H P C w i r e The Text-on-Demand E-zine for High Performance Computing *** March 17, 1995: Vol. 4, No. 11 Circulation: 18,189 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 271 Pages of Text ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Article Retrieval instructions at end of this file . For a free 6-week trial subscription, email: . -------------------- * -------------------- 7047) Cray Research Doubles Top Performance of Fast-Selling CRAY J90 Supercomputer Series New CRAY J932 UNIX-based system scales low-cost series up to 32 processors, 6.4 GFLOPS. Compact air-cooled system retains full compatibility with CRAY J916 system announced in September. Advance orders for eleven CRAY J932 systems precede announcement. _______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _____________________________ | | | 1559) ANALYSIS: Cray Research's J932: Up to 32 CPUs, Double Bandwidth | | 1558) FEATURE: Parallel Computing: What We Did Wrong and What We Did Right| | 5251) IN THE NEWS: Seymour Cray Builds Mystique with Revolutionary Ideas | |___________________________________________________________________________| IN THE NEWS ================================================================= COMMERCIAL NEWS 5250) PYRAMID/ORACLE FOCUS ON OPEN SYSTEM SOLUTIONS FOR VERY LARGE DB.....100 The program will leverage the combined experience and expertise of Pyramid and Oracle to provide customers with a single source for the support and implementation of their high-end open systems solutions. SCIENCE & ENGINEERING NEWS 5251) SEYMOUR CRAY BUILDS MYSTIQUE WITH REVOLUTIONARY IDEAS...............264 By Joanna Bean, Staff Writer, Gazette Telegraph Once there was a brilliant inventor with an idea that promised to revolutionize the world. He needed money to get it off the drawing board, so he brought in investors who eagerly backed him for the chance to get rich. 5252) TOWARD A REALISTIC COMPUTERIZED OCEAN: HIGH TIDE IN OCEAN MODELING..118 By Michael Schneider, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center The best tool -- the only tool -- we have for assimilating the multitude of variables and trying to make rational predictions is computer modeling. NEWS BRIEFS ================================================================= 5253) Cray Research Doubles Top Performance of CRAY J90 Product Line....147 5254) CraySoft Introduces Network Queuing Environment 2.0................66 5255) SGI Awarded "HOT IRONS" for Indy/Indigo2 Workstation Lines.........36 5256) Cray Research Superserver Products Move to Solaris 2.4 Environment.90 5257) Top UNIX System Makers Unify on Single Interface CDE Standard......55 5258) Ancor Says It Takes the Lead for Fastest Local Area Network........63 5259) Sun to Integrate Exabyte's EXB-210 into SPARC Product Line.........55 ORDERS/INSTALLATIONS 5260) Southampton SP2 Goes Online/Supports Varied Research Projects......36 5261) Morningstar Group Replaces HP 9000 with IBM AS/400.................51 CONTRACTS/VENTURES/ACQUISITIONS 5262) Sybase and IBM Announce OS/2 Development/Marketing Relationship....71 5263) Migration Software Becomes Partner in Oracle's Consulting Alliance.51 5264) ARPA Contract to Convex for Parallel Processor Software Research...53 5265) SGI/Internezzo Bring Teleconferencing to Other UNIX Platforms......61 5266) Sun Micro/Kodak in $250 Million 5-Year Agreement for Sun Products..33 5267) Silicon Graphics Signs Cole & Weber as New Advertising Agency......30 PEOPLE/PROMOTIONS/PROFILES - FINANCIAL WATCH 5268) nCUBE Names Peter Wusten VP of European Operations.................26 5269) ACM Inducts Ken Kennedy as Distinguished Contributor...............54 5270) SGI's McCracken Sees Entertainment Revenues Up for 1995............48 SUPERHIGHWAY REPORT 5271) Los Alamos Electronic Archives Effort Funded by NSF...............102 5272) Ameritech/CCNet Partnership to Create Model Cybercommunity.........81 5273) Internet Marketplace Revenues Swell to Over One Billion Dollars...108 5274) CompuServe Buys $100 Million Ticket to Ride the Web...............112 5275) BBN Steps into Commercial Internet Market with New Name............56 5276) Oracle's Larry Ellison Sees InfoHighway Future a