H P C w i r e The Text-on-Demand E-zine for High Performance Computing *** March 1, 1996: Vol. 5, No. 8 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 -------------------- * -------------------- 7132 ) Are there 15 or more HPCwire readers at your site? Then save yourself and your company money using our site license-reduced subscription rates! ______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _______________________________ | | | 8330 ) FEATURES: ACTING DIRECTOR NAMED AT SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER | | 8332 ) SCIENCE & ENGINEERING NEWS: NEW TECHNOLOGY AIDS PETROLEUM DISCOVERY| | 8336 ) NEWS BRIEFS: NEC INTRODUCES SCALABLE 3D GRAPHICS PROCESSORS | |____________________________________________________________________________| FEATURES ===================================================================== 8329 ) SGI & CRAY: WILL A MARRIAGE OF NECESSITY END HAPPILY?.............17.2K Commentary by Norris Parker Smith, editor at large Cray Research and Silicon Graphics have many competing products and sharply-differing cultures. Cray's technological patchwork must be rationalized. Will future MBAs study this case as a shining example of creative adjustment or another AT&T-like merger that reached too far? 8330 ) ACTING DIRECTOR APPOINTED TO GUIDE SDSC THROUGH KARIN'S DEPARTURE.2.98K Dr. N. Douglas Pewitt, former vice president of corporate development at Science Applications International Corp. and CEO of e-on Corp. has been named acting director of the San Diego Supercomputer Center. 8331 ) PUTTING THE MERGER INTO PERSPECTIVE: INDUSTRY INSIDERS COMMENT....8.10K by Alan Beck, managing editor Gary Smaby, president of the Smaby Group and Paul Bemis, Hewlett-Packard's product marketing manager for technical servers, share their views on the Silicon Graphics and Cray Research merger. SCIENCE & ENGINEERING NEWS 8332 ) MSCI DEMONSTRATES NEXT GENERATION PETROLEUM INDUSTRY TECHNOLOGY...3.25K Raw seismic data generated by a moving ship 120 miles off shore in the Gulf of Mexico was transmitted via satellite to a Cray supercomputer at Minnesota Supercomputer Center Inc (MSCI), where it was processed and transferred via ATM to seven sites for viewing. The whole process was completed in a matter of minutes. 8333 ) FORD MOTOR COMPANY INSTALLS CRAY T94 & C916. T932 IS ON ITS WAY...1.29K Ordered during the third and fourth quarters of 1995, Cray supercomputers will be used to support Ford's simulation efforts for design, engineering, and new product development, as well as manufacturing for improved quality, safety, fuel efficiency and time-to-market for new vehicles. COMMERCIAL NEWS 8334 ) EMC AND NCR DEMONSTRATE 11-TERABYTE DATA WAREHOUSE SYSTEM.........1.57K NCR connected 50 workstations to EMC's open-system computer-storage product, the Symmetrix 3500, with an NCR server, generating a volume of transactions equivalent to 3,000 users. 8335 ) OBJECT TECHNOLOGY WILL LINK PEPSI'S NORTH AMERICAN ACTIVITIES.....1.57K PepsiCo is in the process of installing Marcam's Protean production and inventory software as part of a $3 million upgrade project expected to be completed by June. QUOTE OF THE WEEK ============================================================ 8331 ) "Take it from someone who knows -- they can't afford all of these permutations. So the question becomes: Which ones get shot? " -- Paul Bemis, Product Marketing Manager, Technical Servers, HP ___________________________INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT______________________________ | | | 7122 ) INDUSTRY LUMINARIES LEND EXPERTISE TO REPORT ADDRESSING HPC FUTURE | | 7125 ) New Internet Resource for Real World Signals and Information. | | 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 | | 7130 ) 1996 HARDWARE BUYER'S GUIDE: A Comprehensive, Up-to-Date Listing | | of All Major HPC Hardware Vendors. | | 7131 ) Fujitsu America Offers VPP Series For Advanced Scientific Computing| |___________________________________________________________________________| NEWS BRIEFS ================================================================== 8336 ) NEC Introduces Family of Scalable 3D Graphics Processors........1.29K 8337 ) Platform Computing Releases Load Sharing Facility Version 2.2...2.30K 8338 ) Cray and Wizard Team to Offer Convex-to-Cray Migration Solution.2.75K 8339 ) MIPS Shipped 5.5 Million Processors in 1995.....................1.18K 8340 ) AT&T GIS Japan Expects to Sell 1,000 NCR WorldMark Servers......1.82K 8341 ) Sybase Announces General Availability of Sybase IQ..............2.97K 8342 ) Open Horizon and HP Plan to Automate Transaction Processing.....2.67K SHORT TAKES 8343 ) Product Watch: Ansys on Fujitsu HALstations. Oracle7 Supporters.11.3K 8344 ) Financial Update: Bull's First Profit Since '88. IBM Wins $323M.3.78K 8345 ) Corporate Liaisons: Fore-Alantec Merger Final...................8.01K 8346 ) People & Promotions: CTC Dir. of Research Named SIAM President..1.32K JOB BANK ====================================================================== 667 ) Employment Opportunities........................................2.34K From: Pacific NW National Laboratories, Maui HPC Center, San Diego Supercomputer Center, Fujitsu America, HP Labs, IBM. 604 ) Job Bank Rates and Regulations.................................1.22K CONFERENCES ================================================================== 2888 ) Calendar of Upcoming HPC Events (Updated Feb. 29)...............10.2K 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 *** 8328 ) SILICON GRAPHICS PURCHASES 75 PERCENT OF CRAY RESEARCH............8.28K 8311 ) SEQUENT SEES CC-NUMA-Q AS HPC PARADIGM OF THE FUTURE..............3.77K 8315 ) CLUSTERED SMP ARCHITECTURE SOLUTIONS SOUGHT FOR ASCI PROJECTS.....9.88K 8310 ) IBM: UNIVERSAL INTERNETIZATION, BUT SCARCE INK....................9.69K ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ TO RETRIEVE ARTICLES Send a blank email to more@hpcwire.tgc.com. 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