H P C w i r e The Text-on-Demand E-zine for High Performance Computing *** Dec. 8, 1995: Vol. 4, No. 49 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 -------------------- * -------------------- 7111 ) INTEL'S JUSTIN RATTNER -- TOWARD 10 TERAFLOPS AND A LARGER CANVAS As Intel prepares to launch the world's first teraflops computer, the visionary who set the wheels rolling on Intel's scalable computing efforts is playing a new role at the company -- a role that mirrors changes in the industry as a whole. _______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _____________________________ | | | LIVEwire: FINAL ISSUE OF SC'95 COVERAGE | | 8137 ) SCIENCE & ENGINEERING NEWS: EUROPORT-2 PROJECT SPEEDS DRUG DESIGN | | 8140 ) NEWS BRIEFS: MASSIVE DATA ANALYSIS TESTBED LAUNCHED | |___________________________________________________________________________| ***************************** L I V E w i r e ******************************* Brought to you Live from SUPERCOMPUTING'95, SAN DIEGO, CA *** Dec. 8, 1995: Vol. 2, No. 4 *** 7587 ) WLADAWSKY-BERGER'S PLANS FOR INTERNET REVOLUTION AT IBM...........9.83K Reported by Norris Parker Smith, editor-at-large Irving Wladawsky-Berger, who guided the SP revolution at IBM, has now been confronted with another: defining and coordinating (primarily in the software dimension) IBM's roles in the turbulent new world of the Internet. He says that hardware is no longer a serious problem; applications, content and selectivity are everything. 7588 ) IMMERSADESK GIVES INSIGHT INTO DYNAMICS OF STELLAR GENESIS........2.59K by Alan Beck, associate editor Astrophysicists at the University of Chicago are using the drafting- table 3D environment of the SGI RealityEngine-driven Immersadesk to gain new insights into the birth of stars. 7589 ) SUPER STORAGE SOLUTIONS FOR SUPERCOMPUTER NEEDS AT SC'95..........13.0K by Michael Erbschloe, contributing editor More processing power demands more storage. HPCwire takes a look at the solutions on display at Supercomputing '95. 7590 ) HPC RESOURCES FOR K-12 EDUCATION SEEN AS GRAND CHALLENGE..........4.66K by Alan Beck, associate editor The task of efficiently and economically opening the world's K-12 classrooms to HPC resources is now considered so complex and vital that it is being viewed as a Grand Challenge problem. A series of special programs at SC '95 were dedicated to addressing the issue. LIVEwire NEWS BRIEFS ========================================================= 7591 ) 1995 Gordon Bell Prize Winners Announced at Supercomputing '95....3.34K 7592 ) GigaNet Links Three Intel Paragons at Speeds of OC-48 and OC-12c..1.48K 7593 ) IBM's Deep Blue Chess Computer Prepares for Kasparov Match........1.63K LIVEwire INFORMATION ========================================================= 7563 ) Back Issue Index/ Email Contacts/ Submission Information..........1.43K ****************************************************************************** FEATURES ===================================================================== SCIENCE & ENGINEERING NEWS 8137 ) EUROPORT-2 PROJECT SHOWS POTENTIAL FOR ACCELERATED DRUG DISCOVERY.3.92K Using a Silicon Graphics 64-processor Power Challengearray system, Bayer AG chemists were able to reduce computation time on an anti-AIDS drug from months to days. 8138 ) RESEARCHERS MAKE IMPORTANT STEP IN MODELING PLASMA BEHAVIOR.......5.22K Researchers using Cornell Theory Center's 512-processor IBM RS/6000 SP have made an important step in modeling the behavior of plasma turbulence in magnetic confinement devices for fusion such as the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (TFTR) at Princeton University. COMMERCIAL NEWS 8139 ) MEDTRONIC GAINS COMPETITIVE EDGE WITH CRAY J916...................5.47K by Michael Erbschloe, contributing editor A CRAY-AE J916 supercomputer system has proven key to Medtronic's optimization of designs for its biomedical devices and applying interdisciplinary expertise in fluid dynamics, materials sciences, structural mechanics, electromagnetics and thermodynamics. QUOTE OF THE WEEK ============================================================ 8140 ) "The academic research community is confronted by the need to analyze very large data sets ... Rapid access to enormous data sets, such as we are designing here, will turn scientific databases into rich troves of information." --Reagan Moore, Assoc. Director for Enabling Technologies, SDSC ___________________________INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT______________________________ | | | 7112 ) Fujitsu Ltd. Secures Service Contract to Supply New Supercomputer | | to the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) | | 7105 ) A Cost Model For Evaluating Your Next HPC Storage Purchase | | 7103 ) Emissary! 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