Reality...........63 ___________________________ INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT ___________________________ | | | 7048) Digital Debuts High Performance Fortran/Parallel Computing Tool | | 7046) TeamQuest Helps Major Oil Company Recover Lost Computer Time | | 7039) Data Server Solutions from Maximum Strategy | | 7049) Digital to Rename DEC OSF/1 Operating System "Digital UNIX" | | 7043) HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING '95 - GRAND CHALLENGES IN SIMULATIONS | | 7023) Press Relations Seminar For High Tech Companies/Updated Information | | 7032) HPC Community Welcomes Technology Transfer Quarterly | |___________________________________________________________________________| QUOTE OF THE WEEK =========================================================== 1558) "One aspect of [the] over-optimism was the naive belief that if we built and deployed large parallel machines, scientific users would flock to them in droves." -- Ken Kennedy, Director, Center for Research on Parallel Computation FEATURES ==================================================================== 1557) WILL PARAGON RESCUE CHINESE OIL FIELD FROM ITS PAST?................104 Commentary by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large Mao Zedong's enthusiasm led to the damaging of China's giant Daqing oil field. A new Paragon MPP system from Intel will be used at Daqing in an attempt to compensate for past errors with more efficient analysis of the output of seismic exploration. 1558) PARALLEL COMPUTING: WHAT WE DID WRONG AND WHAT WE DID RIGHT.........105 Feature by Ken Kennedy, Director, CRPC Clearly we made some mistakes [in parallel computing] ... I believe that the principal mistake was excessive optimism and excessive hype. This led to unrealistic expectations on the part of users expectations that turned to frustration in the cold light of reality." 1559) CRAY RESEARCH'S J932: UP TO 32 CPUS, DOUBLE BANDWIDTH...............195 News Analysis by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large Cray Research's new J932 doubles the Jedi's ceiling CPU count and doubles memory bandwidth. Readers reveal CRI's cache secrets and suggest that Convex started it all. Smaby sees a $1.35 billion market in 1995. 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: University of California, Cambridge Parallel, Cornell Theory Center, Hughes Research Lab, HPCwire, IBM POWERparallel, NEC, University of Minnesota, NASA Ames Research Center (RIACS), Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Sarnoff Real Time Corporation, Silicon Graphics, SGI Switzerland. 604) WE WANT YOU -- LOOKING FOR A FEW GOOD ... PEOPLE!..................92 CONFERENCES ================================================================= 3157) SC'95/Submissions for Some Events Taken Through April 1 via Email..40 2888) Calendar of Upcoming HPC Events (3 New Listings, 1 Update)........123 New Listings: Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre: MPI and HPF Courses; Univ. of Edinburgh Computational Science Education Workshop. Update: Press Relations Seminar For High Tech Companies. ______________________H P C w i r e S P O N S O R S______________________ | | | Full background information on all Sponsoring Companies | | | | 912) Avalon Computer 915) Genias Software *905) Maximum Strategy| |*921) Cray Research Inc. 930) HNSX Supercomputers 906) nCUBE | | 907) Digital Equipment. 902) IBM Corp. 932) Portland Group | | 909) Fujitsu American *904) Intel Corp. 935) Silicon Graphics| | 916) MasPar Computer 931) Sony Corporation| | | | *Updated information within last 30 days | |___________________________________________________________________________| *** LAST ISSUE'S MOST REQUESTED ITEMS FROM HPCwire *** 1554) Cray Research's Ewald Sees Vector+SMP+Scalable Future.............238 5224) H-P Says It's PA-RISC Microprocessor Is Industry's Most Powerful..149 667) Employment Opportunities..........................................163 1556) Horst Simon to be "Bridge" Between SGI & Researchers...............79 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Copyright 1995 HPCwire. 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