H P C w i r e The Text-on-Demand E-zine for High Performance Computing *** Apr. 25, 1997: Vol. 6, No. 16 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 303 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 -------------------- * -------------------- [ ] 943) NORTHROP GRUMMAN'S DATA SYSTEMS AND SERVICES DIVISION (DSSD) Delivers Large Scale Systems Integration, Commercial Information Technology Solutions and Professional and Technical Services to Federal, State, and Local Governments and International Organizations. ______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _______________________________ | | | [ ] 11089) FEATURES: NORRIS SMITH VIEWS HIGH-BANDWIDTH DEVILTRY | | [ ] 11092) SCIENCE NEWS: SUN DONATES HPC EQUIPMENT TO UCSD FOR NPACI | | [ ] 11097) COMMERCIAL NEWS: NT SECURITY FLAW REVEALED | | [ ] 11102) NEWS BRIEFS: SAM ADAMS CLARIFIES NEC POSITION ON TRADE CASE | |____________________________________________________________________________| [ ] 940) EUDORA PRO 3.0 IS HERE For Macintosh and Windows. Join The More Than 18 Million People Who Now Use The World's Most Widely Used Internet Email. FEATURES ===================================================================== [ ] 11089 ) THE DEVIL IS IN THE VOICEMAIL.................................7.2K Harvested from the Internet by Norris Parker Smith Due, apparently, to a miscue on the Internet, the following document arrived in my email. Its source is unknown and there is no way to establish its authenticity. Nevertheless, long and unhappy experience with voicemail suggests that this explanation is as plausible as any. [ ] 11090 ) EARTHQUAKE MODELING AT LLNL: AN INTERVIEW WITH SHAWN LARSEN..10.8K by Alan Beck, editor in chief HPCwire interviewed the principal researcher of a project by Lawrence Livermore National Lab and the U of Califoria at Berkeley to model localized severity of ground motion during a major earthquake. [ ] 11091 ) GERMAN SB-PRAM PROJECT FOCUSES ON UMA APPROACH...............14.2K by Alan Beck, editor in chief A MIMD parallel computer with shared address space and uniform memory access time (CRCW-PRAM-Model), the SB-PRAM project is attempting to implement a 64 physical (2048 virtual) processor machine with 2 GByte of global memory and 256 hard disks. SCIENCE & ENGINEERING NEWS [ ] 11092 ) SUN DONATES HPC EQUIPMENT TO UCSD FOR NPACI...................6.4K A donation by Sun Microsystems of HPC hardware and software to the U of California at San Diego (UCSD) for the National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NPACI) has strengthened the strategic relationship among these organizations. [ ] 11093 ) U OF TENNESSEE CREATES EVALUATION/BENCHMARKING WEBSITE........2.1K The University of Tennessee has organized a World Wide Web site devoted to performance evaluation and benchmarking, called BenchWeb. The site is part of the National HPCC Software Exchange (NHSE). [ ] 11094 ) COATING TECHNIQUE MAY OFFER ADVANTAGES FOR CHIP FABRICATION...5.4K University of Buffalo researchers are using a new technique that has applications in fabricating a wide range of thin films for use in electronic and opto-electronic materials. [ ] 11095 ) NCSA HPC RESOURCES SUPPORT RF COMET IMAGING.....................7K A system from the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) for rapidly processing radio frequency (RF) images has provided critical support for successful observations of Comet Hale-Bopp. [ ] 11096 ) US AND JAPAN BEGIN TESTS OF HIGH PERFORMANCE NETWORKING.......5.1K Experiments on data and high-definition video transmission now underway among American and Japanese teams could lead to the creation of new, high-performance global telecommunications networks. COMMERCIAL NEWS [ ] 11097 ) SECURITY VULNERABILITY FOUND IN NT OPERATING SYSTEM.............3K Internet Security Systems Inc (ISS) has issued a press release warning of a new potentially