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Provide automatic failover for high availability in commercial applications... _______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _____________________________ | | | 1575) COMMENTARY: Reducing HPC's Obscurity Gap: Rectification of Names | | 5412) NEWS: HP 9000/3000 Workstation/Server Manufacturing Flaws Corrected | | 1577) ANALYSIS: Unisys/Intel Launch New Parallel/UNIX/Pentium OPUS | |___________________________________________________________________________| IN THE NEWS ================================================================= COMMERCIAL NEWS 5410) OPEN PARALLEL UNISYS SERVER REVOLUTIONIZES INFORMATION MANAGEMENT...115 Unisys and Intel have teamed to create a uniquely scalable system based on Intel's Pentium processor. The new server employs Unisys- optimized Intel Mesh Interconnect technology previously applied only to massively parallel systems used in scientific applications. 5411) JOHNSON SPACE CENTER-DEVELOPED GRAPHICS PKG. FINDS COMMERCIAL USE....51 A recently signed Space Act Agreement will allow further development and marketing of NASADIG, a graphics package used by NASA centers. This graphics software will expand the range of platforms it runs on to include everything from supercomputers to PCs. SCIENCE & ENGINEERING NEWS 5412) HP 9000/3000 WORKSTATION/SERVER MANUFACTURING FLAW CORRECTED.........56 Hewlett-Packard discovered and corrected a manufacturing-process flaw that affects the behavior of a small percentage of HP 9000 workstation and HP 3000 servers. A limited number of individual units were found to be affected. NEWS BRIEFS ================================================================= 5413) Cray Research/Oracle to Enhance Performance/Scalability of VLDBs...96 5414) Unisys Forms Comprehensive Consulting Team for Decision Support....77 5415) In Workstation Market-Share Battle, H-P/ICS Lure Sun Customers.....80 5416) Auspex Has High-End UNIX Netserver for Data-Intensive Applications.82 5417) StorageTek Has Iceberg Channel Ext. for Virtual Storage Facility...37 CONTRACTS/VENTURES/ACQUISITIONS 5418) DEC/Competitive Automation Reach Technology Sharing Agreement......49 5419) EMASS/Siemens Have UNIX Enterprise Storage Management Solutions....62 5420) MCI Selects Informix OnLine XPS Software Over Oracle/IBM Databases.46 5421) Red Brick/Unisys to Market & Distribute DSS to Vertical Markets....72 ORDERS/INSTALLATIONS 5422) NCSA Installs CRAY SUPERSERVER 6400 System.........................70 5423) French Atomic Energy Commission Orders CRAY T932 System............22 FINANCIAL WATCH - PEOPLE/PROMOTIONS/PROFILES 5424) Amdahl Announces First-Quarter Earnings Up Significantly...........70 5425) Cray Research Reports Q1 Losses, Orders Have Nearly Doubled.......334 5426) IBM Q1 Shows Revenue Growth in All Key Products....................76 5427) Silicon Graphics' Earnings Jumped 83 Percent to $64 Million........70 5428) Ten Most Active NASDAQ HPC Stocks..................................22 5429) Motorola Receives NCSA's Industrial Grand Challenge Award..........83 5430) Thinking Machines Names Dawn Duross Director of Federal Sales......19 SUPERHIGHWAY REPORT 5431) EDS and Consortium Open First Commercial Virtual Reality Center...115 5432) IBM Provides World Wide Web Server for 1996 Olympics...............45 5433) ANDATACO Updates Online Product Ordering for UNIX Market...........28 5434) Major Belgian Net Providers BELNET/EUnet in Agreement at KULeuven..30 ___________________________ INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT ___________________________ | | | 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 | | 7032) HPC Community Welcomes Technology Transfer Quarterly | |___________________________________________________________________________| QUOTE OF THE WEEK =========================================================== 5422) "We see NCSA as a vital commercial application test bed for U.S. businesses to use in prototyping solutions that can be transferred to their own computing environments." -- Larry Smarr, Director, NCSA FEATURES ==================================================================== 1575) REDUCING HPC'S OBSCURITY GAP: RECTIFICATION OF NAMES................328 Lexicographical Note by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large HPC enters a new era encumbered with outmoded, clumsy, incomprehensible terms for its basic concepts. Now is the time to rectify these names and throw out the trash accumulated in prior dynasties. 1576) OPTIMIZING CODE ON A SINGLE PARAGON NODE TO IMPROVE PERFORMANCE......82 Feature by Carl Scarbnick, CETech, Inc. Researchers using the Paragon who want to obtain greater efficiencies in their parallel applications to reduce the run time of their code can do so by using the hand-coded Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines. 1577) UNISYS/INTEL LAUNCH NEW PARALLEL/UNIX/PENTIUM OPUS..................246 News Analysis by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large Unisys has joined the parallel parade with distributed memory machines aimed at commercial buyers that present a single-system image, use Pentium chips and Paragon interconnects, priced at around $85k/CPU. 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 ===================================================================== 3168) Univ. of Stuttgart Gets New Status/Spotlight on Paragon System....112 3169) SDSC Harnesses vBNS in Demonstration of Distributed Computation....91 3170) Metacenter Regional Alliance Awards for 1995.......................32 3171) Task Force to Explore Future of NSF Supercomputer Centers..........27 CONFERENCES 3172) SGI Enables the Power Workplace at HPCN in Milan, Italy............34 3173) CAESAR Cluster Project to Demo HPCN Technology in Manuf. Industry..63 2888) Calendar of Upcoming HPC Events (2 New Listings, 1 Update)........117 New Listing: Computing in High Energy Physics, RAPS Workshop. Update: SPAA'95/PPoPP'95/UIWOPPS. ______________________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| | | |___________________________________________________________________________| *** LAST ISSUE'S MOST REQUESTED ITEMS FROM HPCwire *** 1573) Cluster Computing & the Market: Who's Doing It, Why, What's in Store for the Future?.................................243 5382) Superpowered PC Provides Supercomputer Power for Under $17,000....52 1574) Convex's Global Shared Memory: A Competitive Edge?...............335 667) Employment Opportunities.........................................160 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Copyright 1995 HPCwire. 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