H P C w i r e The Text-on-Demand E-zine for High Performance Computing *** June 14, 1996: Vol. 5, No. 25 Circulation: 17,877 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 192 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 -------------------- * -------------------- 7122 AS HPC UNDERGOES A METAMORPHOSIS, WHAT DO USERS WANT FROM HPC PRODUCTS AND SERVICES? This invaluable report on where the HPC industry is headed is now available. Retrieve this article for more information and our special summer offer. ______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _______________________________ | | | 8719 ) FEATURES: REVIEW OF NEW MIT TEXT ON HPC | | 8723 ) SCIENCE NEWS: SP2 MODELING OF X-RAY GALAXY CLUSTER EVOLUTION | | 8726 ) COMMERCIAL NEWS: DATA GENERAL BEGINS NUMALIINE DIVISION | | 8728 ) NEWS BRIEFS: NCR POSTS TPC-D 300GB BENCHMARK RESULTS | |____________________________________________________________________________| FEATURES ===================================================================== 8718 ) MASPAR BECOMES NEOVISTA, FORGES NEW DATAMINING ALLIANCE............7.6K by Alan Beck, managing editor Supported by alliances with Hewlett-Packard, Informix and Perot Systems and bolstered by $6 million in equity financing, the reorganized firm is now focusing its efforts on the success of its Decision Series Suite of scalable datamining tools for low-level analysis of large-scale warehouse data. 8719 ) REVIEW: NEW MIT TEXT VALUABLE BUT ALREADY OUTDATED................10.1K by Norris Parker Smith, editor at large A new textbook from MIT Press provides much valuable basic material for advanced undergraduates in the sciences and engineering who will need to use HPC during their careers. But is the traditional textbook format still adequate? 8720 ) AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT ALLOCATES $1.7 MILLION FOR HPC FACILITIES....1.9K The newly granted funding is earmarked to purchase large items of equipment and facilities for joint use by universities. Research covered by the grants includes micro-economic behavioral modelling, microwave links, 3-D modeling and analysis and other projects at 10 Australian universities. SCIENCE & ENGINEERING NEWS 8721 ) NCSA WILL RELEASE BIOLOGY WORKBENCH SOFTWARE TOOL..................2.8K Scheduled for release June 15, this tool turns a single desktop machine into a powerful metacomputer, a machine connected to other computers and databases around the world. Those using Biology Workbench will have access and use of the same tools utilized by seasoned computational biologists. 8722 ) ON-LINE ACOUSTIC DENSITOMETRY SOFTWARE INTRODUCED..................3.6K Hewlett-Packard's newest imaging software involves perfusion and function in the quantitative assessment of myocardial viability. The tool allows clinicians to evaluate acoustic information of two- dimensional images and integrated back-scatter (IBS) images for reproducible measurement. 8723 ) X-RAY GALAXY CLUSTERS EVOLVE.......................................5.5K Scientists have successfully modeled the evolution of a massive cluster of X-ray galaxies using the IBM RS/6000 Scalable POWERparallel Systems (SP) at the Cornell Theory Center (CTC). COMMERCIAL NEWS 8724 ) RED BRICK AND DATAMIND INTEGRATE DATA WAREHOUSING AND MINING.......4.3K by Dianna Husum, editorial director, TGC Industry analysts see Red Brick's new product, Red Brick Data Mine, as the tip of the iceberg in an emerging genre of database marketing that combines complementary technologies of data warehousing and data mining applications. 8725 ) EMERGENT ANNOUNCES SCALABLE PROGRAM MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORK...........2.1K Emergent has introduced a methodology specifically designed for building highly scalable database applications on top of symmetric multiprocessor, clustered and massively parallel hardware platforms. 8726 ) DATA GENERAL ESTABLISHES NUMALIINE BUSINESS UNIT...................3.2K The NUMALiiNE Business Unit will be responsible for developing OEM relationships and a worldwide distribution network for the company's NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Access) server technology and systems. 8727 ) CORNELL UNIVERSITY SELECTS INFORMIX FOR PROJECT 2000...............2.3K The Informix-OnLine Dynamic Server will be the core database of Cornell's university-wide reengineering effort. Administrators will use the system to track trends such as the relationship between acceptance rates and the influence of financial aid offerings. QUOTE OF THE WEEK ============================================================ 8721 ) "When I first saw the Biology Workbench it took me a little bit to realize that this is a radical departure from the way that we construct software...And this is not about biology, it's about software engineering that can be applied to any discipline." -- Larry Smarr, Director, NCSA ___________________________INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHTS______________________________ | 7151 ) E-Systems Announces Suppliers For 15 Teraflop HPC System | | 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 ================================================================== 8728 ) NCR Posts New TPC-D 300GB Benchmark Results......................1.6K 8729 ) Karp Earns National Medal of Science for NP-Complete Research....2.2K 8730 ) MDL Awarded Patent for Heterogeneous Database Query Method.......2.4K 8731 ) DynCorp Wins $1B Dept. of Transportation Procurement Contract....1.5K 8732 ) DRS Receives $11.2 Million for Navy COTS Workstations............3.0K 8733 ) IDC and World Times Launch Global IT Access Benchmark............3.3K 8734 ) AT&T Teams with Silicon Graphics for Enterprise Solutions........2.0K 8735 ) DEC Forms New Division to Focus on Enterprise Service Solutions..2.1K 8736 ) Windows NT-Based System Will Power Europe's Largest Casino.......1.6K 8737 ) Quebec-Telephone Selects Newbridge ATM for Telemedicine Network..1.9K 8738 ) Fujitsu Delays Chip Plant Opening, Retools for 64-Bit DRAM.......1.1K 8739 ) Lightworks Systems Powers Twister & Other Popular Summer Movies..1.9K 8740 ) General Accident to Buy EMC, NCR Products for Data Warehouse.....0.8K 8741 ) Infinity SP30 Helps Pepsi DPC Transition from Mainframe to Unix..1.4K 8742 ) Storage Technology Will Build DASD Subsystems for IBM............3.3K 8743 ) Token Ring Market Revenues Expected to Reach $2.5B in 1996.......2.9K 8744 ) Intel Introduces 200-MHz Pentium Processor.......................0.8K 8745 ) Optical Storage Industry Attains 2.6 GB Level....................2.2K 8746 ) NCR Ships 30 Millionth Product: A Worldmark Enterprise Server....1.3K SHORT TAKES 8747 ) Product Watch: IBM, SAP Deliver R/3. Unison Load Managers for HP..15K 8748 ) Corporate Liaisons: Informix, Pyramid Data Warehousing Alliance.13.6K Interphase Buys Cisco FDDI Adapter Line 8749 ) Financial Watch: Dassault Systemes Announces Global IPO..........2.8K 8750 ) People and Positions: Joost Drieman Named Dir. 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