H P C w i r e The Text-on-Demand E-zine for High Performance Computing *** January 27, 1995: Vol. 4, No. 4 Circulation: 17,646 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 239 Pages of Text ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Article Retrieval instructions at end of this file . For a free 6-week trial subscription, email: . -------------------- * -------------------- 7033) RISC SYSTEM/6000 STORAGE SOLUTIONS FROM IBM IBM High Performance Systems Integration Services (HSIS) can deliver a custom storage solution for your RISC System/6000 workstation that includes standard IBM Products and a variety of non-IBM disk products, tape products and device drivers. _______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _____________________________ | | | 1536) IBM's Wladawsky-Berger on New Blue World of Parallel Systems | | 5067) Cray Computer's in the Money with Private Equity Financing | | 1537) It's the Same Old Song in Congress | |___________________________________________________________________________| IN THE NEWS ================================================================= COMMERCIAL NEWS Lines 5064) SEQUENT DELIVERS $2.4 MILLION CLUSTER SOLUTION TO NUCLEAR FACILITY...75 The Sequent solution will contribute to the efficient operation of the STPEGS facility by providing online transaction processing, general database management and decision support. 5065) TANDEM ANNOUNCES ITS LARGEST SALE EVER IN ASIA-PACIFIC REGION........69 The Korea Securities Computerization Corp. has purchased 36 NonStop Himalaya massively parallel RISC servers as primary vehicles to move billions of customer transactions between the Korea Stock Exchange and brokerage houses and branch offices throughout South Korea. SCIENCE & ENGINEERING NEWS 5066) VIRTUAL REALITY TECHNOLOGY APPLIED TO ANESTHESIOLOGY.................58 Historically, there has been no method to train residents on epidural analgesia except on live patients. Now, a Silicon Graphics CRIMSON VGXT graphics workstation incorporates the necessary components to allow the user to "feel" the technique as performed by an expert. NEWS BRIEFS ================================================================= 5067) Cray Computer's in the Money with Private Equity Financing.........22 5068) NEC Establishes Parallel Processing Center.........................23 5069) Farnborough Supercomputer Research Center Opens in Europe..........34 5070) IBM POWERparallel System Enters Remarketer Channel.................60 5071) DEC Wins Raytheon Award for Upgrade to Navy's E-2C Hawkeye.........64 5072) Cray Research Low-Priced System Orders Up Sharply..................45 5073) Silicon Studio Initiative Adopted and Joined by Microsoft..........89 NETWORKING 5074) NTT/TCSI Develop Integrated Network Management Modules.............47 5075) Northern Telecom/FORE Systems to Offer Seamless ATM Solutions......48 5076) NetEdge Systems Launches Major New ATM Software Release............73 ORDERS/INSTALLATIONS 5077) SuperPower Receives $1.8 Million Additional Cray Research Order....22 5078) Motorola Orders Cray Research Supercomputer........................21 5079) CRAY C916 Chosen to Update Program at Naval Oceanographic Office...36 CONTRACTS/VENTURES/ACQUISITIONS 5080) SGI/Netscape Communications in OEM Agreement for Server/Software...72 5081) Walker Interactive Sys. Joins Oracle Business Alliance Program.....52 FINANCIAL WATCH 5082) Quarterly Reports Submenu: Amdahl, Cray Res., IBM, SGI, StorageTek.12 5088) Ten Most Active NASDAQ HPC Stocks..................................28 PEOPLE/PROMOTIONS/PROFILES 5089) SDSC Appoints NSF's Arzberger as New Executive Director............48 5090) CETech Expands HPC Software Consulting Staff.......................53 5091) Former Lockheed President Charles Wagner Dies......................53 SUPERHIGHWAY REPORT 5092) SGI Speeds Up WWW Evolution with WebFORCE Workstations/Servers....103 5093) 'Hack Attacks' May Meet Early Demise via New Products.............143 5094) IBM Enhances Internet Offerings with Leased Line Services..........71 5095) Sun Microsystems to Support India/U.S. Gateway Project.............45 5096) World-Wide Parallel and Supercomputing Research Sites..............25 5097) Unisys & Museum Announce $6 Million Science Learning Network......137 ___________________________ 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) | | 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 =========================================================== 1536) "Winning a Gordon Bell award is all very well, [but] "a Gordon Bell without the right software won't get you very far." -- Irving Wladawsky-Berger, General Manager, Power Parallel Div., IBM FEATURES ==================================================================== 1536) IBM'S WLADAWSKY-BERGER ON NEW BLUE WORLD OF PARALLEL SYSTEMS........172 Commentary by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large IBM's Power Parallel (SP2) venture becomes a full Blue division on the same organizational footing as mainframes. Irving Wladawsky-Berger, now general manager of Power Parallel, discusses this change, sales hopes, hardware enhancements and the importance of price and applications. 1537) IT'S THE SAME OLD SONG IN CONGRESS..................................105 Feature by Willie Schatz, Contributing Editor The high tech community needs to get it together NOW and demonstrate beyond any reasonable doubt how the HPCC has created jobs in members' districts and how it has been absolutely crucial to maintaining U.S. technological leadership. 1538) NEW SGI/NETSCAPE VENTURE TO BROADEN BUSINESS SCOPE OF WWW...........215 News Analysis by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large Silicon Graphics and Netscape partner in a new, visual, unintimidating hardware/software package for the World Wide Web. With high performance and low prices, they seek to harvest profits from smaller businesses. Is the market there? Not yet, but stand aside and watch out. 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 =========================================================== CONFERENCES 2888) Calendar of Upcoming HPC Events (1 New Listing, 1 Update).........111 New Listing: Call for Papers International Symposium on ICCTAS; Update: International Parallel Processing Symposium. ______________________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 *** 667) HPCwire's Job Bank Explodes into 1995!...........................167 1535) PowerPC & Transputer: Basis for Parsytec's Growing Sales..........95 1533) SGI's New Reality Station: Graphics Performance Up, Price Down...124 3151) Last Posting of Most Powerful Computing Sites (Now with URLs)..1,066 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Copyright 1995 HPCwire. 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