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Provide automatic failover for high availability in commercial applications... _______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _____________________________ | | | 1578) COMMENTARY: Networking's Future: Getting Ready for ATM | | 1579) Besieged Cray Computer Seeks Help from Investors/Corp. Partners | | 1580) Hits & Hisses: Comments, Corrections and Criticisms | |___________________________________________________________________________| IN THE NEWS ================================================================= COMMERCIAL NEWS Lines 5435) ADVANCED PARALLEL TECHNOLOGY EXPANDS DECISION SUPPORT PERFORMANCE....85 Scalable Data Interconnect expands the performance of Sequent symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) systems by allowing complex queries to be distributed across more than 100 Intel Pentium processors in a system consisting of multiple SMP nodes clustered together. 5436) RBC DOMINION SECURITIES STANDARDIZES ON SYBASE CLIENT/SERVERS........83 In a move from mainframes to an enterprise client/server system, RBC Dominion Securities chose SYBASE software as the company's new database foundation. SCIENCE & ENGINEERING NEWS 5437) SGI TAKES MARKET LEAD WITH FASTER CHALLENGE AND ONYX SYSTEMS.........81 The speed of SGI's POWER CHALLENGE and POWER Onyx has been increased by 20 percent with a 90 MHz version of the MIPS R8000 microprocessor at no increase in price. 5438) THREE ITALIAN HPC CENTERS CONNECT TO RUN METACOMPUTING DEMO.........193 High-performance computers no longer have to be in the same room or even the same continent to work together on a task. Four IBM SP2s were connected via the Italian academic network, similar to the Internet. NEWS BRIEFS ================================================================= 5439) Silicon Graphics Establishes European Supercomputing Center........60 5440) Parsytec's PowerPC-based Supercomputer Used in Genetic Programming.52 5441) IBM Claims It Has Industry's Fastest One-Megabit SRAM Memory Chip..55 5442) Oracle7 Parallel Database Supports IBM SP2........................130 5443) Red Brick Warehouse VPT Parallel Database Available for IBM's SP2..80 5444) IBM Has Parallel Engineering/Scientific Subroutine Library for AIX.99 5445) Six Major Database Vendors Line Up Behind Novell's UnixWare 2......55 5446) AT&T Announces Teradata Database System for UNIX...................80 CONTRACTS/VENTURES/ACQUISITIONS 5447) nCUBE/IT Solutions to Make WWW Servers/Tools for Database Access...81 5448) Cray Research/NAG in Agreement for PVM & Fortran 77 Libraries......57 5449) NAG/ACE Alliance to Develop Optimized Fortran 90 Compiler..........91 5450) France's Matra Defense & ONERA in Cooperative Research Efforts....169 5451) GMD/PGI in Alliance to Accelerate Development of HPF Applications..51 5452) MIPS/SGI Have Interactive Digital Media Technology Breakthrough....59 ORDERS/INSTALLATIONS 5453) Bristol-Myers Squibb Buys POWER CHALLENGE for Chemistry Research...47 5454) VIA Software Tool Accepted by NRaD for Paragon Supercomputer.......36 5455) IBM Sells 1,100 AS/400 Computing Systems to Large Finance Company..52 FINANCIAL WATCH - PEOPLE/PROMOTIONS/PROFILES 5456) Intel Says at Annual Meeting It's Ready for Pentium Demand.........58 5457) Convex Increased Q1 Sales and Cut Quarterly Losses.................48 5458) Ten Most Active NASDAQ HPC Stocks..................................22 5459) H-P Forms Computer Systems Group Headed by Bernard Guidon..........53 SUPERHIGHWAY REPORT 5460) SDSC/NCSA Mirror Servers Promote First National "Town Meeting"....191 5461) EUnet Belgium Announces Access Point in Oostende...................40 5462) 'Fortran 90 for the Fortran 77 Programmer' Available on WWW........12 ___________________________ INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT ___________________________ | | | 7052) Dolphin Breaks Cluster Latency Barrier with SCI Adapter | | 7054) Digital Equipment Corp. Announces World's Fastest Workstation | | 7032) HPCwire to Launch Technology Transfer Quarterly -- | | A Special Supplement to HPCwire | |___________________________________________________________________________| QUOTE OF THE WEEK =========================================================== 5450) "We are counting on parallel architectures to provide us with the multi-teraflops of sustained performance that will be needed as we look to developing hypersonic 21st-century vehicles ... or flexible airplanes." -- Pierre Leca, New Computer Architectures Division Head, ONERA FEATURES ==================================================================== 1578) NETWORKING'S FUTURE: GETTING READY FOR ATM..........................266 Commentary by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large Computing and networks are interdependent but out of step as demand for network capacity exceeds supply, dependence on network increases, and networks become chaotic. ATM offers solutions yet technology is not enough without sound network planning and management. 1579) BESIEGED CRAY COMPUTER SEEKS HELP FROM INVESTORS/CORP. PARTNERS......89 Feature by Joanna Bean, Gazette Telegraph Cray Computer Corporation wants to find investors or a corporate partner that will pump as much as $25 million into the company to bail it out of bankruptcy court and allow work to be finished on the Cray-4. 1580) HITS & HISSES: COMMENTS, CORRECTIONS AND CRITICISMS.................164 Compiled by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large More history of hierarhical systems plus related matters (the PDP saga) from Tim Bishop and Bill Wing. Frank Baetke points out who owns SABRE (American Airlines, not United) and Maya Gokhale notes that Cray's T3D as well as Unisys' OPUS use CHORUS microkernels. 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..........................................143 Listings from: Cambridge Parallel, Convex Computer Corporation, CISR, IBM POWERparallel Systems, Oak Ridge National Lab, Pallas GmbH, San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), University of California, University of Adelaide, Australia. 604) SEEK AND YE SHALL FIND.............................................92 OTHER DEPARTMENTS =========================================================== SCIENCE & HUMAN INTEREST 3174) Tapping Remote, Renewable Resources: A Global Priority............332 3176) Computer-Generated Exhibit Shows Ocean Conservation Needed.........50 CONFERENCES 2888) Calendar of Upcoming HPC Events (4 New Listings, 1 Update)........117 New Listings: Intn'l HPCN Conf. (Delft); Reengineering Tools Workshop; CASE-95 Workshop; VRML Symposium; Updates: NII 2000 Project. ______________________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 *** 1575) Reducing HPC's Obscurity Gap: Rectification of Names..............328 667) Employment Opportunities..........................................160 1577) Unisys/Intel Launch New Parallel/UNIX/Pentium OPUS................246 5410) Open Parallel Unisys Server Revolutionizes Information Management.115 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Copyright 1995 HPCwire. 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