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The switch supports the ANSI/IEEE Scalable Coherent Interface (SCI) shared memory and message passing protocols. _______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _____________________________ | | | 5740) COMMENTARY: Midsummer Night's Nightmare: Teraflops Rex | | 5746) NEWS BRIEFS: Cray Research Sales & Net Earnings Down Sharply | | 5742) HITS & HISSES: More on Cray Computer, Plus Hierarchies | |___________________________________________________________________________| FEATURES ==================================================================== Lines 5740) MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S NIGHTMARE: TERAFLOPS REX..........................147 Commentary by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large A glimpse into the future recounts how the Teraflop, or Teraflops Rex, was weakened and rendered irrelevant by suffocation before its birth, due to an excess of hot air and too many questionable claims. 5741) GETTING THE MOST OUT OF PVM.........................................288 Feature by R. Barrett, Los Alamos National Laboratory PVM was ultimately designed for heterogeneous computing across as many computing resources as the user can access. Some of the handling by PVM can be avoided increasing the user's application efficiency. These situations are examined from an experienced PVM user's perspective. 5742) HITS & HISSES: MORE ON CRAY COMPUTER, PLUS HIERARCHIES..............143 News Analysis by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large Phil Duclos gives his personal reactions to the forthcoming liquidation of Cray Computer Corp. Dave Gustavson explains the difference between real hierarchies and all those other folks. Dennis Duke suggests a book named 'The End of Work', and Dick Hessel reiterates the right way to spell SSI. COMMERCIAL NEWS 5743) MASTERCARD PICKS ORACLE FOR ONLINE INFORMATION-ON-DEMAND SYSTEM......69 MasterCard On-Line will serve as a single point of access for virtually all of MasterCard's databases and will provide powerful data mining and decision support tools. 5744) CHASE MANHATTAN BANK TO USE FISERV & UNISYS IN CHECK PROCESSING......74 The bank will use Fiserv's financial data processing services supported by Unisys' information services and image processing technology. SCIENCE & ENGINEERING NEWS 5745) PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS FROM PARSYTEC FOR INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION.388 Parsytec's Cognitive Computer series, based on high performance RISC technology, is applicable where goods, products, documents or their characteristics must be tested, recognized or classified. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 7076) Technology Transfer Quarterly <<<<<<<<<<<<<<< A Special Supplement to HPCwire QUOTE OF THE WEEK =========================================================== 5742) "Nobody has talked with Seymour about the future. I guess we'll have to wait a bit and see if he pops back up. I certainly did enjoy working with him ... because the attitude was 'nothing is impossible'." -- Phil Duclos, former Cray Computer Corporation Employee ___________________________ INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT ___________________________ | | | 7074) Lawrence Berkeley National Lab is Seeking Highly Qualified | | Computer Professionals | | 7077) Cray System is Key Component in Revolutionary | | Medical Imaging Technology | | 7071) Scientists Turn to High-Performance Tools from Cray Research | | to Solve Complex Environmental Problems | | 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| | 7075) Executive Education Program Teaches Corporate Leaders | | to Build More Competitive Organizations | | 7069) Student Volunteers Needed for SUPERCOMPUTING '95 | |___________________________________________________________________________| NEWS BRIEFS ================================================================= 5746) Cray Research Sales and Net Earnings Down Sharply.................303 5747) Network Business Advantage Program for Corporate Market from Sun...82 5748) NSF's Multidisciplinary Research Program Announced.................17 5749) World's Most Powerful Computing Sites List Now at New Location.....11 5750) Sun Reports Setting Informix TPC-C Performance Record..............41 CONTRACTS/VENTURES 5751) Intel & Informix Team on Technology for Scalable Parallel Systems..54 5752) Sun Extends SAP R/3 Solution with Cray & Amdahl Alliance...........67 5753) Cray Res. to Offer BMC Software's Appl. & Data Management Tools....60 5754) Tessera in Alliance with European Database Marketing Consultancy...62 ORDERS/INSTALLATIONS 5755) IBM Installs SP2 in China, Wins Contract for SP2 in Japan..........33 5756) Five organizations order Cray Research Supercomputers including: City of Hope, German Research Center, Morocco, Two Universities...130 PEOPLE/PROMOTIONS/PROFILES - FINANCIAL WATCH 5757) nCUBE Names Ronald A. Dilbeck Chief Executive Officer..............41 5758) Uwe Augspurger Appointed Managing Director, Parsytec Computer......26 5759) Cray Research Names Patrick C. Tullo Chief Information Officer.....27 5760) Ten Most Active NASDAQ HPC Stocks..................................32 5761) Quarterly Reports Submenu: Amdahl, SGI, StorageTek, Sun............12 INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE 5766) The Cornell Theory Center Announces New VR Tool for the Web........53 5767) Commercial Browsers & Local Providers Broaden Base of WWW Users...137 5768) DEC Alpha Runs 'Trel' - A Free Commercial Internet Product Finder..45 NEW PRODUCT AND SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENTS 5769) Dakota Scientific DSSLIB for LAPACK.h++ Ready for C++ Programmers..56 5770) Digital Cuts Prices on AlphaServer, Has New Internet Packages.....126 5771) IRIS Explorer Visualization Software Ported to Non-SGI Platforms...63 JOB BANK ==================================================================== 667) Employment Opportunities...........................................150 Listings from: Convex Corporation (2), Cornell Theory Center, Cray Research, IBM POWERparallel Systems, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (10), NEC European Supercomputer Systems (NEC-ESS), San Diego Supercomputing Center (SDSC)*, University of Alaska*, University of Minnesota. <*> Indicates new listings. 604) Seek and Ye Shall Find-Job Bank Placement, Rates, Rules, etc.......92 CONFERENCES ================================================================= 5772) NSF/NCSA World Wide Web Federal Consortium Annual Meeting..........51 2888) Calendar of Upcoming HPC Events...................................111 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 | | 909) Fujitsu America 904) Intel Corp. 935) Silicon Graphics| | 916) MasPar Computer | | | |__________________*Updated information within last 30 days_________________| *** LAST ISSUE'S MOST REQUESTED ITEMS FROM HPCwire *** 5712) Doing Neat Things with Data: A Preliminary Glossary...............262 5713) The Parallelism Puzzle............................................187 5731) Netscape's 'Secure Courier' a Digital Envelope for Financial Data..96 667) Employment Opportunities..........................................139 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Copyright 1995 HPCwire. 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