H P C w i r e The Text-on-Demand E-zine for High Performance Computing *** June 6, 1997: Vol. 6, No. 22 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 229 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 -------------------- * -------------------- [ ] 70220) MAXSTRAT Storage Servers Work With All Leading Compute Platforms Including SGI/Cray, Sun, Fujitsu, HP, NEC, Digital, Hitachi and IBM ______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _______________________________ | | | [ ] 11322) FEATURES: FEEDBACK FROM GREG WOOD OF INTERNET2 | | [ ] 11324) SCIENCE NEWS: NEW MODEL PERMITS INTEGRATION OF ENGINEERING SW | | [ ] 11330) COMMERCIAL NEWS: INTEL LOOKS TO NEW PRODUCTS FOR 1997 REVENUE | | [ ] 11334) NEWS BRIEFS: BILL GATES COMMENTS ON NT 5.0 | |____________________________________________________________________________| FEATURES ===================================================================== [ ] 11322 ) HITS & HISSES: INTERNET2 & NGI ARE COMPLEMENTARY..............2.4K Compiled by Norris Parker Smith, editor at large Greg Wood of the Internet2 project points out that the Internet2 project and the proposed Next-Generation Internet are not competing for federal funds, but are coordinating closely. [ ] 11323 ) HP'S 256-CPU SYSTEM AT CALTECH/JPL TO MERCEDIZE IN FUTURE.....4.8K Commentary by Norris Parker Smith, editor at large HP/Convex has won a hard-fought competition to provide a 256-CPU, 184 GFLOPS Exemplar for a multi-year collaboration with CalTech and JPL. Steve Wallach says plans include a Merced-equipped 256 CPU Exemplar and, around 2000/2001, a Merced-powered TFLOPS system. SCIENCE & ENGINEERING NEWS [ ] 11324 ) UNIFIED DATA META MODEL TO INTEGRATE MANUFACTURING SW SYSTEMS.3.9K A new computer model designed by engineers at Ohio University could improve communication among computer software systems used in the manufacturing industry. [ ] 11325 ) IMEC RECEIVES SBIR AWARDS FOR UNIFIED MEMORY ARCHITECTURE.....3.6K IMEC, a Berkeley, California startup in the memory chip field, has received two major SBIR awards from Federal agencies for work in all- metal memory and storage technology. [ ] 11326 ) BIONUMERIK CEO WINS SGI/CRAY RESEARCH LEADERSHIP AWARD..........4K Fred Hausheer, M.D., founder, chairman and chief executive officer of BioNumerik Pharmaceuticals, Inc, Houston, has been named winner of the Silicon Graphics/Cray Research Information Technology Leadership Award for Breakthrough Science. [ ] 11327 ) CONGRESS SKEPTICAL OF NEXT GENERATION INTERNET................3.5K Testimony to be given at a Senate hearing will address Congressional concerns about the focus of and funding for President Clinton's Next Generation Internet project. [ ] 11328 ) ADVANCED REGIONAL PREDICTION SYSTEM WINS DISCOVER AWARD.......3.1K A storm forecasting system developed by University of Oklahoma researchers using resources at Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center won the 1997 Discover Magazine Award for Technological Innovation in Computer Software. [ ] 11329 ) ALCATEL RETHINKS PUBLIC NETWORK MODEL.........................2.6K By combining ATM and SONET, Alcatel's MAXXIS cross connect system promises to implement more efficient management of broadband payloads. COMMERCIAL NEWS [ ] 11330 ) INTEL EXPECTS 1997 REVENUE TO COME FROM NEW PRODUCTS..........2.5K Intel Corp's president Craig Barrett told an analysts' meeting that the chipmaker anticipates 90 to 95 percent of its 1997 revenues will come from new products like the Pentium II. [ ] 11331 ) OPEN INET CONGRESS FORMED TO HALT DOMAIN REG PLANS............5.4K by Dianna Husum, editor/publisher Web-Vantage A coalition of Internet business leaders has accused the recently dissolved International Ad Hoc Committee and its current incarnations of attempting to gain control of the Internet. [ ] 11332 ) ORACLE, INTERGRAPH WEB-ENABLE IMAGE ANALYSIS FOR BUSINESS.....3.5K Oracle and Intergraph have announced an initiative to demonstrate how business applications can perform sophisticated spatial analysis on maps and associated public domain records, such as US Census data. [ ] 11333 ) META GROUP STUDY SAYS MOST IT ORGS LACK VITAL MNGMT DATA......4.6K META Group announced results of the 1996 Worldwide Benchmark Study which show that most IT organizations do not possess the data required for effective management of their application system assets. QUOTE OF THE WEEK ============================================================ [ ] 11323 ) "We will deliver TFLOP-level performance with the Merced." -- Steve Wallach, CTO of Hewlett-Packard's Convex Division ___________________________INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHTS_________________________ [ ] 70221) EUDORA PRO 