H P C w i r e The Text-on-Demand E-zine for High Performance Computing *** Aug. 16, 1996: Vol. 5, No. 34 Circulation: 17,056 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 234 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 -------------------- * -------------------- _______________________ CAREER TRACK OPPORTUNITIES _________________________ | | | 7163 ) The National Energy Research Scientific Computing (NERSC) Center | | provides exceptional HPC resources to the scientific community and | | offers a wide range of professional opportunities. | | | | 7164 ) Nichols InfoFed and University team members of the NRC Team have | | immediate positions available at several locations throughout the | | U.S. An overview of these opportunities and background of the work | | being performed by the NRC Team is provided. | | | | 7165 ) Minnesota Supercomputer Center, Inc. Leading high-performance | | computing services provider seeks skilled technical employees. | | | | 7166 ) Cambridge Parallel, an Irvine, Calif.-based massively parallel | | processing (MPP) computer company, seeks an experienced, hands-on | | designer/engineer. | | | | 7167 ) IBM software development professionals. Help build the future | | generations of the SP massively parallel computer, the computer that| | is revolutionizing the way parallelism is applied to scientific, | | engineering and commercial applications. | | | | 7168 ) NEC Systems Laboratory, Inc.- APPLICATIONS SPECIALISTS - Tuning, | | porting and benchmarking the strategic third party engineering and | | scientific applications on NEC's high performance vector-parallel | | SX-3 and SX-4 systems. | | | | 667 ) Employment Opportunities From: Lockheed Martin, IBM Corp., Arctic | | Region Supercomputing Center, SunSoft, Tera Computer, ORTECH, | | Nichols Research, Raytheon E-Systems, Sun Microsystems | | | | 604 ) Job Bank Rates and Regulations | |____________________________________________________________________________| ______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _______________________________ | | | 10018 ) FEATURES: SIGGRAPH 96 PANEL DEBATES THE FUTURE OF WORKSTATIONS | | 10024 ) SCIENCE NEWS: SMITHSONIAN OFFERS VIRTUAL REALITY TOUR OF MARS | | 10026 ) COMMERCIAL NEWS: FOOTWEAR SUPPLIER TO DEPLOY 40GB SYSTEM | | 10031 ) NEWS BRIEFS: E-SYSTEMS WINS $170M DOD CONTRACT | |____________________________________________________________________________| FEATURES ===================================================================== 10017 ) DESIGNER DETAILS MENTAT'S GOAL: EASIER PARALLEL PROGRAMMING.......6.7K by Alan Beck, editor in chief HPCwire interviews Andrew Grimshaw, chief designer of an object- oriented parallel programming system designed to address the difficulty of developing architecture-independent parallel programs. 10018 ) SIGGRAPH PANEL DEBATES FUTURE OF WORKSTATIONS.....................4.3K by Alan Beck, editor in chief Will workstation manufacturers travel down the same road as supercomputer makers? The graphics PC versus the graphics workstation debate took center stage at SIGGRAPH 96 when a panel of experts explored PC/workstation Darwinism, the impact of embedded DRAM and the whole concept of entertainment versus serious applications. 10019 ) SIGGRAPH 96'S ELECTRONIC THEATER: A REVIEW........................7.2K Commentary by Alan Beck, editor in chief Each year, a SIGGRAPH jury chooses a group of what it considers the finest computer-animated vignettes for concatenation and showing during its convention. The latest selection consists of 46 clips, ranging in character from pure art to crass commercialism. 10020 ) PITTSBURGH SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER ACCEPTS CRAY T3E...................6K Features & Commentary The Pittsburgh Supercompting Center formally accepted the first production model of the CRAY T3E. To mark the historic event, a reception was held at PSC Thursday. SCIENCE & ENGINEERING NEWS 10021 ) SILICON GRAPHICS DELIVERS CRAY J916 AND WORKSTATIONS TO JAGUAR....4.3K Jaguar Cars Ltd. will use 84 Indigo2 Extreme workstations, six CHALLENGE S desktop servers, a Power CHALLENGE XL server and a Cray J916 server to support vehicle styling and engineering analysis. 10022 ) NSF FOCUSES ON SOLUTIONS FOR NEXT-GENERATION INTERNET.............6.1K Innovative, promising high performance networking solutions for the next-generation Internet were the focus for recent NSF awards and announcements. Award recipients made effective use of the vBNS backbone network, while two projects targeted commercial applications. 