H P C w i r e The Text-on-Demand E-zine for High Performance Computing *** March 24, 1995: Vol. 4, No. 12 Circulation: 18,287 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 270 Pages of Text ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Article Retrieval instructions at end of this file . For a free 6-week trial subscription, email: . -------------------- * -------------------- 7050) Digital Steals Show in 1995 "Hot Iron" Awards ... Products Take Gold in Six of 10 Categories ... ... Server ... Workstation ... PC Products ... Customers Gain From Performance, Price/Performance Advantages _______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _____________________________ | | | 1560) Commentary: Crips & Bloods Turf Wars Block New Telecom Law | | 5279) Stanford/IBM Help Engineers Use 'VR' to Design Computer Chips | | 1562) Analysis: Workstation Sales Up 25 Percent; Big Five Still Reign | |___________________________________________________________________________| IN THE NEWS ================================================================= COMMERCIAL NEWS 5277) DATA GENERAL/ORACLE IN HIGH-END COMMERCIAL SOLUTIONS PROGRAM.........62 The program will give large commercial database and application users a single point of contact for consulting, sales and support for all major Oracle products on Data General's AViiON server platform. 5278) IBM SP2 ADDING COMMERCIAL CUSTOMERS/DATABASES/STORAGE................59 With more than a third of its 350 SP2 implementations being commercial, IBM anticipates that number doubling to more than 700 by 1996 and commercial databases increasing to a total of four by this year's end. SCIENCE & ENGINEERING NEWS 5279) STANFORD/IBM HELP ENGINEERS USE 'VR' TO DESIGN COMPUTER CHIPS.......112 Three-dimensional modeling will soon become a necessity for integrated circuit design and will be required for making optoelectronic devices such as semiconductor lasers and microscopic machines, and the tiny accelerometers that trigger airbag inflation in today's automobiles. 5280) MULTIMEDIA ALLOWS PHYSICIANS TO TEACH STUDENTS SURGICAL ADVANCES.....77 For what is believed to be the first time in medicine, physicians are able to interact live and educate students throughout the country via broadband, full-motion video and multimedia. NEWS BRIEFS ================================================================= 5281) Sybase Achieves Highest TPC Performance on DEC's Alpha Server......65 5282) AT&T to Help South Korea Develop High-End Server...................28 5283) Quantum's DLT Drives Are Option with SGI Workstations/Systems......57 5284) Tatung's New SPARC Workstation Outperforms Competing Systems.......65 5285) UNIX-Based Platform from H-P for High Performance Applications.....85 5286) Oracle Provides Transparent Gateways for Access to Any Data........47 ORDERS/INSTALLATIONS 5287) IBM Provides SP2 Supercomputer to Zagreb University in Croatia.....32 CONTRACTS/VENTURES/ACQUISITIONS 5288) IBM/NIST to Develop Internet Apps for Advanced Physics Research....74 5289) AT&T/H-P Provide Interface Between Intelligent Network Elements....46 5290) Concurrent Computer Wins Multivendor System Support Contracts......56 5291) Cisco and Livingston Agree to Joint Security Strategy..............38 5292) Versant Selected by Siemens for Object DB Management System........49 FINANCIAL WATCH 5293) Oracle Sees Faster Q4 License Revenues Growth/Q3 Asia Sales Up.....76 5294) Ten Most Active NASDAQ HPC Stocks..................................23 SUPERHIGHWAY REPORT 5295) H-P's New ATM Analyzer Helps Network Link Japan's Major Cities.....39 5296) Intel, UNESCO and Conservation International Join Internet.........69 5297) Netscape Communications Opens for Business in Japan................67 5298) Quarterdeck and Spyglass Announce Licensing of Mosaic Browser......47 5299) HENSA Parallel Computing Archive..................................134 5301) France Telecom to Invest $1 Billion Francs to Test InfoHighway.....61 ___________________________ 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" | | 7023) Press Relations Seminar For High Tech Companies/Updated Information | | 7032) HPC Community Welcomes Technology Transfer Quarterly | |___________________________________________________________________________| QUOTE OF THE WEEK =========================================================== 5279) "This brings three-dimensional simulation capability down to a price that semiconductor companies can afford. It also runs fast enough so designers can really use it." -- Robert W. Dutton, Chief Scientist, Stanford University FEATURES ==================================================================== 1560) CRIPS & BLOODS TURF WARS BLOCK NEW TELECOM LAW......................268 Commentary by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large High-performance computing has a big stake in telecommunications deregulation as demand for bandwidth may overwhelm supply. The Senate is working on it, but turf wars of Crips and Bloods factions (regional and long-distance carriers) stand in the way. 1561) NIH PRESCRIBES SCALABLE COMPUTING FOR BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS........83 Feature by Jan Rowell, Contributing Writer NIH scientists are studying a wide range of problems calling for the resources of scalable HPC. The lab has a 128-node Intel iPSC 860 supercomputer that's available to NIH clinical and academic researchers through the campus-wide NIHnet computer network. 1562) WORKSTATION SALES UP 25 PERCENT; BIG FIVE STILL REIGN...............196 News Analysis by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large Workstation sales regained momentum rising 25 percent in 1994; Sun and H-P still dominate sharing 56 percent of the market as H-P and IBM gained and Sun slipped. This coincides with convergence of workstation and parallel technologies and pricing, especially at the rapidly growing lower end of the parallel market. 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..........................................278 Listings from: University of California, Cambridge Parallel, Cornell Theory Center, Hughes Research Lab, IBM POWERparallel*, NEC, University of Minnesota, NASA Ames Research Center (RIACS), Oak Ridge National Lab*, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Sarnoff Real Time Corporation, Silicon Graphics, SGI Switzerland. < * > New Listings This Week. 3 new job listings! 604) SEEK AND YE SHALL FIND.............................................92 OTHER DEPARTMENTS =========================================================== CENTERS 3157) Belfast's Silicon Graphics Workstation Cluster Project............110 3158) Summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates at SDSC.............87 SCIENCE & HUMAN INTEREST 3159) Chinese Scientist Says Dinosaur DNA May Provide Link to Past.......66 3160) D.C. Police Use High-Tech Crime-Fighting System with UNIX Server...68 3161) National Institutes of Health Awarded Broad Gene Therapy Patent....81 CONFERENCES 2888) Calendar of Upcoming HPC Events (1 New Listing, 1 Update).........124 New Listing: Society and the Future of Computing '95. Update: Business Process Reengineering. ______________________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 America *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 *** 1558) Parallel Computing: What We Did Wrong and What We Did Right..105 5251) Seymour Cray Builds Mystique with Revolutionary Ideas........264 1559) Cray Research's J932: Up to 32 CPUs, Double Bandwidth........195 667) Employment Opportunities.....................................163 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Copyright 1995 HPCwire. 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