\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\//////////////////////////////////////// H P C w i r e The Text-on-Demand E-zine for High Performance Computing *** May 17, 1996: Vol. 5, No. 20 Circulation: 17,877 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 179 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 -------------------- * -------------------- 7150 ) CAIRN PROJECT SELECTS THE NETSTAR GIGAROUTER AS DEVELOPMENT AND RESEARCH PLATFORM The Collaborative Advanced Internet Research Network (CAIRN) is a DARPA-funded Research Project Established to Research and Develop Advanced Protocols Including IPv6 ______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _______________________________ | | | 8600 ) FEATURES: DOES "DESKTOP TO TERAFLOP" MEAN ANYTHING? | | 8604 ) SCIENCE & ENGINEERING: INCYTE LAUNCHES NEW VERSION OF LIFESEQ | | 8605 ) COMMERCIAL NEWS: PARALLEL DATABASES PORTED TO SMP CLUSTERS | | 8608 ) NEWS BRIEFS: RAYTHEON NAMES COTS SUPPLIERS FOR TERAFLOP PROJECT | |____________________________________________________________________________| FEATURES ===================================================================== 8599 ) TERA'S BURTON SMITH SAYS MTA PROTOTYPE WILL DEBUT LATER THIS YEAR.5.55K by Alan Beck, managing editor More than eight years in the making, Tera's prototype multi-threaded architecture (MTA) supercomputer promises to simplify programming requirements. 8600 ) DOES "DESKTOP TO TERAFLOP" MEAN ANYTHING?.........................8.08K Commentary by Norris Parker Smith, editor at large HPC vendors take delight in claiming scalability and binary compatibility. Hence the marketeers' slogan: "desktop to teraflop." Do customers care that much? After all, heterogeneity in equipment seems to be the rule. 8601 ) CORNELL THEORY CENTER COMPLETES HPF COMPILER BETA TEST............2.71K by Donna Bergmark, senior parallel computing specialist, CTC A CTC workshop emphasizing performance programming for the IBM RS/6000 Scalable POWERparallel Systems (SP) was the first of CTC's workshops that incorporated HPF (High Performance Fortran), in the form of a case study. This case study is the first of its kind, covering three different HPF compilers. 8602 ) HITS & HISSES: DRAM SUPPLY, DEMAND, AND DATA......................5.72K Compiled by Norris Parker Smith, editor at large Justin Rattner of Intel discusses the center of gravity of the DRAM market (which is, of course, the Wintel symbiosis.) Russ Tuck of Pyramid seeks more comprehensive data on DRAM plans. 8603 ) NSF DIRECTOR NEAL LANE RESPONDS TO CONGRESSMAN DAVID OBEY.........3.47K Neal Lane, director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) has forwarded his response to a letter by Representative David R. Obey (D.- Wis.) that expressed concern over the possibility an upcoming NCAR (National Center for Atmospheric Research) supercomputer contract may be awarded to a Japanese vendor. SCIENCE & ENGINEERING NEWS 8604 ) INCYTE LAUNCHES NEW VERSION OF LIFESEQ GENOMICS SOFTWARE..........2.76K Proprietary data gleaned from analysis of more than 1 million gene fragments as well as public-domain sequence data from the Washington University-Merck EST project are key components of the newest version of Incyte's drug-discovery tool. COMMERCIAL NEWS 8605 ) SEQUENT AND INFORMIX TO OFFER PARALLEL DATABASES ON SMP CLUSTERS..2.71K The joint solution of Informix-OnLine XPS and Sequent's Scalable Data Interconnect, slated for general release this year, is designed to enable customers to tackle terabyte-size data warehouse applications in business-critical environments. 8606 ) WELLS FARGO WILL USE ORACLE UNIVERSAL SERVER......................1.81K Wells Fargo has licensed Oracle Universal Server and Oracle 7.3 to create a system expected to support up to 25,000 users. In addition to the core database, the license includes Parallel Query Option, Distributed Option, Advanced Replication Option, Advanced Networking Option, SQL*Plus and Oracle WebServer 2.0. 