H P C w i r e The Text-on-Demand E-zine for High Performance Computing *** January 20, 1995: Vol. 4, No. 3 Circulation: 17,568 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 232 Pages of Text ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Article Retrieval instructions at end of this file . For a free 6-week trial subscription, email: . -------------------- * -------------------- 667) HPCwire's Job Bank Explodes into 1995! Job Bank is THE forum for HPC's best and brightest to reach the hottest players in the industry. Make Job Bank your recruitment source in 1995. _______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _____________________________ | | | 1535) PowerPC & Transputer: Basis for Parsytec's Growing Sales | | 5057) DEC's Palmer Reports Second Quarter Profits | | 1533) SGI's New Reality Station: Graphics Performance Up, Price Down | |___________________________________________________________________________| IN THE NEWS ================================================================= COMMERCIAL NEWS Lines 5041) FIRST COMMERCIAL ATM NETWORK ONLINE IN EUROPE........................41 Cabletron's ATM deployment at the more than 200-year-old publishing company in Glasgow, Scotland, will allow for rapid publishing of large amounts of data, from 20 Mbytes to 50 Mbytes per newspaper page, in the deadline-oriented newspaper environment. 5042) MEIKO & ORACLE: A STRONG TEAM SUPPORTS COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS......126 Oracle and Meiko have been working together since the first installation in 1990 of a Meiko parallel system running Oracle at National Westminster Bank in London. SCIENCE & ENGINEERING NEWS 5043) CENTER OF EXCELLENCE FOR PARALLEL COMPUTATION NOW IN VIENNA..........50 The goal of the Center is to combine research & development in parallel processing and transfer this technology to the European industrial sector, and make massively parallel architectures accessible to a wide spectrum of users. NEWS BRIEFS ================================================================= 5044) Sybase Achieves First TPC-C Benchmark on IBM RISC System/6000 SMP..56 5045) Frequently Asked Questions on SDSC's Tecate Project...............170 5046) Oracle7 Workgroup Servers Come Preconfigured and Pretuned..........60 5047) Exabyte Joins AT&T/NCR Testing Partners Program....................41 5048) Outbound for UNIX Now Available on HP-UX...........................66 INTERNATIONAL UPDATE 5049) Tandem-Japan Has UNIX Server Trouble Detection/Recovery Software...15 5050) Mitsubishi to OEM-Procure Parallel Processing Mainframes from IBM..17 5051) Fujitsu Forms Dedicated Supercomputer Organization.................17 ORDERS/INSTALLATIONS 5052) Cray Research Nets Five Orders for J916s from Germany..............49 5053) First UK University Orders New Cray Research Supercomputer.........39 5054) Two Cray Research Supercomputers Ordered by France-Telecom.........32 5055) Middle East Supercomputing Center Orders CRAY J916.................46 CONTRACTS/VENTURES/ACQUISITIONS 5056) BellSouth Chooses Sybase Equipment, Not Oracle, for Test...........41 FINANCIAL WATCH - PEOPLE/PROMOTIONS/PROFILES 5057) DEC's Palmer Reports Second Quarter Profits........................92 5058) Sun Microsystems Reports All Time Record High Revenues for Q2.....109 5059) Ten Most Active NASDAQ HPC Stocks..................................20 SUPERHIGHWAY REPORT 5060) Sandia 'Net Site: Info Exchange On Agile/Advanced Manufacturing....63 5061) IBM: Riding the Fiber Optic "Light Wave" into the Future...........65 5062) Microsoft Signs Licensing Agreement with Spyglass..................96 5063) Cabletron Extends Information Superhighway to Shuttle Mission......70 ___________________________ INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT ___________________________ | | | 7033) RISC System/6000 Storage Solutions from IBM | | 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) | | 7031) DEC Semiconductor Offers Technical Seminars on PCI and Alpha Chips | | for Design Engineers | | 7023) 'Selling Your Story to the Business Press' Seminar for Hi-Tech Orgs | | 7032) HPCwire Launches Technology Transfer Quarterly As Special Supplement| |___________________________________________________________________________| QUOTE OF THE WEEK =========================================================== 1535) "Customers now have a superior solution regarding technological and price/performance aspects for a wide range of cognitive functions that could only be carried out by humans. This deals with pattern recognition: handwriting, fingerprint recognition or postal sorting." -- Uwe Augspurger, Vice President of OEM Sales, Parsytec FEATURES ==================================================================== 1533) SGI'S NEW REALITY STATION: GRAPHICS PERFORMANCE UP, PRICE DOWN......124 Commentary by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI) adds the Reality Station to its complex taxonomy of graphics systems. The Reality Station's distinctions: top- level graphics, lower floating point performance and a $95K price tag. SGI aims it at simulation, imaging and virtual reality markets. 1534) FOCUSING ON EARTH'S OCEANS, A GRAND CHALLENGE PROJECT................76 Feature by Bob Henson, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research To run their parallel ocean climate model POCM, Chervin and Semtner made ample use of all eight parallel processors of NCAR's CRAY Y-MP 8/864 supercomputer. Their results are the first to look at virtually all the globe's oceans (except the Arctic) at once. 1535) POWERPC & TRANSPUTER: BASIS FOR PARSYTEC'S GROWING SALES.............95 News Analysis by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large As IBM watches fondly, Parsytec is expanding into industrial imaging and making sales of parallel systems based on PowerPC 601 and now 604. Has the transputer found its niche at last? How far will Parsytec go once it can use the floating-point punch of the PowerPC 620? HPCwire INFORMATION ========================================================= 7000) Subscription Information/Get On-Off Mailing List/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) WE WANT YOU -- LOOKING FOR A FEW GOOD ... PEOPLE!..................92 OTHER DEPARTMENTS =========================================================== FACTS & FIGURES 3151) Last Posting of Most Powerful Computing Sites (Now with URLs)...1,066 CONFERENCES 2888) Calendar of Upcoming HPC Events (1 Update)........................111 Update: Globally Scalable Computing Seminar at Cornell University. ______________________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 *** 1530) Avalon's New Alpha-Based Scalable System: $35 Per MFLOP.........251 5020) IBM Reorganization Yields New Power Parallel Software Division..118 667) Employment Opportunities........................................188 5021) Blazing Benchmarks: Intel System Leapfrogs Linpack Record.......107 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Copyright 1995 HPCwire. 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