H P C w i r e The Text-on-Demand E-zine for High Performance Computing *** July 19, 1996: Vol. 5, No. 30 Circulation: 17,132 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 212 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 -------------------- * -------------------- Coming - August 16th ! C A R E E R T R A C K A Special Supplement on HPC Employment Opportunities! Dear Reader: | Dear Employers: This Special Supplement will list | Recruit the top-performing High the most attractive HPC employment | Performance Computer Engineers, opportunities worldwide. If you are | Programmers and Executives looking for something new, don't | --- before they start looking! miss this special issue! | For full info, retrieve 7162. ______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _______________________________ | | | 8871 ) FEATURES: GREED, HASTE AND PUBLIC OFFERINGS: HOW IT AFFECTS HPC | | 8875 ) SCIENCE & ENGINEERING NEWS: TOM SAWYER SOFTWARE WINS NIST AWARD | | 8876 ) COMMERCIAL NEWS: 3-WAY PARTNERSHIP TARGETS SUPERCOMPUTER NETWORKS | | 8878 ) NEWS BRIEFS: JAPANESE SUPERCOMPUTER MAKERS PLAN PRICE CUTS | |____________________________________________________________________________| FEATURES ===================================================================== 8870 ) PARADIGM DEVELOPS PARALLELIZING COMPILER FOR DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING.8.7K by Alan Beck, managing editor In an effort to further explore ongoing work on automatic parallelizing compilers, HPCwire interviewed Prithviraj Banerjee, project leader of PARADIGM (PARAllelizing compiler for DIstributed-memory General-purpose Multicomputers). 8871 ) GREED, HASTE, AND PUBLIC OFFERINGS: EFFECTS ON HPC...................9K Commentary by Norris Parker Smith, editor at large Indecent haste as well as normal greed powered the IPO bubble that burst so painfully during the recent maelstrom on Wall Street. When new HPC ventures appear, getting money will be tougher. Will recent excesses be repeated, or avoided? 8872 ) GERMAN RESEARCH CENTER, JUELICH, INAUGURATES CRAY T90 SERVICE......8.5K by Uwe Harms, contributing editor A Cray 90 12-processor vector system with peak performance of 22 GFlops and a main memory of 4 GBytes was recently installed at the German Research Center at Juelich. Still on the way is a Cray T3E with 512 processors, peak performance of 300 GFlops and 64 GBytes distributed memory. 8873 ) HITS & HISSES: IBM S/390 ETC. & CRAY AT OLYMPICS...................4.7K Compiled by Norris Parker Smith, editor at large IBM will deploy mainframes and other major product categories at the Olympics, not just RS/6000 systems. Cray Research is to provide the computational muscle for weather forecasts. SCIENCE & ENGINEERING NEWS 8874 ) UNDERGRADUATES GAIN EXPERIENCE IN SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AT SDSC......2.2K A group of undergraduates is exploring problems in chemistry, molecular biology, and computer science at the San Diego Supercompter Center. The group represents participants in the 1996 Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program sponsored by the National Science Foundation. 8875 ) TOM SAWYER SOFTWARE WINS NIST ATP AWARD............................3.3K Portable graph layout system developer Tom Sawyer Software was selected as one of seven grant awardees for Component-Based Software Technology Development (competition 95-09), from the Advanced Technology Program at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. COMMERCIAL NEWS 8876 ) E-SYSTEMS, INSTRUMENTAL & GENIAS ENTER JOINT DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT.2.9K Raytheon E-Systems, Instrumental and Genias partner to provide highly integrated heterogeneous software solutions for networks of supercomputers, high performance systems, advanced workstations, peripherals and automated mass storage. 8877 ) SSDS HELPS UPGRADE FLEET TREASURY TRADING ROOM.....................2.4K Fleet Services Corp's trading room of the future will feature a new level of automation capable of supporting a $90 billion organization. The migration includes a common hardware architecture, a high performance network model and a new application architecture for both domestic and foreign trading. QUOTE OF THE WEEK ============================================================ 8870 ) "(PARADIGM) also tries to solve what we feel is a very important problem: automatic data distribution and partitioning, both static and dynamic. The compiler is targeted not only to serial FORTRAN 77 programs but also to High Performance FORTRAN (HPF)." -- Prithviraj Banerjee, project leader, PARADIGM ___________________________INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHTS______________________________ | | | 7161 ) How You Can Maximize the Editorial Coverage You Recieve In HPCwire| | 7156 ) Latest Benchmarks of APR's PARALLEL TOOLS on MPP and SMP Systems | | 7162 ) HPCwire's Special CAREER TRACK Supplement: Don't Miss It! | | 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 | | 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 ================================================================== 8878 ) Fujitsu & NEC Plan to Lower Supercomputer Prices, Double Sales...1.1K 8879 ) LLNL Research Leads to 10x Increase in Chip Speed................4.8K 8880 ) IT Merger and Acquisition Values Up 108 Percent Since Mid-1995...7.9K 8881 ) Datatape Virtual Team Will Develop Network Peripheral Adapter....1.6K 8882 ) Informix OnLine XPS Ported to Hitachi SR4300 MPP System..........2.3K 8883 ) "Independence Day" Producers Manage 12.8 Terabytes of Data.......2.3K 8884 ) U.S. Government Unveils New Encryption Policy Recommendations....2.9K 8885 ) COSMIC Releases Several Technical Programs Including GMAS & SSL..2.5K 8886 ) Sybase Takes $24.6 Million Hit, Cuts 10 Percent of Workforce.....2.1K 8887 ) SCO Forms Group to Shape Future Unix System Technology...........3.6K 8888 ) Diamond.Net Builds Private Fiber Optic and Satellite ATM Net.....1.3K 8889 ) Printrak Wins $3.2 M Contract to Develop Fingerprint ID System...1.7K 8890 ) E&S Will Provide Visual System for Sabena Airlines Simulator.....1.6K 8891 ) MCI Selects Fore ASX-1000 ATM Switches for Internet Backbone.....1.1K SHORT TAKES 8892 ) Product Watch: Data General Ships AViiON AV 4900 and AV5900......6.3K PDC BudTool Now Supports Oracle 7.x 8893 ) Corporate Liaisons: Informix-NCR Build WorldMark Database Tools..8.3K Digital to Resell Cognos Products 8894 ) Financial Watch: Intel Earnings Up. Tera Raises $8 Million......11.7K Red Brick Revenues Rise. Sequent Earns $142.6M 8895 ) People & Positions: Joseph Graziano Joins Carrier Board..........4.3K JOB BANK ===================================================================== 667 ) Employment Opportunities.........................................3.5K From: Tera Computer, ORTECH, Lockheed, NCSA, Schlumberger, U.K., Oak Ridge National Laboratories, Cornell Theory Center, IBM Corp., Nichols Research, ARSC. 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