10023 ) MECHANICAL DYNAMICS TO CUSTOMIZE SIMULATION SOFTWARE FOR ROVER....3.5K Mechanical Dynamics will produce a custom front-end interface to its ADAMS/Car software, allowing Rover Group Ltd. designers and engineers to use the package more easily and often in the conceptual stages of vehicle development. 10024 ) SMITHSONIAN VR EXHIBIT OFFERS 3D TOUR OF MARS.....................3.4K Using Virtual Reality technology from WorldToolKit, developed by Sense8 Corp., the Smithsonian Institution has constructed an exhibit that allows the public to become virtual astronauts on Mars. COMMERCIAL NEWS 10025 ) LEHMAN BROTHERS SELECTS OBJECTSTORE FOR 2000 TRADERS................3K ObjectStore will be used in Lehman's Fast Data Interface (FDI), a broadcast-based data propagation mechanism designed to alleviate traffic and solve concurrency problems associated with shared relational database usage. 10026 ) MELDISCO OPTS FOR ACUMATE ES TECHNOLOGY FOR INVENTORY TRACKAGE....2.8K Meldisco, the largest division of Footstar Corp., has deployed a 40- gigabyte business intelligence system using Kenan System's multidimensional database technology and OLAP toolkit. 10027 ) AUSTRALIAN AUTO CLUB PICKS INTERGRAPH FOR COMPUTER AIDED DISPATCH.2.2K The Royal Automobile Club of Victoria intends to build the most advanced roadside assistance dispatch communications system in Australia. Intergraph has won the $13M contract and plans to base the system on Microsoft NT. QUOTE OF THE WEEK ============================================================ 10017 ) "Mentat assumes that the human being understands the data and the problem very well, and that the compiler doesn't." -- Andrew Grimshaw, assoc. prof. of computer science, Univ. of Virginia __________________________INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHTS______________________________ | | | 6886 ) SunSoft Is Seeking Development Products Group Project Leader | | 7162 ) Recruiting?? Don't Miss HPCwire's Special CAREER TRACK Supplement! | | 7141 ) FREE Trial Subscription to WEBster, The Cyberspace Surfer - | | Your Guide to What's News on the Web | | 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 ================================================================== 10028 ) Cleveland State U. Leads Geographic Information Systems Network.2.3K 10029 ) Corollary Debuts Multiprocessing Architecture for Pentium PRO...2.9K 10030 ) Beta Test Sites Selected for Earth Observing System DBMS........1.4K 10031 ) E-Systems Wins 8-Year, $170M DoD Modernization Series Contract..2.5K 10032 ) Fed Data Processing Initiatives Depend on Network Management....1.8K 10033 ) HP and SCO Release Initial API for 64/32-bit UNIX Systems.......5.1K 10034 ) Securities Class Action Suit Filed Against Paradigm.............1.2K 10035 ) PA-8000 Performance Results Exceed Earlier Estimates............2.6K 10036 ) Microsoft Claims New Talisman Graphics Comparable to Workstations.2K 10037 ) IDC Report: Banking Shows Highest Usage of System Integrators...3.3K 10038 ) The Science Behind Cosmic Voyage................................7.5K 10039 ) Justice Dept. Investigating IBM-Storage Tech Resale Agreement...1.5K 10040 ) NCR Technology Turns 4-Processor Servers into SMP Systems.......3.2K 10041 ) Sale or Merger Vital to DynCorp Growth and Survival.............1.7K 10042 ) DynCorp Wins DoD Inter-site Networking Services Contract........2.3K 10043 ) CBS News to Use ProLiant Servers for Internet Video Delivery....1.6K 10044 ) Bay Networks Selects OpenVision for Client/Server Backup........1.9K 10045 ) Concord Energy to Install Apex Data Collection System...........1.6K 10046 ) Deluxe Corp. Invests $20M in High-Speed Digital Network.........2.4K 10047 ) Actel, Synopsys to Make System Programmable Gate Arrays.........2.3K 10048 ) AirView SMP System Provides 500 Hours of Simultaneous Video.....1.6K SHORT TAKES 10049 ) Product Watch: Sybase Unveils Turn-Key Data Mart Solution......17.2K ArSciMed KINEMA/SIM for Solaris OpenGL 1.0 Qualstar Adds Exabyte Mammoth Support to TLS-4000 ATL 10050 ) Financial Update: Tricord Gets $10M Credit Line.................8.4K Storage Computer Has Record 2nd Qtr. SCO to Repurchase Shares 10051 ) Corporate Liaisons: BusinessObjects Partners with Red Brick.....8.9K IBM Buys CPM Data Mining Technology. 10052 ) People & Promotions: Former CEO of Illustra Leaves Informix.......5K New Chief Technologist at Xerox PARC. 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