damaging security hole recently found in Windows NT. [ ] 11098 ) INTEL READIES 300-MHZ PENTIUM II FOR ROLL-OUT.................2.5K Pentium II microprocessors with internal clock speeds of 233 MHz, 266 MHz and 300MHz are slated for roll-out on May 7. [ ] 11099 ) COMMITTEE TO DEVELOP SPECS FOR OBJECT-BASED MANAGEMENT........4.1K A multi-vendor task force is slated to deliver a unified data model that provides for the integration of management information enterprise- wide and can be implemented in multiple object-based execution models. [ ] 11100 ) MOSAID TO DESIGN NEXT GENERATION SLDRAM.......................3.8K MOSAID Technologies Incorporated is preparing to design the next generation of Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory on behalf of the SLDRAM Consortium. [ ] 11101 ) SUBURBAN CABLE SELECTS FUJITSU FOR SONET INFRASTRUCTURE.......3.3K Suburban Cable, a Philadelphia-based cable operating company, selected Fujitsu to design and build its synchronous optical network (Sonet) infrastructure to connect all its facilities for voice and data applications. QUOTE OF THE WEEK ============================================================ [ ] 11090) "(T)his type of computer power will allow for massive inversions of seismic data to determine geologic structure." -- Shawn Larsen, geophysicist and computer scientist, LLNL ___________________________INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHTS____________________________ [ ] 70169) SC97: High Performance Networking and Computing - Submission Deadline for Technical Paper Extended Abstracts May 16,1997 [ ] 70170) International event for science and industry in Vienna to focus on the advantages of High-Performance Computing and Networking __________________________________________________________________________ NEWS BRIEFS ================================================================== [ ] 11102) Sam Adams Clarifies NEC Position Re Court of Intl Trade........1.2K [ ] 11103) Informix to Reorganize Sales & Mktng, Close Some Facilities....1.9K [ ] 11104) SPEC Posts Rewards for CPU98 Applications........................3K [ ] 11105) FBI Investigating Attack on AGIS Internet Backbone.............1.3K [ ] 11106) UK's Pickfords Moves to Compaq ProLiant 800....................1.7K [ ] 11107) Oracle Divisions Adopt Compuware C/S Testing Tools.............1.5K [ ] 11108) Weather Research Developed with PSC Resources is Honored.......2.7K [ ] 11109) ECS Installs Network for Auto Components Manufacturer..........2.3K [ ] 11110) Ernst & Young Licenses SQL Anywhere Professional...............1.8K [ ] 11111) EDS to Perform ITSEC Evaluations of Solaris 2.5.1..............1.1K [ ] 11112) SMARTNAP Offers Central US High-Bandwidth Internet Access......2.4K [ ] 11113) NSF to Focus on Scientific Uses for Internet...................1.5K [ ] 11114) MindSpring Picks Micromuse System for Network Op Center..........2K [ ] 11115) Snapple Distributor Upgrades to SCO............................1.8K [ ] 11116) Tire Retailers Choose SCO for Volume Stock Mngmt via WWW.......1.9K [ ] 11117) TSI TelSys Notes Second Order by NEC Supporting ADEOS-II.......1.8K [ ] 11118) Union Camp Enlists SMS for Integration of C/S and Mainframe....1.9K SHORT TAKES [ ] 11119 ) Product Watch: IBM, Tivoli Intro ECC for DB2.................29.7K Toshiba Announces 64-Mb Memory Chip. Essential Rolls Out Gigabit Ethernet NIC. [ ] 11120 ) Financial Update: SGI Notes Decline in Net Income..............26K Microsoft Reports Increased Profits. Sybase Posts Profitable 1st Qtr. [ ] 11121 ) Corporate Liaisons: Thinking Machines Announces Alliances....15.3K Lucent Licenses ARM Technology. IBM Partners with Computer Network Tech. [ ] 11122 ) People and Positions: Platform Names Dave Black Pres & CEO....7.3K LANL's Hassan Dayem Now Merck IS VP. Network Peripherals Appoints 3 VPs. 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