H P C w i r e The Text-on-Demand E-zine for High Performance Computing *** Oct. 25, 1996: Vol. 5, No. 44 Circulation: 16,498 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 175 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 -------------------- * -------------------- 70016 ) Maximum Strategy's New Relationship With Fujitsu's HPC Group Off To Roaring Start With Over Seven TB's of Storage Shipments Booked For Fourth Quarter ______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _______________________________ | | | 10349 ) FEATURES: NORRIS SMITH'S EMAIL ABOUT SEYMOUR CRAY | | 10354 ) SCIENCE NEWS: NCSA PREPARES NT/UNIX INTEROP TESTBED | | 10357 ) COMMERCIAL NEWS: ROBERT PALMER'S Q1 STATEMENT TO DEC EMPLOYEES | | 10358 ) NEWS BRIEFS: CRAY RESEARCH COMMENTS ON NEC LAWSUIT | |____________________________________________________________________________| FEATURES ===================================================================== 10346 ) NERSC III: PRESIDENT CLINTON HAILS ONTIME LAUNCH.................11.5K by Norris Parker Smith, editor at large NERSC has completed its move to Berkeley on time. It has ambitious plans to serve as intermediary between compunerds and scientifreaks. Do supercenters like NERSC make sense in the second era of VAXination? 10347 ) SGI OFFERS DETAILED TECHNICAL PICTURE OF ORIGIN2000..............12.3K by Alan Beck, editor in chief The sophistication of SGI's Origin2000 architecture and its accompanying Cellular Irix operating system has generated considerable interest in their underlying technical foundations. The product line manager of SGI's advanced system division explains what the key dynamics are and how they are integrated into this new technology. 10348 ) HPC WEB SITES OF INTEREST.........................................3.4K by Alan Beck, editor in chief In this second installment of an ongoing, quarterly series, there is an invitation to view the United Kingdom's version of PACI, the new face of NIST's scientific application support efforts, a run-time monitoring and steering system for parallel and distributed apps, and an important FAQ. 10349 ) COMMENTS ON SEYMOUR CRAY: SELECTED EMAIL.........................13.7K Compiled by Norris Parker Smith, editor at large A selection from many comments and reminiscences about Seymour Cray, plus an excellent proposal: should the "Cray" become a standard unit of measurement in HPC? 10350 ) MITCH LOEBEL COMMENTS ON SCI......................................6.2K The director for strategic alliances and partnering for the PARALLEL Processing Connection gives his views on some SCI-related questions previously posed to Dave Gustavson. 10351 ) LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.............................................3.3K Cray Research's General Counsel contests Tom Miller's statements regarding aspects of the recent -- and highly controversial -- NCAR procurement of NEC supercomputers. Jed Donnelley of LLNL offers his observations on Chris Willard's views of parallelism. SCIENCE & ENGINEERING NEWS 10352 ) MIT'S WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE OPTIMIZES GENETIC RESEARCH WITH ALPHA...4.5K New algorithmic implementations for gene mapping are becoming increasingly necessary as databases expand to include sequences characterizing entire organisms. In turn, sophisticated hardware platforms are called into play for optimization of data management. 10353 ) HPF GIVES BOOST TO SEISMIC MIGRATION PROJECT......................6.1K by Ernesto Bonomi, Ph.D. and Carlo Nardone, CRS4 Imaging the Earth's interior in a search for previously hidden oil resources, the GeoComp project utilizes numerical techniques to analyze acoustic signals emanating from the surface. High Performance Fortran (HPF) has proved to be a key component of the research. 