Dear Colleague: If you have received this document, you are authorized to retrieve all of the articles published in HPCwire. See retrieval instructions at end of document. \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\//////////////////////////////////////// H P C w i r e The Text-on-Demand E-zine for High Performance Computing *** May 3, 1996: Vol. 5, No. 18 Circulation: 17,877 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 201 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 -------------------- * -------------------- 7146 ) NEW IDC WHITE PAPER EXAMINES THE DYNAMIC PERFORMANCE TECHNICAL MARKET The paper considers the special requirements of users as they bring supercomputing solutions to a much larger community of scientists and engineers and reviews Hewlett-Packard's products and strategy. ______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _______________________________ | | | 8541 ) FEATURES: CACHE COHERENCE LIMITS NUMA'S POSSIBILITIES | | 8542 ) SALISHAN REPORT: ASCI SUCCESS DEPENDENT ON NEW CODE AND CULTURE | | 8549 ) COMMERCIAL NEWS: TSB, SEQUENT BUILD MASSIVE DATA WAREHOUSE | | 8551 ) NEWS BRIEFS: KENDALL SQUARE CEO TO PAY $1.1M ON FRAUD CHARGE | |____________________________________________________________________________| FEATURES ===================================================================== 8539 ) HEWLETT-PACKARD TARGETS FOUR KEY AREAS FOR HPC MARKET SHARE.......4.69K by Alan Beck, managing editor Compute and file servers, scalable storage management accommodating more than half a terabyte, and enterprise data management will comprise the foci of HP's high-end efforts in upcoming years. 8540 ) CONGRESSMEN FROM CRAY'S DISTRICTS PUSH FOR US WIN ON NCAR BID.....6.23K by Alan Beck, managing editor Two members of the U.S. House of Representatives have waded into the bidding war among prospective supercomputer vendors for a new procurement by NCAR's Boulder, Colo. lab. 8541 ) SHEDDING CACHE COHERENCE KEY TO NUMA SUCCESS......................5.12K by Alan Beck, managing editor If NUMA is to become the principal supercomputing architecture of the 21st century and achieve true scalability, vendors must move beyond cache coherence, says NUMA Researcher Charles Severance, director of engineering computer services for Michigan State University's college of engineering. SALISHAN REPORT 8542 ) DOE'S ASCI NEEDS NEW CODE & NEW CULTURE AS WELL AS TERAFLOPS......10.8K Commentary by Norris Parker Smith, editor at large The DOE's ASCI program -- simulation as a proxy for nuclear testing -- stresses millions of lines of ground-breaking code in addition to teraflops. If it all works, reliability and safety of the US nuclear stockpile could be maintained. But what if the Russian -- and other -- stockpiles crumble enough to put the world at risk? 8543 ) CAN MASS STORAGE BE PERMANENT? LOS ALAMOS SAYS "ALMOST"...........7.46K Report by Norris Parker Smith, editor at large Can a mass storage medium last (almost) forever? Ion milling, a new technology developed at the Los Alamos lab, aims to do so at very high data densities -- with easy optical readout. Now on the eve of production, ion milling equipment remains costly and cumbersome, but the prospects are encouraging. 8544 ) CHEAP "X-RAY" RADARS MAY NEED BIG COMPUTER BACKUP.................3.29K Report by Norris Parker Smith, editor at large Cheap radars that see through solids, developed at the Livermore lab, have many potential applications -- including 3-D, real-time requirements that would call for heavy-duty computations. SCIENCE & ENGINEERING NEWS 8545 ) DARPA/NSF ISSUES RFP FOR FABRICATION & DESIGN OF WIDEBAND NETWORK.20.6K This joint DARPA/NSF initiative will request proposals for critical-mass experiments from research groups. The focus is on electro-mechanical parts and assemblies and on establishing capabilities in mechanical design and fabrication that are emerging for MEMS, and that appear feasible for SFF and numerically controlled machining. 8546 ) NCSA PRESENTS KODAK WITH '96 INDUSTRIAL GRAND CHALLENGE AWARD.....3.36K Kodak was recognized for its development of a technology designed to allow people to zoom in and examine small details in particular images transmitted over the Internet. The technique, a result of an NCSA partnership, combines supercomputing and digital-science software technologies. 