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If you have the excellence and desire needed to advance this leading edge technology, ICE would like to talk to you about joining its team. _______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _____________________________ | | | 1596) COMMENTARY: IBM'S NEW S/390 = CMOS+MVS+SMP x "SYSPLEX" QUASI-CLUSTER| | 5584) The Day of the Lotus: IBM May Find It's Already Over | | 5585) Intel Debuts Ninth Member of Pentium Family - 133 MHz Processor | |___________________________________________________________________________| IN THE NEWS ================================================================= COMMERCIAL NEWS Lines 5580) WACHOVIA BANK INVESTS $30 MILLION IN BRANCH NETWORK UPGRADES.........50 Upgrades will standardize retail systems and enable its branch offices to provide broader and better services to customers. IBM will manage the automation project and its OS/2 WARP will be used. 5581) PAGEMART SELECTS SUN MICROSYSTEM SERVERS FOR NEW NETWORK PLATFORM....71 A pair of Sun's SPARCcenter 2000 servers running Oracle relational database financial applications and the Vantive Enterprise, a customer information system, will be used to automate PageMart's customer service operations. SCIENCE & ENGINEERING NEWS 5582) PROVIDING AUTOMATED NETWORK ANOMALY DETECTION AND NOTIFICATION......227 The goal of the Network Event Recording Device (NERD) is to provide a flexible, reliable and autonomous system for network logging and notification when significant network anomalies occur. It is charged with increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of currently implemented network security procedures. The rewrite of NERD was completed at LANL. 5583) OAK RIDGE PARAGON SYSTEM TOPS 1 BILLION ATOMS IN MD SIMULATION.......96 In a breakthrough for both molecular dynamics and scalable software development, scientists at a Tennessee-based DOE lab use new shared- memory programming environment to simulate more than a billion atoms. NEWS BRIEFS ================================================================= 5584) The Day of the Lotus: IBM May Find It's Already Over..............101 5585) Intel Debuts Ninth Member of Pentium Family - 133 MHz Processor....59 5586) nCUBE Has Digital-Media Server For Large-Scale Video-on-Demand Use.75 5588) Portland Group's New HPF & SMP Parallel Compiler for Universities..55 CONTRACTS/VENTURES/ACQUISITIONS 5589) Platform Computing & Co-Participants Win $4 Million NASA Contract..52 5590) Convex & Silicon Valley Res. Have Scalable Solution for EDA Market.58 5591) Federal Trade Commission OKs SGI's Alias Res. & Wavefront Mergers..51 5592) Dolphin and Siemens-Nixdorf Sign Agreement on PCI and SCI..........42 5593) Oracle to Acquire IRI, an Online Analytical Software Business......48 ORDERS/INSTALLATIONS 5594) Ohio Supercomputer Center Adds SP2 to Technology Infrastructure....46 PEOPLE/PROMOTIONS/PROFILES - FINANCIAL WATCH 5595) Convex Names Dirk Pfeiffer Director of Alternate Channels..........30 5596) Maximum Strategy Storage Server Wins Industrial Design Gold Award..75 5597) Ten Most Active NASDAQ HPC Stocks..................................29 SUPERHIGHWAY REPORT 5598) IBM Cruises onto Internet with Security Products & WWW Software...306 5599) DEC, Calif. Sec. of State & Teale Data Center NII Award Finalists..78 5601) 'Net Helps Oracle & Intel Media Software to Offer Info-on-Demand...74 5602) Study Shows Small Businesses Bullish Using Internet for Marketing..98 5603) SP Scalable Server from IBM Used for Wimbledon Tennis Home Page....63 ___________________________ INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT ___________________________ | | | 7069) STUDENT VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR SUPERCOMPUTING '95 | | 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 in July! | |___________________________________________________________________________| QUOTE OF THE WEEK =========================================================== 1597) "Medical research is now confronted by a sharp decline in the number of young people coming into the field. ... Research can get along without many things, but not without researchers." -- Daniel S. Greenberg, Publisher, Science & Government Report FEATURES ==================================================================== 1596) IBM'S NEW S/390 = CMOS+MVS+SMP x "SYSPLEX" QUASI-CLUSTER............217 Commentary by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large IBM's upgraded MVS-nourished S/390 post-mainframe parallel systems tie CMOS processors into SMP units hierarchicalized by rounding them up in herds of up to 32 SMP nodes. Scalability is said to be close to linear & pricing looks good. Result: more complications in commercial market. 1597) STARVING THE GOLDEN GOOSE...........................................101 Feature by Daniel S. Greenberg, Publisher, Science & Government Report The doom of science from fiscal neglect has been falsely predicted so often in recent decades the current wave of alarm about government cuts and industrial downsizings naturally invites skepticism. But this time, there's reality in the warnings, though the imminence of calamity can be discounted. 1598) HITS & HISSES: CLUSTER BACKLASH: SCI AND SOFTWARE...................185 Compiled by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large Khan Kibria, Dave Gustavson and Tom Bishop explore SCI, software and other clustering issues. Bob Knighten corrects a confusion about Chicago. 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..........................................228 Listings from: Cambridge Parallel*, Cray Research UK, Cray Research USA, CRPC-Rice Univ, Hewlett-Packard, IBM POWERparallel Systems*, Intel Workstation Technology Lab*, NEC, Portland Group, Silicon Graphics*, Thinking Machines. (* New listings this week) 604) Seek and Ye Shall Find-Job Bank Placement, Rates, Rules etc........92 CONFERENCES ================================================================= 2888) Calendar of Upcoming HPC Events (3 New Listings, 2 Updates).......118 New Listings: 1995 Conf. on Image Processing; Intel Supercomputer Users Group; CFP for Parallel Processing Symposium '96. Updates: HPC Symposium '95; Conf. on High Performance Computing '95. ______________________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 *** 1594) Gerstner's Strategy Examined for Returning IBM to Profitability..158 1593) Clustering Sneaks Back: MPP Power at SMP Costs...................310 5562) Task Force on Future of NSF Supercomputer Centers Program Survey..18 667) Employment Opportunities.........................................189 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Copyright 1995 HPCwire. 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