\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\//////////////////////////////////////// H P C w i r e The Text-on-Demand E-zine for High Performance Computing *** June 7, 1996: Vol. 5, No. 24 Circulation: 17,877 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 215 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 -------------------- * -------------------- 7120 ) HOW TO FIND HARD-TO-FIND HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING ENGINEERS, PROGRAMMERS, ADMINISTRATORS AND RELATED PROFESSIONALS. ______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _______________________________ | | | 8686 ) FEATURES: IBM LAUNCHES HUMAN RESOURCES PACKAGE | | 8690 ) SCIENCE NEWS: A MORE PROFOUND VIEW OF MAGNETISM | | 8695 ) COMMERCIAL NEWS: EMC STORAGE ENHANCES PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY | | 8708 ) NEWS BRIEFS: NEW SWITCHED ETHERNET EVALUATION | |____________________________________________________________________________| FEATURES ===================================================================== 8685 ) CYBERTERRORISM EXPERTS ASSESS U.S. VULNERABILITY..................10.2K by Alan Beck, managing editor In the wake of a recently leaked memo from US Attorney General Janet Reno to President Clinton encouraging establishment of a national cyberterrorism commission, HPCwire interviewed leading cyberwar authorities Steve Aftergood and Eugene Spafford on the subject of US vulnerability to digital attack. 8686 ) IBM REVEALS HUMAN RESOURCES PACKAGE FOR RS/6000....................7.4K Commentary by Norris Parker Smith, editor at large IBM is launching a comprehensive human resources package adapted from its subsidiary, CGI. Running initially only on the RS/6000, it is to systematize and globalize "strategic" personnel management as well as administration. 8687 ) DUTCH INITIATE PROGRAM TO INCREASE COMPETITIVENESS IN SOFTWARE.....2.6K Special to HPCwire by Paul op den Brouw, Netherlands Embassy Software Action Plan 1996-2000 has recently been initiated by the Netherlands Department of Economic Affairs and the Department of Education, Culture and Sciences to support Dutch ambition to be a front-runner in information technology in Europe. 8688 ) OFFICIAL NEC/FCC RELEASE ON NEC'S NCAR WIN.........................3.6K Following accusations by political and corporate entities that they won the recent NCAR supercomputer procurement bid by offering a NEC supercomputer for less than cost, NEC and systems integrator FCC have issued this statement. 8689 ) HITS & HISSES: SCALABILITY -- SERFDOM OR SURFING?..................7.4K Compiled by Norris Parker Smith, editor at large Victor Wood of SABRE thinks that scalability, symbolized in the "desktop to teraflop" slogan, could mean a return to single-supplier serfdom. He prefers to surf among heterogeneous hardware. SCIENCE & ENGINEERING NEWS==================================================== 8690 ) UNPAIRED SPINS & MAGNETIC MOMENTS: DANCING WITH ELECTRONS..........7.7K by Michael Schneider, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center About 18 person-years -- by researcher Arthur Freeman and three post- doctoral fellows -- went into development of a very precise computational approach known as the full-potential linearized augmented plane wave (FLAPW) method. This method allows the researchers to study 75 atoms in a unit cell on Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center's C90. 8691 ) HP EXEMPLARS POWER QUEENSLAND SC LAB PETROLEUM RESEARCH............2.8K Four years since it began, Queensland Supercomputing Laboratories' PRINCE (Pacific Resource Information Center) project is expected to be operational in June. PRINCE is tasked with compiling up to 70,000 nine- track tapes, written reports, exploration surveys and rolls of maps into one easy-to-use, on-line, map-based browser system. 8692 ) CRAY AND COGNISEIS OPTIMIZE FOCUS SOFTWARE FOR T3E.................2.4K An agreement between Cray Research and CogniSeis is expected to lead to an optimized version of CogniSeis' software on Cray's T3E. Focus software is used for interactive and batch processing for 2-D and 3-D seismic processing applications to improve oil and gas exploration. COMMERCIAL NEWS=============================================================== 8693 ) CNN MIGRATES FROM TAPE TECHNOLOGY TO A $3M SERVER-BASED SYSTEM.....2.1K Central to the newly installed CNN Headline News system are two SGI Challenge servers with 150 Gbytes of hard disk space interconnected via High Performance Parallel Interface (HIPPI) over an ATM network. 