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For a free 6-week trial subscription, email: . -------------------- * -------------------- 7041) Cray Research Announces First Wireless Supercomputers - CRAY T90 Series A combination of Cray Research's world-renowned supercomputing expertise and innovative technologies, the CRAY T90 series sets a new standard in enterprise supercomputing. The CRAY T90 systems' breakthrough performance has already led to eight advance orders and one installation before this week's announcement. _______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _____________________________ | | | 1550) Cray Research's T90: New Tricks, No Wires, Still High Prices | | 5185) Sony and Oracle to Develop Breakthrough Multimedia News System | | 1548) The 'C' Word, the P6, Cavalry Tactics & Roman Assault | |___________________________________________________________________________| S P E C I A L S U P P L E M E N T 1995 HPC HARDWARE SYSTEM BUYER'S DIRECTORY 5100) 1995 HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING HARDWARE BUYER'S DIRECTORY..........435 A comprehensive listing of high-performance computing vendors. IN THE NEWS ================================================================= COMMERCIAL NEWS Lines 5171) SEQUENT DECISION-SUPPORT SYSTEM HELPS JAPAN'S FAMILY MART STORES.....48 One of Japan's largest convenience-store franchises selected Sequent to provide a large-scale, decision-support system that will be Japan's largest UNIX-based business analysis system. 5172) CONTINENTAL AIRLINES HAS STATE-OF-THE-ART LAN........................95 The comprehensive solution using Banyan ENS software suite and Network General Distributed Sniffer technology will reduce costs, provide 99.8 percent guaranteed reliability and make operations more efficient. SCIENCE & ENGINEERING NEWS 5173) CLUES FOUND TO UNDERSTANDING HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS WITH SP2............67 A group of scientists in London and New York have made a significant advance towards understanding the physical basis of consciousness. 5174) HIGH-END CRAY T90 -- WORLD'S FIRST WIRELESS SUPERCOMPUTER SYSTEM....243 Code-named Triton, the CRAY T90 is available with one to 32 processors and provides up to 60 billion calculations per second (gigaflops) of peak computing power. NEWS BRIEFS ================================================================= 5175) Intel Gives P6 Microarchitecture Details...........................92 5176) MetaCenter Computational Science Highlights........................78 5177) MCC's InfoSleuth to Extend Intelligent Data Location Capabilities..82 5178) Digital Equipment's Alpha Racks Up Norwegian Kudos.................19 5179) Cabletron Expands Support Programs for ATM Tracking System.........45 INTERNATIONAL UPDATE 5180) China to Rebuild Beijing's Silicon Valley..........................53 5181) Hitachi Debuts Three Entry-Level Parallel Computers................16 5182) Tandem Computers-Japan Introduces Two High-End UNIX Servers........14 ORDERS/INSTALLATIONS 5183) Thinking Machines Receives $2.8 Million Order from Naval Res. Lab..36 5184) Danish Computing Center Selects SGI POWER CHALLENGE for Research...60 CONTRACTS/VENTURES/ACQUISITIONS 5185) Sony and Oracle to Develop Breakthrough Multimedia News System.....58 5186) ADP/H-P Pact to Provide Human Resource Management System Platform..73 5187) Coalition to Start Digital Multimedia Design Lab in Washington.....57 5188) VERITAS/Oracle to Jointly Develop Database Solutions...............60 PEOPLE/PROMOTIONS/PROFILES - FINANCIAL WATCH 5189) Convex's Steve Wallach Elected to National Academy of Engineering..53 5190) Seven Most Active NASDAQ HPC Stocks................................22 5191) Cray Computer Makes Goodwill Settlement with SEC...................35 5192) Hewlett-Packard Earnings Jump 64 Percent...........................79 SUPERHIGHWAY REPORT 5193) Giving Long-Overdue Order to Superhighway Data Glut................88 5194) Deutsche Telekom Plans to Bring Germany onto the Internet..........64 5195) Gore Releases Global G7 InfoBahn Agenda............................49 5196) NCSA Selected by European Union to Participate in G7 Summit........53 5197) FraudNET/AT&T Help Consumer Group Catch Scam Artists...............43 ___________________________ INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT ___________________________ | | | 7040) SONY Digital Data Systems Helps Japanese Space Agency Study Earth | | 7037) Digital & Financial Trading Industry: Commercial Application of HPC | | 7039) Data Server Solutions from Maximum Strategy | | 7038) IBM RISC System/6000 Backup/Restore Solution for STK Tape Libraries | | 7035) Digital's AlphaServer 2100 Takes "Server Of The Year" Award | | 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' Has New Locations | | 7032) HPC Community Welcomes Technology Transfer Quarterly | |___________________________________________________________________________| QUOTE OF THE WEEK =========================================================== 5195) [The GII] "is not just about new technologies, it's about connecting each to all, each person to all people, each nation to all nations." -- Commerce Secretary Ron Brown, Comments on G7 Summit Conference FEATURES ==================================================================== 1548) THE 'C' WORD, THE P6, CAVALRY TACTICS & ROMAN ASSAULT...............161 Commentary by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large Intel's new P6 bicephalous microprocessor goes beyond the Pentium in finding ways to anticipate what data will be needed next and providing large close by spaces to stock it. Additional stress is placed on the "C" word (cache) which is an anathema in the Cray canon. 1549) GAZING INSIDE THE HUMAN BODY.........................................60 Feature by Eric Muehling, Arctic Region Supercomputing Center New computational imaging techniques -- using powerful massively parallel supercomputers -- are revolutionizing medical diagnosis with 3-D color models of the human anatomy. 1550) CRAY RESEARCH'S T90: NEW TRICKS, NO WIRES, STILL HIGH PRICES........300 Technosnapshot by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large Cray Research's T90 (nee Triton) more than doubles performance of the C90 but prices are still at near-traditional levels ($1400 per MFLOPS). Many technical innovations cut factory costs and raise reliability. Will Cray's next generation be a SMP-MPP+vector hybrid? 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: Cambridge Parallel, Convex, Cornell Theory Center, Hughes Research Lab, HPCwire, IBM POWERparallel, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, MadenTech Consulting, NEC, University of Minnesota, NASA Ames Research Center (RIACS)*, Optimax Software, Sarnoff Real Time Corporation*, SGI Switzerland < * > New Listings This Week 604) WE WANT YOU -- LOOKING FOR A FEW GOOD ... PEOPLE!.....................92 CONFERENCES ================================================================= 2888) Calendar of Upcoming HPC Events (3 New Listings)..................117 New Listings: Computer Architectures for Machine Perception; PVM Users' Group Meeting; No. American Member Management 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 Corp. 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 *** 1545) GLOPS, BLOPS and PLOPS: An End to Performance Confusion.....178 1547) Fujitsu's New VPP300: 2.2 GFLOPS/CPU by Late 1995...........173 5166) SDSC Security Experts Help FBI Capture Computer Terrorist...119 667) Employment Opportunities....................................163 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Copyright 1995 HPCwire. 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