10354 ) NCSA TAKES DELIVERY OF HP EXEMPLAR S-CLASS TECHNICAL SERVER.........7K NCSA has become the first research organization to receive one of Hewlett- Packard's new Exemplar machines. It will be one of four such technical servers, all of which are slated to become part of NCSA's NT/UNIX interoperability testbed. Director Larry Smarr comments on future directions. COMMERCIAL NEWS 10355 ) EMC EXTENDS INTELLIGENT STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL SOLUTIONS...........2.4K The commercial sector is expending much effort to effectively draw network and storage resources closer together across disparate platforms. This week, EMC released several products promising a significant augmentation of this vision of open computing. 10356 ) DATAQUEST SEES HEALTHY GROWTH FOR ASIC MARKET.......................2K The Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) market has experienced phenomenal growth in recent years. Analysts now indicate that the end is not yet in sight and give specific projections for various aspects of revenue generation. 10357 ) STATEMENT BY ROBERT PALMER ON DEC'S Q1 STATUS.....................7.2K Early this week Digital Equipment Corp announced a first quarter loss of $66 million dollars, compared with net income of $48 million for the same period last year. DEC's CEO gives his perspective on the reasons for these results and what can be expected for the company in the future. QUOTE OF THE WEEK ============================================================ 10347 ) "Thus, the Origin system functions as a truly scalable SMP system, rather than as a distributed memory machine with a shared-memory communication mechanism." -- Viggy Mokkarala, product line manager, Advanced Systems Division, SGI __________________________INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHTS______________________________ | 70009 ) Maximum Strategy, SGI, Other Leaders In High Bandwidth Seminar. | | 70010 ) CC-NUMA Architecture and PA 8000 Power: Hewlett Packard's New | | EXEMPLAR S- and X- Class Systems Lead In Scalable Performance | | 70011 ) High End Storage Industry Growth Fuels DATATAPE Expansion | | 70012 ) Ivy Ray Smith, Academy Award Winner and Microsoft Graphics | | Fellow, to speak at Supercomputing'96 in November | | 70013 ) FREE Trial Subscription to WEBster, The Cyberspace Surfer -- | | Your Guide to What's News on the Web | | 70014 ) WHAT DO USERS WANT FROM HPC PRODUCTS AND SERVICES? | | A Special State-of-the-Industry Report | | 70015 ) The Real Numbers Behind Net Profits | | * The Largest Study of Web Marketers Ever Conducted * | |___________________________________________________________________________| NEWS BRIEFS ================================================================== 10358 ) Cray Research Comments on NEC Lawsuit Against Commerce Dept.....3.1K 10359 ) Microsoft, IBM, Compaq, Dell Oppose Calif. Prop 211.............1.6K 10360 ) Unisys Federal Systems Awarded $50M NASA SEWP II Contract.......1.3K 10361 ) Intermetrics Wins $33 Million NASA Software Contract............1.4K 10362 ) Education Dept. Awards E-Systems Loan Processing Contract.......1.5K 10363 ) SyncLink Consortium to Develop New Memory Technology............2.3K 10364 ) Serial Storage Architecture Demonstrated by IBM and Siemens.....1.5K 10365 ) Fujitsu Invests $2M in European Supercomputer Center............1.9K 10366 ) Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Selects Forte Dvpt. Platform.....1.9K 10367 ) FORE Systems Equips SMART Toronto Network.......................1.8K 10368 ) Sun Microsystems Adopts Load Sharing Facility...................1.7K 10369 ) Vendors Lend Support to Platform-Independent Cryptography API...1.7K 10370 ) Intergraph CAD/CAE Selected for Shipbuilding by Avondale........2.2K 10371 ) Sedona GeoServices Awarded Forest Service Database Contract.....1.8K 10372 ) CTC Exhibit Utilizes VRML.......................................1.1K SHORT TAKES 10373 ) Product Watch: Kingston Ships Memory for New SGI Workstations...8.6K Sagent Releases Data Mart Server. 10374 ) Financial Update: Silicon Graphics Disappointed with Q1........24.4K Earnings. IBM Reports Net Earnings of $1.3 Billion. 10375 ) Corporate Liaisons: Sun to Embed Dolphin SBus-SCI...............7.8K MicroStrategy & Acxiom Enter VLDB Partnership. Arbor & DataMind Tap OLAP Potential. 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