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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 *** October 31, 1997: Vol. 6, No. 43 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 315 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 -------------------- * -------------------- [ ] 70464) TEXAS MEMORY SYSTEMS ANNOUNCES New BASS Buffer Allocation Storage System ______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _______________________________ | | | [ ] 12164) FEATURES: SALE OF IBM SYSTEMS TO RUSSIAN LAB INVESTIGATED | | [ ] 12168) SCIENCE NEWS: LSI LOGIC REDUCES SYS-ON-A-CHIP DESIGN TIME 75% | | [ ] 12170) COMMERCIAL NEWS: SUN INTROS FIBRE CHANNEL STORAGE ARRAY | | [ ] 12172) NEWS BRIEFS: NEC & SIM WORKS DEBUT KUBRIX FOR THE SX-4 | |___________________________________________________________________________ _| [ ] 70465) SUN TARGETS PROGRAM TO REPLACE SGI SERVERS FEATURES ===================================================================== [ ] 12164 ) SALE OF IBM SUPERCOMPUTERS TO RUSSIAN LAB UNDER INVESTIGATION.4.3K A federal grand jury is investigating the secret sale of 16 advanced IBM computers to a Russian nuclear weapons laboratory. The laboratory allegedly employed Moscow-based middlemen to acquire the computers last year, thereby evading American export rules. [ ] 12165 ) MICROSOFT COUNTERSUES SUN OVER JAVA...........................3.2K Microsoft Corp. has launched a legal counterattack against Sun Microsystems Inc., denying it was attempting to interfere with Sun's goal of establishing a universal software language for computers. [ ] 12166 ) CORBA VENDORS TAKE PRAGMATIC APPROACH TO MICROSOFT'S COM......2.8K Microsoft officials and industry sources noted licensing talks between Microsoft and object request broker (ORB) vendors, which are said to be pursuing COM licenses from the Active Group and licensing Unix versions of Distributed COM (DCOM) from Microsoft partners. SCIENCE & ENGINEERING NEWS [ ] 12167 ) OpenMP BRINGS PORTABILITY TO SHARED MEMORY PROGRAMMING........5.3K A collection of computer hardware and software vendors have announced their support for OpenMP, a new industry-standard application program interface (API) for multi-platform shared-memory programming on UNIX and Microsoft Windows NT platforms. [ ] 12168 ) LSI LOGIC REDUCES SYS-ON-A-CHIP DESIGN TIME BY 75%............4.1K LSI Logic announced its new FlexStream Deep Submicron Design System which puts system-on-a-chip methodology into the ASIC designer's hands, dramatically reducing the time and manpower demanded for very complex system-on-a-chip designs up to 75%. [ ] 12169 ) CLUSTER-BASED SUPERCOMPUTING AT MIT...........................6.8K Known as "Pleiades", the clustered system of seven AlphaServers will be installed at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS). It is the most powerful computer system ever installed on-campus at MIT and reportedly among the 500 fastest in the world. COMMERCIAL NEWS [ ] 12170 ) SUN TARGETS STORAGE MKT WITH NEW FIBRE CHANNEL STORAGE ARRAY..2.6K Sun Microsystems Inc., is launching a significant challenge to storage market leaders EMC Corp. and IBM with the announcement this week of its new Fibre Channel Storage Array. The A5000 will support up to 500GB of memory per rack and transfer rates of 100MB per second. [ ] 12171 ) SURVEY REVEALS CONCERNS OVER ACCESS TO CRITICAL CORP DATA.....4.1K According to a major annual survey of corporate technology executives, employees at a majority of corporations have a difficult time quickly getting all the computerized information they need to do their jobs effectively. QUOTE OF THE WEEK ============================================================ [ ] 12165 ) "Sun's suit may make for good PR, but its claims are not grounded in fact or in law," -- Tom Burt, associate general counsel, Microsoft. __________________________INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHTS________________________ [ ] 70466)UNIX Review's 1997 Outstanding Server Product of the Year! Starfire propelled SUN's entry into the TOP 500 worldwide ranking [ ] 70467)OpenMP brings portability to shared memory parallel programming science and engineering news [ ] 70468)Scientific computing associates to exhibit Linda (r) and Paradise(r) at SC97 [ ] 70469)SC97 Education Program: The Role of Technology in Life-long Learning [ ] 70470)High Performance Fortran (HPF) - Practice and Experience. An SC '97 Tutorial. [ ] 70471)VISUAL NUMERICS, INC. Annnounces Latest Fujitsu benchmark results for the IMSL Distributed Network Fortran Libray(DNFL V 1.0) [ ] 70472)PALLAS sells 100th copy of its VAMPIR MPI TOOL, a versatile performance visulization and analysis tool for MPI programs. [ ] 70473) Qualcomm Announces Worldwide Availability Of Eudora Worldmail Server ----------------------------------------------------------------------- [ ] 70474) Silicon Graphics Welcomes OpenMP, a New Industry Standard That Brings Portability to Shared-Memory Programming NEWS BRIEFS ================================================================== [ ] 12172 ) NEC & Simulation Works Announce KUBRIX for the SX-4...........2.2K [ ] 12173 ) Tandem Srvrs Support NYSE, NASDAQ Billion Share Trading.......2.2K [ ] 12174 ) Server Vendors to Ship I-2O-Based Servers.....................1.7K [ ] 12175 ) Chicago Mercantile Exchange Selects Candle Solution...........1.8K [ ] 12176 ) IBM Outlines New E-Commerce Technology........................1.8K [ ] 12177 ) Cornell Announces IBM Fellowship in Computational Science.....1.9K [ ] 12178 ) Megadrive Solutions Selected by NASA's Ames Research Ctr........2K [ ] 12179 ) U.S. and Japan to Hold Supercomputer Talks November 7th.......0.8K [ ] 12180 ) Academia & Government Collaborate on Virtual University.........3K [ ] 12181 ) Unisys & FiTECH Team on Credit Union Automation Software......1.8K [ ] 12182 ) SGI May Set Up Operations in Malaysia's MSC...................1.7K [ ] 12183 ) Extreme Breaks Performance Barriers with Summit2..............1.5K [ ] 12184 ) PHH Selects Novell Products for Enterprise Network............2.6K [ ] 12185 ) Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. Chooses Oracle Technology.......2.6K [ ] 12186 ) Student Volunteer Positions Available for SC97................1.9K [ ] 12187 ) Boeing Division Selects Auxilium's Info-Engine................1.8K [ ] 12188 ) SAS Announces Multiple U.S. Government Sales....................2K [ ] 12189 ) Intergraph FS Standardizes on Bentley Program.................2.1K [ ] 12190 ) Tracor Subsid. to Compete for NIH Contract....................2.2K [ ] 12191 ) Vitria Awarded $3 Million by Commerce Department..............1.9K SHORT TAKES [ ] 12192 ) Product Watch: HP 1st to Mkt. with 8-Way Sys.................26.7K Sun Intros New Netra Server. Dell Unveils PowerEdge Cluster. [ ] 12193 ) Financial Update: SGI Notes Dismal 1st Quarter...............12.5K Sequent reports on Q3. StorageTek Reports Record Q3. [ ] 12194 ) Corporate Liaisons: SCO Teams w/ Apex, Arbinet...............14.2K Unisys & QAD Expand Partnership. Bull Selects Emulex Adapters. 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