8607 ) PRICE WATERHOUSE TO LAUNCH INTEGRATED SAP/DATA WAREHOUSE SOLUTION.1.73K Called PWPowerStream, Price Waterhouse's newest SAP/Data Warehouse solution uses multi-dimensional modeling as a way to access information among internal and external sources of information -- most typically, customers and suppliers. QUOTE OF THE WEEK ============================================================ 8599 ) "What we're developing is a machine that offers flat shared memory, more flat and more shared than anybody's SMP. More flat than a Cray C90 or T90 even. Not a lot more flat, not a lot more uniform, but a little." -- Burton Smith, Chairman and Chief Scientist, Tera Computer ___________________________INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHTS______________________________ | 7147 ) U.K.'s Treasury Services Bank (TSB) Builds Mission Critical Data | | Warehouse With Sequent SMP | | 7149 ) KOREA-based Systems Engineer Needed? CETech has your solution! | | 7148 ) Netscape Turns to Sequent Computer Systems for High Capacity Server | | Technology | | 7141 ) FREE Trial Subscription to WEBster, The Cyberspace Surfer - | | Your Electronic Guide to What's "News" on the WWW. | | 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 ================================================================== 8608 ) Cray, SGI & DEC Named COTS Suppliers for Raytheon HPC Project...2.99K 8609 ) Alliance Formed to Propel Gigabit Ethernet Technology Standards.2.72K 8610 ) IBM Opens Olympic Information Technology Showcase...............2.18K 8611 ) White Paper Compares Fibre Channel & ATM Throughput & Latencies.1.72K 8612 ) Internet Security is Focal Point of National Engineering Forum..6.31K 8613 ) Manufacturing Expected to Represent Lion's Share of ATM Market..3.62K 8614 ) AT&T, KDD Join Group of Seven Nations Broadband Network Project.1.50K 8615 ) Danny Hillis Named First Member of Disney Fellows Program.......4.56K 8616 ) Amdahl & Intel Collaborate on Pentium Pro Quad Architecture.....1.79K 8617 ) IBM, Hughes Build Germanium Microchip Communications Products...2.09K 8618 ) Rockwell Sells Call Center System to Continental Airlines.......2.58K 8619 ) Toshiba Develops New Methodologies for 0.25 Micron Design.......2.85K SHORT TAKES 8620 ) Product Watch: Oracle Parallel Server for HP-UX. DEC NT Cluster.22.1K HP OpenView Supports ATL Tape Library Technology 8621 ) Financial Watch: Tera Announces $3.5M Loss. Cisco Earnings Up...9.95K Xylan Public Offering. HP Sees 25% Increase. 8622 ) Corporate Liaisons: Sequent to OEM Ancor ANSI Switches..........7.56K Unisys to Resell Memotec Thunderbolt Line 8623 ) People and Positions: New Execs at Informix. SSA IA Elections...5.11K JOB BANK ===================================================================== 667 ) Employment Opportunities........................................2.50K From: Hitachi Europe (2), NCSA, HP/Palo Alto, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, E-Systems (3), Sequent Computer, Univ. of Minnesota, IBM, Oak Ridge National Labs. 604 ) Job Bank Rates and Regulations..................................1.22K CONFERENCES ================================================================== 2888 ) Calendar of Upcoming HPC Events (Updated May 16).................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 *** 8567 ) SGI WILL MIGRATE CRAY'S CPUS TO MIPS AROUND THE YEAR 2000.........5.66K 8568 ) SGI/CRAY REVEALS START & END OF RACE, BUT NOT THE RUNNING.........9.51K 8571 ) MEMORY ESCALATOR OUTSPEEDING MICROPROCESSORS......................5.54K 8570 ) INTEL SHIPS 20 GFLOPS TERAFLOPS INSTALLMENT TO SANDIA.............4.56K 8624 ) TOP 20 REQUESTED ARTICLES FROM THE PREVIOUS EDITION OF HPCWIRE....1.80K ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~