3.0 Is Here For Macintosh And Windows. Join 18 Million Using The Most Widely Used Internet Email. [ ] 70222) THE PORTLAND GROUP (PGI) rolls out a new line of parallelizing/ optimizing compilers for Pentium (R) Pro processor-based workstations and servers. [ ] 70223) INTEL Has New High Performance Career Opportunities Available In Oregon And The Bay Area [ ] 70224) RAYTHEON E-SYSTEMS GARLAND(Dallas) seeks OO Mentors & SW Engineers, C++ Software Engineers, ORACLE DBA/Programmers. [ ] 70225) MAXSTRAT Announces Reseller Agreement With NEC/HNSX Supercomputers [ ] 70226) SC97: High Performance Networking and Computing State of the Field Talks to Feature John L. Hennessy, Ken Kennedy, David Farber, and Pat Hanrahan _______________________________________________________________________ NEWS BRIEFS ================================================================== [ ] 11334) Bill Gates Speaks About 1998 Release of NT 5.0.................2.6K [ ] 11335) IDC Praises NCR's Windows NT Strategy..........................1.9K [ ] 11336) CERT Hot Line and Bulletin Services Face Funding Cuts..........2.3K [ ] 11337) Fore Systems to Provide ATM Network to Abu Dhabi Oil Co........2.4K [ ] 11338) European Internet Service Provider Selects Auspex..............1.9K [ ] 11339) Enterprise Oil Selects Baydel RAID Storage Systems...............2K [ ] 11340) Intelect Signs Far-East Distribution Deal with Bocom...........2.3K [ ] 11341) Sun and Buzzeo Team on Higher Education Software.................2K [ ] 11342) Cyrix Forsees Big Gains in Asia..................................2K [ ] 11343) Study Says Many FDDI Users Will Migrate to High-Speed LAN......1.7K [ ] 11344) Gensym Corp Improves Inventory Mgmt at Glaxo Wellcome..........1.8K [ ] 11345) Volkswagen Brussels/Mexico Select Unikix for Migration.........1.9K [ ] 11346) Kidde-Graviner Chooses NT for Manufacturing Planning...........1.7K [ ] 11347) MT&T Brings ATM Network to Nova Scotia.........................1.6K [ ] 11348) Northwestern U Implements Ameritech Sonet Solution.............2.1K [ ] 11349) Sequent Aims to Triple Growth by Next Year.....................1.4K [ ] 11350) Sybase Posts TPC-C Benchmark on Compaq ProLiant 6000 Server....1.9K [ ] 11351) Tandem & Microstrategy Simulate 40,000 Users for DS Test.........2K [ ] 11352) TSI TelSys Announces Third RCT Order by NEC Japan..............2.5K SHORT TAKES [ ] 11353 ) Product Watch: AlternaTek Unveils Financial Supercomputer....46.5K New Ultra 2 Workstations from Sun. MathWorks Rolls Out Modeling/Simulation SW. [ ] 11354 ) Financial Update: Intel Warns of Weak Q2.....................13.2K Seagate Sees Disappointing Q4. ITC Upholds SanDisk Patents. [ ] 11355 ) Corporate Liaisons: Sybase Europe Launches Partner.net.......17.9K LSI, Micron Ink Embedded DRAM Alliance. IPL Closes ANDATACO Merger. [ ] 11356 ) People and Positions: Mentor Graphics Augments DFT Staff......3.8K Microstrategy Names Rojas Biz Dvpt Mngr. Allied Telsyn Appoints Palmer Pres, COO. JOB BANK ===================================================================== [ ] 667) Employment Opportunities From: Nichols Research, Mercury Computer Systems, Progress Computer Company (UK), University of Maryland, IBM Corp...................................5K [ ] 604) Job Bank Rates and Regulations..................................1.22K CONFERENCES ================================================================== [ ] 2888 ) Calendar of Upcoming HPC Events (Updated 06.05.97)............14.3K 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. Center. [ ] 930) HNSX Supercomputers | | [ ] 909) Fujitsu [ ] 902) IBM Corp. | | [ ] 937) Digital Equipment [ ] 932) Portland Group | | [ ] 938) Visual Numerics [ ] 940) Eudora | | [ ] 941) HAL Computers [ ] 942) Sun Microsystems | | [ ] 921) Silicon Graphics/Cray Research [ ] 943) Northrop Grumman | | [ ] 944) Raytheon E-Systems | |__________________________________________________________________________| -------------------- * -------------------- This year, HPCwire proudly celebrates its fifth consecutive year of service to the scientific, academic, and industrial communities: 1992-1997. To date HPCwire has delivered 1,733,919 articles and product announcements to HPC professionals worldwide. *** LAST ISSUE'S MOST REQUESTED ITEMS *** [ ] 11292) LOVE FOR MERCED-BASED NT DOES NOT MEAN HP WILL JILT UNIX......6.6K [ ] 11296) INTEL SUES DEC, ALLEGES MISAPPROPRIATION OF TRADE SECRETS.....2.5K [ ] 11291) TOWARD PETABYTE ON-LINE STORAGE: AN INTERVIEW WITH ROB AKSCYN..13K [ ] 11290) CHINA: A FEW PROTOTYPE HPC SYSTEMS, PLUS LOTS OF PC'S.........8.8K [ ] 11357) TOP 20 MOST REQUESTED ARTICLES FROM LAST WEEK'S HPCwire.......1.8K ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~