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All they need to do is register for a free trial subscription to HPCwire by sending an e-mail message to trial@hpcwire.tgc.com. \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\//////////////////////////////////////// H P C w i r e The Text-on-Demand E-zine for High Performance Computing *** Dec. 1, 1995: Vol. 4, No. 48 Circulation: 18,278 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 129 Pages of Text ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Article Retrieval instructions at end of this file more@hpcwire.tgc.com For a free 4-week trial subscription, e-mail trial@hpcwire.tgc.com -------------------- * -------------------- 7108 ) UNIVERSAL SOLUTIONS PREMIERE @ SUPERCOMPUTING '95 _______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _____________________________ | | | 8119 ) FEATURES: TOY STORY: A GALACTIC VIEW OF LASSETER & PULP DISNEY | | 8122 ) SCIENCE & ENGINEERING NEWS: RESEARCHERS TAME THE CHAOS | | 8124 ) NEWS BRIEFS: CRAY INTRODUCES T3E, POSTS $92M IN ADVANCE ORDERS | |___________________________________________________________________________| FEATURES ===================================================================== 8118 ) CRAY'S T3E: PRICES CUT, SCI ADDED, AIR-COOLING, AND MORE.........10.5K Commentary by Norris Parker Smith, editor-at-large Cray Research's new T3E offers distinctly superior price/performance compared with the first-effort T3D, plus many new technological twists. It could help Cray emerge from its current revenue swamp. Are you an Aztec or an Egyptian? 8119 ) TOY STORY: A GALACTIC VIEW OF LASSETER AND PULP DISNEY............10.4K Intercepted by Norris Parker Smith, editor-at-large The new Pixar/Disney "Toy Story" is reviewed from the perspective of an extra-terrestrial talent scout, searching for properties that might have transgalactic appeal. The trend-line toward marketable items is upwards at last, but is John Lasseter unique? Commerce aside, the flick is a hoot. 8120 ) CRAY UPS THE VOLUME ON ITS COMMERCIAL SOLUTIONS MARKET STRATEGY...11.8K Commentary by Michael Erbschloe, contributing editor Once content with a stealthy pursuit of the commercial applications solutions market, Cray Research is suddenly starting to roar with a more vocal marketing strategy. COMMERCIAL NEWS 8121 ) IRS UPGRADES TAX SYSTEM MODERNIZATION PROGRAM WITH INFORMIX SERVER.2.21K An Informix-Online Dynamic Server 7.1 allows the Internal Revenue Service to migrate existing Online 5.x applications as well as develop new projects using the parallel database. SCIENCE NEWS 8122 ) COMPLEX SYSTEMS USE VARIABILITY TO ORGANIZE THEMSELVES............6.20K A team of physicists using computer simulations to study a variety of coupled nonlinear systems, including a series of chaotic pendula and a system with a hundred identical oscillators, has determined that adding variability and disorder to certain complex systems can help tame the chaos. 8123 ) CAUGHT IN THE ACT: EARTH'S MAGNETIC FIELD REVERSAL SIMULATED......6.94K by Michael Schneider, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center After a year of computing on Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center's Cray C90 and more than 2,000 hours of processing, researchers were able to create a numerical model of the electromagnetic, fluid dynamical processes of Earth's interior, reproducing key features of the magnetic field over more than 40,000 years of simulated time. QUOTE OF THE WEEK =========================================================== 8123 ) "No one even dreamed about this. That's the nice thing about a supercomputer. You can just let it do its thing, solve these equations over and over -- a large set of variables all affecting each other with nonlinear feedback, very hard to figure out." -- Los Alamos Scientist Gary Glatzmaier ___________________________INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT______________________________ | | | 7109 ) Fujitsu VPP300 Supercomputers Ordered by Three German Universities | | 7105 ) A Cost Model For Evaluating Your Next HPC Storage Purchase | | 7103 ) Emissary! Finally, Internet For The Rest Of Us. | | 7104 ) San Diego Hotel Reservations 1 800 SAVE-CASH | | 7106 ) Don't Miss Supercomputing '95! http://sc95.sdsc.edu/SC95 | |___________________________________________________________________________| NEWS BRIEFS ================================================================== 8124 ) Cray Announces $92 Million in Advance Orders for T3E............7.61K 8125 ) Grasshopper O/S Revives Orthogonal Persistence..................4.63K 8126 ) Thinking Machines Debuts GlobalWorks Parallel Hardware..........3.19K 8127 ) Bay Networks & Duke Show Image Transmission Over ATM Backbone...3.49K 8128 ) Digital Equipment Corp. Inaugurates Network Competency Center...2.12K 8129 ) Oracle 7 RDBMS & IBM's RS/6000 Form Calling Card System Base....2.73K 8130 ) San Diego Supercomputer Center Orders Cray T3E..................4.65K 8131 ) PGI Provides Pentium Pro Systems Parallel Compiler Technology...2.28K 8132 ) POPINDA Unifies & Parallelizes Aerodynamic Production Codes.....1.21K SHORT TAKES 8133 ) Product Watch: NEC Will Ship 80 SX-4Bs. Tandem Adopts Verity....13.7K 8134 ) Financial Update: European Commission Investigates DEC..........3.31K 8135 ) Corporate Liaisons: HP, Applied Communications, Vento Team Up...8.29K 8136 ) People & Promotions: 3M Exec Named CEO of NII Testbed...........6.77K JOB BANK ==================================================================== 667) Employment Opportunities.......................................1.47K From: New York University, Nichols Research, IBM, Fujitsu, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, University of Illinois at Chicago* * New listings 604) Job Bank Rates and Regulations.................................1.22K CONFERENCES ================================================================= 2888) Calendar of Upcoming HPC Events: SC '95 Set to Kick Off Dec. 3..13.7K HPCwire INFORMATION ========================================================= 7000) Subscription Information/Get On-Off Mailing List/Letters to the Editor Back Issue Index/Masthead, Email Contacts, Submission Tips.......1.23K ______________________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 | | 936) Sony *937) Digital Equipment| |__________________*Updated information within last 30 days_________________| *** LAST ISSUE'S MOST REQUESTED ITEMS FROM HPCwire *** 8104) THE INTERNET: UNREAL STOCK PRICES AND OTHER HYPE...................11.8K 8108) CONVEX ADDS SHARED MEMORY AND MESSAGE PASSING TO EXEMPLAR SPP LINE.2.79K 8105) HITS & HISSES: CLARIFICATION: DOE'S ESNET & THE INTERNET...........3.12K 667) EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES...........................................1.49K ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~