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Despite government cutbacks, the environmental computing market continues to grow as industry and academia rely on Cray systems to credibly evaluate environmental options. _______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _____________________________ | | | 5634) COMMERCIAL: MasPar Claims SIMD Is Best for High-End Decision Support| | 5633) Bill Gates Shares Vision of Info Superhighway with Leading Retailers| | 5632) High-Performance Fads -- Part I: When Success Can Be A Mess | |___________________________________________________________________________| FEATURES ==================================================================== Lines 5632) HIGH-PERFORMANCE FADS -- Part I: WHEN SUCCESS CAN BE A MESS.........303 Commentary by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large Fad, IPO, jam, ebb & sin are three-letter words describing destructive phases of market distortions in high-performance computing and other arenas. This first of two articles examines the superfad of the 1990s, the information superhighway. Next week: origins and consequences of SMP and other computer fads. 5633) GATES SHARES VISION OF INFO SUPERHIGHWAY WITH LEADING RETAILERS.....272 Full Text of Keynote by Bill Gates, Chairman and CEO, Microsoft Corp. Gates predicts retailers will be at the forefront in delivering a new breed of customer-facing applications made possible through innovative use of the Internet, commercial online services, kiosks and interactive television. COMMERCIAL NEWS 5634) MASPAR CLAIMS SIMD IS BEST FOR HIGH-END DECISION SUPPORT............252 News Analysis by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large MasPar will join the mob scene in the decision support sector of the commercial arena. CEO John Harte told HPCwire how MasPar's SIMD design provides special advantages for the most demanding decision support customers. Two new ARPA deals will help MasPar stay afloat as it enters the database whirlpool. 5635) WOOLWORTHS PICKS TANDEM AS PLATFORM FOR STRATEGIC DATA WAREHOUSE.....54 The platform chosen by Woolworths includes Tandem's Himalaya K20000 massively parallel servers and NonStop SQL/MP relational database management system. 5636) PEOPLE'S BANK OF CONNECTICUT SELECTS UNISYS NETWORKS.................39 Using the Unisys networks, the bank will reduce administrative costs, increase the overall availability of its computing systems and ultimately serve its customers with greater reliability. SCIENCE & ENGINEERING NEWS 5637) LANL ION BEAM STORAGE HOLDS 180 TIMES MORE INFO THAN CD-ROMS........109 High-Density Read-Only Memory uses an ion beam to inscribe information on pins of stainless steel, iridium or other materials that are built to last. Storage costs are approximately one-half percent of CD-ROM costs. 5638) SUPERCOMPUTER-AIDED DRUG DESIGN MOVES INTO HUMAN CLINICAL TRIALS.....32 The anticancer drug MDAM from BioNumerik Pharmaceuticals is one of the first drugs designed and developed with the aid of a Cray Research supercomputer. QUOTE OF THE WEEK =========================================================== 5633) "Electronic retailing will grow rapidly because the potential operational efficiencies, convenience and direct access to the consumer, regardless of geography, guarantee success with certain products and customer sets." -- Bill Gates, Chairman and CEO, Microsoft Corp. ___________________________ INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT ___________________________ | | | 7072) DOLPHIN LAUNCHES LOW LATENCY SCI CLUSTER SWITCH | | 7070) Oak Ridge Lab Gets Site License for Portland Group HPF Package | | 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 | |___________________________________________________________________________| NEWS BRIEFS ================================================================= 5639) Mannheim SuParCup '95 Winners......................................42 5640) NEC Begins Benchmark Testing of 'SX-4' Supercomputer...............20 5641) SAP R/3 Reports Financial Benchmark Results on IBM RS/6000.........82 5642) MCNC Announces Formation of Southeast Region ATM Interest Group....55 CONTRACTS/VENTURES/ACQUISITIONS 5643) Siemens to Use Adaptive Solutions' MPP for Advanced Postal System..43 5644) Tessera Provides Decision Support Data Warehouse Systems for IBM...52 5645) Tandem & EMC Offer RAID Storage Technology for UNIX Applications...41 ORDERS/INSTALLATIONS 5646) Singapore S'computing Center & CPF to Install IBM RS/6000 System...38 FINANCIAL WATCH 5647) Amdahl Considering Several Acquisitions or Joint Ventures..........35 5648) Oracle Earnings Up 59 Percent and Nets First $1 Billion Quarter....41 5649) Ten Most Active NASDAQ HPC Stocks..................................24 INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE 5650) Secretary Brown Appoints 'Superhighway' Consortium Members.........83 5651) NaviSoft, H-P, DEC in Pact to Offer WWW Authoring Tools, Servers..151 NEW PRODUCT AND SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENTS 5652) SGI Announces Oracle7 Parallel Server Availability.................45 5653) MARC/Mentat II Parallel Processing Version Boosts Sun Performance..61 5654) EMASS Brings Low-Cost Data Storage Automation to Medical Market....51 5655) Oracle Has NEC Products Division for Asian Market..................55 5656) SGI Claims New Era in Visual Finance for 'Silicon Exchange'........67 JOB BANK ==================================================================== 667) Employment Opportunities..........................................173 Listings from: Cambridge Parallel(3), Cray Research USA, CRPC-Rice Univ, Convex Corp.*, Hewlett-Packard, IBM POWERparallel Systems, Intel Workstation Technology Lab, 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 (2 New Listings)..................111 New Listings: Cornell Theory Center Symposium; Value of Knowledge from Information & Technical Computing. 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ICE is Hiring....98 5608) U.S. Plans Teraflops Push: DOE to Spend Almost $1 Billion.......164 5605) Steve Chen Returns with New Intel-Based SMP Servers.............157 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Copyright 1995 HPCwire. Feel free to distribute this Table of Contents. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~