H P C w i r e The Text-on-Demand E-zine for High Performance Computing *** June 13, 1997: Vol. 6, No. 23 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 240 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 -------------------- * -------------------- [ ] 70230) SC97: High Performance Networking and Computing State of the Field Talks to Feature John L. Hennessy, Ken Kennedy, David Farber, and Pat Hanrahan ______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _______________________________ | | | [ ] 11358) FEATURES: IBM'S NEW S/390 UTILIZES CMOS TECHNOLOGY | | [ ] 11362) SCIENCE NEWS: US GOV'T INVESTIGATES HPC SALES TO CHINA | | [ ] 11369) COMMERCIAL NEWS: ITAA URGES EXTENSION OF R&D TAX CREDIT | | [ ] 11371) NEWS BRIEFS: NCSA ORDERS SECOND 128-PROCESSOR ORIGIN2000 | |____________________________________________________________________________| [ ] 70231) Qualcomm Announces Worldwide Availability Of Eudora Worldmail Server: Receives "Messaging Product Excellence Award" At EMA '97 FEATURES ===================================================================== [ ] 11358 ) IBM'S NEW S/390 CMOS CHIP BEATS BIPOLAR -- AT LAST............7.6K News analysis by Norris Parker Smith, editor at large The fourth generation of IBM's S/390 CMOS faux mainframes includes a microprocessor that noses out the performance of IBM's most muscular bipolar machine. Is this the end of the road for Blue dinosaurs? IBM says yes, but adds, in effect: "well, not quite yet, not entirely." [ ] 11359 ) CALTECH'S NEW EXEMPLAR: AN INTERVIEW WITH PAUL MESSINA.......10.3K by Alan Beck, editor in chief To learn more about how Caltech's new 256-CPU HP Exemplar will be used, HPCwire interviewed Paul Messina, director of its Center for Advanced Computing Research and assistant VP for Scientific Computing. [ ] 11360 ) HITS & HISSES: DEEP BLUE REVEALS ITS TRUE PROCESSOR COUNT.....1.8K Compiled by Norris Parker Smith, editor at large A transmission from Deep Blue reveals the true facts about the number of processors mobilized to defeat chess champion Gary Kasparov. It turns out that several of the reported numbers are correct. [ ] 11361 ) GERMAN SEMINARS HIGHLIGHT HP'S TECHNICAL MARKET ROLE..........5.2K Special to HPCwire by Uwe Harms Hewlett-Packard's role in the technical market and its relationship to Unix and Windows NT were recently highlighted in a series of seminars on Mechanical Design Automation held in Duesseldorf, Stuttgart and Zurich. SCIENCE & ENGINEERING NEWS [ ] 11362 ) US GOV'T INVESTIGATES POSSIBLE HPC SALES TO CHINA'S MILITARY..7.4K US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has confirmed that a government inquiry is focusing on whether some high-end machines sold to private Chinese companies are being used for nuclear weapons testing. [ ] 11363 ) SGI/CRAY UNVEILS HPC, VIZ SOLUTIONS FOR CHEM INDUSTRY.........6.5K Silicon Graphics and its supercomputing subsidiary Cray Research have unveiled high-performance computer and graphics solutions designed to help companies in the chemical process industries (CPI) gain new insight into business issues. [ ] 11364 ) GALLIUM NITRIDE BLUE LASER MAY ENHANCE OPTICAL STORAGE........3.4K Cree research has demonstrated a pulsed, room-temperature blue laser that, if shown to be commercially viable, could significantly raise the capacity of high-end optical mass storage systems. [ ] 11365 ) NCSA'S ORIGIN2000 SOLVES LARGE AIRCRAFT SCATTERER PROBLEMS....3.9K Using the CRAY Origin2000 supercomputer at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), a group of University of Illinois scientists set a record in solving aircraft scatterer problems. [ ] 11366 ) CADENCE NOTES STRATEGY TO TACKLE SYSTEM CHIP VERIFICATION.....7.5K Cadence Design Systems has announced a unifying verification strategy and product roadmap that brings together system-level and chip-level technologies to address the burgeoning complexity of functional verification as designers move toward systems on a chip. [ ] 11367 ) CALTECH MARKS FORMAL INSTALLATION OF HP EXEMPLAR..............4.8K At a dedication ceremony June 9, the California Institute of Technology showcased the most powerful technical computing system developed by the Hewlett-Packard Company, a 256-CPU Exemplar technical server. COMMERCIAL NEWS [ ] 11368 ) MOTOROLA TELCO USES NETRON TECHNOLOGY FOR BILLING SYSTEM......4.6K Motorola Telco has chosen Netron's re-architecting approach and framework technology to build a more flexible and modular client/server architecture for its European airtime billing system. [ ] 11369 ) ITAA URGES CONGRESS TO EXTEND RESEARCH & DVPT TAX CREDIT......2.9K The Information Technology Association of America (ITAA) has joined 1,076 U.S. companies and 22 industry associations in urging Congress to act swiftly to extend the Research and Development (R&D) Tax Credit. [ ] 11370 ) OVUM EVALUATES KEY LAN SWITCHING SOLUTIONS....................6.7K Ovum, an independent information technology and telecommunications analyst group, has released results of a study that looks at the benefits of LAN and ATM switching and provides evidence of performance in technical tests for LAN applications. QUOTE OF THE WEEK ============================================================ [ ] 11359) "We will have to decide exactly how we want to define single system image for this system." -- Paul Messina, director of Caltech's Center for Advanced Computing Research, on its new Hewlett-Packard Exemplar ___________________________INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHTS_________________________ [ ] 70232) MAXSTRAT Storage Servers Work WitH All Leading Compute Platforms Including SGI/Cray, Sun, Fujitsu, HP, NEC, Digital, Hitachi and IBM [ ] 70233) THE PORTLAND GROUP (PGI) rolls out a new line of parallelizing/ optimizing compilers for Pentium (R) Pro processor-based workstations and servers. [ ] 70234) INTEL Has Immediate and Future High Performance Career Opportunities Available In Oregon And The Bay Area [ ] 70235) RAYTHEON E-SYSTEMS GARLAND (Dallas) seeks OO Mentors & SW Engineers, C++ Software Engineers, ORACLE DBA/Programmers. ______________________________________________________________________ NEWS BRIEFS ================================================================== [ ] 11371) NCSA Orders Second 128-Processor Origin2000....................3.5K [ ] 11372) Oracle8 Beta Testing for DS on NASDAQ Very Large Data Bases....2.3K [ ] 11373) Oracle Releases Financial Mngmt SW for US Federal Gov't........2.6K [ ] 11374) Nortel Launches First 10 Gbit/s Transmission System In Asia....1.7K [ ] 11375) Granada Media To Use Siemens Pyramid RM600E-60 Server..........2.5K [ ] 11376) Digital 4100 AlphaServers Post TPC-C Benchmark.................1.9K [ ] 11377) Sun's SPARC Solaris Platform Posts Java Benchmarks.............1.9K [ ] 11378) Georgia Power & Light To Use USDATA's FactoryLink..............1.8K [ ] 11379) Air Pollution Study Research Done on SGI/Cray Systems..........2.1K [ ] 11380) Demand for PowerMart Fuels Informatica's European Expansion......2K [ ] 11381) Network Appliance & FORE Enable Networked Data Access..........2.2K [ ] 11382) LCI Selects Alcatel Products for Use in SONET Project............2K [ ] 11383) Adtranz Orders Six Compaq 5000 Workstations......................2K [ ] 11384) Borden & Elliot Selects Newbridge Network's VIVID..............2.1K [ ] 11385) ACE COMM Network Product to be Installed in China..............2.4K [ ] 11386) Cap Gemini Installs Encore Infinity SP40 TASC..................2.2K [ ] 11387) AMD Releases the AMD-K6 MMX Processor in India.................2.3K SHORT TAKES [ ] 11388) Product Watch: Fujitsu Ships Enhanced AP3000 Parallel Server..49.4K Compaq Rolls Out NT-Based Workstations. SGI Launches Gigabit Fibre Channel Storage. [ ] 11389) Financial Update: NUMA-Q Server Shipments Double...............6.4K Cadence Forms 5 New Biz Units. Newbridge Reports Q4 Results. [ ] 11390) Corporate Liaisons: SGI, Tektronix Sign Reseller Pact.........17.6K Zitel to Acquire Datametrics Assets. Compaq Begins Multiprocessor Initiative. [ ] 11391) People and Positions: Unisys Names Sims VP & GM-NA.............7.9K Harding to Lead Cadence Biz Units. Interphase Appoints Voss to Board. JOB BANK ==================================================================== [ ] 667) Employment Opportunities From: ABB Power Plant Laboratories, 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 06.12.97)...............15K 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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