H P C w i r e The Text-on-Demand E-zine for High Performance Computing *** April 26, 1996: Vol. 5, No. 17 Circulation: 17,877 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 180 Pages of Text ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Article Retrieval instructions at end of this file more@hpcwire.tgc.com For subscription information, email sub@hpcwire.tgc.com For a free 4-week trial subscription, e-mail trial@hpcwire.tgc.com -------------------- * -------------------- 7145 ) Learn How You Can Control Your Company's Announcements In HPCwire And Reach Over 34,000 Influential HPC Senior Executives And Technical Professionals Every Week! ______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _______________________________ | | | 8517 ) FEATURES: CRAY EXEC PREDICTS MID-RANGE MARKET DOMINANCE | | 8518 ) SCIENCE & ENGINEERING NEWS: SIMULATION OF UNIVERSE'S FIRST MOMENTS | | 8521 ) COMMERCIAL NEWS: MELLON BANK AND IBM COOPERATE FOR DATAMINING | | 8526 ) NEWS BRIEFS: COUNCIL ON COMPETITIVENESS LOOKS AT FUTURE OF IT | |____________________________________________________________________________| FEATURES ===================================================================== 8516 ) EXPLORING ARCHITECTURAL PERSPECTIVES..............................3.66K by Alan Beck, managing editor Scalability, integration and distribution are key concerns as enterprise computing moves into the Year 2000. Database strategists Don Haderle (IBM) and David Vaskevitch (Microsoft) offered perspectives on SMP, MPP, Windows NT, SP2 and moving computing into the future. 8517 ) CRAY SALES VP OPTIMISTIC ABOUT STRENGTH OF MERGED COMPANY.........3.00K During a recent speech in Singapore, Michael Dungworth, Cray's vice president of worldwide sales exuded optimism about the supercomputer manufacturer's ability to add to Silicon Graphics' bottom line. But he expects growth to emerge in the mid-range supercomputer market, while high-end sales flatten. HPCwire EDITOR AT LARGE NORRIS PARKER SMITH IS ON ASSIGNMENT. He will return May 3 with reports from the 1996 Conference on High Speed Computing (Salishan Conference). SCIENCE & ENGINEERING NEWS 8518 ) T3D SIMULATES GALACTIC ORIGINS FROM PRIMORDIAL FIREBALL...........8.32K Six months and 200,000 processor-hours on the Cray T3D at Edinburgh have yielded computer simulations of the evolution of our Universe, from its early infancy (a few hundred thousand years after the Big Bang) to its current state (10 to 15 billion years after the Big Bang). 8519 ) MDL RELEASES SOFTWARE DESIGNED TO AUTOMATE DRUG DISCOVERY.........3.91K Geared to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, MDL Screen is a client/server system that enables scientists to control, interpret and act upon data generated by "high throughput screening," a technology employing computers and robotics to speed biological compound tests. COMMERCIAL NEWS 8520 ) INDUS & ORACLE INSTALL WORK MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR OIL COMPANY.....2.89K Fifteen PASSPORT modules from four solution sets are the core of the Integrated Business Information Systems (IBIS) Oracle and Indus are installing for Abu Dhabi Marine Operating Company. The system will run on HP or DEC Alpha and will allow instant communication between drilling, production and transportation units. 