8694 ) DEUTSCHE BANK CHOOSES IBM TO INSTALL $600M TRADING SYSTEM..........1.1K IBM has won a competition against Sun and HP to install a system of 3,500 RS/6000 computer workstations linked to an IBM back office MPP system. 8695 ) PHARMACEUTICAL INFORMATION PROVIDER EMPLOYS EMC STORAGE............2.5K IMS America is now employing EMC's Symmetrix 3500 Integrated Cached Disk Array (ICDA) open storage systems to house 1.6 terabytes of data for a prescription drug database and an Oracle7 data warehousing application running on 10 Hewlett-Packard T500 computer servers. QUOTE OF THE WEEK ============================================================ 8685 ) "One of the most critical needs we have right now is establishing an appropriate education and research infrastructure. There are currently only three dedicated, university-based research labs in computer security in the country." -- Eugene Spafford, Dir. COAST Laboratory, Purdue University ___________________________INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHTS______________________________ | 7151 ) E-Systems Announces Suppliers For 15 Teraflop HPC System | | 7150 ) NETSTAR Gigarouter Chosen as CAIRN Project's Development and | | Research Platform | | 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 ) WHAT DO USERS WANT FROM HPC PRODUCTS AND SERVICES? | | A special state-of-the-industry report. | |____________________________________________________________________________| NEWS BRIEFS ================================================================== 8696 ) Symbios Logic Will Supply Storage for Teraflop Supercomputer.....1.6K 8697 ) Geco-Prakla to Use Cornell's SP to Cut Seismic Processing Time...1.4K 8698 ) Northrup Grumman Wins NAVO HPC Modernization Program Contract....3.2K 8699 ) Virtual Humanoids to Debut at June 19 Conference...................2K 8700 ) NCR Offers WorldMark MPP Technology in Exchange with Korea.......2.9K 8701 ) Digicon Selects NEC SX-4 for Seismic Imaging.....................1.3K 8702 ) Ancor White Paper Examines Use of Fibre Channel for LANs.........1.6K 8703 ) Osicom to Provide FDDI Network Interface Adapters for Navy.......1.9K 8704 ) HP Ships 100th HP 83000 Digital IC Test System...................1.5K 8705 ) Sand Technology Systems Announces Server Testing.................1.2K 8706 ) Avatar Will Help Hitachi Users Solve Year 2000 Date Problems.....1.4K 8707 ) Ross Demonstrates Convergence of SPARC and PC Architectures......2.6K 8708 ) Strategic Networks Consulting Notes Switched Ethernet Evaluation.5.3K 8709 ) Microsoft to Target 64-Bit Data Addressing in Windows NT.........1.1K 8710 ) Netlink Test Demonstrates Benefits of PVC Prioritization.........4.5K 8711 ) Sequent American Operations Receive ISO 9000 Certification.......2.3K 8712 ) CTC Kicks Off 7th Supercomputing Program for Undergrad Research..2.2K SHORT TAKES 8713 ) Product Watch: Jitney Prototype. HP EDA Apps. Shiva's LanRover....24K 8714 ) Corporate Liaisons: Oracle and HP Interconnect Workgroups.......16.1K 8715 ) Financial Watch: Intel Expects Flat Revenue. Paradigm Losses.....5.1K 8716 ) People and Positions: Sequent's New Worldwide Marketing VP.......9.6K JOB BANK ===================================================================== 667 ) Employment Opportunities.........................................2.5K From: NCSA, Maui Supercomputing Center, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (2), Rice University, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center(2), Hitachi Europe (2), IBM Corp., Hewlett Packard/Palo Alto, Sequent Computer, ARSC (4) 604 ) Job Bank Rates and Regulations..................................1.22K CONFERENCES ================================================================== 2888 ) Calendar of Upcoming HPC Events (Updated 06.06.96) 8.1K HPCwire INFORMATION ========================================================== 670 ) Masthead..........................................................2.2K 601 ) Subscriptions & Removals..........................................2.6K 602 ) Submitting Letters & Articles.....................................1.6K 950 ) Index of Back Issues...............................................11K 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. 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