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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 10, 1996: Vol. 5, No. 19 Circulation: 17,877 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 197 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 -------------------- * -------------------- 7147 ) U.K.'s TREASURY SERVICES BANK (TSB) BUILDS MISSION CRITICAL DATA WAREHOUSE WITH SEQUENT SMP Mining of historical customer data of bank's 7 million customers to enable bank assurance strategy ______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _______________________________ | | | 8569 ) FEATURES: HINT BENCHMARK WILL SOON DEBUT WIDELY | | 8572 ) SCIENCE & ENGINEERING: NIGERIAN PROGRAMMER CRACKS OIL-FLOW PROBLEM | | 8576 ) COMMERCIAL NEWS: AGENT AND AGENCY ARCHITECTURE EXPLAINED | | 8580 ) NEWS BRIEFS: CRAY J90 AND T90 UPGRADES RELEASED | |____________________________________________________________________________| FEATURES ===================================================================== 8567 ) SGI WILL MIGRATE CRAY'S CPUS TO MIPS AROUND THE YEAR 2000.........5.66K by Alan Beck, managing editor During a press conference this week, Cray Research and Silicon Graphics announced the combined firm's plans to arrive at a single, uniform, scalable SMP architecture on the MIPS design around the year 2000. 8568 ) SGI/CRAY REVEALS START & END OF RACE, BUT NOT THE RUNNING.........9.51K Commentary by Norris Parker Smith, editor at large Silicon Graphics & Cray Research have outlined their immediate policy (continue with most Cray products) and four-year goal (a unified product line based on MIPS chips). Serious questions remain unanswered for the 43 months in between. 8569 ) DEVELOPER DETAILS ADVANTAGES OF HINT BENCHMARK....................6.35K by Alan Beck, managing editor During an exclusive interview with HPCwire, John Gustafson, computation scientist at Ames Laboratory, detailed his Hierarchical INTegration (HINT) benchmark. The new approach is based on optimization of an integration curve to evaluate relative performances of increasingly compute-intensive machines. 8570 ) INTEL SHIPS 20 GFLOPS TERAFLOPS INSTALLMENT TO SANDIA.............4.56K Special to HPCwire by Jan Rowell Intel has delivered the initial shipment of its Teraflop computer to Sandia National Laboratory. Delivery consisted of a 64-node, two-cabinet model with a single compute node on each system board, and will grow to more than 4,500 dual-node system boards. 8571 ) MEMORY ESCALATOR OUTSPEEDING MICROPROCESSORS......................5.54K News Analysis by Norris Parker Smith, editor at large The Japanese semiconductor industry is investing many billions of dollars in plants that are to deliver 64Mb in 1997, 256 Mb chips around the end of 1998, and 64 Gb DRAMs after 2000. With that kind of memory, who cares about microprocessors? SCIENCE & ENGINEERING NEWS 8572 ) NIGERIAN PROGRAMMER CRACKS OIL-FLOW PROBLEM.......................2.93K Philip Emeagwali has programmed a supercomputer to make 3.1 billion calculations per second, thus solving a notoriously difficult computing problem: understanding how oil flows underground so that petroleum companies could extract the most out of it. The work has earned him the International Gordon Bell Prize in computer science. 8573 ) 1996 SMITHSONIAN FINALISTS USE PITTSBURGH SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER...3.28K Smog reduction research, 3-D simulation of Earth's magnetic field generation, simulation of the aerodynamics of the Delta II satellite launch vehicle, and the development and use of automated light microscope technology for dynamic cell observation were among the projects honored. 8574 ) TEXAS INSTRUMENTS AWARDS $100,000 FOR BEST DSP UTILIZATION........2.41K Two students from Nanyang Technological University were recognized for their work in film restoration techniques using DSP (digital signal processing). Using parallel processing techniques on a network of DSPs, the system erases damaged areas of the film and fills the empty space with information captured automatically from elsewhere in the film. 8575 ) HIGH-TECH DETECTIVES WILL FOCUS ON ANCIENT MYSTERIES..............6.90K Archeometry researchers from 12 countries will gather at the University of Illinois this month to report on their application of analytical techniques to the study of archaeological and art historical objects. COMMERCIAL NEWS 8576 ) PLANNING SCIENCES INTERNATIONAL EXTENDS SOFTWARE AGENT USE........5.01K by Alan Beck, managing editor Software agents are garnering increased attention from those who hope to leverage information technology investments through more automated management. Jack Connors, Planning Sciences International's vice president of marketing, discusses the usefulness of these technologies. 