8521 ) MELLON BANK HAS HIGH EXPECTATIONS FOR IBM DATAMINING PROJECT......1.76K Mellon Bank plans to spend about $350 million in technology upgrades this year. At the top of its list is a datamining project with IBM that officials expect will make the bank's direct mail marketing more effective. QUOTE OF THE WEEK ============================================================ 8517 ) "Some sectors have had a crisis of confidence in R&D... added to which of course, there has been a microprocessor technology revolution ... To grow, Cray had to go down market into the mid-range, which, being a volume business, was difficult for Cray." -- Michael Dungworth, VP of worldwide sales, Cray Research ___________________________INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT______________________________ | | | 7143 ) NEC Introduces SX-4B High Performance Computing Server | | for Compute-Intensive Applications. | | 7144 ) Sequent Demonstrates Enterprise Warehouse Solution With New | | Scalable Data Interconnect (SDI) | | 7141 ) WEBster, The Cyberspace Surfer - Your Electronic Guide to What's | | "News" on the WWW. Retrieve for a Free Trial Subscription. | | 7142 ) Call for Participation Supercomputing '96 Nov.17-22 Pittsburgh, Pa.| | 7139 ) National Supercomputing Center at Berkeley Offers Exciting | | Employment Opportunities | | 7122 ) AS HPC UNDERGOES A METAMORPHOSIS, WHAT DO USERS WANT FROM HPC | | PRODUCTS AND SERVICES? A special report compiled 1st qtr 1996. | |___________________________________________________________________________| NEWS BRIEFS ================================================================== 8522 ) NEC & Mitsubishi Commit Billions to DRAM Chip Production........1.93K 8523 ) Analysts Predict Storage Market to Grow 98 Percent by Year 2000.2.03K 8524 ) UK Meteorological Office Orders Cray T3E for Climate Research...2.08K 8525 ) SQL Server 11 Supports 10K Concurrent Users Processing 302 tpm..1.66K 8526 ) Council on Competitiveness Assesses U.S. IT Industry............2.03K 8527 ) Avid & Lucasfilms Create Digital Post-Production Process........1.74K 8528 ) GPC Group Updates Graphics Performance Numbers..................0.78K 8529 ) General Signal Networks Chosen to Automate Army Communications..1.63K 8530 ) IBM Introduces the R/390, a System/390-RISC System/6000 Hybrid..2.96K 8531 ) LSI CMOS Serial Interface Core Capable of 1.0625 Gbps...........3.29K 8532 ) ABBA Adds Maximum Strategy Servers to Open Solution Repertoire..2.74K 8533 ) ODS Will Provide Next Generation Switching for Army's HP LAN....1.93K 8534 ) NSF Solicits Research and Education Integration Awards..........2.53K SHORT TAKES 8535 ) Product Watch: Amdahl Parallel Sysplex. Sun 622 Mbps Adapter....13.8K 8536 ) Financial Update: DEC Revenues Up. Q2 Leaves Tandem Confident...22.7K 8537 ) Corporate Liaisons: NCR & ETI to Develop DSL for Teradata DBS...15.1K 8538 ) People & Promotions: Sequent Names VP, GM of Open Tool Business.7.94K JOB BANK ===================================================================== 667 ) Employment Opportunities........................................2.31K From: Cornell Theory Center, The Portland Group, Sequent Computer, University of Minnesota, IBM Corp., MIT, Univ. of Illinois, Oak Ridge National Laboratories 604 ) Job Bank Rates and Regulations..................................1.22K CONFERENCES ================================================================== 2888 ) Calendar of Upcoming HPC Events (Updated April 25)...............8.43K HPCwire INFORMATION ========================================================== 670 ) Masthead.........................................................2.17K 601 ) Subscriptions & Removals.........................................2.61K 602 ) Submitting Letters & Articles....................................1.58K 950 ) Index of Back Issues.............................................10.5K Comments regarding editorial content may be sent to: editor@hpcwire.tgc.com ______________________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 *** 8493 ) HP REVEALS HIGH-END PLANS FOR NOW & FOR END OF 1990S..............11.3K 8494 ) DIGITAL'S NEW TRUCLUSTERS DISPENSE WITH MESSAGE-BASED PARADIGM....6.46K 8498 ) SILICON GRAPHICS INTRODUCES DATAMINING SUITE AND SMP CLUSTER......9.28K 8495 ) WHY IS IBM HAPPY ABOUT HITACHI'S NEW CMOS MAINFRAMES?.............7.22K ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~