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For a free 6-week trial subscription, email: . -------------------- * -------------------- 7066) DIGITAL INTERNET CONTEST CHALLENGES BEST AND BRIGHTEST TO STRETCH LIMITS OF HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING Winners will be honored at the Supercomputing '95 conference in December in San Diego. _______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _____________________________ | | | 1589) ANALYSIS: The Tight-fisted Tilt: Boeing, Cray, IBM and the GOP | | 1588) Nuclear Weapons Integrity on the Intel Paragon System at Sandia | | 1587) HITS & HISSES: Cray Retort, "Parallel" and a PC Sect | |___________________________________________________________________________| IN THE NEWS ================================================================= COMMERCIAL NEWS Lines 5515) HP 9000 SERVERS REPLACE INSURANCE CO.'S IBM UNITS AS ONLINE SYSTEM...76 The new system enhances ease of use and user training and cuts online response time in half, which helps enhance business efficiency and improve individual productivity. 5516) COMMERCIAL ACCEPTANCE OF PARALLEL COMPUTING STRONGER THAN EXPECTED..367 IBM says that commercial applications now represent the fastest growing marketing opportunity for the company's new POWERparallel information systems. SCIENCE & ENGINEERING NEWS 5517) PARALLEL PROGRAM ARCHETYPES DOMAIN-SPECIFIC TOOLS...................126 Sequential programming tools were developed over four decades from very general tools to very specific tools. The explosive growth of the personal computer market shows the power of the strategy of pyramid tool development. 5518) THE CONGRESSIONAL WAR ON KNOWLEDGE...................................89 Science News By Daniel S. Greenberg, Science & Government Report In Congress, you'll find political descendants of the old Speaker's targets diligently working to lower the levels of understanding of many costly and complex problems that afflict America in the 1990s. The holy object is to save a relatively few federal bucks that are now spent on research and analytical studies. NEWS BRIEFS ================================================================= 5519) Cornell Theory Center Launches Virtual Workshops Pilot.............62 5520) Eight of Top Ten IT Innovators Use Cray Research Supercomputers....50 5521) Pyramid Debuts Extended Open Server Line - From Desktop To MPP....120 5522) Database Excelleration Systems Unveils Major Improvement for RDBMS.63 5523) Parallel ANSYS Rev. 5.2 Available on Sun's SPARCServer 1000........41 5524) IBM's CICS & DB2 Software Offered by Pyramid on Enterprise Systems.39 5525) Cabletron Outlines Asia-Pacific Expansion and Support Strategy.....75 5526) Ampex 19 mm Tape Drive Receives SGI's 'Gold Seal' Approval.........21 5527) MCC Kicks Off Three Packings & Interconnect Applications Programs.120 CONTRACTS/VENTURES/ACQUISITIONS 5528) H-P & Maximum Strategy Pact Has FCS Connectivity for Data Servers..78 5529) Netscape to License Sun's Java Programming Language for Internet...53 5530) Cypress and Mercury to Develop RACEway Interlink Products..........63 5531) IBM & Maximum Strategy Have Data Server Fibre Channel Solutions....66 ORDERS/INSTALLATIONS 5532) University of Queensland Buys Silicon Graphics Supercomputer......110 5533) CRAY J916 Solidifies Wayne State's Status As Research University...56 FINANCIAL WATCH - PEOPLE/PROMOTIONS/PROFILES 5534) Ten Most Active NASDAQ HPC Stocks..................................22 5535) SDSC's Robert Russ Wins Student Academy Award......................32 SUPERHIGHWAY REPORT 5536) Sun's Network Products Offer Security for Internet Commerce........76 5537) EUnet Belgium Handles Internet Connectivity During Elections.......26 ___________________________ INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT ___________________________ | | | 7063) Cray Steps Up to the Plate With Business Solutions -- | | CS6400 System Batting 1000 | | 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 =========================================================== 1588) "... ending underground testing, constraints on non-nuclear testing and loss of production capability call for greatly increased reliance on computer simulation to verify the safety, reliability and performance of the nuclear stockpile." -- Ed Barsis, Sandia National Laboratories FEATURES ==================================================================== 1587) HITS & HISSES: CRAY RETORT, "PARALLEL" AND A PC SECT.................90 Compiled by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large Steve Conway of Cray says that the Kiwi America's Cup strategy was in fact traditional. Paul Coddington of NPAC at Syracuse notes: for real people "parallel" is confusing & "parallel algorithms" is a disaster. A Footnote reports that Aum Shinrikyo, the Sarin sect, assembles Japan's most affordable PCs. 1588) NUCLEAR WEAPONS INTEGRITY ON THE INTEL PARAGON SYSTEM AT SANDIA.....142 Feature by Jan Rowell, Contributing Writer How does the U.S. ensure the integrity of its nuclear weapons stockpile? It's a question of national importance. And its answer lies, in large measure, in high performance computing. 1589) THE TIGHT-FISTED TILT: BOEING, CRAY, IBM AND THE GOP................315 News Analysis by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large Boeing, Cray Research and IBM have been slimming down and reorienting themselves. Is this a model for federal government as Congress seeks to cut programs, including science, and bury whole departments in order to march toward a balanced budget? What will happen to partnership? 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..........................................200 Listings from: Cray Research UK*, Cray Research USA*, IBM POWERparallel Systems*, Oak Ridge National Lab, NEC* Portland Group*, San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), Silicon Graphics*, University of California. (* New listings this week) CONFERENCES ================================================================= 3181) HPC Parallel Software Group Updates - HPCN Europe '95 - Part 1....182 3182) Buckminster Fuller Centennial Symposium and Celebration...........114 3183) Supercomputing '95 Conference: K-12 Teacher Scholarship Requests..252 2888) Calendar of Upcoming HPC Events (8 New Listings)..................114 New Listings: NASA HPCC Program Solicits Grand Challenge Proposals; Computing for the Social Sciences (SDSC); Federal Info. & Comm. Call for Papers; High Performance Comp. Chemistry Workshop; LLNL Parallel Comput. Chemistry Tutorial; Symp. on Technology Trends in Automotive Engineering; Maui HPC Intro User Training Workshop; UNAM-CRAY Supercomputing Conf. ______________________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 *** 5497) IBM Claims Fastest Computer/Starts Solving Grand Challenges......146 1586) Thinking Machines Seeks Rebirth, Plans Double Strategy...........245 5495) J. Phillip Samper Named New Chairman and CEO for Cray Research....73 5494) New 'Panorama' WWW Browser Technology from NCSA/SoftQuad & Synex..78 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Copyright 1995 HPCwire. Feel free to distribute this Table of Contents. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~