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Phillip Samper Named New Chairman and CEO for Cray Research | | 1584) COMMENTARY: China and South Korea Announce New Parallel Systems | |___________________________________________________________________________| IN THE NEWS ================================================================= COMMERCIAL NEWS Lines 5491) ARGENTINIAN STOCKBROKERS & STOCK EXCHANGE SELECT UNISYS NETWORK......25 Mercado de Valores, stockbrokers and members of Argentina's stock exchange, have selected Unisys Corporation to implement an advanced communications network. 5492) LANL HELPS MASTERCARD THWART POTENTIAL CREDIT CARD FRAUD.............45 Los Alamos Lab has long used sophisticated computer modeling techniques to track signs of global nuclear weapons proliferation. It will now use its supercomputers to analyze MasterCard transaction data in hopes of finding more detailed patterns of fraud. SCIENCE & ENGINEERING NEWS 5493) INTEL PARAGON HELPS SCIENTISTS SOLVE VANISHING CODFISH MYSTERY......108 Applying the methods of physics to the study of biology, German and Brazilian scientists used the large Intel Paragon system at KFA Juelich to model the dramatic decline of the codfish populations off the coast of Newfoundland. 5494) NEW 'PANORAMA' WWW BROWSER TECHNOLOGY FROM NCSA/SOFTQUAD & SYNEX.....78 Panorama is a free and commercial Standard Generalized Markup Language browsing technology. It works with the NCSA's Mosaic browser to increase the usefulness of the World Wide Web by allowing publication and viewing of online versions of existing SGML documents. NEWS BRIEFS ================================================================= 5495) J. Phillip Samper Named New Chairman and CEO for Cray Research.....73 5496) San Diego Supercomputer Center Faces State Funding Issues.........137 5497) IBM Claims Fastest Computer/Starts Solving Grand Challenges.......146 5498) ICE's Desktop RealTime Engine Unleashes HPC Power on PC Platforms..92 5499) Workstation Speed Boosted 30% w/Superconductor Tek. Cooling System.89 5501) SGI & Software Companies Invent Next-Gen Apps at Developer Forum...40 CONTRACTS/VENTURES/ACQUISITIONS 5502) MIT Lab Spin-off Fuses Benefits of Supercomputers/Realtime Systems.39 5503) Boole & Babbage Pact: Central Device Management for Supercomputers.64 5504) IBM/Mercedes-Benz U.S. Sign $12 Million Infrastructure Deal........51 5505) Oracle Enhances Access to Rival Databases with Intersolv Venture...38 ORDERS/INSTALLATIONS 5506) Medtronics to Design Cardiovascular Devices with New CRAY J916.....51 5507) Singapore Center/Molecular Res. Inst. in Japan Install IBM SP2s....39 5508) HARC/HNSX Announce Order for SX-4 Series Supercomputer.............36 5509) Geco-Prakla UK Buys Ampex DST 410 Library for Seismic Processing...28 PEOPLE/PROMOTIONS/PROFILES - FINANCIAL WATCH 5510) NCSA Marketing Communications Group: Maxine Brown Assoc. Director..48 5511) Ten Most Active NASDAQ HPC Stocks..................................22 5512) H-P Net Earnings Up 41 Percent in Second Quarter..................372 SUPERHIGHWAY REPORT 5513) Mercury News' Parr Sees Internet as Next Print Media Growth Market.55 5514) New Survey Shows Internet Gender Ratio is 2 to 1...................44 ___________________________ INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT ___________________________ | | | 7066) DIGITAL INTERNET CONTEST CHALLENGES BEST AND BRIGHTEST TO STRETCH | | LIMITS OF HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING | | 7064) Maximum Strategy in Fibre Channel Technology Agreements with H-P/IBM| | 7061) Digital AlphaServer 8400 ACES Technical Computing Benchmarks | | 7052) Dolphin Breaks Cluster Latency Barrier with SCI Adapter | | 7065) Buckminster Fuller Centennial Symposium and Celebration | | 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 =========================================================== 5495) "My primary focus will be on profitability and growth as Cray Research increasingly expands into new technical and commercial markets." -- J. Phillip Samper, Chairman and CEO, Cray Research FEATURES ==================================================================== 1584) CHINA AND SOUTH KOREA ANNOUNCE NEW PARALLEL SYSTEMS.................112 Commentary by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large China and South Korea have both announced new parallel systems of about 2 GFLOPS. The globalization of HPC in Asia is moving further toward making as well as using high-performance systems. Is this doom for U.S. vendors? No, but they must keep raising their performance levels and overall utility to keep ahead. 1585) IBM'S IRVING WLADAWSKY-BERGER KEYNOTES CORNELL'S TENTH ANNIVERSARY..195 Mr. Wladawsky-Berger reflects on a celebration of leadership over the last ten years in the development and use of high-performance systems. 1586) THINKING MACHINES SEEKS REBIRTH, PLANS DOUBLE STRATEGY..............245 News Analysis by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large Thinking Machines is now taking legal steps that could in time free it from Chapter 11. Its new leadership has adopted a double strategy: make the most of the CM-5, including an upgraded version, the CM-500, and develop new software products ("middleware') for workstation clusters, SMP and hierarchical systems. 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..........................................163 Listings from: Convex Computer Corporation, Cray Research UK* IBM POWERparallel Systems*, Oak Ridge National Lab, NEC*, Pallas GmbH, San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), University of California, (* New listings this week) OTHER DEPARTMENTS =========================================================== CENTERS 3178) SDSC Science Scholars Poster Session June 7 in San Diego...........75 3179) Carnegie Students Use Supercomputer Modeling/Enhance GEMAP System..77 CONFERENCES 3180) NASA HPCC Program Solicits Grand Challenge Proposals...............38 2888) Calendar of Upcoming HPC Events (1 New Listing)...................114 New Listing: Buckminster Fuller Centennial Symposium. ______________________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 *** 1583) HITS & HISSES: MACH & CHORUS at Cray Plus More PDP Lore.........98 5466) Cray Research Receives $43 Million Order from U.S. NOAA.........26 5467) Who Needs a Department of Science?..............................78 7061) AlphaServer 8400 Aces Technical Computing Benchmarks............92 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Copyright 1995 HPCwire. 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