H P C w i r e The Text-on-Demand E-zine for High Performance Computing *** June 28, 1996: Vol. 5, No. 27 Circulation: 17,423 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 182 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 -------------------- * -------------------- 7156 ) Latest Benchmarks Applied Parallel Research's PARALLEL TOOLS Exhibit Impressive Performance Increases on MPP and SMP Systems ______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _______________________________ | | | 8781 ) FEATURES: RESEARCHERS DEVELOP SOFTWARE CACHE-COHERENCE | | 8784 ) SCIENCE & ENGINEERING NEWS: FIRE MODELING ON NCAR'S CRAY Y-MP | | 8789 ) COMMERCIAL NEWS: SEARS BUILDS IBM/INFORMIX TERABYTE DATA WAREHOUSE | | 8790 ) NEWS BRIEFS: NEC/HNSX/FCC RESPOND TO "DUMPING" CHARGES | |____________________________________________________________________________| FEATURES ===================================================================== 8780 ) STEVE CHEN JOINS SEQUENT AS TOP TECH OFFICER.......................5.0K News Analysis by Norris Parker Smith, editor at large Following his pioneering service at Cray Research and two less-than- successful personal ventures, SMP pioneer Steve Chen is to begin a fourth incarnation as CTO of Sequent Computer Systems. 8781 ) CASHMERE PROJECT DEVELOPS SOFTWARE CACHE-COHERENCE.................8.3K by Alan Beck, managing editor Researchers at the University of Rochester are developing software to bridge the performance gap between shared memory emulations on networks of workstations and tightly-coupled cache-coherent multiprocessors. HPCwire interviews two of the project's principal researchers. 8782 ) IBM AND NETSCAPE OFFER E-Z-FIX WEB SITE PACKAGES...................4.2K News Analysis by Norris Parker Smith, editor at large IBM and Netscape join in a wider partnership, based on RS/6000 servers, intended to simplify building corporate Web sites through a paint-by- the-numbers package. IBM plans an RS/6000 server with 60 or more nodes for the Olympics. 8783 ) SDSC WILL LEAD $8.4M DISTRIBUTED DATA ARCHIVE PROJECT..............4.6K The San Diego Supercomputer Center will be the lead organization for The Distributed Object Computation Testbed (DOCT), a testbed system for handling complex documents on geographically distributed data archives and computing platforms. SCIENCE & ENGINEERING NEWS 8784 ) NCAR MODELS COMPLEX RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FIRE AND THE ATMOSPHERE...4.9K Special to by Bob Henson, NCAR A senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) has created a computer model that traces the interplay between fire behavior and winds, pointing the way toward better fire prediction and management. 8785 ) SEDONA GEOSERVICES BUYS OSU DIGITAL MAP CONVERSION TECHNOLOGY......2.6K Sedona GeoServices will use a generation of digital databases and software developed at Ohio State University Center for Mapping to assist in distribution of geospatial data and analysis tools via the Internet. COMMERCIAL NEWS 8786 ) RED BRICK TECHNOLOGY IS AT CORE OF MORTGAGE RESEARCH GROUP.........6.3K Mortgage Research Group uses its own front-end tool to access, clean and load data into a Red Brick Warehouse, which manages about 125 gigabytes of financial data, running on a 4-processor Sun SPARCserver. 8787 ) QUANTUM REPLACES LEGACY SYSTEM WITH HP 9000 CLIENT/SERVER SET-UP...1.8K The new system comprised of HP 9000 servers and Oracle's suite of application software brings together, under one system, 1,300 users from every one of Quantum's geographic sites and business units. 8788 ) MERCURY AND THE CHICAGO STOCK EXCHANGE DEVELOP DOCUMENT PROCESSOR..1.9K Designed around Mercury's RACE multicomputer architecture, this data- capture system automatically identifies the type of stock or bond certificate being read and extracts the necessary information for processing by the Exchange's accounting computers. 8789 ) SEARS CHOOSES IBM/INFORMIX FOR TERABYTE DATA WAREHOUSES............3.1K Sears, Roebuck and Co. will replace its 300-Gbyte NCR Teradata warehouse with a 2-terabyte data warehouse comprised of an Informix- OnLine Extended Parallel Server 8.0 (OnLine XPS) and IBM's RS/6000 Scalable POWERparallel Systems server (RS/6000 SP). QUOTE OF THE WEEK ============================================================ 8781 ) "One of our goals is to figure out where the knee of the price/performance curve is. And we claim that adding extra hardware support to a network of workstations can dramatically improve the performance of shared-memory applications." -- Michael L. Scott, Principal Researcher, CASHMERe Project ___________________________INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHTS______________________________ | | | 7158 ) NCSA Offers Exciting New Opportunities For Computer Scientists | | 7141 ) FREE Trial Subscription to WEBster, The Cyberspace Surfer - | | Your Guide to What's News on the Web | | 7157 ) Lockheed Martin Opp'ties: Nat'l Environmental Supercomputing Center| | 7153 ) SIGGRAPH 96 Imagine it. Do it. Celebrate it. August 4-8 New Orleans| | 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 ================================================================== 8790 ) FCC/HNSX/NEC Issue Rebuttal to Supercomputer "Dumping" Charge....3.1K 8791 ) Russia Selects Sun for Multi-Terabyte Distributed Database.......4.6K 8792 ) Redpoint Unveils Real-Time Virtual Risk Data Warehouse...........1.6K 8793 ) Datapro Survey Ranks SGI Workstations Highest in Performance.....1.6K 8794 ) Autodesk and IBM Provide Visualization for Olympic Planning......3.9K 8795 ) Fujitsu Claims TX5000 Database Processor Offers 140x Performance.3.0K 8796 ) Thinking Machines & Peat Marwick Double Team Data Mining Market..1.8K 8797 ) Linkon Plans to Port Maestro System to RS/6000 Telecom Server....1.3K 8798 ) Open Group Developing Standard Object Oriented Class Libraries...2.1K 8799 ) MCI Selects Digital Link Multiplexers for High-Speed Access......2.5K 8800 ) Bay Networks Named LAN/WAN Provider for Democratic Convention....1.3K 8801 ) Tekelec & ITN File for SS7 Frame Relay Access Device Patent......3.6K 8802 ) Xylan Will Provide Next Generation LAN Switches for Army Network.1.3K SHORT TAKES 8803 ) Product Watch: Sun Unveils Fault-Tolerant Telecom Platform......17.4K MSC/NASTRAN for NEC SX-3 and SX-4 8804 ) Corporate Liaisons: EDS, Vartec, Sense8 Make Real-Time VR Aps...15.6K Bluebird Provides IBM RS/6000 Imaging Solutions 8805 ) Financial Watch: Adaptive Solutions Restructures, Plans Lay-offs.6.0K Proteon Braces for Significant Q2 Losses 8806 ) People and Positions: BrainTech Appoints VP Business Development.6.8K Jim Clark Launches Healtheon Corp. 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