H P C w i r e The Text-on-Demand E-zine for High Performance Computing *** January 13, 1995: Vol. 4, No. 2 Circulation: 17,676 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 241 Pages of Text ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Article Retrieval instructions at end of this file . For a free 6-week trial subscription, email: . -------------------- * -------------------- 7031) DIGITAL SEMICONDUCTOR TO OFFER TECHNICAL SEMINARS ON PCI, ALPHA CHIPS FOR DESIGN ENGINEERS ...Sessions to Focus on Performance, Design Efficiency... Day-long Seminars in California, Massachusetts, and Texas _______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _____________________________ | | | 5022) NEWS: White House Seeks New Director for HPCC Program | | 1530) COMMENTARY: Avalon's New Alpha-Based Scalable System: $35 Per MFLOP | | 5018) NEWS: Maximum Strategy in Strategic Relationship with Cray Research | |___________________________________________________________________________| IN THE NEWS ================================================================= COMMERCIAL NEWS Lines 5016) AT&T TO SUPPLY WAL-MART WITH COMMERCIAL MPP DECISION-SUPPORT SYSTEM..53 In conjunction with its current AT&T DBC1012 system, Wal-Mart's new system now has more than 5 terabytes of Teradata online storage. 5017) TANDEM DEBUTS NEWEST PARALLEL ATM AND SERVER TECHNOLOGY.............123 Twelve months after successfully relaunching itself with performance- leading NonStop Himalaya K10000 parallel servers, Tandem Computers has introduced its newest generation Himalaya and Integrity servers. SCIENCE & ENGINEERING NEWS 5018) MAXIMUM STRATEGY IN STRATEGIC RELATIONSHIP WITH CRAY RESEARCH........46 Under the terms of the agreement, Maximum Strategy will supply its Generation 5 line of storage servers to Cray Research for the company's family of supercomputers. 5019) CLINTON LEADERS TESTIFY ON IMPORTANCE OF SCIENCE/TECH. INVESTMENTS...62 In a joint appearance before Congress, a group of senior Administration officials from across the federal government joined together to testify on behalf of continued investment in science and technology as a national priority. NEWS BRIEFS ================================================================= 5020) IBM Reorganization Yields New Power Parallel Software Division....118 5021) Blazing Benchmarks: Intel System Leapfrogs Linpack Record.........107 5022) White House Seeks New Director for HPCC Program....................79 5023) InfoWeek Names Iceberg "Hottest Innovation in High-End Market".....28 5024) Cisco Systems Enters Network Management Arena......................38 INTERNATIONAL UPDATE 5025) Fujitsu's Low-Priced Supercomputer to Target Commercial Market.....15 5026) U.S./Israel Seek Technology Projects...............................49 5027) Management at Fujitsu to be Trimmed by 400.........................14 ORDERS/INSTALLATIONS 5028) Advance Orders Reported for Cray Res. Next-Gen. Supercomputers.....24 5029) Korean Telecommunications Research Firm Installs Cray's CS6400.....57 5030) Cray Announces First Supercomputer Order from Russia...............43 CONTRACTS/VENTURES/ACQUISITIONS 5031) Instrumental/Blueline Software Announce Strategic Alliance.........33 5032) Sun Wins $4.8 Million SPARC Contract from AG Communication Sys.....33 5033) MacNeal-Schwendler/NASA-Langley in Technology Transfer Agreement...37 FINANCIAL WATCH - PEOPLE/PROMOTIONS/PROFILES 5034) Ten Most Active NASDAQ HPC Stocks..................................20 5035) Sun Microcomputer's President Samper to Step Down..................26 5036) AT&T's James Barksdale Joins Netscape Communications as President..55 SUPERHIGHWAY REPORT 5037) Gingrich Eyes Internet as 'Cyber-Political' Forum for Americans....56 5038) Oracle Delivers First Built-In Enterprise Encryption...............72 5039) VP Gore's Full Text of Remarks Given at Telecom Summit............439 5040) Full Text of Secretary Brown's Telecom Summit Talk................313 ___________________________ INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT ___________________________ | | | 7022) DEC's New Alpha 21066A Chip Puts Speed Into High End Applications | | 7026) "The Reinvention of Supercomputing: SGI and the Changing Technology"| | An IDC White Paper* (*Note: new email address included) | | 7023) 'Selling Your Story to the Business Press' Seminar for Hi-Tek Orgs | | 7030) Frontiers of Massively Parallel Computing 6-9 Feb, Deadlines 14 Jan | | 7028) HPCwire's Job Bank Celebrates New Year by Rolling Back the Clock | |___________________________________________________________________________| QUOTE OF THE WEEK =========================================================== 5039) "The motto seems to be, 'What's mine is mine -- what's yours is negotiable.' We have to break this impasse if we are going to create a vibrant, competitive information marketplace." -- Vice President Al Gore's Address to Telecom Summit FEATURES ==================================================================== 1530) AVALON'S NEW ALPHA-BASED SCALABLE SYSTEM: $35 PER MFLOP.............251 Commentary by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large Avalon Computer Systems, operating since 1982 in a close approximation of a stealth posture, will emerge from its phone booth in June with a scalable message-passing system, expandable to teraflop capacity, that can also do shared memory, quoted at roughly one-tenth of competitors' price per MFLOP. 1531) SYNAPTIC INTEGRATION IN COMPLEX NEURON ON DELTA FEATURE..............90 Feature By Reich De Schutter, California Institute of Technology The focus of my modeling work is the response of cerebellar Purkinje cells to synaptic inputs. The Purkinje cell is unique as it receives about 200,000 inputs -- more than any other neuron in the brain. 1532) SHAKEOUTS: INTERNAL AND OTHERWISE, TECHNICAL AND COMMERCIAL.........265 News Analysis by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large During shakeouts, small companies in the technical market tend to kill each other off while big ones in the commercial arena perform major surgery on themselves. Tandem and other companies are in varying stages of these two processes. Who will win? 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..........................................163 Listings from: Convex, IBM POWERparallel, IBM Almaden Research Center*, Intel SSD, MadenTech Consulting, SGI Switzerland, Thinking Machines Corporation < * > New Listings This Week 604) IN SEARCH OF INTELLIGENT LIFE......................................96 CONFERENCES ================================================================= 2888) Calendar of Upcoming HPC Events (4 New Listings, 1 Update)........112 New Listings: One-Day CTC Seminar; Parallel Programming on the IBM SP2; Computing Techniques in Physics; 9th Annual HPCC Conference. Update: Frontiers of Massively Parallel Computing. SCIENCE & HUMAN INTEREST ==================================================== 3148) Supercomputers Help Scientists Begin to Understand Supernovas.....107 3149) MCNC/U.S. Patent Office Launch Internet AIDS Patent Library........67 3150) Caltech/USGS/Pacific Bell to Test Real-Time Earthquake Monitoring.114 ______________________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 *** 1528) In a Pig's Year: Phearless Phinancial Phorecasts for 1995........224 667) Employment Opportunities.........................................188 7026) "The Reinvention of Supercomputing: SGI and the Changing Technology" An IDC White Paper* (*Note: new email address included)..........54 4996) SDSC Prototype Provides Three-Dimensional Interface to WWW........55 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Copyright 1995 HPCwire. 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