8547 ) KOCKUMS & DIVISION LAUNCH VR TOOL FOR MORE EFFICIENT SHIP DESIGN..2.41K A new product that employs virtual reality technologies is expected to reduce design cycles by increasing the ability of ship designers to identify complex interrelationships among various design subcomponents. COMMERCIAL NEWS 8548 ) ARROWSMITH'S FLEETCON TO MANAGE CABLE TELEVISION WORKFORCES.......1.58K Arrowsmith Technologies recently introduced its workforce management solution, Fleetcon, which can run on IBM RISC System/6000 workstations and servers. The first commercial use of the product will be with Continental Cablevision. 8549 ) SEQUENT AND TSB BANK BUILD MISSION CRITICAL DATA WAREHOUSE........3.84K TSB Bank is investing in Sequent high-end, SMP Unix systems and Oracle software to build a data warehouse that will hold up to two years of historical data on each of the bank's 7 million customers. The system will be updated daily with over 6 million transactions. 8550 ) BEAR STEARNS SELECTS CRAY SUPERCOMPUTERS FOR SECURITIES TRADING...2.38K A 256-processor CRAY T3D scalable parallel system and a tightly linked CRAY C94 supercomputer system will be installed this quarter at Bear Stearns' headquarters. QUOTE OF THE WEEK ============================================================ 8540 ) "I strongly oppose such an acquisition for two reasons. First, our domestic supercomputer industry produces comparable, if not superior technology. Second, the U.S. trade deficit with Japan is alarming and utterly unacceptable." -- U.S. Rep. Martin Sabo in a letter to Dr. John H. Gibbons, Pres. Asst. for Science and Technology Policy, regarding NCAR's supercomputer procurement. ___________________________INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT______________________________ | | | 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.| | 7122 ) AS HPC UNDERGOES A METAMORPHOSIS, WHAT DO USERS WANT FROM | | HPC PRODUCTS AND SERVICES? A special report compiled 1st qtr 1996.| |___________________________________________________________________________| NEWS BRIEFS ================================================================== 8551 ) Former Kendall CEO Will Pay $1.1M to Settle Fraud Complaint.....3.29K 8552 ) Silicon Graphics and Cray Research Release Quarterly Earnings...4.18K 8553 ) NAS Puts Portable Batch System into Production on Cray C90s.....4.49K 8554 ) Georgia Tech Ready to Install 22-Processor PowerChallenge 10000.2.36K 8555 ) Proposed I-PNNI Protocol Ports Native ATM Benefits to IP Users..3.26K 8556 ) EMASS Providing Digital Data Storage for DOE EMSL Research Lab..3.28K 8557 ) Synopsys CEO Outlines Next Generation Chip Design Strategies....2.19K 8558 ) Analog Devices Opens Israeli Center for DSP IC Development......0.97K 8559 ) Serial Storage Architecture Dominated Broadcast Industry Show...1.96K 8560 ) SUMMITrak System Supports Broadband Systems Convergence.........2.29K 8561 ) SunGard Acquires DEC's North American Recovery Services.........1.77K 8562 ) ATM & Frame Relay for Tornado Environment Nears Completion......2.08K SHORT TAKES 8563 ) Product Watch: Red Brick Warehouse for NT. NPGL for Sun.........13.2K 8564 ) Financial Update: PSI Announces IPO of 3 Million Shares.........24.3K 8565 ) Corporate Liaisons: Radisys Buys Intel's Multibus & IRMX........7.42K 8566 ) People & Promotions: Charles Palmer Named CEO of PSI............3.01K JOB BANK ===================================================================== 667 ) Employment Opportunities........................................2.50K From: E-Systems (3), Sterling Software, Cornell Theory Center, The Portland Group, Sequent Computer, University of Minnesota, IBM Corp., Oak Ridge National Laboratories, LBNL. 604 ) Job Bank Rates and Regulations..................................1.22K CONFERENCES ================================================================== 2888 ) Calendar of Upcoming HPC Events (Updated May 2)..................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 *** 8517 ) CRAY SALES VP OPTIMISTIC ABOUT STRENGTH OF MERGED COMPANY.........3.00K 8516 ) EXPLORING ARCHITECTURAL PERSPECTIVES..............................3.66K 8518 ) T3D SIMULATES GALACTIC ORIGINS FROM PRIMORDIAL FIREBALL...........8.32K 667 ) Employment Opportunities..........................................2.31K ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~