H P C w i r e The Text-on-Demand E-zine for High Performance Computing *** March 3, 1995: Vol. 4, No. 9 Circulation: 17,887 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 265 Pages of Text ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Article Retrieval instructions at end of this file . For a free 6-week trial subscription, email: . -------------------- * -------------------- 7044) Digital Equipment: New AlphaServer Offers Large System Features at Small System Prices Ideal for small- to medium-sized businesses and for franchise operations needing low-cost servers in different locations Supports three operating systems: DEC OSF/1, Windows NT and OpenVMS _______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _____________________________ | | | 1551) Commentary: House Newters This-Year ARPA $$$; Will HPCC Come Next? | | 608) Comments on Cray's T90: "New Tricks, No Wires, Still High Prices" | | 5202) SGI/NCSA/EVL to Create New Interactive Supercomputing Environment | |___________________________________________________________________________| IN THE NEWS ================================================================= COMMERCIAL NEWS Lines 5198) OMAN INT'L BANK BUYS UNISYS UNIX SERVERS FOR RETAIL SOLUTION.........43 This comprehensive retail delivery solution from Unisys for its branch banking operations will have an integrated platform for growth and the tools for rapid product development at the branch level. 5199) BEIJING COMMODITIES EXCHANGE STANDARDIZES ON SYBASE RDBMS............73 BCE, currently the largest Chinese futures market, has standardized on SYBASE technology for its online trading and transaction system. The BCE system has been in operation for over a year. SCIENCE & ENGINEERING NEWS 5201) SEYMOUR CRAY "PRETTY OPTIMISTIC" AS STOCK ISSUE OK'D................126 Cray Computer stockholders have approved an additional stock issue intended to generate cash by sales to overseas investors. $20 million is needed to support initial production costs of the new CRAY-4. 5202) SGI/NCSA/EVL TO CREATE NEW INTERACTIVE SUPERCOMPUTER ENVIRONMENT....133 This collaberative project will combine high-performance computing, a high-speed interactive digital network and industry-leading visualization technologies to solve some of the world's most demanding research problems. NEWS BRIEFS ================================================================= 5203) nCUBE/Oracle Release Benchmarks for MPP Scalable Solutions.........60 5204) The 1995 Sidney Fernbach Award Nominations Solicited...............27 5205) Intel/Hewlett-Packard P7 Chip Due by 1997..........................56 5206) Amdahl Debuts SPARC Enterprise Super Server & UNIX Enhancements....59 INTERNATIONAL UPDATE 5207) Fujitsu Has Large-Capacity Disk Array for Its VP Supercomputers....52 5208) Nihon Sun Microsystems Debuts High-Performance Workstations........18 5209) Tandem Computers-Japan Introduces Three Parallel Machines..........18 ORDERS/INSTALLATIONS 5210) Telecom Australia Purchases nCUBE MPP Computer System..............37 CONTRACTS/VENTURES/ACQUISITIONS 5211) Amdahl/Cray Research Reseller Agreement for Cray Superserver 6400..57 5212) H-P Wins Workstation Contract/Helps AlliedSignal Standardize.......49 5213) Tribune Company Joins NCSA Industrial Partners Program.............45 5214) Unisys/Oracle Join Forces to Deliver Business Solutions Globally...56 SUPERHIGHWAY REPORT 5215) EUnet Belgium Network Has Internet Access Point in Hasselt.........42 5216) France Gives Go-Ahead to 49 Information Highway Projects...........53 5217) Cornell Theory Center Announces Math and Science Gateway URL.......64 G7 CONFERENCE UPDATE 5218) Full Text of Chair's Conclusions Issued by the G7 Ministers.......493 5219) G7 Ministers Plan 11 Information Society Projects..................69 5220) Towards the Global Information Society by Federico Mayor, UNESCO..125 5221) Keynote Address by U.S. Vice President Al Gore....................359 (For back issues of G7 LIVE, order <40003> from ) ___________________________ INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT ___________________________ | | | 7040) SONY Digital Data Systems Helps Japanese Space Agency Study Earth | | 7045) Digital's New Entry-Level Alpha Workstation; $/Performance Leader | | 7039) Data Server Solutions from Maximum Strategy | | 7038) IBM RISC System/6000 Backup/Restore Solution for STK Tape Libraries | | 7043) HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING '95 - GRAND CHALLENGES IN SIMULATIONS | | 7023) 'Selling Your Story to the Business Press' Has New Locations | | 7032) HPC Community Welcomes Technology Transfer Quarterly | |___________________________________________________________________________| QUOTE OF THE WEEK =========================================================== 5202) "Through this integration of supercomputing, high-speed networking and visualization technologies, scientists are able to see and interact with each other and their results without physical distances imposing a barrier." -- Larry Smarr, Director, NCSA FEATURES ==================================================================== 1551) HOUSE NEWTERS THIS-YEAR ARPA $$$; WILL HPCC COME NEXT?..............108 Commentary by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large The House has rescinded FY 1995 funds for ARPA and other technology- related projects. What are the prospects of funding for HPCC which is distributed among ten agencies that include many marked down for budget cutting? Will the Senate come to the rescue? 1552) NXLIB: FOR PARAGON CODE DEVELOPMENT ON A WORKSTATION.................70 Feature by Carl Scarbnick, San Diego Supercomputer Center In this article NXLib is discussed, a recently released library targeted toward users interested in writing codes for workstation clusters. 1553) PARALLELIZER VENDOR OPTIMAX LINKS WITH TIME-CLOCK FIRM...............97 News Exclusive by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large Canadian tax policy permitting write-offs of development costs helped bless a marriage between Optimax, a Nova Scotia vendor of parallelizing tools, and ATS, a Detroit maker of electronic time clocks. Optimax believes its ease of use will lead into commercial markets. 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 ==================================================================== 3156) Silicon Graphics to Create 3,000 New Jobs..........................17 667) Employment Opportunities..........................................163 Listings from: Cambridge Parallel, Cornell Theory Center, Hughes Research Lab, HPCwire, IBM POWERparallel, NEC, University of Minnesota, NASA Ames Research Center (RIACS), Sarnoff Real Time Corporation, Silicon Graphics*, SGI Switzerland < * > New Listings This Week. 7 new listings from SGI!! 604) WE WANT YOU -- LOOKING FOR A FEW GOOD ... PEOPLE!..................92 CONFERENCES ================================================================= 2888) Calendar of Upcoming HPC Events (5 New Listings, 1 Update)........121 New Listings: NSF-CBMS Regional Math Science Conference; National Forum on GIS in the Geosciences; Structure Determination from NMR (PSC); Methods of Molecular Mechanics (PSC); Nucleic Acid and Protein Sequence Analysis Workshop (PSC). Update: High Performance Computing '95. ______________________H P C w i r e S P O N S O R S______________________ | | | Full background information on all Sponsoring Companies | | | | 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 *** 5174) High-End CRAY T90 -- World's First Wireless Supercomputer System..243 1550) Cray Research's T90: New Tricks, No Wires, Still High Prices......300 1548) The 'C' Word, the P6, Cavalry Tactics & Roman Assault.............161 7041) Cray Research Announces First Wireless Supercomputers/CRAY T90 Series ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Copyright 1995 HPCwire. 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