H P C w i r e The Text-on-Demand E-zine for High Performance Computing *** February 3, 1995: Vol. 4, No. 5 Circulation: 17,816 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 211 Pages of Text ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Article Retrieval instructions at end of this file . For a free 6-week trial subscription, email: . -------------------- * -------------------- 7032) HPCwire Launches Technology Transfer Quarterly As Special Supplement Technology Transfer Quarterly is the source for current technologies and research available for transfer in high performance computing. Industrial users and research facilities world-wide come together through this collaborative effort between HPCwire and the HPC research community. _______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _____________________________ | | | 1541) Seymour Cray Says His Company Is at Financial Crossroads | | 1540) Coming Out of Chapter 11, TMC's New CEO Has Rough Road to Hoe | | 608) Letters to the Editor: "It's the Same Old Song in Congress" and | | "IBM's Wladawsky-Berger on New Blue World of Parallel Systems" | |___________________________________________________________________________| IN THE NEWS ================================================================= COMMERCIAL NEWS Lines 5098) SUN MICROSYSTEMS/VISA TO PARTNER IN HOME BANKING VENTURE.............73 Visa will expand its use of Sun workstations and servers to provide a range of home banking services through various banks around the nation. 5099) PNC BANK SAVES TIME/MONEY WITH COMPUTERM'S REMOTE SWITCHING..........61 In a move that has already saved the large mid-Atlantic financial institution significant time and money, PNC Bank has been implementing remote switching on their Computerm channel extension systems. SCIENCE & ENGINEERING NEWS 5101) FUJITSU HAS VECTOR-PARALLEL PRODUCT WITH SUPERCOMPUTER PERFORMANCE...93 The new VPP300 Series is especially focused on entry-level VX models designed for very high-performance, departmental-level vector server requirements. Scientific users will reap supercomputer power benefits at workstation-level price/performance ratio. 5102) WAVES OF THE FUTURE.................................................110 By Margaret Corbit, Science Writer, Cornell Theory Center Scientists will soon begin the search for gravitational waves, elusive relics of distant cosmic events. By analyzing these waves, researchers hope to confirm the existence of black holes. NEWS BRIEFS ================================================================= 5103) Scripps Biomedical Research Gets a Boost from Convex's Exemplar....75 5104) Kendall Square Research Files Chapter 11...........................12 5105) Gordon Bell 1994 Performance Winner: A Closer Look................118 5106) 90/100 MHz hyperSPARC Chips Shipped for Next Gen. Sun Workstations.54 5107) 75MHz SPARCengine Available for Workstations/Networks..............41 INTERNATIONAL UPDATE 5108) NTT Adopts Tandem-Japan Supercomputer as Primary Platform..........52 5109) NEC to Offer Japan Firms Internet Service..........................22 5110) CRAY T3D Is Centerpiece of New British Supercomputing Center.......54 NETWORKING 5111) Tandem's UB Unit/Tut Systems in ATM Pact...........................33 5112) Bay Networks Demos High-Speed Network Benefits to NIIA.............84 5113) AT&T/KDD-Japan Launch Global Advanced Network Service..............67 ORDERS/INSTALLATIONS 5114) MARC Chooses Convex Scalable Parallel Processor....................72 5115) First Parsytec GC/PowerPlus Installed in Japan.....................61 PEOPLE/PROMOTIONS/PROFILES - FINANCIAL WATCH 5116) Thinking Machines to Emerge from Chapter 11/Appoints Doretti CEO...66 5117) Edward Zander Named President of Sun Microsystems..................49 5118) Ten Most Active NASDAQ HPC Stocks..................................22 SUPERHIGHWAY REPORT 5119) AT&T Bell Laboratories & VLSI to Make Internet Security Pervasive..98 5120) Feds Not to Prosecute Software Pirate in Biggest Scheme Yet........32 5121) World-Wide Edinburgh Parallel Computing Center Site................16 5122) Researchers Use Web Technology for Snap Shot Look at Web User......75 ___________________________ INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT ___________________________ | | | 7033) RISC System/6000 Storage Solutions from IBM | | 7034) Sony and TRI-PLEX Transfer Digital Movies via HIPPI at 32 Mbytes/Sec| | 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-Tech Orgs | |___________________________________________________________________________| QUOTE OF THE WEEK =========================================================== 1540) "We've got a great product. Why put it in the trash can?" -- Robert L. Doretti, President and CEO, Thinking Machines Corp. FEATURES ==================================================================== 1539) NORTH CAROLINA'S ATM-BASED NETWORK: WIDESPREAD INNOVATION...........282 Commentary by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large North Carolina's new Information Highway project uses advanced ATM technology and other innovations to serve education, medicine, other government services and private industry all over the state. Tariffed ATM service for private customers is expected to begin shortly. 1540) COMING OUT OF CHAPTER 11, TMC'S NEW CEO HAS ROUGH ROAD TO HOE.......116 Commentary by Willie Schatz, Contributing Editor So who is Bob Doretti and why did he take a job rational people wouldn't touch even if they were paid the national debt tax-free? 1541) SEYMOUR CRAY SAYS HIS COMPANY IS AT FINANCIAL CROSSROADS.............60 News Analysis by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large Cray Computer called a special meeting of stockholders Feb. 27 to authorize issue of additional stock which Cray management reportedly wishes to sell to foreign investors. The reported shortfall: $20M. 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, Cornell Theory Center*, Hughes Research Lab*, IBM POWERparallel*, IBM TJ Watson Research Center*, MadenTech Consulting, Optimax Software*, SGI Switzerland < * > New Listings This Week - 5 New Jobs This Week! 604) WE WANT YOU -- LOOKING FOR A FEW GOOD ... PEOPLE!..................92 OTHER DEPARTMENTS =========================================================== CONFERENCES 3152) SC'95 Announces Jury for Major Conference/Feb. 14 Submissions Due..81 3153) Report on First International Workshop on Parallel Processing......55 2888) Calendar of Upcoming HPC Events (5 New Listings; 1 Update)........115 New Listings: CALTECH'S Media & Science Seminar; Marketing on the Internet. MICROSIM 95; Int'l Conf. on HiPC; Internet Roadmap Workshop; Update: Alaska CUG '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 *** 1536) IBM's Wladawsky-Berger on New Blue World of Parallel Systems...172 5067) Cray Computer's in the Money with Private Equity Financing......22 5096) World-Wide Parallel and Supercomputing Research Sites...........25 1538) New SGI/Netscape Venture to Broaden Business Scope of WWW......215 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Copyright 1995 HPCwire. 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