H P C w i r e The Text-on-Demand E-zine for High Performance Computing *** April 7, 1995: Vol. 4, No. 14 Circulation: 18,431 *** 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: . -------------------- * -------------------- 667) All the cool kids are doing it... What section of HPCwire is consistently in the top 5 retrievals every issue? Job Bank - Find out what all the fuss is about. Positions now available in HPC world-wide. The single most effective way for recruiters to find pre-qualified people!! _______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _____________________________ | | | 1566) Commentary: Wallach: Convex Cured Mach Woes, Is Moving Onward | | 608) Correction to: Convex Sells Exemplar & Upgraded File Server to NCSA | | 1568) Analysis: Intel & IBM Intensify Battle in Sub-Micron Arena | |___________________________________________________________________________| IN THE NEWS ================================================================= COMMERCIAL NEWS 5331) MALAYSIA'S SECOND-LARGEST BANK STANDARDIZES ON SYBASE................76 With the SYBASE System 10 relational database management system as the enterprise backbone, Bank Bumiputra will roll out corporate client/ server applications to more than 5,000 users over the next three years. 5332) PYRAMID/SIEMENS/ORACLE: MASSIVELY PARALLEL MEDIA SERVER SOLUTIONS....92 Plans to deliver highly scalable video server solutions to the emerging global market for interactive multimedia services have been announced. The three companies will participate in interactive television field trials beginning late this summer in Europe. SCIENCE & ENGINEERING NEWS 5333) GAUSSIAN 94 SUPPORTS WORKSTATION NETWORKS/SCALABLE PARALLEL SYSTEMS.108 Quantum chemists across a wide range of industries will benefit from Gaussian 94's exciting new functionality, major performance gains through turnkey parallel computing, and potential for cost-effective electronic structure analyses on networks of desktop machines as well as scalable parallel systems. 5334) CONVEX EXEMPLAR SETS SPECrate FLOATING POINT PERFORMANCE RECORD......42 The benchmark performance was recorded on an Exemplar system configured with 64 CPUs. The SPECrate_fp92 of 185,841 is 43 percent higher than the previous reported record. NEWS BRIEFS ================================================================= 5335) IBM POWERparallel Reports Outstanding Performance in Chem. Market.133 5336) Simulating Manufacturing Processes on an Intel Paragon............109 5337) Unisys Unveils Integrated Storage Solutions for UNIX Servers.......70 5338) EUROPORT-2/ESPRIT European Porting Action No. 2...................277 5339) Tandem Opens Four New UNIX Open Solutions Centers..................49 5340) Opportunity to Double China Revenues Seen by Oracle................36 CONTRACTS/VENTURES/ACQUISITIONS 5341) ARPA Award for Holographic Storage to Enable Info Superhighway.....55 5342) Oracle in Relationship with Egypt to Enhance Business with USA.....51 5343) DOE Award Allows Technology Transfer Between Labs/Private Sector...35 5344) StorageTek Targets Profitability/Merger to Impact Bottom Line......81 5345) Sun/Oracle in Agreement for Client/Server Management Solutions.....60 FINANCIAL WATCH - PEOPLE/PROMOTIONS/PROFILES 5346) Convex Sees Preliminary First Quarter Results Below Estimates......27 5347) Ten Most Active NASDAQ HPC Stocks..................................23 5348) Thinking Machines Announces New Management Team....................62 5349) LLNL Named 'Contractor of the Year' by DOE's O'Leary...............49 5350) Maximum Strategy Opens Dallas Office/Focuses on Petroleum Industry.42 SUPERHIGHWAY REPORT 5351) Tandem Unveils Fault-Tolerant Web Server for Commercial 'Net Use..220 5352) France to Allow More InfoHighway Projects by June..................47 5353) SDSC Has Web-Based Repository for 'VR' Modeling Language...........75 5354) UK History Museum Earth Sciences DB to be on Internet Mid-1995.....46 5355) Oracle Plans European InfoHighway Sales Assault....................53 ___________________________ INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT ___________________________ | | | 7054) Digital Equipment Corp. Announces World's Fastest Workstation | | 7052) Dolphin Breaks Cluster Latency Barrier with SCI Adapter | | 7039) Data Server Solutions from Maximum Strategy | | 7048) Digital Debuts High Performance Fortran/Parallel Computing Tool | | 7051) HPCN Europe Combines Conference, Exhibition & Technology Display | | 7023) Press Relations Seminar For High Tech Companies/Updated Information | | 7032) HPC Community Welcomes Technology Transfer Quarterly | |___________________________________________________________________________| QUOTE OF THE WEEK =========================================================== 5348) "We have an enormous opportunity to take what we have learned from developing parallel software and hardware and turn this knowledge and expertise into a strategic business advantage." -- Robert L. Doretti, President and CEO, Thinking Machines Corp. FEATURES ==================================================================== 1566) WALLACH: CONVEX CURED MACH WOES, IS MOVING ONWARD...................199 Commentary by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large Mach/OSF has tripped many vendors seeking UNIX-based multiprocessor solutions. Steve Wallach of Convex in an exclusive HPCwire interview said much rewriting has cured Mach's performance/reliability problems. The basic concepts of the Exemplar were sound and Convex is moving forward with sales. 1567) LANL LAB DEVELOPS DESKTOP MODELING FOR MOLECULAR BIOLOGY............126 Feature by John Gustafson, Deputy Group Leader, LANL Researchers from Los Alamos National Laboratory and Stanford University have developed a promising new approach for modeling the structure and behavior of biologically important molecules on standard workstations. 1568) INTEL & IBM INTENSIFY BATTLE IN SUB-MICRON ARENA....................220 News Analysis by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large In its new 120 MHz version of the Pentium chip, Intel has reduced device separation to 0.35 micron. Intel is responding to competitive pressures with aggressive upgrades of the Pentium as well as the forthcoming P6. IBM's model 620 PowerPC shows important similarities and differences with the P6. 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..........................................176 Listings from: University of California, Cambridge Parallel*, Cornell Theory Center, CISR*, Epsilon, Hughes Research Lab, IBM POWERparallel Systems, NEC, University of Minnesota, NASA Ames Research Center (RIACS), Oak Ridge National Lab, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center. < * > New Listings This Week. 604) SEEK AND YE SHALL FIND.............................................92 CONFERENCES ================================================================= 3162) EUROPORT Goes to HPCN'95 in Milan, Italy...........................87 2888) Calendar of Upcoming HPC Events (4 New Listings, 1 Update)........117 New Listings: Manchester Course Announcements April-June 1995; HPC Courses in London & SE: Introduction to AVS, Introduction to HPC; Cardiff (UK) Course in Fortran 90; Southampton Course Announcements. Update: Conf. on High Performance Computing (HiPC). ______________________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| |*934) Convex Computer Corp. 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 *** 1565) Cray's Quest Lands in Chapter 11/Halts Operations/Lays Off Workers..116 5306) Cray Research Comments on Cray Computer's Chapter 11 Filing..........20 1564) Industry Harnesses Clustered Workstations to Squeeze Extra Cycles...267 1563) Convex Sells Exemplar & Upgraded File Server to NCSA................201 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Copyright 1995 HPCwire. 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