8577 ) ARTHUR ANDERSEN OPENS INTERNATIONAL TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION CENTERS.2.18K In addition to providing a laboratory environment where the firm's clients can prototype new technologies, Authur Andersen's Atlanta Center will house the North American Advanced Technology Group (ATG), which is composed of consultants with specialized skills and knowledge in specific technology areas. 8578 ) OIL COMPANY OPTS FOR LARGE SAP R/3 DEPLOYMENT.....................2.27K Star Enterprise will install one of the largest Microsoft Windows NT Server-based deployments of SAP R/3 client/server software in July. More than 500 employees will use the SAP software and the Oracle7 database in an all- Windows NT Server environment running on a series of Data General AViiON servers based on the Intel architecture. 8579 ) EASTERN BANK MOVES IMAGE PROOF-OF-DEPOSIT FROM AIPS TO NT........2.33K Eastern Bank will be implementing a new SoftCHEC system in a phased approach, beginning with a move from their current AIPS system to SoftCHEC's NT-based MICR solution in June of 1996. QUOTE OF THE WEEK ============================================================ 8567 ) "The biggest product family that's in question for the combined companies is the SPARC-based product." -- Bob Ewald, president, Cray Research ___________________________INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT______________________________ | 7149 ) Do You Need A SYSTEMS ENGINEER In Korea? CETech has one! | | 7148 ) Netscape Turns to Sequent Computer Systems for High Capacity Server| | Technology | | 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 ================================================================== 8580 ) Cray Announces Enhancements for T90 and J90 Lines...............3.53K 8581 ) StrataCom to Boost Internet Backbone Performance 400 Percent....1.72K 8582 ) HP Research Will Improve HFSS S-Parameter Computation Tool......2.79K 8583 ) Chinese Neuro-Computer, Massively Parallel Systems Win Awards...1.28K 8584 ) NetStar GigaRouter Selected for DARPA's CAIRN Project...........2.15K 8585 ) Sequent Buys Holistic Systems' Software for Financial Analysis..3.28K 8586 ) IBM's Newly Developed SA-12 ASIC Is Under 0.25 Microns..........1.33K 8587 ) Cray Distributes $350,000 in Grants to ARSC Researchers.........3.13K 8588 ) Nichols Research Wins Army HPC Modernization Contract...........1.60K 8589 ) Oracle7 Makes 6,056 tpmC and $223 per tpmC on AlphaServer 4100..1.64K 8590 ) TSI TelSys Delivers $2M Gateway Systems to NASA's MSFC..........2.01K 8591 ) Delta Research Wins DoD CADD Standards Development Contract.....1.59K 8592 ) Newbridge Wins Scandinavian ATM Network Contract................1.63K 8593 ) ALT Holds Biggest Share of Automated DLT Tape Library Market....2.28K 8594 ) Call for Participation in June 96 Version of TOP500 List........2.24K SHORT TAKES 8595 ) Product Watch: HSPICE Ported to Hal Station. NEC Debuts PHY.....25.8K 8596 ) Financial Update: Cascade Stock Split. EMC Debt Rating Raised...4.66K 8597 ) Corporate Liaisons: Irvine Sensors, Cray Collaborate on Chip....11.8K 8598 ) People & Promotions: New Acting COO at CSPI. Olicon COO Resigns.3.94K JOB BANK ===================================================================== 667 ) Employment Opportunities........................................2.50K From: E-Systems (3), Sequent Computer, University of Minnesota, IBM Corp., Oak Ridge National Laboratories. 604 ) Job Bank Rates and Regulations..................................1.22K CONFERENCES ================================================================== 2888 ) Calendar of Upcoming HPC Events (Updated May 9)..................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 | |____________________________________________________________________________| *** LAST ISSUE'S MOST REQUESTED ITEMS *** 8541 ) SHEDDING CACHE COHERENCE KEY TO NUMA SUCCESS......................5.12K 8540 ) CONGRESSMEN FROM CRAY'S DISTRICTS PUSH FOR US WIN ON NCAR BID.....6.23K 8539 ) HEWLETT-PACKARD TARGETS FOUR KEY AREAS FOR HPC MARKET SHARE.......4.69K 8542 ) DOE'S ASCI NEEDS NEW CODE & NEW CULTURE AS WELL AS TERAFLOPS......10.8K ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~