H P C w i r e The Text-on-Demand E-zine for High Performance Computing *** June 21, 1996: Vol. 5, No. 26 Circulation: 17,877 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 220 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 -------------------- * -------------------- 7153 ) SIGGRAPH 96 Imagine it. Do it. Celebrate it. August 4-8, New Orleans ______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _______________________________ | | | 8753 ) FEATURES & COMMENTARY: PROTOTYPE "COMPUTE-WEBS" TAP WWW POTENTIAL | | 8755 ) SCIENCE & ENGINEERING NEWS: SWISS CENTER EXPANDS SERVICES | | 8757 ) COMMERCIAL NEWS: NISSAN INSTALLS $2.65M DATA NETWORK IN SHOWROOMS | | 8760 ) NEWS BRIEFS: CONGRESS VOTING ON BILL BARRING NCAR'S NEC PURCHASE | |____________________________________________________________________________| FEATURES ===================================================================== 8752 ) SUIF COMPILER GROUP TACKLES PROGRAM PARALLELIZATION................6.9K by Alan Beck, managing editor Computer scientists at Stanford, Harvard, Rice and University of California at Santa Barbara are developing compilers that translate sequential programs into parallel code. HPCwire discusses the project with Monica Lam, director of the Stanford University Intermediate Format (SUIF) Group. 8753 ) CRPC INTEGRATES DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING WITH WEB TECHNOLOGIES........6.7K by Mark Baker, Geoffrey Fox, Wojtek Furmanski, Syracuse University; Marina Chen, Boston University; Jim Lowie, Cooperating Systems A Syracuse University research team has developed prototype "compute- webs" that tap the World Wide Web's potential as the world's largest available computer, encompassing 20 million potential nodes. 8754 ) HITS & HISSES: GUTENBERG IS NOT DEAD YET...........................8.1K Compiled by Norris Parker Smith, editor at large An editor at MIT Press points out that LaTex and Postscript are far from miracle cures, the Web is not an ideal model for publishing, and conventional textbooks still perform an essential function. SCIENCE & ENGINEERING NEWS 8755 ) RESTRUCTURING THE SWISS CENTER FOR SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING............7.4K Special to HPCwire by Uwe Harms The integration of the Interdisciplinary Project Center for Supercomputing into the Swiss Center for Scientific Computing (CSCS/SCSC), has led to expansion of application-oriented service capabilities. 8756 ) INCYTE SIGNS EIGHTH GENOMIC DATABASE AGREEMENT WITH ZENECA.........2.5K Zeneca has gained non-exclusive access to Incyte's DNA Sequence database for use in the identification and validation of new research targets in the search for new drugs and diagnostic products. COMMERCIAL NEWS 8757 ) NISSAN INSTALLS DATA NETWORKS TO ASSIST SALES IN UK SHOWROOMS......3.9K Nissan is spending $2.65 million to introduce INFINET 2000, the company's multimedia dealer communications system, which will provide its 280 UK dealers with interactive showrooms by summer 1996. 8758 ) MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT UTILIZES TRIANGULAR WAN.....................3.3K Following a merger, Alexander Clay required a wide area networking solution that would standardize datacoms across the company. The organization settled on a triangular network that offers a compression ratio of 8:1. 8759 ) COOPERS & LYBRAND SELECTS SEQUENT FOR UK MOD CAPITAL PROGRAMME....1.6K Sequent will supply the mid-range and high-range Unix servers and services for the program under which the UK Ministry of Defence plans to implement the government's Resource Accounting and Budgeting initiative. QUOTE OF THE WEEK ============================================================ 8752 ) "In the old days, people worried only about finding parallelism, but we now realize that the memory subsystem performance can have a dramatic effect on performance." -- Monica Lam, Director, Stanford University Intermediate Format Group __________________________INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHTS_______________________________ | 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 ================================================================== 8760 ) U.S. House Voting on Bill Barring NCAR from Purchasing NEC.......1.9K 8761 ) 1024 Processor Hitachi SR2201 Leads Newly Released TOP500 List...2.1K 8762 ) Myrias Ports Parallelism-Enabling Technology to Fujitsu, HP, IBM.2.9K 8763 ) SDSC and General Atomics Celebrate Teaming Agreement.............2.9K 8764 ) Digicon Chooses Six-Processor NEC SX4 for Complex 3-D Imaging....1.6K 8765 ) Arbor Partnership Signals Fujitsu's Entry into Data Warehousing..1.0K 8766 ) SAP Consolidates US Regions into Single Integrated Organization..3.4K 8767 ) HP Announces Clustering Solutions for HP Netservers..............2.2K 8768 ) SAIC Wins Information Technology Omnibus Procurement Contracts...1.9K 8769 ) NEC Establishes Lab to Test Mixed-Signal ASICs...................1.5K 8770 ) Hewlett-Packard Completes Technical Update to U.S. Navy TAC-4....1.5K 8771 ) Sense8 Releases World Up Interactive 3-D Development Environment.1.7K 8772 ) Johnson Space Center Selects Intergraph Public Safety System.....1.6K 8773 ) Texas Instrument Engineer Awarded Computer-on-a-Chip Patent......2.2K 8774 ) Ansoft Wins Contract to Develop Microwave Prediction Tools.......1.3K SHORT TAKES 8775 ) Product Watch: ULTRA SCSI Adapter for Sun Workstations..........11.4K EuroMax on HP-9000 8776 ) Corporate Liaisons: Nestor & Tandem Put Prism on Himalaya........9.1K Digital & Samsung Forge 64-bit Alpha Alliance 8777 ) Financial Watch: Digital Expects Alpha Growth to Mitigate Losses.5.1K Nichols Research Releases Operating Results 8778 ) People and Promotions: Laurence Hootnik Named Consilium CEO......5.3K JOB BANK ===================================================================== 667 ) Employment Opportunities.........................................2.5K From: NCSA (5), Schlumberger, U.K., Cornell Theory Center, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Maui Supercomputing Center, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Rice University, IBM Corp., Nichols Research, Sequent Computer, ARSC (4) 604 ) Job Bank Rates and Regulations..................................1.22K CONFERENCES ================================================================== 2888 ) Calendar of Upcoming HPC Events (Updated June 20)...............12.8K 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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