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SGI views its strengths as high performance, unique visualization capabilities, and an exceptionally strong operating system. 7000 machines have been sold so far. 5605) STEVE CHEN RETURNS WITH NEW INTEL-BASED SMP SERVERS.................157 News Analysis by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large Steve Chen has returned to high-performance computing with a new approach: an SMP server, based on Intel x86 chips, that will later be scaled upward through clustering. He is focusing sharply on commercial markets, especially hot-button sectors like analytical processing and decision support. An aggressive sales program is planned. 5606) BANK OF AMERICA CHOOSES CRAY ENTERPRISE SERVERS FOR DECISION SUPPORT.39 Three CRAY SUPERSERVER 6400 servers will be used to run large data warehousing & Decision Support Systems applications. One CS6400 system supports hundreds of PC users & will store & manage the data warehouse. SCIENCE & ENGINEERING NEWS 5607) NOAA'S INTEL PARAGON SYSTEM SCORES WEATHER PREDICTION FIRST.........120 The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says its 208-node Paragon system has become the first MPP to generate national-scale U.S. weather forecasts under simulated operational conditions. 5608) U.S. PLANS TERAFLOPS PUSH: DOE TO SPEND ALMOST $1 BILLION ON SUPERCOMPUTING PROJECT.........................................164 FEATURE By Alexander Wolfe, Electronic Engineering Times The U.S. DOE is poised to spend almost $1 billion over the next seven years to fund domestic development of a teraflops-class supercomputer capable of executing well beyond 1 trillion operations per second. The DOE has posted documents outlining the little-known effort on the WWW. QUOTE OF THE WEEK =========================================================== 5606) "Obtaining this important business is further proof that Cray Research's business systems division has arrived in the commercial open systems market." -- J. Phillip Samper, Chairman and CEO, Cray Research ___________________________ INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT ___________________________ | | | 7068) FAST GROWING MIT SPIN-OFF WITH HOT TECHNOLOGY HIRING BEST, BRIGHTEST| | 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! | |___________________________________________________________________________| NEWS BRIEFS ================================================================= 5609) New TOP500 List Shows SGI Slightly Ahead of Cray Research..........45 5610) IBM to Support MPI Parallel Computing Standard....................184 5611) Informix Opens New Software Development Center in Bombay, India....35 CENTERS 5612) Progress Report: The Maui High Performance Computing Center.......175 5613) SDSC Welcomes Phil Bourne and Richard Marciano.....................42 CONTRACTS/VENTURES/ACQUISITIONS 5614) MasPar Wins Two ARPA Contracts: Large Memory System and R&D........49 5615) H-P Wins $50M Contract for Owens-Corning Client/Server System......50 5616) Unisys Wins $188M U.S. Coast Guard Standard Workstation Contract...54 5617) SGI Closes Mergers with Alias and Wavefront Technologies...........24 5618) Exabyte & H-P to Offer High-End 4mm Storage Automation Product.....86 PEOPLE/PROMOTIONS/PROFILES - FINANCIAL WATCH 5619) Cray Research Head of Sales Joins Video Sentry as CEO..............48 5620) Ten Most Active NASDAQ HPC Stocks..................................29 SUPERHIGHWAY REPORT 5621) Convex Server to Host Historic Space Shuttle Mission on WWW........43 5622) IBM's DB2 Web Connection Beta Now Available on the Internet........55 5623) Pacific Bell Speeds Up California Internet Business................52 5624) AT&T and BBN Join Forces to Provide Internet Services..............59 NEW PRODUCT AND SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENTS 5625) IBM's AS/400 Advanced Series Transformed into Client/Server.......141 5626) Hewlett-Packard Launches New Midrange and Low-End Workstations....107 5627) Unicomp's 'Lite' Fortran 90 for Compilers Now Available............21 5628) SCO Has Layered Server Products Div. for Cross-Platform Solutions..39 5629) New Enhancements for Cisco's ATM Interface & Switches.............196 5630) Scope Comm. Has first Cable Analyzer to Operate Up to 155 MHz......96 5631) Sybase Moves into DB Server Market with Intel Performance Center...63 JOB BANK ==================================================================== 667) Employment Opportunities..........................................228 Listings from: Cambridge Parallel(3)*, 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...................................118 HPCwire INFORMATION ========================================================= 7000) Subscription Information/Get On-Off Mailing List/Letters to the Editor Back Issue Index/Masthead, Email Contacts, Submission Tips............9 ______________________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 | |___________________________________________________________________________| *** LAST ISSUE'S MOST REQUESTED ITEMS FROM HPCwire *** 667) Employment Opportunities........................................189 5584) The Day of the Lotus: IBM May Find It's Already Over............101 1598) Hits & Hisses: Cluster Backlash: SCI and Software...............185 7068) Want to be Part of the Superstation Revolution? 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