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For assistance, send a detailed message to help@hpcwire.com \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\/////////////////////////////////////// / H P C w i r e The Text-on-Demand E-zine for High Performance Computing *** August 29, 1997: Vol. 6, No. 34 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 296 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 -------------------- * -------------------- [ ] 70390) MAXSTRAT Storage Systems Selected For Oracle Porting Automation Lab ______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _______________________________ | | | [ ] 11813) FEATURES: BUZBEE SPEAKS ON CRAY/NEC DUMPING CONTROVERSY | | [ ] 11818) SCIENCE NEWS: TERA BOOTS, RUNS OPERATING SYSTEM ON MTA | | [ ] 11823) COMMERCIAL NEWS: INTEL & SAP FORM CENTER OF EXPERTISE | | [ ] 11826) NEWS BRIEFS: NEC RESPONDS TO DUMPING FINDING, PLANS APPEAL | |___________________________________________________________________________ _| [ ] 70391) Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing The Fairmont Hotel, San Jose, California September 19-21:1997 FEATURES ===================================================================== [ ] 11813 ) BILL BUZBEE COMMENTS ON CRAY/NEC DUMPING CONTROVERSY.........15.4K Bill Buzbee, the director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research's (NCAR) Scientific Computing Division commented on the Cray/NEC dumping controversy at an International Trade Commission (ITC) hearing in Washington, D.C. on Aug. 27. [ ] 11814 ) CRAY SAYS JAPANESE VENDORS SEEK TO DRIVE US FIRMS FROM MKT....4.6K Representatives of Cray Research said before the U.S. International Trade Commission that by establishing unsustainably low prices, Japanese vendors of vector supercomputers are attempting to drive U.S. competition from the market. [ ] 11815 ) NEW BOOK FROM DONGARRA CREW APPLIES LAPACK TO MPP.............3.7K Review by Norris Parker Smith, editor at large "ScaLAPACK User's Guide," by 13 authors, including Jack Dongarra, the Wizard of BLAS, provides a practical guide to the application of LAPACK fundamentals to distributed-memory message-passing systems and clusters of workstations. [ ] 11816 ) A MULTICOMPUTER UNIX OS: AMNON BARAK DISCUSSES MOSIX...........10K by Alan Beck, vice president of publications, TGC The core of MOSIX (Multicomputer Operating System for UNIX) technology is the capability of multiple (shared-nothing) computers to work cooperatively as if part of a single computer. In this exclusive interview, MOSIX's principal developer details its basis, strengths and limitations. [ ] 11817 ) CRAY COMPILATION SHOWS DIVERSITY OF HPC IN CAR BUSINESS.........7K Review by Norris Parker Smith, editor at large Almost 50 papers in the proceedings of an international conference organized by Cray Research discuss the numerous fields in which HPC is now applied in the auto industry, in addition to crash simulation and CFD. SCIENCE & ENGINEERING NEWS [ ] 11818 ) TERA ANNOUNCES BOOTING, RUNNING OPERATING SYSTEM................7K Tera's Multithreaded Architecture (MTA) system is rumored to be the next wave in supercomputing technology due to its performance, broad applicability and ease of programming in a single system. The initial computer will be shipped to the San Diego Supercomputer Center this year. [ ] 11819 ) CADENCE, MIT INTRODUCE MULTI-ALU (MAP) PROCESSOR..............4.8K Researchers at MIT have described a novel computer architecture and microprocessor implementation that is designed to exploit advances in semiconductor fabrication technology to support the integration of multiple function units on a single chip. [ ] 11820 ) SPACE CAPSULE COMPUTING CONCEPT COULD UNLOCK PETAFLOPS........4.9K Researchers at the University of Delaware are working to complete the architectural blueprint for the world's first petaflops computer. The machine may feature superconducting microprocessors, 3D holographic data storage, advanced semiconductor memory and optical interconnections. [ ] 11821 ) MCI BEGINS DEVELOPMENT OF ALL-OPTICAL TELECOMM NETWORK........3.9K MCI has moved toward the development of an all-optical telecommunications network, with the field trial of an optical cross- connect system. Employing an all-optical network would increase efficiency and provide the high-bandwidth services that customers will be demanding in the future. COMMERCIAL NEWS [ ] 11822 ) MICROSOFT & NEC TEAM TO EXPAND WINDOWS NT MARKET..............2.6K Microsoft Corporation and NEC Corporation