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Order item number 7122 for more information. \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\//////////////////////////////////////// H P C w i r e The Text-on-Demand E-zine for High Performance Computing *** Feb. 9, 1996: Vol. 5, No. 5 Circulation: 17,667 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 112 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 -------------------- * -------------------- 6826 ) Senior Systems Engineering Opportunities Available With Fujitsu America in San Jose CA ______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _______________________________ | | | 8267 ) FEATURES: VIRTUAL WORLD DATA SERVER HELPS ARCHITECTS VISUALIZE | | 8270 ) COMMERCIAL NEWS: INFORMIX & ILLUSTRA DEVELOP UNIVERSAL SERVER | | 8272 ) NEWS BRIEFS: CRAY AGREES TO SELL PRINTED CIRCUIT FACILITY | |____________________________________________________________________________| FEATURES ===================================================================== 8266 ) NEW TELECOMS ACT: PHIVE PHEARLESS PHORECASTS......................9.17K Commentary by Norris Parker Smith, editor at large The new telecommunications act should unplug pent-up demand for computers as well as communications gear. Bandwdith will get cheaper. The timing is good as ATM matures. The U.S. will stay ahead of the rest of the world for some time to come, but many uncertainties remain. 8267 ) UCLA'S VIRTUAL WORLD DATA SERVER SIMULATES CITIES IN REAL TIME....3.61K by Alan Beck, managing editor A Real Time Storage Server is complemented by a 3-D simulation system capable of storing and retrieving over one terabyte of spatially distributed heterogeneous data to form the basis of this joint project developed by UCLA's departments of computer science and architecture and urban design. SCIENCE & ENGINEERING NEWS 8268 ) CTC CORPORATE PARTNER PARALLELIZES QUANTUM CHEMISTRY SOFTWARE.....2.26K Schrodinger Inc. will be using resources from the Cornell Theory Center to develop a parallelized version of its quantum chemistry software suite for scalable architectures. 8269 ) ALPHASERVERS WILL POWER UK METEOROLOGICAL OFFICE MESSAGE HANDLING.2.30K by Alan Beck, managing editor After a two-year competition between Digital Equipment Corp., Cray Research, EDS, HP and Tandem, it was decided that 174 rackmounted Digital AlphaServer 1000s will power the U.K. Meteorological Office Weather Information Project's backbone message handling system. COMMERCIAL NEWS 8270 ) INFORMIX & ILLUSTRA DEVELOP UNIVERSAL DBMS SERVER.................4.47K Slated for shipment in 1996, the new Informix-Universal Server combines on-line transaction processing (OLTP), on-line analytical processing (OLAP) and infinite extensibility with full parallel processing capabilities of its Dynamic Scalable Architecture (DSA). 8271 ) ORACLE 7 NOW READY FOR IBM'S S/390 PARALLEL MAINFRAMES............4.43K by Norris Parker Smith, editor at large Oracle and IBM, anticipating a "mainframe resurrection," have adapted Oracle 7.2 to the complex multi-layer architecture of IBM's S/390 parallel servers. QUOTE OF THE WEEK ============================================================ 8267 ) "Most other 3-D interactive systems require data to be memory-resident, and that's been a limitation. Here it's disk-resident. Communication between the rendering engine and the RTSS is such that the user's location, direction of view, etc. will be communicated in real time..." - Richard Muntz, professor and chair, UCLA Computer Science Department. ___________________________INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT______________________________ | | | 7122 ) SIX SIGNIFICANT MARKET & USER TRENDS IDENTIFY HPC METAMORPHOSIS. | | WHAT DO USERS WANT FROM HPC PRODUCTS AND SERVICES? | | 7125 ) New Internet Resource for Real World Signals and Information. | | 7114 ) Quarterdeck InternetSuite: Everything You Need for the Internet | | 7126 ) Petasites And Mainstream Markets Are Moving SONY To New Levels. | | 7120 ) How To Find Hard-To-Find HPC Professionals | | __________________________________________________________________________| NEWS BRIEFS ================================================================== 8272 ) Cray Agrees to Sell Printed Circuit Facility to Johnson Matthey.1.87K 8273 ) CTC Releases ARCH Library of Parallel Programming Tools.........2.51K 8274 ) University of Stuttgart Installs NEC SX-4/32....................1.67K 8275 ) Chess Champion Kasparov Matches Wits with IBM's Deep Blue.......1.62K 8276 ) Sun Restructures and Renames SPARC Technology Business Division.2.06K 8277 ) Packard Bell Intends to Buy Groupe Bull's Zenith Data Systems...2.50K 8278 ) SeaChange Wins $6 Million Video Server Installation Contract....1.65K 8279 ) Storage Tech. Wins Patent Infringement Suit. Odetics Appeals....1.02K 8280 ) Internet Parallel Computing Archive Serves Millionth File.......1.14K SHORT TAKES 8281 ) Product Watch: Prism Announces Alpha Warehouse Program Support..15.6K 8282 ) Financial Update: Ampex Ends Year with $62.3M. Avid Cuts Jobs...6.84K 8283 ) Corporate Liaisons: KPMG and Sun Open Data Warehousing Test Lab.14.5K 8284 ) People & Promotions: Portland Group Names Ken Olsen President...4.53K JOB BANK ===================================================================== 667 ) Employment Opportunities........................................2.18K From: San Diego Supercomputer Center(2) Fujitsu America, HP Labs (2), NCSA(4), IBM/Poughkeepsie, NEC(2), Berkeley Laboratory 604 ) Job Bank Rates and Regulations.................................1.22K CONFERENCES ================================================================== 2888 ) Calendar of Upcoming HPC Events (Updated Feb. 8)...............10.4K 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 | | | | 936) Sony 905) Maximum Strategy 937) Digital Equipment| | 934) Convex Computer Corp. 930) HNSX Supercomputers 932) Portland Group | | 921) Cray Research Inc. 902) IBM Corp. 915) Genias Software | | 909) Fujitsu 904) Intel Corp. 935) Silicon Graphics | | | |__________________*Updated information within last 30 days_________________| *** LAST ISSUE'S MOST REQUESTED ITEMS FROM HPCwire *** 8243 ) THE UNIX PARADOX: STRENGTH WITHOUT UNITY..........................6.99K 8245 ) SUPERCOMPUTING CENTERS - FOR CYCLES OR SPORT CARS?................1.84K 667 ) EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES..........................................2.38K 7122 ) AS HPC UNDERGOES A METAMORPHOSIS, WHAT DO USERS WANT FROM HPC PRODUCTS AND SERVICES? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~