H P C w i r e The Text-on-Demand E-zine for High Performance Computing *** Dec. 13, 1996: Vol. 5, No. 50 Circulation: 16,790 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 139 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 -------------------- * -------------------- 70072 ) IBM & ORACLE DOUBLE SPEED PERFORMANCE BREAKING ANOTHER TPC-D RECORD ______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _______________________________ | | | 10537 ) FEATURES: JACK DONGARRA LOOKS AT PROPRIETARY BENCHMARKS | | 10540 ) SCIENCE NEWS: SILICON LED INTEGRATED WITH STANDARD CIRCUITRY | | 10541 ) COMMERCIAL NEWS: DEC, STK CLAIM NEW BACKUP AND RESTORE STANDARDS | | 10544 ) NEWS BRIEFS: SMABY GROUP OPENS SILICON VALLEY OFFICE | |____________________________________________________________________________| FEATURES ===================================================================== 10537 ) JACK DONGARRA NOTES VIEWS ON PROPRIETARY BENCHMARKS IN NSF BIDS...7.7K by Alan Beck, editor in chief Concern about certain aspects of the recently completed bid to provide NCAR with supercomputing resources led HPCwire to request clarification of official UCAR policies and seek further insight from a renowned benchmarking authority. 10538 ) LANL AND DEC LINK WORKSTATIONS FOR SUPERCOMPUTER-LEVEL IMAGING....5.6K by Alan Beck, editor in chief While developing technologies for the ASCI (Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative) project, LANL and DEC clustered workstations in an image-generation system that they claimed compared favorably with multi-million-dollar supercomputers. SCIENCE & ENGINEERING NEWS 10539 ) OCEAN MODELING CODE BENEFITS FROM HIGH PERFORMANCE FORTRAN........5.5K The application OCEAN, recently developed by the Mathematics Department at the University of Bergen, Norway and the Marine Research Institute, has been successfully ported to HPF by Parallab. 10540 ) SILICON LED INTEGRATED WITH CONVENTIONAL CIRCUITRY................5.9K Engineers have integrated a porous silicon light-emitting diode (LED) into conventional microelectronic circuitry for the first time, making possible an all-silicon system that can process light as well as electricity. COMMERCIAL NEWS 10541 ) DEC, STORAGETEK, SCH CLAIM NEW BACKUP AND RESTORE STANDARDS.......5.3K New benchmarks of hot database backup and restoration for very large database systems have been posted in a series of joint tests involving DEC, Oracle, StorageTek and SCH technologies. 10542 ) NASD DEPLOYS NETSCAPE SERVER SOFTWARE FOR CORPORATE INTRANET......3.3K The National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), parent company of The Nasdaq Stock Market and NASD Regulation, is using Netscape server software to create a corporate Intranet to circulate and store internal information for the NASD and its subsidiaries. 10543 ) GFA PASSES NORTHERN TRUST AND IBM STRESS TEST.....................3.9K A six-month stress test of Financial Technologies International's Global Financial Accounting (GFA) product has demonstrated an average performance rate of 55,000 securities transactions per hour. QUOTE OF THE WEEK ============================================================ 10538 ) "We see the single mainframe supercomputer disappearing in the future. Supercomputers will be based on cluster technology. That's the basis for DDIS." -- Don Tolmie, Los Alamos National Laboratory ___________________________INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHTS_____________________________ | | |70066 ) FREE Trial Subscription to WEBster, The Cyberspace Surfer -- | | Your Guide to What's News on the Web | |70067 ) WHAT DO USERS WANT FROM HPC PRODUCTS AND SERVICES? | | A Special State-of-the-Industry Report | |70068 ) The Real Numbers Behind Net Profits | | * The Largest Study of Web Marketers Ever Conducted * | |70069 ) DB/EXPO '96 NEW YORK AT JAVITS CONVENTION CTR. DEC. 3 - 5, 1996 | |70070 ) PGI, CRPC and LANL invite you to attend the First Annual | | HPF User Group Meeting | |___________________________________________________________________________| NEWS BRIEFS ================================================================== 10544 ) Smaby Group Opens Silicon Valley Office...........................3K 10545 ) Borland Announces Support for IBM's San Francisco Project.......1.6K 10546 ) Blue Cross, Blue Shield Pick Red Brick for Fed Employee Program.2.8K 10547 ) DuPont to Form Alliance with Information Technology Firms.......1.8K 10548 ) NSF Seeks Input on Merit Review Criteria........................1.5K 10549 ) Pacific Northwest National Lab Accepts EMASS Storage System.....2.4K 10550 ) Sun Moves to Standardize Java...................................1.2K 10551 ) Oracle Hosts Network Computing Architecture Developer Contest...1.7K 10552 ) Health Partners Selects ImageMatrix for Claims Processing.......1.7K 10553 ) Consilium Announces Additional MES Software Sale to dpiX........1.4K 10554 ) Open Text's Livelink to Enable Pharmaceutical Document Mngmt....1.5K 10555 ) Raytheon E-Systems to Participate in $450M Defense Contract.....2.6K 10556 ) State of Maine Partners with Sapient for Medicaid Reform........2.1K 10557 ) Cellnet Takes Delivery of OSI NetExpert...........................2K SHORT TAKES 10558 ) Product Watch: Sun Supports Informix Universal Server..........24.9K SECANT CellCase 155 Showcased. 10559 ) Financial Updates: Avid Notes Inventory Charge. EMJ Declares....7.2K Dividends. 10560 ) Corporate Liaisons: Aurum Ships Enterprise App..................9.3K for Informix Online Dynamic Server. CNT Receives IBM Orders. 10561 ) People and Positions: Ancor Names Belzer VP, International Sales..............................1.6K JOB BANK ===================================================================== 667 ) Employment Opportunities From: Raytheon E-Systems (2), University of Illinois, Argonne National Laboratory (2), National Center for Atmospheric Research, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, IBM Corp..............2K 604 ) Job Bank Rates and Regulations...................................1.22K CONFERENCES ================================================================== 2888 ) Calendar of Upcoming HPC Events (Updated 12.12.96).................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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