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The Institute for Business Innovation will offer its course, "Aligning Business and Technology for Competitive Advantage," September 10-14 at the Westfields International Conference Center in Chantilly, Virginia. _______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _____________________________ | | | 5712) Doing Neat Things with Data: A Preliminary Glossary | | 5713) FEATURE: The Parallelism Puzzle | | 5714) COMMENTARY: Cray Computer to Liquidate; What Next for Seymour? | |___________________________________________________________________________| FEATURES ==================================================================== Lines 5712) DOING NEAT THINGS WITH DATA: A PRELIMINARY GLOSSARY.................262 Lexicographic Adventure by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large What is the meaning of OLTP, decision support, data mining and data warehousing? Who cares? This article attempts definitions. Understanding these terms makes it easier to follow the commercial market, crucial for the welfare of the high-performance community. 5713) THE PARALLELISM PUZZLE..............................................187 Feature by Richard Finkelstein, President, Chicago Base Consultancy Cheap and efficient scalability is one of the great business benefits of the ongoing computer revolution. Low-cost SMP and multitasking operating systems make it possible to incrementally increase computer capacity with minimal effect on operations. 5714) CRAY COMPUTER TO LIQUIDATE; WHAT NEXT FOR SEYMOUR?..................167 Commentary by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large (This item appeared as an HPCwire News Flash July 17.) Cray Computer Corporation has decided to liquidate assets and close down. Changes in the high-performance market and tough new competitors suggest that the assets will not bring much money. Will Seymour Cray retire with honor and respect, or try again? COMMERCIAL NEWS 5715) COMMERZBANK TO USE H-P'S SERVERS FOR WORLDWIDE TRADING ROOMS.........62 The German bank will use Hewlett-Packard's HP 9000 family PA-RISC-based workstations and business servers as the strategic open systems platform for its trading rooms worldwide. 5716) POST-PRODUCTION UNIT USES IBM SUPERCOMPUTER TO EDIT PRIMETIME SHOWS..79 Laser-Pacific, a Hollywood company responsible for post-production on 40+ primetime network series, is using IBM's Power Visualization System to edit shows instead of a conventional edit controller. SCIENCE & ENGINEERING NEWS 5717) MELTING PROTEINS: THE EFFECT OF LONG-RANGE FORCES IN MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS..................................147 Feature by Michael Schneider, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center For a few hundred picoseconds of simulation time it looks fine, then the molecule appears to unravel. It's been a troubling problem, but with a series of computations at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Darden and Pedersen seem to have it fixed. QUOTE OF THE WEEK =========================================================== 5731) "With the development of 'Secure Courier' and a complete open payment system backed by industry-leading financial companies, consumers and merchants can feel even more confident that sensitive financial transactions will be protected." -- Marc Andreessen, Vice President of Technology, Netscape ___________________________ INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT ___________________________ | | | 7074) Lawrence Berkeley National Lab is Seeking Highly Qualified | | Computer Professionals | | 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 | |___________________________________________________________________________| NEWS BRIEFS ================================================================= 5739) Task Force on Future of NSF Supercomputer Centers: Meeting Notice..72 5718) DEC Says Alpha Benchmarks 50 to 150% Higher Than Competition's....156 5719) Amdahl to Make SPARC Workstations for Fujitsu in U.S...............25 5720) Tandem Unites Open Manageability with Robust Parallel Processing...95 CENTERS 5721) San Diego Math/Science Teachers Develop Curricula at SDSC..........82 CONTRACTS/VENTURES 5722) Sun and Informix to Set Up Competency Centers in U.S. & Europe.....56 5723) Alliance Yields Object-Relational Database Demo'd by Fujitsu.......88 5724) Pyramid & Informix to Provide Very Large Database Environment......51 5725) Sequent & Compaq Debut Highly Scalable SAP R/3 Solution............95 ORDERS/INSTALLATIONS 5726) UK's Daresbury Lab Gets SP2 for Development Projects...............40 5727) General Motors Buys Cray T90s for Simulation & Product Development.25 PEOPLE/PROMOTIONS/PROFILES - FINANCIAL WATCH 5728) SGI Appoints Gary Lauer to Head Its Worldwide Field Operations.....28 5729) Ten Most Active NASDAQ HPC Stocks..................................32 5730) Cray Res. to Take One-Time Charges Exceeding $100 Million in Q2....33 INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE 5731) Netscape's 'Secure Courier' a Digital Envelope for Financial Data..96 5732) MCNC Demonstrates Security Systems for Data Superhighways.........256 5733) Geoscience Information Internet Launch Set for February 1996.......67 5734) Oracle & Spyglass to Turn WWW into DB-Powered Business Tool........56 NEW PRODUCT AND SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENTS 5735) New Version of UniChem for Molecular Modeling from Cray Research...86 5736) Business Decisions Improved Using IBM SPs & Informix Online XPS....75 5737) Tandem's New Server: Fast Delivery of High Bandwidth Services......63 5738) Oracle Introduces Nine Client/Server Applications.................138 JOB BANK ==================================================================== 667) Employment Opportunities..........................................139 Listings from: Cambridge Parallel (3), Convex Corporation (2), Cornell Theory Center, Cray Research, IBM POWERparallel Systems (3), Intel Workstation Technology Lab, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (10), NEC European Supercomputer Systems (NEC-ESS), University of Alaska, University of Minnesota. <*> Indicates new listings. 604) Seek and Ye Shall Find-Job Bank Placement, Rates, Rules, etc.......92 CONFERENCES ================================================================= 2888) Calendar of Upcoming HPC Events (3 New Listings)..................111 New Listings: Technology & Education in Social Sciences; International Linear Algebra Year (fall and spring). 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