H P C w i r e The Text-on-Demand E-zine for High Performance Computing *** Sept. 15, 1995: Vol. 4, No. 37 Circulation: 17,405 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 193 Pages of Text ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Article Retrieval instructions at end of this file more@hpcwire.tgc.com For a free 6-week trial subscription, email trial@hpcwire.tgc.com -------------------- * -------------------- 7081) REGISTER FOR SC'95 ON THE WEB! The SUPERCOMPUTING '95 (SC'95) WWW pages http://sc95.sdsc.edu/SC95 have been updated with more important pieces of information _______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _____________________________ | | | 5889) FEATURES: A VIRTUAL RENAMING OF CALIFORNIA'S TOURIST ATTRACTIONS | | 5894) SCIENCE NEWS: PSC GETS $6 MILLION BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH GRANT | | 5897) NEWS BRIEFS: CRAY DATABASE QUERY SCALES UP TO 1.6 TERABYTES | |___________________________________________________________________________| FEATURES ==================================================================== Lines 5888) SILICON GRAPHICS APPOINTS IBM VETERAN HEAD OF EUROPEAN MARKETING.....67 by Alan Beck, associate editor As SGI's marketing manager for Europe, Fabio Gallo will help guide a market in transition from very large supercomputers to lighter but still powerful parallel machines. Gallo shares some of his plans in this exclusive interview. 5889) 3COM PARK AND AFTER: RENAMING CALIFORNIA'S HERITAGE.................150 Virtual History by Norris Parker Smith, editor at large A retrospective report, written in a hypothetical future, of the consequences of the renaming of San Francisco's Candlestick Park: Highway 101 becomes SGI Boulevard, Apple inadvertently renames itself Fisherman's Wharf, Intel supplants Santa Clara County, and Microsoft covets Yosemite. 5890) HITS & HISSES: INTERNET IN JAPAN: HEALTHY AND CHEAP..................90 Compiled by Norris Parker Smith, editor at large Fervent responses from readers close to the Internet in Japan stress that commercial online services are not the whole story. An entrepreneurial Internet thrives, and prices are reasonable. COMMERCIAL NEWS 5891) CRAY SERVERS SUPPORT MACKLANBURG-DUNCAN'S DATABASE CONSOLIDATION.....56 Two Cray CS6400 enterprise database servers will form the foundation of this home improvement manufacturer's production computing environment and its Oracle database consolidation efforts. 5892) HEALTHCARE PROVIDER CHOOSES SYBASE AND HP TO POWER DATA WAREHOUSE....40 Harvard Pilgrim's data warehouse will store up to 100 gigabytes of information on an HP T500 and will be accessed through individual databases created using Sybase Replication Server stored on HP K400 workgroup servers. 5893) IBM RISC/6000 KEY TO BANK PROCESSING CONSOLIDATION EFFORTS...........40 IBM technology has allowed Michigan National Bank to consolidate its check processing centers into one location 80 miles from the bank's central processing facility without adding T1 or T3 lines. SCIENCE & ENGINEERING NEWS 5894) PITTSBURGH SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER AWARDED BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH GRANT...87 The National Institute of Health has issued a $6 million grant to support five years of work by PSC scientists who will apply supercomputing to research in molecular biology. 5895) KOREA'S ETRI CHOOSES PGI FORTRAN COMPILER TECHNOLOGY FOR TICOM IV....30 Korea's Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) will use elements of PGI's High Performance Fortran compiler technology to develop and distribute a custom HPF compiler for the TICOM IV scalable parallel processing system. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 7076) Technology Transfer Quarterly <<<<<<<<<<<<<<< A Special Supplement to HPCwire QUOTE OF THE WEEK ========================================================== 5888) "In a few years this new architecture will take over completely. Only four companies are now poised to take advantage of the situation." --Fabio Gallo, High-Performance Marketing Manager for SGI, Europe ___________________________ INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT ___________________________ | | | 7082) INFRASTRUCTURE "Home Plate of Hi-Tech Investing". Analysis of Semis,| | Semi-Equipment and Flat Panel Display. http://www.infras.com | | 7080) Down Market Trend Continues in High-Performance Computing; | | SGI Takes Top Spot in the TOP500 Supercomputing Sites in the World| | 7077) Cray System is Key Component in Revolutionary | | Medical Imaging Technology | | 7074) Lawrence Berkeley National Lab is Seeking Highly Qualified | | Computer Professionals | | 7070) Oak Ridge Lab Gets Site License for the Portland Group's | | High Performance Fortran Package | |___________________________________________________________________________| NEWS BRIEFS ================================================================= 5896) TPC-C Benchmark Results Show Tandem Himalaya K204 at 603.8 tpmC....57 5897) Cray Demonstrates Database Query Scalability Up to 1.6 Terabytes..123 5898) San Diego Supercomputer Center Loses State Funding Guarantee.......59 5899) APR Issues Addendum and Corrections to NAS Benchmark Results......152 5900) Registration Fee Is Adopted for Second-Level Domain Names..........54 5901) People, Promotions & Appointments: New GM for IBM Asia.............96 NEW PRODUCTS 5902) Digital Expands Portfolio of Storage Solutions for OEMs............63 5903) Motorola Introduces ColdFire Developer's Chip......................52 5904) Net2Net Introduces Real-Time ATM Network Diagnostic Tool...........43 STRATEGIC ALLIANCES 5905) Visual Numerics Japan Agrees to Distribute APR's Fortran Tools.....31 5906) Association Formed to Increase Awareness of FC-AL Technology.......74 5907) Persistence Software Forms Object Technology Advisory Board........64 JOB BANK ==================================================================== 667) Employment Opportunities..........................................139 Listings from: IBM POWERparallel Systems(2), Hewlett-Packard, San Diego Supercomputing Center (SDSC), University of Alaska-Arctic Region Supercomputing Center (ARSC) (2) 604) Job Bank Rates and Regulations....................................92 CONFERENCES ================================================================= 2888) Calendar of Upcoming HPC Events (Updated Sept. 14)...............151 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 916) MasPar Computer | | 921) Cray Research Inc. 902) IBM Corp. 932) Portland Group | |*909) Fujitsu *904) Intel Corp. 935) Silicon Graphics| | | |__________________*Updated information within last 30 days_________________| *** LAST ISSUE'S MOST REQUESTED ITEMS FROM HPCwire *** 5873) INTEL CAPTURES $46M TERAFLOP SUPERCOMPUTER DEVELOPMENT CONTRACT.....103 5879) DOE ORDERS TERAFLOPS SUPERCOMPUTER FOR NUCLEAR TEST SIMULATIONS.....120 5874) HAYES PANEL STRESSES SCALABILITY AS FOCUS FOR NSF CENTERS...........203 5875) HIGH-BANDWIDTH DATA TRANSFER IS IN THE BAGNET.......................179 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~