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WEBster waiting for you at this URL: http://www.tgc.com/webster.html _______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _____________________________ | | | 1572) COMMENTARY: Hierarchical Archaeology: Cedar and CM*/C.mmp | | 1573) Cluster Computing & the Market: Who's Doing It, Why, What's in Store| | 1574) ANALYSIS: Convex's Global Shared Memory: A Competitive Edge? | |___________________________________________________________________________| IN THE NEWS ================================================================= COMMERCIAL NEWS 5379) TANDEM BOLSTERS USAA W/NEW DECISION SUPPORT DATA WAREHOUSE SYSTEM....54 USAA's decision support system is being migrated from existing IBM mainframe computers to 16 NonStop Himalaya K10000 and K20000 servers and is scheduled to be in full operation by the end of 1995. 5380) INTEL/ORACLE/SEQUENT ANNOUNCE PLANS TO DEVELOP MULTIMEDIA SERVERS....97 This threesome have initial plans to develop and deliver interactive multimedia server platforms and integrated solutions for both the consumer services and enterprise markets world-wide. SCIENCE & ENGINEERING NEWS 5381) NCSA/MCI TO LINK SCIENTIST WITH COMDEX PARTICIPANTS VIA vBNS.........59 This team will use a highly sophisticated computer network to link a senior research scientist with participants at COMDEX next week. The vBNS, an experimental broad bandwidth network connecting the NSF's supercomputing centers, will serve as a national testbed for investigating performance of the nation's emerging ATM infrastructure. NEWS BRIEFS ================================================================= 5382) Superpowered PC Provides Supercomputer Power for Under $17,000.....52 5383) NSTC Information and Communications R&D Develops Strategic Plan....37 5384) CRPC to Help "Retool" HPC Users for Parallelism....................29 5385) Unisys Has LINC for IBM RS/6000 AIX Server Commercial Market.......69 5386) TeamQuest's Baseline 5.4 Available for UNIX Systems................33 5387) H-P Gigabit Fibre Channel Controller for Hi-Perform. Mass Storage..98 5388) Backbone Node Router Forwards One Million+ Packets Per Second......76 5389) Paradise & Linda Provide Fault-Tolerance/Dynamic Load Balancing....38 5390) LSF 2.1 Supports Sequential/Parallel Jobs on UNIX Networks.........35 5391) Siemens Builds on Pyramid/To Focus on U.S. UNIX Server Market......89 5392) Oracle Chooses Compuware EcoTOOLS to Manage Its UNIX DB Servers....55 5393) National Science & Tech. Week/Free 800 Number on April 26th!.......34 5394) Cray Research Supports America's Cup Contender 'Young America'.....52 CONTRACTS/VENTURES/ACQUISITIONS 5395) Hughes/DEC Team to Bid on $900 Million Workstation Contract........20 5396) Oracle7 Available on Concurrent's Real-Time SMP Server Platform....49 5397) Convex Chooses Silicon Valley Research for Place & Route Tools.....35 ORDERS/INSTALLATIONS 5398) Dutch National Aerospace Lab Purchases NEC SX-4/32 Supercomputer...55 5399) Munich-Based Leibniz Datacenter Opts for IBM SP2 System............27 5401) Geco-Prakla Purchases Fourth Parallel Computer from TMC............42 5402) Cornell Theory Center's IBM SP2 Goes into Production Mode..........98 FINANCIAL WATCH - PEOPLE/PROMOTIONS/PROFILES 5403) Sun Microsystems Says Q3 Growth Broad/Earnings Up 87 Percent.......57 5404) Intel Q1 Earnings Up 44 Percent/Chip Bookings Exceed Billings......56 5405) DEC Q3 $74 Million Net Income Helped by Strong Alpha/PC Sales.....214 5406) Jay Atlas Joins Convex as Vice President and General Manager.......33 SUPERHIGHWAY REPORT 5407) Carnegie Mellon Licenses Its Lycos Catalog of the Internet.........61 5408) IBM's NYC Digital Library to Help Customers Through Cyberspace.....48 5409) CompuServe Makes $301 Million Investment in the Internet...........86 ___________________________ INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT ___________________________ | | | 7057) Digital AlphaServer 8400 Running SAP R/3 Software/Shatters | | Transaction Records | | 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 | | 7059) The Bernhardt Agency Adds Three New Accounts | | 7032) HPC Community Welcomes Technology Transfer Quarterly | |___________________________________________________________________________| QUOTE OF THE WEEK =========================================================== 1573) "The telephone is the ideal client/server model... Any phone can link to any other phone in the global network... This is a model the computer industry should emulate." -- Gary Smaby, President, Smaby Group FEATURES ==================================================================== 1572) HIERARCHICAL ARCHAEOLOGY: CEDAR AND CM*/C.mmp.......................108 Commentary by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large More archaeological news on hierarchical computing's early history: Dick Hessel and Pat McGehearty report on the claims for David Kuck's Cedar design (ca 1985) and the Carnegie-Mellon CM*, composed of a pyramid of PDPs (ca 1975) and C.mmp (shared memory, 1970-80). 1573) CLUSTER COMPUTING AND THE MARKET: WHO'S DOING IT, WHY AND WHAT'S IN STORE FOR THE FUTURE?..................................243 Feature by Joan Wrabetz, President and CEO, Aggregate Computing Industry analyst Gary Smaby was recently interviewed to determine his opinions and thoughts on cluster computing and its future. 1574) CONVEX'S GLOBAL SHARED MEMORY: A COMPETITIVE EDGE?..................335 News Analysis by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large Convex's Exemplar multi-level scalable system evolved from a gamma stage with several real problems toward a mature product. In a crowded market where many advantages cancel out, Convex hopes cache-coherent global shared memory wins applications and provide a competitive edge. 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..........................................160 Listings from: Cambridge Parallel, Convex Computer Corporation*, Cornell Theory Center, CISR, Epsilon, IBM POWERparallel Systems, Oak Ridge National Lab, Pallas GmbH*, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC)*, University of California. < * > New Listings This Week. 604) SEEK AND YE SHALL FIND.............................................92 CENTERS ===================================================================== 3166) Cornell Theory Center Open House and Invitation....................95 3167) NCSA Celebrates 10 Years as International Resource for HPC........108 CONFERENCES 2888) Calendar of Upcoming HPC Events (2 New Listings)..................115 New Listings: Society Optical Eng. Workshop; Working Conf. on Reverse Eng. ______________________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 *** 1571) Japan & U.S. Agree: Supercomputers Are 5 GFLOPS Plus.............213 1570) ARPA Uses R&D Dollars to Benefit Commercial Customers............123 1569) Hierarchical Parallelism: Encore and Myrias Were First...........120 5359) IBM ANNOUNCES NEW WORLD RECORD IN MAGNETIC DATA-STORAGE DENSITY..146 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Copyright 1995 HPCwire. 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