H P C w i r e The Text-on-Demand E-zine for High Performance Computing *** Feb. 14, 1997: Vol. 6, No. 06 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 173 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 -------------------- * -------------------- [ ] 70109 ) Join Silicon Graphics for a 2 hour live chat regarding Origin Servers on February 25, 10 a.m.-12 noon PST. Go to http://www.sgi.com/Chat/ ______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _______________________________ | | | [ ] 10741) FEATURES: SGI/CRAY SELLS 5 MACHINES TO KYOTO U. CHEM LAB | | [ ] 10745) SCIENCE NEWS: PRES. CLINTON FORMS HPCC ADVISORY COMMITTEE | | [ ] 10753) COMMERCIAL NEWS: NETWORK IMAGING ENTERS HEALTH CARE MARKET | | [ ] 10754) NEWS BRIEFS: PARTICIPANTS SOUGHT FOR PETAFLOPS SURVEY | |____________________________________________________________________________| [ ] 70110 ) H P C N Europe 1997 The International Conference and Exhibition on High-Performance Computing and Networking Austria Center, Vienna April 28-30, 1997 The Premier Exhibition in the field of Advanced Solutions for Industry, Research and Education Based on Workstations, Servers, High Performance Systems and Networks in Europe. FEATURES ===================================================================== [ ] 10741 ) SGI/CRAY MAKES SLAM DUNK AT KYOTO CHEM LAB....................4.6K News analysis by Norris Parker Smith, editor at large SGI/Cray has sold five computers, including a 128-processor Origin8000, to the chemistry institute at Kyoto University for research on the human genome. [ ] 10742 ) TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE ANNAI S/W TOOL FOR MPP SYSTEMS...9.9K by Uwe Harms, contributing editor Ten scientists, funded by NEC Corporation for more than three years, developed a suite of software tools called Annai that are mainly directed to inexperienced users of massively parallel computers. [ ] 10743 ) FIVE NEW TERMS FOR SUPERCOMPUTING...............................5K Compiled by Norris Parker Smith, editor at large Hits & Hisses. Readers from all over the world suggest five alternatives to the terms "supercomputing" and "high-performance computing." Which is best? Or is there something even better out there? [ ] 10744 ) WHAT FIGURE DOES EUROPE CUT ON THE TOP500 LIST?...............4.2K Special to HPCwire by Rob Midavaine, Royal Dutch Jaarbeurs Considering the importance of HPC to international competitiveness, this article offers a brief comparison of how European HPC resources stack up within the context of the TOP500 List. SCIENCE & ENGINEERING NEWS [ ] 10745 ) PRES. CLINTON NAMES CO-CHAIR, MEMBERS OF HPCC COMMITTEE........14K President Clinton has designated Ken Kennedy as Co-Chairman of the Advisory Committee on High-Performance Computing and Communications, Information Technology, and the Next Generation Internet. In addition to announcing the Co-Chairman, President Clinton announced 19 Committee members. [ ] 10746 ) CIAC WARNS OF VULNERABILITY IN RLOGIN PROGRAM.................6.5K The U.S. Department of Energy Computer Incident Advisory Capability (CIAC) has issued an information bulletin reporting a serious vulnerability in many implementations of the rlogin program, including eklogin and klogin, wherein local users may gain root access. [ ] 10747 ) INTEL DEMONSTRATES 400 MHZ MICROPROCESSOR CHIP................2.8K A Newsbytes article by Patrick McKenna and a Wall Street Journal article by Dean Takahashi have reported that Intel demonstrated a 400 megahertz (MHz) microprocessor utilizing P6 architecture. [ ] 10748 ) CAD/CAM VENDORS TO DEFINE STANDARD API FOR MANUFACTURING......3.2K Dassault Systemes, Division, Parametric Technology Corp, Prosolvia Clarus AB, SGI and Structural Dynamics Research Corp (SDRC) announced their intention to define an open, standard applications programming interface (API) for rendering CAD and analysis data. [ ] 10749 ) SRI INTL. AWARDED $1.6M FROM DARPA FOR MAGIC-II PARTICIPATION...4K SRI International was awarded a subcontract for $1.6 million from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for its role in MAGIC-II, a project addressing scaling issues in state-of-the-art networks. COMMERCIAL NEWS [ ] 10750 ) SUN, BELL ATLANTIC DEVELOP APP FRAMEWORK FOR CUSTOMER SUPPORT...5K Bell Atlantic Network Services is using Sun Microsystems' JTONE (Java Telecom Object NEtwork) consulting services to help develop an application framework for its customer care support systems. [ ] 10751 ) INTRANET INC'S SOFTWARE NOW PROCESSING CORPORATE TAX PAYMENTS...5K IntraNet, Inc's Automated Clearinghouse (ACH) and bulk payment processing software, CACHE, is now fully operational