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We invite you to explore job opportunities at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), a national research laboratory managed by the University of California under contract to the U. S. Department of Energy. LBNL is located in the Berkeley hills overlooking the UC Berkeley campus and the San Francisco Bay. Ten (10) openings. _______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _____________________________ | | | 5681) COMMENTARY: A Productivity Paradox: Do Computers Do Much Good? | | 5682) Analysts Divided on Future of Massachusetts' Data General Corp. | | 5683) HITS & HISSES: Minisupers, Fads, The WSJ and SSI | |___________________________________________________________________________| FEATURES ==================================================================== Lines 5681) A PRODUCTIVITY PARADOX: DO COMPUTERS DO MUCH GOOD?..................279 Commentary by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large Lots of bucks have been spent on computers which are supposed to raise productivity. Yet productivity is pretty much flat. Computers are wasteful, finicky, disappointing and over-hyped. So, stop spending all that money. Nonsense? Perhaps, but it is worth some thought. 5682) ANALYSTS DIVIDED ON FUTURE OF MASSACHUSETTS' DATA GENERAL CORP......178 Feature By Ronald Rosenberg, The Boston Globe Knight-Ridder Having galloped triumphantly for years on a minicomputer horse, Data General has been nearly run over by the personal computer bandwagon. 5683) HITS & HISSES: MINISUPERS, FADS, THE WSJ AND SSI....................124 Compiled by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large Comments by Hugh Delaney and Marianne Granoff on the recent technofads articles, plus Madan Venugopal's remark that minisupers died, yet their technolegacy survives. The Wall St. Journal took another step into the Online Age. COMMERCIAL NEWS 5684) CALIF. COMMUNITY COLLEGE SELECTS OPEN SERVER SOLUTION FROM H-P......101 The H-P solution speeds response times, allows greater reporting flexibility, protects legacy applications and provides an environment for implementing new technologies. 5685) AAA CHOOSES CRAY ENTERPRISE SERVERS FOR ONLINE TRAVEL PROCESSING.....50 A CS6400 system is running a large Informix database for online transaction processing applications for a new full travel services program offered by AAA's affiliated motor clubs throughout the U.S. and Canada. SCIENCE & ENGINEERING NEWS 5686) EPCC TECHNOLOGY WATCH REPORTS: STATUS OF CURRENT TECHNOLOGY..........54 The Edinburgh Parallel Computing Center is making available a set of Technology Watch Reports intended to be summaries of the present status in key areas of current technology. 5687) JOSTLE: SOFTWARE TOOLKIT TO PARTITION UNSTRUCTURED MESHES............59 The parallel processing group in the Center for Numerical Modeling and Process Analysis at the University of Greenwich announced the release of a software toolkit for partitioning unstructured meshes. Known as JOSTLE, this package makes available a range of techniques to aid the mapping of mesh based data. QUOTE OF THE WEEK =========================================================== 5682) "Data General's fundamental problem is that no one understands what it does." -- Robert C. Hughes former Vice President Worldwide Sales, Data General ___________________________ INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT ___________________________ | | | 7073) Maximum Strategy Gen5 Storage Server Wins Indust. Design Gold Award | | 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 ================================================================= 5688) Intel's Multi-Vendor Test Scores High on SAP Benchmarks............61 5689) Research Visits Available to Edinburgh/Training on Advanced Sys....81 5690) Tandem ServerNet to Move Terabytes: Video, Voice and Image Data....89 5691) Info Week Says Digital's Alpha Chip Failed to Lure Big Customers..168 5692) GTE to Use SGI's ONYX to Create Interactive VR Studio..............89 ORDERS/INSTALLATIONS 5693) Integra Orders SGI Supercomputer for Seismic Processing............37 5694) Sanyo Electric Buys Super Parallel Computer from Tandem Japan......18 5695) Volkswagen AG Orders NEC's SX-3/24R for Crash Analysis.............25 5696) Tandem Wins $10M Himalaya Server Order from NatWest Group..........50 PEOPLE/PROMOTIONS/PROFILES - FINANCIAL WATCH 5697) John Carlson, Former Cray Res. CEO, Appointed to Unimax Board......42 5698) Cray Research Founder/Vice Chairman & Counsel Andrew Scott Retires.25 5699) Former Apple Exec LeFaivre to Head Technology Development for SGI..40 5701) H-P's Karl Freund Named VP of Marketing for Cray Research..........31 5702) Ten Most Active NASDAQ HPC Stocks..................................24 INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE 5703) Complete U.S. Patent Library Now Available On WWW..................47 5704) NII Awards Showcase the Information Superhighway...................81 5705) ANDATACO Named 'InternetNOW' Hardware Provider.....................48 5706) 3 Million+ 'Hits' for IBM's WWW Service at Wimbledon...............40 NEW PRODUCT AND SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENTS 5707) SGI Says New Indigo2 Is Fastest Graphics System....................87 5708) Tatung Equips New PC Models with 133-MHz Pentium Power.............37 5709) Cabletron Installs ATM Network in Mexico...........................76 5710) Tandem Has Illustra Object-Relational DB Tech. for Its Servers.....67 5711) Digital Introduces High Performance StorageWorks RAID ARRAY 230....81 JOB BANK ==================================================================== 667) Employment Opportunities..........................................139 Listings from: Cambridge Parallel(3), Convex Corp., IBM POWERparallel Systems, Intel Workstation Technology Lab, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (10)*, NEC European Supercomputer Systems (NEC-ESS)*, University of Minnesota*, 604) Seek and Ye Shall Find-Job Bank Placement, Rates, Rules, etc.......92 CONFERENCES ================================================================= 3185) Corporate Leaders Learn to Build More Competitive Organizations....42 3186) Keynote Speakers Announced for NetWorld+Interop 95 Atlanta.........96 2888) Calendar of Upcoming HPC Events (4 New Listings)..................111 New Listings: Site for Internet User Education Materials; Corp. Leaders Learn to Build More Competitive Organizations. Call for Papers: WRPC '96: Workshop on Randomized Parallel Computing; Software Quality Management. 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