have announced an alliance targeted at making the Windows NT operating system a more viable option for running mission critical computer systems. [ ] 11823 ) INTEL & SAP ANNOUNCE FORMATION OF CENTER OF EXPERTISE.........2.7K In an effort to increase support for the growing joint customer base for the SAP R/3 solution on the Intel Architecture, SAP AG and Intel Corporation announced formation of the SAP Intel Center of Expertise. [ ] 11824 ) TANDEM/INDIGO TEAM TARGETS INDIA'S FINANCIAL MARKET.............4K The joint venture will make Indigo a strategic marketing and support reseller for Tandem in India's growing banking and financial services industries. For Tandem, the joint venture will deliver better marketing and support to the financial computing markets in the Asia-pacific region. [ ] 11825 ) INFOGAIN, LUCENT SET UP SW DEVELOPMENT CENTERS IN INDIA.......2.3K Adding to the ever increasing number of global infotech companies setting up software development centers in India were the US-based software services provider Infogain Corp. and Lucent Technologies. QUOTE OF THE WEEK ============================================================ [ ] 11813 ) "If an antidumping order is issued, then UCAR believes that the parallel, nonvector marketplace is our best hope for obtaining comparable amounts of computing per dollar." -- Bill Buzbee, director, NCAR Scientific Computing Division __________________________INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHTS_________________________ [ ] 70392) Increase Your Productivity Connect a MAXSTRAT Gen5 to Your SGI/Cray, NEC, Fujitsu, or Sun High Performance Computer [ ] 70393) Final Program for SECOND IEEE METADATA CONFERENCE Silver Spring, Maryland on September 16-17 [ ] 70394) SC97: High Performance Networking and Computing Has Highest Paper Submission Rate in Conference Series History [ ] 70395) MAXSTRAT Storage With HIPPI, Fibre Channel, and UltraSCSI Connectivity, Speeds Over 250 MBytes/sec. and a TB of Capacity [ ] 70396) Qualcomm Announces Worldwide Availability Of Eudora Worldmail Server NEWS BRIEFS ================================================================== [ ] 11826 ) NEC Responds to Dumping Ruling, Plans Appeal..................1.5K [ ] 11827 ) Japan Seeks Early Supercomputer Talks with U.S................2.2K [ ] 11828 ) Sequent NUMA-Q 2000 Servers Incorporate New Pentium Pro.......1.9K [ ] 11829 ) McDonnell Douglas to Use Encore Systems for Shuttle...........1.9K [ ] 11830 ) Genetix Develops Software Version of a Turing Machine.........1.9K [ ] 11831 ) South Korean Firms Accelerate 64-MB DRAM Chip Production......1.9K [ ] 11832 ) Oracle8 & Data General Team for Record Benchmark..............1.8K [ ] 11833 ) Sun Announces SD Module Benchmark Results for SAP R/3.........2.1K [ ] 11834 ) Gigabit Ethernet Providers Team on Interop....................2.5K [ ] 11835 ) CRPC Provides New Online Newsletter...........................1.9K [ ] 11836 ) Tele Danmark Plans Nationwide All-SDH Trunk Network...........2.4K [ ] 11837 ) France Telecom/GDC Explore IP Switching vs ATM................1.8K [ ] 11838 ) Dominican Republic ISP Chooses Bay Network's 5000 MSX.........2.1K [ ] 11839 ) Fujitsu Comments on US Commerce Department Finding............0.9K [ ] 11840 ) Oracle to Deploy Maxstrat Storage Server......................1.8K [ ] 11841 ) Mannesmann Mobilfunk Picks NCR for TB Data Warehouse..........1.6K [ ] 11842 ) NCR's WorldMark 4300 Demos NT Scalability Running R/3.........1.7K [ ] 11843 ) Southern New England Telephone Buys NCR Data Warehouse..........2K [ ] 11844 ) Sequent's NUMA-Q 2000 Posts SAP R/3 Benchmark.................2.1K [ ] 11845 ) Shipments of Super-Parallel Computers to Rise 23%.............1.3K [ ] 11846 ) USAF, Lockheed Martin Select Unify's Vision/Web Product.......2.1K [ ] 11847 ) Winbond Hires DEC for Systems Integration Services............1.9K SHORT TAKES [ ] 11848 ) Product Watch: Informatica Unveils EDM Architecture..........48.7K Intel Intros Graphics Enriched Chipset. IBM, Netscape, Sun Announce Java Ctr. [ ] 11849 ) Financial Update: Novell Reports Decline in Q3 Revenues.......4.8K Zycad Completes Debenture Conversion. Artecon Acquires Falcon Systems. [ ] 11850 ) Corporate Liaisons: Microsoft & NEC Form Tech Alliance.......14.7K Fujitsu Licenses DSP Technology. Interlink, Cisco Ink Reseller Agrmt. [ ] 11851 ) People and Positions: Pinnacle Micro Names New Chairman, CEO..3.7K Augment Sys Appoints Euro GM. Nichols Research Names New VP. 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