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A SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT DELIVERED FREE TO HPCwire SUBSCRIBERS The Technology Transfer Quarterly will spotlight available technology by category, and will be the premiere medium for communications between research facilities and industrial users for existing technology and current research. _______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _____________________________ | | | 1593) COMMENTARY: Clustering Sneaks Back: MPP Power at SMP Costs | | 1594) Gerstner's Strategy Examined for Returning IBM to Profitability | | 5562) Task Force on Future of NSF Supercomputer Centers Program Survey | |___________________________________________________________________________| IN THE NEWS ================================================================= COMMERCIAL NEWS Lines 5558) PHILIPPINE CARRIER TO GROW BILLING SYSTEM VIA TANDEM SERVERS.........56 A telecommunications services provider in the Philippines, Isla Communications, has chosen Tandem's Himalaya servers to develop a customer billing and care system for its newly developed international telecommunications gateway. 5559) UK'S SUPERNET CHOOSES SYBASE SQL SERVER AS CORE DATABASE.............54 Supernet has made possible the long awaited prospect of Internet shopping with a breakthrough in encryption technology creating the world's first secure method of making credit card transactions. SCIENCE & ENGINEERING NEWS 5560) SDSC'S TELEMANUFACTURING FACILITY ADVANCES VISUALIZATION RESEARCH....62 Rapid prototyping technology has been integrated with scientific visualization to produce 3-D solid models from digital geometry data. This gives a different perspective on a scientific 3-D data set that complements the insight made possible from a computer graphics display. 5561) LLNL LAND MINE TECHNOLOGY MAY FIND HIDDEN CIVILIAN HAZARDS...........54 A technology developed at LLNL to detect land mines may soon be used to sniff out potential civilian hazards -- from hidden cracks in roadbeds to the early stages of metal corrosion in aircraft. NEWS BRIEFS ================================================================= 5562) Task Force on Future of NSF Supercomputer Centers Program Survey...18 5563) TMC's Parallel Computer & Artist Karl Sims Combine Art & Evolution.39 5564) NEC 250 MHz VR4400 Has Powerful Processing for MIPS RISC VR Series.63 5565) New SPP1200 Exemplar Scalable System from Convex Is Announced......59 5566) Former Epsilon Execs Launch Decision Support Technology Company....51 5567) Cisco Reorganizes into Five Distinct Business Units................63 CONTRACTS/VENTURES/ACQUISITIONS 5568) American Airlines joins NCSA Industrial Program....................56 5569) Siemens, Toshiba and IBM Alliance Yields Small, Fast DRAM Chip.....75 5570) Ericsson Signs Major Supply Agreement for Tandem's UNIX Platform...46 5571) H-P Exclusive Hardware-Platform Supplier in $10M Deal with Chevron.70 5572) IBM's $60 Per Share Offer for Lotus & Gerstner's Letter to Lotus..143 5573) Tandem & Bell Atlantic to Bring New Middleware to Networks Market..48 5574) DreamWorks & IBM in Alliance to Develop Asset Management System....59 ORDERS/INSTALLATIONS 5575) Dutch University Installs Cray Research J932 Supercomputer.........41 PEOPLE/PROMOTIONS/PROFILES - FINANCIAL WATCH 5576) Retired Chairman/CEO of Cray Res. John Carlson Now on CAMAX Board..58 5577) Ten Most Active NASDAQ HPC Stocks..................................29 SUPERHIGHWAY REPORT 5578) VR Program Lets Olympic Officials 'Walk Through' Planned Venues...107 5579) Pakistan May Have Live Internet Link by December...................30 5555) NTT Plans to Start Internet-Like Networks in Japan.................31 ___________________________ INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT ___________________________ | | | 7066) Digital Internet Contest Challenges Best and Brightest | | to Stretch Limits of High-Performance Computing | | 7061) Digital AlphaServer 8400 ACES Technical Computing Benchmarks | | 7065) Buckminster Fuller Centennial Symposium and Celebration | | 7062) What's New on the Web? Find Out with WEBster! | |___________________________________________________________________________| QUOTE OF THE WEEK =========================================================== 1594) "The concept of client-server computing has proven not to be the panacea that people thought [it would be]. As information technology has refocused on true enterprise problems -- as opposed to how to automate a clerical desktop -- large, reliable, powerful computer capability is returning as a priority." -- Lou Gerstner, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, IBM Corp. FEATURES ==================================================================== 1593) CLUSTERING SNEAKS BACK: MPP POWER AT SMP COSTS......................310 Commentary by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large The SMP surge of 1993/94 almost knocked clusters out of the ring, but clustering is sneaking back as a link among SMP nodes in hierarchical configurations. Clustering retains its old flaws, yet low costs due to modularity seem to make this more than a trendoid. 1594) GERSTNER'S STRATEGY EXAMINED FOR RETURNING IBM TO PROFITABILITY.....158 Feature by Louise Kehoe, Financial Times Syndication of London When Mr. Lou Gerstner took over as chairman of IBM two years ago, the world's largest computer manufacturer was drowning in multibillion dollar losses. Six weeks ago, he was able to report that the company had achieved its highest first-quarter revenues and net income. 1595) HITS & HISSES: SERLIN SAYS MMP MEANS MULTI MICRO PROCESSOR...........78 Compiled by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large Omri Serlin notes that MMP is a legitimate acronym -- for Multi Micro Processor architectures. Alan Arthurs of Sony describes the contributions of Sony and Myriad Logic to communications support for the recent HPCN-95 conference in Milan. 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(* New listings this week) 604) Seek and Ye Shall Find-Job Bank Placement, Rates, Rules etc........92 CONFERENCES ================================================================= 2888) Calendar of Upcoming HPC Events...................................114 ______________________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 *** 7067) IBM CLAIMS POWERPARALLEL SYSTEMS SP2 IS THE WORLD'S FASTEST COMPUTER 667) Employment Opportunities.........................................189 1592) Wladawsky-Berger to Head IBM's RS/6000 & SP Merger...............158 5542) IBM Merging RS/6000 Workstation and POWER Parallel Divisions......42 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Copyright 1995 HPCwire. 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