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"We'll find 'em, you hire 'em!" _______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _____________________________ | | | 5657) COMMENTARY: High-Performance Fads -- Part II: Everyone Is Vulnerable| | 5658) Cray Computer Officials Work to Bail Company Out of Bankruptcy | | 5673) REVIEW: Internet Gaining Respect in Mainstream News Media | |___________________________________________________________________________| FEATURES ==================================================================== Lines 5657) HIGH-PERFORMANCE FADS -- PART II: EVERYONE IS VULNERABLE............354 Commentary by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large Baron Ballyhoo and St. Euphoria are the temporal and spiritual patrons of technofads. Their influence upon high-performance computing has been less than in other fields, but the risk is never distant. SMP, decision support and hierarchical systems might be fadified. Remember minisupercomputers? 5658) CRAY COMPUTER OFFICIALS WORK TO BAIL COMPANY OUT OF BANKRUPTCY.......61 Feature by Joanna Bean, Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph Cray Computer officials were working on a plan to bail the company out of bankruptcy court. Although they didn't make the deadline, they do expect to know the Colorado Springs supercomputer company's fate around the middle of the month. COMMERCIAL NEWS 5659) SARA LEE SELECTS ORACLE GEMMS TO REPLACE SUPPLY CHAIN INFO SYSTEM....65 Sara Lee Bakery will replace several existing disparate systems with one comprehensive solution. The new system will have a more tightly integrated supply chain that will improve customer service while reducing costs. 5660) MAYO CLINIC AND H-P COLLABORATE ON COMPUTERIZED PATIENT RECORD.......62 This duo will enhance and develop computerized clinical information systems that will give healthcare professionals access to a patient's medical information wherever care is given. SCIENCE & ENGINEERING NEWS 5661) UNRAVELING COSMOLOGICAL MYSTERIES: DARK MATTER - COLD & HOT.........208 To try to understand the universe, researchers led by Joel Primack, physicist at University of California, Santa Cruz, and Anatoly Klypin, astronomer at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, have taken advantage of the multigigabytes of memory on NCSA's CONVEX C3880. 5662) APPLICATIONS PROGRAMMING AND THE HUMAN GENOME PROJECT: SOLVING THE THREE-BILLION-PIECE PUZZLE............................130 By the year 2005, Los Alamos researchers hope to complete the three- billion-piece puzzle of humankind's genetic inheritance. To achieve this, labs will focus on improving existing human genetic maps, constructing physical maps of entire chromosomes, and determining the complete sequence of DNA subunits in the human genome. QUOTE OF THE WEEK =========================================================== 5664) "HPCC is entering a new phase with growing interest in and acceptance of the technology by users. This success gives new challenges for researchers in that it is no longer sufficient to have a nifty idea; rather progress often requires building on substantial infrastructure." -- Geoffrey Fox, Director of NPAC ___________________________ INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT ___________________________ | | | 7071) Scientists Turn to High-Performance Tools from Cray Research | | to Solve Complex Environmental Problems | | 7072) Dolphin Launches Low Latency SCI Cluster Switch | | 7070) Oak Ridge Lab Gets Site License for the Portland Group's | | High Performance Fortran 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 ================================================================= 5663) APR Releases xHPF Compilation System with NAS Parallel Benchmarks.266 5664) Portland Group and Four Universities Promote Parallel Computing....96 5665) 'Durango Declaration': Preserve Human Values in Hi-Tech Research..135 5666) Parallel Computing Initiative (PCI) - HPCN Europe '95 - Part 2....156 CONTRACTS/VENTURES/ACQUISITIONS 5667) IBM and TelePort Team Up to Offer Real-Time Conferencing...........98 5668) SGI/Oxford Molecular/Glaxo Wellcome Develop Drug-Design Software...57 ORDERS/INSTALLATIONS 5669) CRAY J916 Purchased by Univ. of Wisconsin for Engine Research......51 5670) Adaptive Solutions Gets $4M Order for Parallel Processing Products.30 5671) Learjet Purchases Cray Research Supercomputer for CFD..............40 FINANCIAL WATCH 5672) Ten Most Active NASDAQ HPC Stocks..................................24 INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE 5673) INTERNET GAINING RESPECT IN MAINSTREAM NEWS MEDIA.................142 A Review by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large 5674) Strategist Says Change of Focus Needed for Cyberspace Commerce.....55 5675) SDSC Releases No-Charge 3-D WWW Browser and Tools..................53 5676) Australian World Wide Web Conference Proceedings...................37 5677) MCI, Sprint & ANS in Pact for Direct Exchange of Internet Traffic..44 NEW PRODUCT AND SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENTS 5678) Sybase Offers First Heterogeneous Replication Agent for Oracle.....55 5679) SAP's Applications Operate in Parallel Processing with IBM's SP....69 5680) Russian Companies Revolutionized by Tandem Capabilities............88 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. 604) Seek and Ye Shall Find-Job Bank Placement, Rates, Rules, etc.......92 CONFERENCES ================================================================= 2888) Calendar of Upcoming HPC Events (1 New Listing, 1 Update).........111 New Listings: GMD-NEC Workshop on Scientific Parallel Computing. Updates: CFP for Parallel Processing Symposium. 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