H P C w i r e The Text-on-Demand E-zine for High Performance Computing *** Apr. 11, 1997: Vol. 6, No. 14 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 275 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 -------------------- * -------------------- [ ] 70157 ) FINAL PRINT RUN OFFER WHAT DO USERS WANT FROM HPC PRODUCTS AND SERVICES? A Special State-of-the-Industry Report by Norris Parker Smith 50% Discount Through April 15, 1997 ______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _______________________________ | | | [ ] 11019) FEATURES: NORRIS SMITH INTERVIEWS SID KARIN AND LARRY SMARR | | [ ] 11021) SCIENCE NEWS: UNIVERSAL SUBSTRATE FOR SEMICONDUCTORS | | [ ] 11024) COMMERCIAL NEWS: HP OUTLINES ROADMAP FOR COMPUTING SYSTEMS | | [ ] 11028) NEWS BRIEFS: UCAR PURCHASES HP EXEMPLAR SYSTEM | |____________________________________________________________________________| [ ] 70158 ) C A R E E R T R A C K S U P P L E M E N T: REACH OVER 35,000 HIGH PERFORMING COMPUTER ENGINEERS, PROGRAMMERS, SCIENTISTS, RESEARCHERS AND EXECUTIVES FEATURES ===================================================================== [ ] 11019 ) PARTNERSHIP & INFRASTRUCTURE IN THE NSF'S NEW ERA..............20K Commentary by Norris Parker Smith, editor at large In a double-length column, interviews with Sid Karin and Larry Smarr explore the meanings of "partnership" and "infrastructure" in their plans for the new-era NSF-supported computational conglomerates. Will there be enough bandwidth to link these ambitious enterprises into functioning wholes? [ ] 11020 ) ADAPTIVE OPTICS ON HPC PLATFORMS..............................5.5K by Alan Beck, editor in chief HPC resources often play a key role in overcoming atmospheric and other degradation of images. To learn more, HPCwire interviewed Nikos Pitsianis, a principal researcher in adaptive optics. SCIENCE & ENGINEERING NEWS [ ] 11021 ) TECHNIQUE PROMISES UNIVERSAL SUBSTRATE FOR SEMICONDUCTORS.....8.5K A technique recently developed at Cornell, creating pure, defect-free single crystal films of any kind on any substrate, may lead to new classes of opto- and microelectronic devices. [ ] 11022 ) CTC VISUALIZATIONS HELP EXPLAIN MYSTERIES OF DEEP SPACE.......3.1K PBS viewers will be able to observe planetary interactions with the help of data from researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and computer graphics animation from CTC's Wayne Lytle. [ ] 11023 ) DUTCH RESEARCH SCHOOL ORDERS 144-NODE PARSYTEC SYSTEM.........4.5K The Advanced School for Computing and Imaging founded by four Dutch universities, has received a grant from SION, the computer science foundation of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research to fund the Distributed ASCI Supercomputer (DAS) project. COMMERCIAL NEWS [ ] 11024 ) HP OUTLINES ROADMAP FOR ITS COMPUTING SYSTEMS.................2.6K Reuters News Service has reported that senior executives of Hewlett- Packard Co said customers can expect up to 15 times greater performance over the next five years, as new systems based on 64-bit technology are rolled out. [ ] 11025 ) AUSPEX NETSERVERS, LANDMARK SERVICES TO BE USED BY CONOCO.......4K The Gulf Region Division of Conoco Inc., a subsidiary of DuPont has selected Auspex servers to store and manage its seismic interpretation and exploration data. [ ] 11026 ) FRANKLIN HEALTH, HCIA TO CREATE CATASTROPHIC CASE MNGMT IS....4.3K Franklin Health and HCIA will develop an information system to measure the impact of intensive, team-supported, patient-centered decision- making on the nearly $300 billion spent annually on high cost, medically complex cases. [ ] 11027 ) SILICON GRAPHICS TO POWER ANIMATED FEATURE FILMS..............3.9K DreamWorks SKG and Pacific Data Images (PDI) have purchased Silicon Graphics hardware and software to serve as the principal platform for the production of two upcoming animated feature films. QUOTE OF THE WEEK ============================================================ [ ] 11020) "(D)ata must be captured and processed in real time, which is quite a challenge since we are talking of sizes of at least half a Gigabyte per problem instance and several problem instances per second." -- Nikos Pitsianis, researcher in adaptive optics, U of Houston ___________________________INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHTS____________________________ [ ] 70159) SC97: High Performance Networking and Computing - Submission Deadline for Technical Paper Extended Abstracts May 16,1997 [ ] 70160) FANCY SINGAPORE? Process Simulation or Electromagnetics Experience, or a whiz with C-MOLD or Moldflow? Mined Financial Data? Get details now! [ ] 70161) HOW TO REACH HARD-T0-REACH HPC PROFESSIONALS You can get your message to 30,000 of them each week in HPCwire. [ ] 70162) FREE Trial Subscription to WEBster, The Cyberspace Surfer -- Your Guide to What's News on the Web [ ] 70163) Registration Now for HPCN Europe 1997 Retrieve NOW for full details! ____________________________________________________________________________ NEWS BRIEFS ================================================================== [ ] 11028) UCAR Buys HP Exemplar System for Weather Prediction..............2K [ ] 11029) NPACI to Host Parallel Computing Institute.....................0.9K [ ] 11030) NSF to Adopt New Merit Review Criteria.........................3.2K [ ] 11031) IBM Beta Tests its Universal Server, Readies DB2 OLAP..........2.3K [ ] 11032) Unisys to Provide Real-Time Weather Information to NWS.........2.4K [ ] 11033) PSC Adds 256 Processors to its 256-Node T3E......................2K [ ] 11034) European Consortium Receives UK Bioinformatics Grant...........2.9K [ ] 11035) Compaq Workstation Selected as Macromedia Ref Platform.........1.7K [ ] 11036) ETC Data Services Upgrades to SCO OpenServer 5.................1.7K [ ] 11037) Fibernet Installs Token Ring Switching for GAN Life............2.3K [ ] 11038) GLBS Licenses Installation Technology to Microsoft.............1.5K [ ] 11039) Oracle 7.3, Sun Ultra Enterprise 6000 Post TPC-C Benchmark.....1.8K [ ] 11040) Silicon Graphics Posts Commercial Data Sorting Benchmark.......1.7K [ ] 11041) Singapore Hospital Chooses FORE ATM Implementation.............2.5K [ ] 11042) Sun Ultra Enterprise 10000 Posts SAP 1410 SD Benchmark.........2.2K [ ] 11043) Sybase SQL Server Pro for NT Posts TPC-C Benchmark.............1.6K SHORT TAKES [ ] 11044) Product Watch: SCO Delivers Clustering for Intel Servers......28.8K Sybase Unveils Adaptive Component Architecture. Cadence Intros High-Performance NC-Verilog. [ ] 11045) Financial Update: Auditors Remove Going Concern Opinion........7.9K from Ancor. Neuronetics Drops Bid for NASDAQ Listing. Manugistics Reports Record Fourth Qtr. [ ] 11046) Corporate Liaisons: Optika Signs OEM Agreement................13.2K FORE teams with Bell Atlantic. Acxiom to Leverage Oracle Technology. [ ] 11047) People and Positions: Peter Schein Now Packeteer Prod Mktg.....3.5K Director. Persistence Names Wald Regional Mngr for NE. Ceridian Appoints Scott Pres, Comp Devices. 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