H P C w i r e The Text-on-Demand E-zine for High Performance Computing *** Feb. 23, 1996: Vol. 5, No. 7 Circulation: 17,726 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 123 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 -------------------- * -------------------- SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT 7130 ) 1996 HARDWARE BUYER'S GUIDE A comprehensive, up-to-date listing of all major HPC hardware vendors. This directory includes contact information, URLs when provided and descriptions of products and services offered. ______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _______________________________ | | | 8312 ) FEATURES: DENDRITIC CONCEPT KEY TO BRAINTECH RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGY| | 8316 ) COMMERCIAL NEWS: AT&T EMPLOYS ODBMS FOR WORLDWIDE BILLING | | 8319 ) NEWS BRIEFS: GPC JOINS SPEC | |____________________________________________________________________________| FEATURES ===================================================================== 8310 ) IBM: UNIVERSAL INTERNETIZATION, BUT SCARCE INK....................9.69K Commentary by Norris Parker Smith, editor at large IBM has Internetized all its main product lines with a tsunami of real-world products and services available right away. Microsoft reshuffled its executive sweets to stress the Internet but revealed no new products. Who got the ink? Microsoft. 8311 ) SEQUENT SEES CC-NUMA-Q AS HPC PARADIGM OF THE FUTURE..............3.77K by Alan Beck, managing editor Sequent Computer Systems is betting that its high-speed interconnected, cache-coherent, non-uniform memory access architecture (CC-NUMA-Q) is poised to muscle MPP systems aside. 8312 ) DENDRITIC PARADIGM IS CENTRAL TO BRAINTECH RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGY.2.49K by Alan Beck, managing editor Intensive studies of brain physiology at the cellular level have provided the basis for a novel architectural paradigm that is now being implemented in a variety of embedded optical recognition applications. 8313 ) $500 INTERNET GADGETS: JAPAN'S GAMES VENDORS TAKE THE LEAD........3.47K News Analysis by Norris Parker Smith, editor at large Selling cheap fun on the Internet: Japanese games vendors seem likely to cross the $500 Internet access machine starting line earlier than U.S. PC manufacturers. 8314 ) CORRECTION: Cray Electronics Bids on UK Meteorological Office WIN.0.71K SCIENCE & ENGINEERING NEWS 8315 ) CLUSTERED SMP ARCHITECTURE SOLUTIONS SOUGHT FOR ASCI PROJECTS.....9.88K Los Alamos National Laboratory has published a request for proposals for clustered SMP architecture approaches as part of the Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative (ASCI). The initiative is designed to stimulate the supercomputing industry to develop systems capable of tera-flops computing. COMMERCIAL NEWS 8316 ) AT&T DEPLOYS VERSANT ODBMS FOR WORLDWIDE BILLING..................3.58K AT&T has implemented a new billing and financial tracking system built around Versant ODBMS, an object-oriented database management system for its internal voice service records. 8317 ) CANADIAN TIRE CORPORATION ADOPTS MANUGISTICS' PLANNING SOFTWARE...1.63K Canadian Tire Corp. will use the Manugistics software to direct the flow of its automotive, sports and leisure, and home products to more than 400 associate stores, managing more than 60,000 stockkeeping units across Canada. 8318 ) ASSOCIATED PRESS SPEEDS IMAGE PROCESSING WITH POWERSHOP...........1.10K Adaptive Solutions' PowerShop accelerator board is a key component of Associated Press' fleet of digital cameras. Deployment of cameras incorporating the boards is credited with significant decreases in digital image processing time. QUOTE OF THE WEEK ============================================================ 8311 ) "The reason SMP is very popular is because it's so easy to program. And MPP is just the opposite. Every single MPP is a unique programming model, which drives the database companies crazy." -- Kevin Joyce, Marketing Manager CC-NUMA-Q, Sequent Computer Systems ___________________________INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT______________________________ | | | 7122 ) INDUSTRY LUMINARIES LEND EXPERTISE TO REPORT ADDRESSING HPC FUTURE | | 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. | | 7128 ) IEEE Computational Science And Engineering Magazine Information | | 7129 ) Sequent Computer is Breaking Technological Barriers | |___________________________________________________________________________| NEWS BRIEFS ================================================================== 8319 ) Graphic Performance Characterization Organization Joins SPEC....2.94K 8320 ) Hackers Penetrate LANL & SDSC. Kerberos Security Flaw Uncovered.1.77K 8321 ) Compaq Announces SAP R/3 Benchmarks for 3-Tiered Solutions......1.94K 8322 ) PDC's BudTool Earns Highest Score in Gartner Group Evaluation...1.11K 8323 ) Garry Kasparov Beats Deep Blue. Programmers Learn from Match....1.25K SHORT TAKES 8324 ) Product Watch: KIA Releases Photon C++ Compiler for Cray T3D....16.0K 8325 ) Financial Update: Avid Revenues Up. HP Reports Strong Q1........11.7K 8326 ) Corporate Liaisons: CISCO-HP Alliance. Informix Buys Illustra...7.73K 8327 ) People & Promotions: NCAR's Gary Jensen is Now PSC Assoc. Dir...6.58K JOB BANK ===================================================================== 667 ) Employment Opportunities........................................2.81K From: Pacific NW National Laboratories, Maui HPC Center, San Diego Supercomputer Center, Fujitsu America, HP Labs, NCSA, IBM. 604 ) Job Bank Rates and Regulations.................................1.22K CONFERENCES ================================================================== 2888 ) Calendar of Upcoming HPC Events (Updated Feb. 22)...............10.5K HPCwire INFORMATION ========================================================== 7000) Subscription Information/Get On-Off Mailing List/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 *** 8285 ) IBM GOES "NETWORK-CENTRIC," SEEKS TO ESCAPE FEUDALISM.............9.12K 8288 ) KASPAROV VERSUS DEEP BLUE: A PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVE............4.48K 7122 ) INDUSTRY LUMINARIES LEND EXPERTISE TO REPORT ADDRESSING HPC FUTURE 8293 ) MASPAR DISCONTINUES MP-3 AND TURNS FOCUS TO DATAMINING SOFTWARE..2.16K ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ TO RETRIEVE ARTICLES Send a blank email to more@hpcwire.tgc.com. 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