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For a free 6-week trial subscription, email: . -------------------- * -------------------- 7056) New AlphaServer SMP Systems Score Breakthroughs World's Most Powerful Servers Deliver Unprecedented Database Performance Digital, Oracle Explode DB Performance, Surpass Mainframes _______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _____________________________ | | | 1569) COMMENTARY: Hierarchical Parallelism: Encore and Myrias Were First | | 1570) FEATURE: ARPA Uses R&D Dollars to Benefit Commercial Customers | | 1571) ANALYSIS: Japan & U.S. Agree: Supercomputers Are 5 GFLOPS Plus | |___________________________________________________________________________| IN THE NEWS ================================================================= COMMERCIAL NEWS 5356) RETAIL BANK BRANCH DELIVERY SOLUTIONS VIA SUN/BROADWAY & SEYMOUR.....51 A venture by Sun Microsystems and Broadway & Seymour will provide call center/branch delivery solutions for retail banks nationwide; both companies are jointly developing next-generation "retail bank platform of the future" solution based on Sun's customer service technologies. 5357) PACT OFFERS ADVANCED AIR FREIGHT REVENUE MANAGEMENT UNIX SOLUTIONS...70 A Unisys/Decision Focus alliance will offer state-of-the-art revenue management solutions for the air freight industry -- sophisticated forecasting and optimization routines to promote better pricing, sales, product mix and space control decisions. SCIENCE & ENGINEERING NEWS 5358) DIGITAL EQUIPMENT'S ALPHA SYSTEMS JOIN FIGHT AGAINST DIABETES........21 Boston's Joslin Diabetes Center uses DEC 3000 workstations and first software program to store & manipulate stereo images of patients' eyes. 5359) IBM ANNOUNCES NEW WORLD RECORD IN MAGNETIC DATA-STORAGE DENSITY.....146 A new record by IBM in magnetic data storage density -- 3 billion bits (3 gigabits) of data per square inch (187,500 double-spaced typewritten pages, a stack of paper 62.5 feet tall, or taller than a five-story building) -- nearly five times the density of the most advanced disk drive available. NEWS BRIEFS ================================================================= 5360) Japanese Sales of Workstations and UNIX Servers in 1994............46 5361) National Research Council Report on the Federal HPCC Initiative....29 5362) Convex Multi-Terabyte Tape Subsystem Supports Data-Intensive Apps..34 5363) NEC RISCserver 2200 Outperforms Pentium Server by Factor of Three..40 5364) Tandem-Japan Has Data Storage for Parallel Supercomputer Servers...22 5365) SGI Workstations/Servers Give New Zealand Edge in America's Cup....56 5366) Silicon Studio Transforms TV w/3-D Virtual Sets & Onyx Systems.....68 CONTRACTS/VENTURES/ACQUISITIONS 5367) Digital Equipment/Oracle Team Up on Fast Running Workstations.....114 5368) OpenVision Teams with DEC/ORACLE to Support Digital UNIX...........46 5369) Unisys to Deliver Financial Management on Oracle7 Database.........73 FINANCIAL WATCH - PEOPLE/PROMOTIONS/PROFILES 5370) Intel Stock Skyrockets as Advanced Micro Devices Has Chip Delay....29 5371) Tandem Announces Expected Q2 Financial Results Up 15 Percent.......36 5372) Ten Most Active NASDAQ HPC Stocks..................................22 5373) Digital Equipment Plans Deeper Job Cuts............................16 5374) Hewlett-Packard to Keep Exeter Workstation Plant Open..............40 SUPERHIGHWAY REPORT 5375) New Tandem and SGI Web Servers Incorporate Security................46 5376) Internet Giants Netscape/Sun Microsystems Extend Software Pact.....54 5377) NSF Testing High-Speed IP Backbone to Link Supercomputing Centers..78 5378) Stanford Scientist: Information Overload a Transitional Problem...124 ___________________________ INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT ___________________________ | | | 7055) Digital Equipment Corp. Ships 100,000th Alpha System | | 7052) Dolphin Breaks Cluster Latency Barrier with SCI Adapter | | 7054) Digital Equipment Corp. Announces World's Fastest Workstation | | 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 =========================================================== 1570) ARPA's goal is to put a supercomputer in outer space running commercially available software, and "ultimately you'll find machines like this on the desktop." -- Howard Frank, Computer Systems Technology Office, ARPA FEATURES ==================================================================== 1569) HIERARCHICAL PARALLELISM: ENCORE AND MYRIAS WERE FIRST..............120 Commentary by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large Readers Joseph Boykin and Martin Walker report that Encore and Myrias developed hierarchical systems five years ago; Encore did a prototype. They preceded Convex, now selling a hierarchical system, and Cray Research which plans to do so. 1570) ARPA USES R&D DOLLARS TO BENEFIT COMMERCIAL CUSTOMERS...............123 Special Feature by Gary H. Anthes, Computerworld In a Q & A interview, ARPA's Howard Frank discusses just what commercial users might see coming out of ARPA-funded work. 1571) JAPAN & U.S. AGREE: SUPERCOMPUTERS ARE 5 GFLOPS PLUS................213 News Analysis by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large Two governments, Japan & the U.S., have solved a problem that has stumped thousands of experts: what is a supercomputer? Answer, for now, it is 5 GFLOPS or more, up from the 300 MFLOPS level set in 1990. Why did they do this and how long will 5 GFLOPS be enough? 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. 604) SEEK AND YE SHALL FIND.............................................92 CONFERENCES ================================================================= 3163) NSF Theory of Computing Program Seeks Future Direction Comments....32 3164) HPCN Europe 95 - European Initiatives, Projects and Groups........178 3165) High Performance Fortran Forum Gains Wide Recognition..............52 2888) Calendar of Upcoming HPC Events (4 New Listing, 2 Updates)........119 New Listings: NII 2000 Project Call for Papers; Workshop Training Schedule for Maui HPCC; SDSC 1995 VRML Symposium Call for Participation; HPC-SIP Calendar for 1995 - 1998. Updates: International Parallel Processing Symposium; HPCN Europe'95. ______________________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 *** Lines 1566) Wallach: Convex Cured Mach Woes, Is Moving Onward...............199 1568) Intel & IBM Intensify Battle in Sub-Micron Arena................220 667) Employment Opportunities........................................176 5334) Convex Exemplar Sets SPECrate Floating Point Performance Record..42 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Copyright 1995 HPCwire. 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