO/Chairman, Ewald New Pres. & COO....82 5012) Pittsburgh Center's Director Named APS Fellow......................32 5013) Cisco Names Two Vice Presidents in Worldwide Operations Areas......30 SUPERHIGHWAY REPORT 5014) Vice President Gore/Secretary Brown to Speak at Telecom Summit.....37 5015) Teenage Hacker Taps into U.S. Defense Secrets......................33 ___________________________ INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT ___________________________ | | | 7029) IBM Unveils Leading-Edge High Performance Storage Management | | Solutions for the Open Systems Environment | | 7022) DEC's New Alpha 21066A Chip Puts Speed Into High End Applications | | 7028) HPCwire's Job Bank celebrates New Year by rolling back the clock | | 7026) "The Reinvention of Supercomputing: SGI and the Changing Technology"| | An IDC White Paper* (*Note: new email address included) | |___________________________________________________________________________| QUOTE OF THE WEEK =========================================================== 1528) "Microsoft, its appetite for acquisition stimulated by a 1994 hoax report that it was acquiring the Catholic Church, will come close to carrying out a deal with the Vatican. Microsoft boss William Gates, posing in full regalia as Archbishop of Virtualia, will explain, 'Nothing else remained that was worth taking.' " -- Prudence Pig's Phorecasts FEATURES ==================================================================== 1528) IN A PIG'S YEAR: PHEARLESS PHINANCIAL PHORECASTS FOR 1995...........224 Commentary by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large 1995 is the Year of the Pig in the Chinese calendar. In another exclusive, HPCwire offers a series of pignostications of prospects for 1995. Prudence Pig forecasts a happy ending for Cray Computer, Thinking Machines and Kendall Square, but trouble for almost all other computer vendors. 1529) CRAY RESEARCH AND AT&T/GIS SEEK NEW CHIEFS FOR TOUGH TASKS..........279 News Analysis by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large Cray Research and Global Information Systems (ex-NCR) of AT&T are seeking simultaneously to fill their top jobs. Both are now in essentially the same market and they face common problems, yet their unique histories raise unique issues. Cray has endured fission while AT&T has not yet made fusion work well. HPCwire INFORMATION ========================================================= 7000) Subscription Information / How to Get On-Off / Letters to the Editor / Back Issue Index / Masthead, Email Contacts, Submission Tips..........9 JOB BANK ==================================================================== 667) Employment Opportunities..........................................188 Listings from: Convex*, HNSX Supercomputer Inc., IBM POWERparallel, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Intel SSD, MadenTech Consulting*, SGI Switzerland*, Thinking Machines Corporation < * > New Listings This Week, 4 New Listings This Week! 604) IN SEARCH OF INTELLIGENT LIFE......................................96 CONFERENCES ================================================================= 3147) "NASA's Technology Can Help Your Business" Symposium...............84 2888) Calendar of Upcoming HPC Events (2 New Listings, 1 Update)........109 New Listings: PERMEAN'95 Call for Papers; MHPCC User Training Workshop. Update: Frontiers of Massively Parallel Computing. ______________________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 *** 7026) "The Reinvention of Supercomputing: Silicon Graphics and the Changing Technology" -- An IDC White Paper....................49 1527) Seymour Cray Sees Early 1995 Orders for 1-NS, GaAs CRAY-4......155 1526) Orange County Inside: Intel's Crisis in Crisis Management......191 4961) Cray Research's John Carlson Recaps a Productive Year..........115 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Copyright 1995 HPCwire. 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