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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 *** November 7, 1997: Vol. 6, No. 44 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 401 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 -------------------- * -------------------- [ ] 70475) THE PORTLAND GROUP RELEASES PARALLELIZING/OPTIMIZING FORTRAN WITH OpenMP EXTENSIONS FOR INTEL PROCESSOR-BASED WORKSTATIONS ______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _______________________________ | | | [ ] 12197) FEATURES: SUN RELEASES HPC 2.0 CLUSTERING SOLUTION, SOFTWARE | | [ ] 12200) SCIENCE NEWS: SAMSUNG TO SELL 700+MHz ALPHA CPU NEXT SUMMER | | [ ] 12203) COMMERCIAL NEWS: DEC'S CLAFLIN DEFINES CORPORATE STRATEGY | | [ ] 12211) NEWS BRIEFS: NISSAN TECH CTR INSTALLS CRAY T916 | |___________________________________________________________________________ _| [ ] 70476) Come See MAXSTRAT's Powerful, Reliable Storage at the SC '97 Show, Booth #728, San Jose Convention Center, Nov. 18 - 20 FEATURES ===================================================================== [ ] 12197 ) SUN LEVERAGES ENTERPRISE STRENGTHS, RELEASES HPC 2.0..........6.7K by Steve Fisher, managing editor Sun Microsystems will soon introduce the Sun HPC 2.0 Cluster solution and software. Consisting of a foundation package and a parallel development environment, the offering's primary function is to support the development and execution of parallelized applications for Sun's HPC environment. [ ] 12198 ) DEEP BLUE SCIENTISTS MOVE ON TO DATA MINING & MORE............3.3K After spending years developing the computer that defeated Garry Kasparov, the world's most accomplished human chess player, the shy team of IBM scientists who built Deep Blue are applying their talents to other pursuits. [ ] 12199 ) READY MADE DATA WAREHOUSE USE ON THE RISE.....................5.6K The number of companies opting for ready-made data warehouses is on the rise. A reason for the rise may be the tendency of these "out of the box" warehouses to be targeted at specific industry needs. [ ] 70477) POWER UP WITH HP AT SUPERCOMPUTING '97 SEE POWERFUL TECHNOLOGY AND POWERFUL PARTNER APPLICATIONS IN BOOTH #117 Register to win an HP 320LX Palmtop PC--one drawing each day! SCIENCE & ENGINEERING NEWS [ ] 12200 ) SAMSUNG TO SELL 700+MHz ALPHA CPU NEXT SUMMER.................4.4K Samsung plans to begin selling a 700 megahertz (MHz) Alpha central processing unit (CPU) starting next summer. In addition, that speed is reportedly a conservative estimate, according to the Samsung America's senior group manager for the Alpha chip project, Y.J. Kim. [ ] 12201 ) SONY & OVATION ENHANCE DTF FOR OIL & GAS INDUSTRY.............3.4K Sony Electronics and Ovation Data Services have announced an innovation extending the capabilities of Sony's DTF digital data tape drive to transfer data in a "Seismic Mode" at high speeds, even when processing small block records of seismic data of different formats. [ ] 12202 ) SGI DEMOS NEW 3D SOFTWARE RENDERING TECHNOLOGY..................5K Silicon Graphics, Inc., announced the first widespread public demonstration of RealityMapping, a revolutionary new 3D software rendering technology that outperforms traditional ray tracing by up to 20,000 times. [ ] 70478) SUPERCOMPUTING FOR THE NETWORK AGE ULTRA HPC SOLUTIONS SUN AND PARTNERS DEBUT PERFORMANCE SOLUTIONS AT SC97 Visit us in Booth #1107 COMMERCIAL NEWS [ ] 12203 ) DEC'S CLAFLIN DEFINES CORPORATE STRATEGY......................3.4K Bruce Claflin, Digital senior vice president, recently outlined the Maynard, Mass. computer company's corporate strategy in the wake of the company's settlement with Intel last week. [ ] 12204 ) IDC EXPECTS BOOM IN DIST OPERATIONS MGMT MARKET...............3.4K According to a new report from International Data Corporation (IDC), the necessity of keeping distributed systems functioning on a day-to- day basis will contribute to a distributed operations management tools market of $6.65 billion by 2001. [ ] 12205 ) CORPORATE DATA TO BE CENTRALIZED ON FEWER DISK SYSTEMS........4.7K In the near future, storage vendors expect to increase the number of server platforms they support on one disk array. This allows users to centrally locate data from different servers such as mainframes, AS/400, Unix and Windows NT in one box. [ ] 12206 ) COMPAQ TO CUT PRICES IN EFFORT TO GAIN MORE OF SERVER MKT.....3.6K Compaq will reportedly take steps over the next year to seize an even larger segment of the server market. Those steps include aggressive price cuts, souped-up multiprocessing systems, and a clustering strategy to push Windows NT well beyond two nodes. [ ] 12207 ) CA, NCSA COLLABORATE ON EXTENSIONS FOR UNICENTER TNG..........4.1K Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA) and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign announced a joint program to deliver a suite of ultra- scalable extensions to Unicenter TNG, CA's enterprise management solution. [ ] 12208 ) ALLIEDSIGNAL JUGGLES DATA WITH HELP FROM AMDAHL...............3.6K As more companies like AlliedSignal centralize their data center operations, they are discovering reasons to shuffle that data among different disk subsystems to gain efficiencies. QUOTE OF THE WEEK ============================================================ [ ] 12197 ) "So you can see we've got a lot of technology here, and we're willing to aggressively go out and get technology and bring it into our environment to use." -- Sun's Jamie Enns, manager of product marketing for Data Center and High Performance Computing __________________________INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHTS________________________ [ ] 70479)HP's New 64-Bit Exemplar Technical Servers: The V-Class and K-Class Performance Leaders and A Full Suite of Applications [ ] 70480)UNIX Review's 1997 Outstanding Server Product of the Year! Starfire propelled SUN's entry into the TOP 500 worldwide ranking [ ] 70481)The Top 5 Reasons Why SGI Origin Users are Turning To PGI's PGHPF High Performance Fortran (And getting free Linux compilers!) [ ] 70482)Scientific Computing Associates to exhibit Linda (r) and Paradise(r) at SC97 [ ] 70483)SC97 Research Exhibits: Showcasing Recent Develpments in High Performance Networking and Computing [ ] 70484)High Performance Fortran (HPF) - Practice and Experience. An SC '97 Tutorial. [ ] 70485)VISUAL NUMERICS, INC. Annnounces Latest Fujitsu benchmark results for the IMSL Distributed Network Fortran Libray(DNFL V 1.0) [ ] 70486)PALLAS sells 100th copy of its VAMPIR MPI TOOL, a versatile performance visulization and analysis tool for MPI programs. [ ] 70487)Silicon Graphics Welcomes OpenMP, a New Industry Standard That Brings Portability to Shared-Memory Programming ----------------------------------------------------------------------- [ ] 70488) Silicon Graphics/Cray Research Boosts Memory, Data Storage Capabilities for CRAY T90 Supercomputer NEWS BRIEFS ================================================================== [ ] 12209 ) MSCF RFP for Environmental Computational Grand Challenge Apps.2.1K [ ] 12210 ) DEC to Unveil Details of Galaxy Clustering Technology.........1.4K [ ] 12211 ) Nissan Tech Ctr Installs Cray T916 for Crash Testing..........3.2K [ ] 12212 ) AS/400 & RS/6000 First to Get IBM's Copper Chip Tech..........1.8K [ ] 12213 ) MTI Enters Network-Attached Storage Market....................2.8K [ ] 12214 ) Nasdaq Stock Market Deploys Oracle8 Production DB.............2.9K [ ] 12215 ) Mercury Receives RACE Order from TNO-FEL......................2.5K [ ] 12216 ) NEC Appeals ITC Ruling in Dumping Case..........................2K [ ] 12217 ) Data General Ships 32-Processor ccNUMA Server...................2K [ ] 12218 ) SBI Installs IBM RS/6000 SP To Speed Drug Design..............1.9K [ ] 12219 ) Sandia Selects Teradyne's Catalyst Test System..................2K [ ] 12220 ) Ford Joins NCSA Industrial Partners Program...................2.4K [ ] 12221 ) Sun Expands Starfire Manufacturing Capacity...................2.2K [ ] 12222 ) Glasgow School of Art Partners with SGI.......................2.8K [ ] 12223 ) ADI Wins $3M Contract From United Defense Ltd. Partnership....2.1K [ ] 12224 ) NCR Teradata RDBMS Posts Record Benchmark.....................1.8K [ ] 12225 ) Organization Develops Linked PC Parallel Proc. Sys............1.1K [ ] 12226 ) Japanese Team Develops Powerful Parallel Computing System.....1.1K [ ] 12227 ) Teligent Selects Nortel for Broadband Wireless Network........1.6K [ ] 12228 ) NSF to Announce First Trans-Pacific vBNS Connection...........1.5K [ ] 12229 ) Ocean Spray Consolidates Storage onto EMC Symmetrix Sys.........2K [ ] 12230 ) Olicom & Rockwell Demo. Multi-Vendor ATM Interop..............2.1K [ ] 12231 ) Tolly Group Certifies Packeteer's Bandwidth Manager...........1.9K [ ] 12232 ) Radguard Completes Secured VPN for SCG..........................2K [ ] 12233 ) Sybase Named Official Software Provider of 1998 World Cup.....2.4K [ ] 70489) SUN TARGETS PROGRAM TO REPLACE SGI SERVERS SHORT TAKES [ ] 12234 ) Product Watch: Cray Offers Enhanced T90......................34.7K DEC Intros Y2K-Ready OpenVMS. Sybase Adapt Srvr 6.0 in Beta. [ ] 12235 ) Financial Update: Data Gnrl Notes Q4, Yr End.................11.1K Ciprico Reports 1997 Results. Zitel Notes Q4 Results. [ ] 12236 ) Corporate Liaisons: Oracle Supports DEC's 8K Srvr............15.7K MSoft, Unisys Team on Dvpt Ctrs. MTI Joins Stor Ntwk Indus Assoc. [ ] 12237 ) People and Positions: Wladawsky-Berger on HPCC Comm.............9K Mercury Names Parikh CQO. Jones Joins DEC as VP. 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