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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 *** September 5, 1997: Vol. 6, No. 35 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 265 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 -------------------- * -------------------- [ ] 70397) Sony Announces Data Management Seminar New Support Systems For Streamlined E&P Decision Making Will Be Focus Of Technical Seminar For Energy Exploration And Production Professionals October 7, 8 In Houston, Texas. ______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _______________________________ | | | [ ] 11853) FEATURES: NORRIS SMITH VIEWS ENHANCED IBM SP | | [ ] 11856) SCIENCE NEWS: HOT CHIPS SYMPOSIUM SEARCHES FOR PARALLELISM | | [ ] 11860) COMMERCIAL NEWS: INTEL, HP PREPARED TO REVEAL MERCED DETAILS | | [ ] 11864) NEWS BRIEFS: NSF DIRECTOR LANE COMMENTS ON DUMPING ISSUE | |___________________________________________________________________________ _| [ ] 70398) Publisher Welcomes Numerical Algorithms Group To HPCwire's Family Of Sponsoring Partners. FEATURES ===================================================================== [ ] 11853 ) IBM SP ADDS POWER, SEES FUTURE OF EGGS AS WELL AS CHICKENS....5.3K Commentary by Norris Parker Smith, editor at large IBM is incrementalizing its SP multiprocessors with the latest PowerPC chip, the 604e. In the future, IBM may shift its SP strategy from one of pre-roasted modular chickens toward more emphasis on features designed from the egg up. [ ] 11854 ) FUJITSU GIVES TESTIMONY AT ITC DUMPING HEARING................3.5K Fujitsu's Ken Miura testified that Fujitsu sold only two systems in the United States from January 1993 through June 1996, compared to hundreds of systems sold by Cray and SGI. In fact, Miura stated, "the combined Fujitsu/NEC market share in 1996 was much less than one percent" [ ] 11855 ) LETTER TO THE EDITOR............................................2K Greg Pfister, senior technical staff member, IBM System Design & Architecture, wrote to HPCwire about its recent interview with Amnon Barak, principal developer of MOSIX (Multicomputer Operating System for UNIX). SCIENCE & ENGINEERING NEWS [ ] 11856 ) HOT CHIP SYMPOSIUM SEARCHES FOR PARALLELISM...................5.7K The quest for parallelism appears to have replaced the quest for wider superscalar chips and higher clock speeds as the road to application performance. Papers presented here point to CPUs resembling highly parallel microcode engines in the future. [ ] 11857 ) PATENT TO BE ISSUED FOR LYCOS' SPIDER TECHNOLOGY..............4.7K The patent covers the spidering technology widely used on the Internet. The technology enables Web users to gather targeted information from the estimated 30 million Web sites and their hundreds of millions of additional pages. [ ] 11858 ) INTEL GRANTS $6M IN NETWORK DESKTOP SYSTEMS TO CORNELL........4.6K Funds will be used for a scalable distributed network of desktop computers that will be employed for anything from modeling the Earth's climate system to delivering lecture videos to student dormitories. [ ] 11859 ) SOFTWARE UNCOVERS STRUCTURE OF LAST RESORT ANTIBIOTIC.........4.7K Humans have struck a blow in the war against drug-resistant bacteria, thanks to a software package known as SnB that was used to solve molecular structures developed at the University at Buffalo and Buffalo's Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute. COMMERCIAL NEWS [ ] 11860 ) INTEL, HP PREPARED TO REVEAL MERCED CHIP DETAILS..............2.7K As Intel Corp and Hewlett-Packard approach the scheduled October preview of their Merced CPU, details are beginning to slip out about what the chip will look like and about HP's planned transition from PA- RISC to Merced. [ ] 11861 ) GARTNER GROUP SEES DIVERSIFIED FIREWALL INDUSTRY BY 2000......4.6K An ongoing study forecasts that the firewall market will splinter into three pronounced product segments in response to market demand for greater intranet security and for a midrange Internet firewall solution. [ ] 11862 ) NEC ADDS $120 MILLION IN CAPITAL EQUIPMENT....................4.1K NEC Electronics Inc. announced a $120 million investment in its Roseville, California, manufacturing facility. The investment is aimed at capital equipment to support NEC's move to a 0.25-micron drawn (0.18-micron L-effective) deep sub-micron process technology. [ ] 11863 ) IDC PROJECTS MIDDLEWARE GROWTH OF 416%........................3.4K IDC's Middleware 1997 Worldwide Markets and Trends report supplies an extensive look into the state and future of middleware by bringing together thorough analysis of the six middleware markets. QUOTE OF THE WEEK ============================================================ [ ] 11854 ) "(I)t ought to be