H P C w i r e The Text-on-Demand E-zine for High Performance Computing *** March 8, 1996: Vol. 5, No. 9 Circulation: 17,726 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 140 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 -------------------- * -------------------- 7133 ) FUJITSU INTRODUCES NEW VPP700 SERIES SUPERCOMPUTER - New CMOS High End Models Achieve Industry's Best Price/Performance - ______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _______________________________ | | | 8347 ) FEATURES: Intel Retires Paragon Supercomputer Line | | 8351 ) SCIENCE & ENGINEERING NEWS: DOE Orders 472-Processor IBM RS/6000 SP| | 8354 ) COMMERCIAL NEWS: Sandia Develops Economic Modeling Program | | 8359 ) NEWS BRIEFS: PGI to Develop Merged Programming Product for Cray | |____________________________________________________________________________| FEATURES ===================================================================== 8347 ) INTEL TO DISCONTINUE PARAGON SUPERCOMPUTER........................4.62K by Alan Beck, managing editor As part of its evolving business strategy, Intel Corp. will be retiring the Paragon, its i860-based MIMD supercomputer. No next-generation Paragon is planned. However, Intel says it will be making smaller versions of its TeraFLOPS system available via third-party vendors. 8348 ) INTEL TO GIVE USERS MORE DATA ON BOARD ERRATA.....................9.08K Commentary by Norris Parker Smith, editor at large Intel will expand errata disclosure to include boards (like the 82450 chipsets that had I/O shortfalls) as well as chips. Web and 800 numbers are to be more responsive. Intel's multiprocessor strategy leads into HPC's special peculiarities. 8349 ) SDSC'S SECURITY CHIEF DISCUSSES KEVIN MITNICK LIBERATION FRONT....3.22K by Alan Beck, managing editor Tsutomu Shimomura, author of "Takedown: The Pursuit and Capture of America's Most Wanted Computer Outlaw -- By The Man Who Did It", has captured the destructive antics of his most recent uninvited guests on a candid digital camera. Tom Perrine, SDSC security chief elaborates. 8350 ) HITS & HISSES: INTEL'S ORION HEADACHES............................2.85K Compiled by Norris Parker Smith, editor at large Jeff Pellet and Sean Emery underscore the importance of full, frank, rapid disclosure regarding issues like Intel's problems with occasional deficient I/O on the 82450 (Orion) chipset. SCIENCE & ENGINEERING NEWS 8351 ) DOE MOLECULAR SCIENCES LAB ORDERS 472-PROCESSOR IBM RS/6000 SP....6.06K When installed in 1997, the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory's supercomputer will have the capacity to operate at over 200 peak GigaFLOPS. 8352 ) INCYTE AND SAIC COLLABORATE ON NEXT-GEN DNA SEQUENCING OPERATIONS.1.29K A robotics system based on Scientific Applications International Corp.'s (SAIC) Allekto series of laboratory automation products will employ independent robotic arms and sophisticated scheduling software to analyze thousands of DNA samples per day for genomic studies. 8353 ) IBM SP IMAGE PROCESSING TECHNOLOGY AIDS MICROSCOPY RESEARCH.......6.45K Investigators of biological systems can now witness fundamental biological processes in living cells thanks to non-linear laser microscopy developed by researchers using the IBM SP at Cornell Theory Center. COMMERCIAL NEWS 8354 ) SANDIA DEVELOPS ASPEN ECONOMIC MODELING PROGRAM FOR PARAGON.......4.25K by Alan Beck, managing editor Aspen utilizes genetic algorithms in a massively parallel environment to predict market behavior and evaluate the likely effects of implementation of complex policy decisions across national economies. 8355 ) MSA SIGNS AS A TANDEM HEALTHCARE ALLIANCE PARTNER..................1.95K Management Systems Associates (MSA) is porting its optical-imaging document management system to Tandem's Integrity NR platform to provide access to online patient information. 8356 ) INFORMIX & SUN TO POWER MEDAPHIS HEALTHCARE DATABASE WAREHOUSE....1.97K Informix's OnLine Dynamic Server and a SPARCcenter 2000 symmetric multiprocessor system have been chosen to manage the Medaphis Data Repository, a warehouse expected to contain over one terabyte of data by 1997. 8357 ) i2 TECHNOLOGIES & THINK SYSTEMS TO FORECAST GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAINS..1.92K The product of this alliance, Rhythm, is an OLAP tool that encompasses the complete demand fulfillment cycle from sourcing and procurement of materials through manufacturing, transportation and distribution. 8358 ) NCR ENTERS MULTIMILLION DOLLAR CONTRACT WITH WAL-MART.............1.02K Wal-Mart has awarded a multimillion dollar contract to AT&T's NCR Corp. to expand and support Wal-Mart's data warehouse. The contract includes a 32-node WorldMark 5100 MPP system and a Teradata Database. It also adds 384 processors and four terabytes of disk storage to Wal-Mart's decision-support system. QUOTE OF THE WEEK ============================================================ 8354 ) "We don't start with Adam and Eve and end up with the Federal Reserve. Agents in an economy are modelled individually, making decisions just like you and me." -- Physicist Rich Pryor, Sandia Program Development Department ___________________________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 | | 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 ================================================================== 8359 ) PGI Will Develop Merged Programming Product for Cray Systems....3.70K 8360 ) IBM Plans $500 Million Storage Technology Business Expansion....1.84K 8361 ) CIC Receives NSF Grant for Database and Network Security........1.39K 8362 ) China Claims It Has Built Its First Mini Supercomputer..........0.88K 8363 ) IBM Server Business Increases Market Share to $27 Billion.......1.49K 8364 ) CIOs Say Intelligent Software is Key to Future Data Storage.....2.10K 8365 ) Manufacturing Software & Systems Showed 68 Percent Gain in 1995.2.31K 8367 ) Informatica Survey Shows NT Popular for Data Warehousing........1.96K 8368 ) Purported Class-Action Suit Filed to Halt Cray/SGI Merger.......1.12K 8369 ) NTON Consortium Testbed Utilizes Wavelength Selective Switch....2.01K 8370 ) Apple and Silicon Graphics Plan Digital Studio Collaboration....2.55K 8371 ) Cray Updates Parallel Programming Environments..................1.39K 8372 ) Cascade Will Provide Frame Relay Switching for AAP Telecom......2.18K SHORT TAKES 8373 ) Product Watch: Red Brick's 64-BIT RDBMS. Silicon Studio Expands.16.9K 8374 ) Financial Update: Cray/SGI Merger Entails $27.5M Breakup Fee....8.94K 8375 ) Corporate Liaisons: NCD Terminals to Complement IBM RISC/6000s..4.22K 8376 ) People & Promotions: Horst Simon Named NERSC Division Director..6.73K 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 March 7)...............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) HP/Convex Tech. Center930) 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 *** 9087 ) OPEN LETTER TO ANDY GROVE RE: THE ORION I/O ISSUE.................8.28K 9086 ) PENTIUM PRO CHIPSET FAULT MAY REDUCE I/O TRAFFIC BY 90 PERCENT....5.34K 8329 ) SGI & CRAY: WILL A MARRIAGE OF NECESSITY END HAPPILY?.............17.2K 8331 ) PUTTING THE MERGER INTO PERSPECTIVE: INDUSTRY INSIDERS COMMENT....8.10K ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~