H P C w i r e The Text-on-Demand E-zine for High Performance Computing *** Oct. 13, 1995: Vol. 4, No. 41 Circulation: 17,814 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 184 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 -------------------- * -------------------- 7094) PGI's HPF COMPILER NOW AVAILABLE ON THE IBM SP2 _______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _____________________________ | | | 5979) FEATURES: IBM WILL LAUNCH MVS REPLACEMENT NEXT YEAR | | 5981) COMMERCIAL NEWS: AMSTERDAM BOURSE GEARS UP FOR ONLINE DATA MINING| | 5987) NEWS BRIEFS: RED BRICK ATTEMPTS TO CLEAR UP RDBMS CONFUSION | |___________________________________________________________________________| FEATURES ==================================================================== Lines 5978) INSIDE INTEL TERAFLOP ARCHITECTURE: CCOTS TECHNOLOGY IS KEY.........166 Exclusive to HPCwire by Jan Rowell The industry's first teraflop supercomputer will also be the first based on mass-market microprocessors. Here's a look at the system design, including Intel's new Pentium Pro architecture. 5979) IBM WILL REPLACE MVS FOR S/390 SMP MAINFRAMES.......................168 Commentary by Norris Parker Smith, editor at large IBM will launch next year a multi-function operating system package intended to replace MVS for its S/390 CMOS-based shared-memory multiprocessor mainframe-like servers next year. IBM promises lower costs and easier software management, but MVS-like reliability and security. 5980) PRATT & WHITNEY TURN TO UNIX CLUSTER FOR JET ENGINE DESIGN..........182 Special to HPCwire by Dan Minior A first-hand account of how, over the last 10 years, one jet engine designer's computing paradigm has evolved from IBM mainframes and a Cray X/MP to heterogeneous clusters of UNIX workstations. COMMERCIAL NEWS 5981) AMSTERDAM BOURSE ON-LINE DATA WAREHOUSE GEARS UP FOR MINING..........29 The Amsterdam Stock Exchange is using a SQL/DS on a VM system and DB2/6000 on an AIX RS/6000 cluster to deliver real-time stock index quotes via the Web. 5982) SUMITOMO BANK BEGINS TRANSITION TO BANK-WIDE DATA WAREHOUSE..........56 IBM Japan will orchestrate Sumitomo Bank's move to RISC-based UNIX servers and workstations as the financial institution enhances its asset-liability and risk management capabilities. SCIENCE & ENGINEERING NEWS 5983) SDSC & NCAR WILL CREATE DISTRIBUTED CLIMATE SIMULATION LAB..........108 San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) and National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) have been awarded a $420,000 contract to develop a seamless climate research system that allows remote display of simulation results in real time. QUOTE OF THE WEEK ========================================================== 5987) "Unfortunately, the losers are the IT managers and end-users who could be experiencing the true benefits of data warehousing now. A clean solution for thousands of organizations has been obscured by this marketing FUD and brochure-ware hype." -- Chris Erickson, president and CEO Red Brick __________________________ INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT _____________________________ | 7092) Hewlett-Packard Company's Convex Acquisition | | 7089) Convex, HP Feature a New Vision and New Power for Geoscience | | Computing Solutions with Desktop-to-Supercomputing at SEG. | | 7091) Western Geophysical Purchases Fujitsu America VPP300 Supercomputer | | 7085) ATM's Influence on HPC Data Serving: A Maximum Strategy Perspective | | 7081) REGISTER FOR SC'95 ON THE WEB! Visit | | 7084) SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT: Interoperability, The GII & The NII | | 7082) INFRASTRUCTURE "Home Plate of Hi-Tech Investing". Analysis of Semis,| | Semi-Equipment and Flat Panel Display. http://www.infras.com | |___________________________________________________________________________| NEWS BRIEFS ================================================================= 5984) EU'S HPCnet Strives Toward HPC Awareness in Commercial Sector......65 5985) University of Amiens Buys Telmat Multinode Parallel Computer.......54 5986) New Chip Expected to Boost Cray CS6400 Performance by 50 Percent...58 5987) Red Brick Vows to Stem Misinformation About RDBMS Criteria.........72 5988) Fore Wins $5.5M DOD Grant to Develop Next Generation ATM Switch....26 5989) Next Generation Media Processor Chips Expected to Reach 1B cps.....35 5990) New Magneto-Optical Media Standard is Backward Compatible..........44 5991) NIST Taps Polariod to Develop Media for Next-Generation Storage....25 SHORT TAKES 5992) Product Watch: A Digest of Recent Releases........................275 5993) Financial Update: Meiko Restructures, Pulls Out of SC '95.........130 5994) Corporate Liaisons: A Roundup of Recent Partnerships & Agreements.208 5995) People, Promotions & Appointments: NES Appoints New President, COO.78 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 5996) For the Record: Danish Computing Centre Clarifies Statements.......43 JOB BANK ==================================================================== 667) Employment Opportunities.........................................139 Listings from: Cornell Supercomputing Center,* Madentech Consulting,* Nichols Research,* IBM, Hewlett-Packard, San Diego Supercomputing Center Univ. of Alaska-Arctic Region Supercomputing Center 604) Job Bank Rates and Regulations....................................92 CONFERENCES ================================================================= 2888) Calendar of Upcoming HPC Events (Updated Oct. 12)..................80 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 *** 5956) EUROPEAN CENTRE APPEARS TO FAVOR FUJITSU IN CRAY REPLACEMENT BID.....78 5957) NEW ARCHITECTURES REFLECT DATABASE MANAGEMENT CHALLENGES............296 5970) NEW STUDY SAYS PARALLEL PROCESSING MARKET WILL REACH $14B IN 1999....41 5965) U.S. WILL RELAX EXPORT RESTRICTIONS ON SUPERCOMPUTERS...............130 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~