obvious why Japanese companies have had so little success in the U.S. despite the fact that our products are highly successful in Japan and Europe." -- Ken Miura, Fujitsu __________________________INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHTS_________________________ [ ] 70399) Increase Your Productivity Connect a MAXSTRAT Gen5 to Your SGI/Cray, NEC, Fujitsu, or Sun High Performance Computer [ ] 70400) Final Program for SECOND IEEE METADATA CONFERENCE Silver Spring, Maryland on September 16-17 [ ] 70401) SC97: High Performance Networking and Computing Has Highest Paper Submission Rate in Conference Series History [ ] 70402) MAXSTRAT Storage With HIPPI, Fibre Channel, and UltraSCSI Connectivity, Speeds Over 250 MBytes/sec. and a TB of Capacity [ ] 70403) Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. The Fairmont Hotel, San Jose, California September 19-21:1997 [ ] 70404) Qualcomm Announces Worldwide Availability Of Eudora Worldmail Server NEWS BRIEFS ================================================================== [ ] 11864 ) NSF Director Lane Comments on Dumping Issue...................1.2K [ ] 11865 ) IBM Announces Performance Enhancements on RS/6000 SP............3K [ ] 11866 ) London Underground Installs Sequent Servers.....................2K [ ] 11867 ) Maxstrat Selected for Oracle Porting Automation Lab...........2.1K [ ] 11868 ) U.S. Mint Incorporates PeopleSoft Products....................2.1K [ ] 11869 ) Mechanical Dynamics' ADAMS/Car Gains Acceptance...............1.6K [ ] 11870 ) Alcatel Uses Clariion Disk Arrays for Voice Processing Sys....1.9K [ ] 11871 ) CSC to Provide IT Services to U.S. Army.......................1.8K [ ] 11872 ) City of Dayton, Ohio selects $4.5M NCR IT solution............2.1K [ ] 11873 ) Unisys Awarded IT Subcontract to Support DLA..................1.4K [ ] 11874 ) Railway Company Uses EMC's Data Migration Software............1.8K [ ] 11875 ) Tandem Wins Agreement with Canada's Fonorola..................1.7K [ ] 11876 ) Intelect Network Tech Receives $1M Order for Sonetlynx........1.8K [ ] 11877 ) UK Customs Authority Chooses Seagate's Crystal Info...........2.2K SHORT TAKES [ ] 11878 ) Product Watch: NCR to Ship 8-Way NT Server...................23.7K Oracle Designer/2000 2.0 in Beta. Seagate Dvps NT Disaster Recov Sol. [ ] 11879 ) Financial Update: Moody's Rates SGI Notes B1..................4.6K Ross, Fujitsu Talk on NASDAQ Woes. Tecmar Reports Year-End Results. [ ] 11880 ) Corporate Liaisons: SGI, Netscape Team on Web Server.........15.6K SCO Unixware on Intel/Compaq Servers. MicroAge to Dist Aviion NT Servers. [ ] 11881 ) People and Positions: Tandem Names Dir Hong Kong Sales........4.7K SIMSCI Appoints VP, Houston Ops. GS Networks Hires New GM. JOB BANK ===================================================================== [ ] 667 ) Employment Opportunities From: NEC Corporation, Industrial Light and Magic, Fermilab, Lawrence Berkeley, Tera, MIT, Raytheon E-Systems, Hewlett Packard, University of Michigan, IBM Corp,.....................................5K [ ] 604 ) Job Bank Rates and Regulations.................................1.22K CONFERENCES ================================================================== [ ] 2888 ) Calendar of Upcoming HPC Events (Updated 09.04.97)...............9K HPCwire INFORMATION ========================================================== [ ] 670 ) Masthead........................................................2.2K [ ] 601 ) Subscriptions & Removals........................................2.6K [ ] 602 ) Submitting Letters & Articles...................................1.6K [ ] 950 ) Index of Back Issues.............................................14K 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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To date HPCwire has delivered 1,804,100 articles and product announcements to HPC professionals worldwide. *** LAST ISSUE'S MOST REQUESTED ITEMS *** [ ] 11813) BILL BUZBEE COMMENTS ON CRAY/NEC DUMPING CONTROVERSY........15.4K [ ] 11814) CRAY SAYS JAPANESE VENDORS SEEK TO DRIVE U.S. FIRMS FROM MKT.4.6K [ ] 11818) TERA ANNOUNCES BOOTING, RUNNING OPERATING SYSTEM...............7K [ ] 11826) NEC Responds to Dumping Ruling, Plans Appeal.................1.5K [ ] 11882) TOP 20 MOST REQUESTED ARTICLES FROM LAST WEEK'S HPCwire......1.8K ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~ TWO WAYS TO RETRIEVE ARTICLES (1) Send a blank email to more@hpcwire.tgc.com. On subject line, type number adjacent to article, no message text is necessary. (2) Insert an x or an X (no other characters, please) within the square brackets adjacent to article(s). Return the marked copy to the address in the Reply-To: line of HPCwire Table of Contents. 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