and processing corporate tax payments as part of First Chicago NBD/Mercantile Services' implementation of the Electronic Federal Tax Payment System (EFTPS). [ ] 10752 ) BASIS INTRANET SOLUTION SUPPORTS ASTRA PHARMACEUTICALS........4.2K Astra Pharmaceuticals' Australian subsidiary is using Information Dimensions' BASIS Intranet Solution to help architects, consultants, suppliers and executives cooperate in the construction of a multimillion-dollar manufacturing center. [ ] 10753 ) NETWORK IMAGING ENTERS HEALTH CARE MARKET.....................3.9K Network Imaging Corp announced an agreement with Healthdyne Information Enterprises and Transcend Services to provide 1View:Object Manager and 1View:Web Multimedia Object Manager (1View:WebMOM) systems for the healthcare industry. QUOTE OF THE WEEK ============================================================ [ ] 10743 ) "I agree completely with your assertion that the traditional term supercomputing has lost its meaning..." -- Alex R. Larzelere, director, Office of Strategic Computing, US Department of Energy __________________________INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHTS____________________________ | [ ] 70111)"TECHNOLOGY UPDATE:HIGH PERFORMANCE FORTRAN" by Chris Willard,| | IDC. Get a free copy compliments of The Portland Group, Inc. | | [ ] 70112) FREE Trial Subscription to WEBster, The Cyberspace Surfer -- | | Your Guide to What's News on the Web | | [ ] 70113) WHAT DO USERS WANT FROM HPC PRODUCTS AND SERVICES? | | A Special State-of-the-Industry Report | | [ ] 70114) PGI, CRPC and LANL invite you to attend the First Annual | | HPF User Group Meeting | | [ ] 70115) Want to hire top HPC Professionals? You can reach 35,000 of | | them in HPCwire's Career Opportunities Supplement Next Week!!| |_________________________________________________________________________| NEWS BRIEFS ================================================================== [ ] 10754) SDSC, Affiliates Seek Participants for Petaflops Survey........1.2K [ ] 10755) BT Wins IDT Frame Relay Contract Worth GBP 500k................1.9K [ ] 10756) HP's Convex Named Co-Op Employer of the Year by Texas A&M......2.2K [ ] 10757) IXC Installs Alcatel Equipment for Fiber Optic Network...........2K [ ] 10758) NEC Develops 4 Mb Cache 500MHz SRAM............................1.4K [ ] 10759) Manning & Napier Selects Cornell Theory Center as R&D Partner..2.5K [ ] 10760) Microsoft Stops NT For PowerPC Architecture....................1.1K [ ] 10761) CA-Unicenter Deploys Open C/S Computing to Community College...2.1K [ ] 10762) Netsoft, NSA to Provide Connectivity for Social Security Admn..2.1K [ ] 10763) Frost & Sullivan Says Digital Signal Processor Market Booming..3.1K [ ] 10764) NCR to Triple Size of Wal-Mart Database........................1.7K [ ] 10765) CSG Systems Announces New Contracts With Time Warner Cable.....1.3K [ ] 10766) SITA and EQUANT to Deploy Cisco ATM Switches...................2.5K [ ] 10767) Norwegian Univ. of Science and Technology Installs Cray T3E....2.2K [ ] 10768) Osicom to Provide FDDI Network Interface Adapters for NASA.....1.8K [ ] 10769) Seagate Holos Picked as Front End to Apple's Data Warehouse......2K SHORT TAKES [ ] 10770) Product Watch: PLB Group Offers Free Version of OpenGL Port......9K BrainTech Ships Tool for Adaptive Recognition Systems. Adaptec Unveils New ATM Technology. [ ] 10771) Financial Update: Veritas Notes Record Revenues for 4th Qtr and Year....................................................7.3K Cisco Reports 2nd Qtr Results. Logicsys Announces Record Results for 1st Half. [ ] 10772 ) Corporate Liaisons: Oracle and Visigenic Join Forces for Network Computing...............................................6.5K Mercury Interactive Signs S/W Licensing Pact with ISSC. Tech Data Partners With CMD. [ ] 10773 ) People and Positions: Red Brick Promotes Kathy Bagby to VP, Finance, Accounting.......................................3K Clay Marr Named CEO at RadioLAN. JOB BANK ===================================================================== [ ] 667 ) Employment Opportunities From: National Center for Atmospheric Research, IBM Corp, Cambridge Parallel Corp, University of Tennessee, University of Illinois, Lockheed Martin, MIT, Notre Dame University........2.4K [ ] 604 ) Job Bank Rates and Regulations.................................1.22K CONFERENCES ================================================================== [ ] 2888 ) Calendar of Upcoming HPC Events (Updated 02.13.97).............7.1K 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) MAXSTRAT* | | [ ] 934) HP/Convex Tech. 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