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For a free 6-week trial subscription, email: . -------------------- * -------------------- 7061) AlphaServer 8400 ACES TECHNICAL COMPUTING BENCHMARKS The new high-end server sets numerous performance records and beats all other systems by a wide margin in price and performance. _______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _____________________________ | | | 1581) ATM II: Will New StrataCom Tools Solve Management Issues? | | 5465) 'Pace-Plus' Supercomputer from Indian Defense Research Organization | | 1583) HITS & HISSES: MACH & CHORUS at Cray Plus More PDP Lore | |___________________________________________________________________________| IN THE NEWS ================================================================= COMMERCIAL NEWS Lines 5463) MTS ENHANCES CUSTOMER SERVICE VIA TANDEM'S MP SERVERS................62 The Manitoba Telephone System has purchased, installed and implemented an enhanced directory assistance system using Volt Delta's Operator Services System running on Tandem's NonStop Himalaya massively parallel commercial servers. 5464) STRATUS HAS UNIX-BASED OpenTRADEMARK FOR BANKING OPERATIONS..........33 OpenTRADEMARK will integrate trading and operations functions for treasury departments/wholesale banking operations and is being built using the SYBASE relational database and the JYACC Application Manager. SCIENCE & ENGINEERING NEWS 5465) 'PACE-PLUS' SUPERCOMPUTER FROM INDIAN DEFENSE RESEARCH ORGANIZATION..40 India's Ministry of Defense research wing DRDO has developed a parallel processing computer that delivers a sustained performance of more than 960 Mflops for computational fluid dynamics programs which are used in aircraft projects. 5466) CRAY RESEARCH RECEIVES $43 MILLION ORDER FROM U.S. NOAA..............26 The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said it awarded a $42.7 million deal to Cray Research to provide the agency with supercomputer systems for weather research and forecasting. 5467) WHO NEEDS A DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE?...................................78 Science News By Daniel S. Greenberg, Science & Government Report While Republicans in Congress talk seriously about shrinking the government, they've come up with a bad idea of what to do with the scientific bits and pieces they want to salvage from the demolished departments. NEWS BRIEFS ================================================================= 5468) BTG Offers New Workstation Based on AXP275 Alpha Chip..............47 5469) IBM Unveils SystemView Systems Management Software for AIX........128 5470) Japan's NEC to Set Up China Computer Venture.......................37 5471) Oracle VP Jerry Held Says Trend Is Toward Shared Databases.........47 5472) Auspex Reports New Scalable Server Supports Up to 50 Users.........53 5473) Informix SMP Server Does Most Functions in Parallel................42 5474) Details on Cray Technical Support for America's Cup Yacht Design..126 CONTRACTS/VENTURES/ACQUISITIONS 5475) nCUBE Embarks on Ventures with Apple, Pioneer & Stellar One.......123 5476) AT&T Network Systems/Intel/Hybrid Networks Ink Broadband Deal......61 5477) Mercury's Parallelism Helps Team Solve Image & Robotics Problems...50 5478) SGI/AT&T Have Multimedia Software for Customer-Designed Services..102 5479) Amdahl's Acquisition Expands Its Multivendor Service Capability....36 5480) CNT/Brixton Systems to Port Networking Software to Digital UNIX....55 ORDERS/INSTALLATIONS 5481) University of Kentucky Contract Awarded to Convex..................63 5482) CONVEX C4/XA at Royal Dutch Shell for Seismic Processing Use.......36 5483) Special Effects Unit Buys Ampex 310 Drive for Post-Production Work.47 FINANCIAL WATCH - PEOPLE/PROMOTIONS/PROFILES 5484) Ten Most Active NASDAQ HPC Stocks..................................33 5485) Convex Makes Atlas VP-General Manager/Harris VP of Marketing.......55 5486) William Hewlett/David Packard Win Lifetime Achievement Award.......61 SUPERHIGHWAY REPORT 5487) Carnegie Mellon Licenses Lycos Web Cataloging Software to NlightN..72 5488) DEC Has Extended Firewall Strategy for Internet Security...........76 5489) Secure Online Payment Beta Tested by CyberCash & Omaha Merchant....68 5490) Cyberspace in India Just Beginning to Loosen Business Regulations..53 ___________________________ INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT ___________________________ | | | 7052) Dolphin Breaks Cluster Latency Barrier with SCI Adapter | | 7062) What's New on the Web? Find Out with WEBster! | | 7032) HPCwire to Launch Technology Transfer Quarterly -- | | A Special Supplement to HPCwire | |___________________________________________________________________________| QUOTE OF THE WEEK =========================================================== 5487) "An important element of our university's mission is to foster relationships that enable us to transfer the knowledge we create to business and society." -- Robert Mehrabian, President, Carnegie Mellon University FEATURES ==================================================================== 1581) ATM II: WILL NEW STRATACOM TOOLS SOLVE MANAGEMENT ISSUES?...........147 Commentary by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large Large users like Texas Instruments are turning to ATM to obtain higher bandwidth. StrataCom's new management toolkit is emblematic of efforts to fill in the gaps of planning and managing today's and tomorrow's ATM networks. Warning: "Expect ATM products to lag behind promises." 1582) PARALLEL DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING TEAM SUPPORTS MPI.....................74 Feature by MaryDell Tholburn, Los Alamos National Laboratory MPI provides a simple-to-use portable interface for the basic user yet is powerful enough to allow programmers to use the high-performance message-passing operations available on advanced machines. 1583) HITS & HISSES: MACH & CHORUS AT CRAY PLUS MORE PDP LORE..............98 Compilation by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large Steve Reinhardt of Cray Research comments that Mach rather than Chorus underlies the operating system of the T3D, but the forthcoming T3E will in fact use Chorus. Omri Serlin provides more history on DEC's trail- blazing PDP machines. 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 CONFERENCES ================================================================= 3177) High-Performance Computing and Networking Europe '95 Overview.....153 2888) Calendar of Upcoming HPC Events (2 New Listings, 1 Update)........114 New Listings: MANNHEIM SuParCup Last Call; Supercomputing '95. Updates: ACM International Conf. on Supercomputing. ______________________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 *** 1578) Networking's Future: Getting Ready for ATM........................266 5437) SGI Takes Market Lead with Faster Challenge and Onyx Systems.......81 1579) Besieged Cray Computer Seeks Help from Investors/Corp. Partners....89 5439) Silicon Graphics Establishes European Supercomputing Center........60 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Copyright 1995 HPCwire. Feel free to distribute this Table of Contents. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~