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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 14, 1997: Vol. 6, No. 45 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 445 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 -------------------- * -------------------- [ ] 70490) ESSENTIAL COMMUNICATIONS COLLABORATES WITH RAYTHEON E-SYSTEMS TO DELIVER INDUSTRY'S FIRST HIPPI-6400 SWITCH Visit the Essential Communications booth (#1035) at SC97 to see demonstrations of Essential's HIPPI and Gigabit Ethernet products and register to win a Palm Pilot. ______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _______________________________ | | | [ ] 12239) FEATURES: UCSD TELEMICROSCOPY PROJECT AIDS BIOMED RESEARCHERS | | [ ] 12244) SCIENCE NEWS: IBM TO ANNOUNCE BREAKTHROUGH DISK DRIVE TECH | | [ ] 12249) COMMERCIAL NEWS: INTEL STRATEGY PLANS PRODS FOR ALL COMP MKTS | | [ ] 12254) NEWS BRIEFS: DONGARRA'S LATEST TOP500 LIST RELEASED | |___________________________________________________________________________ _| [ ] 70491) Silicon Graphics/Cray Unveils "The Power to See" at SC '97, Booth #417 FEATURES ===================================================================== [ ] 12239 ) UCSD, NPACI TELEMICROSCOPY PROJECT AIDS BIOMED RESEARCHERS...10.1K by Amy Finley, editor Online: NPACI & SDSC News The Telemicroscopy project at UCSD's NIH-sponsored National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research (NCMIR) houses a 400,000-volt electron microscope available to researchers for remote access via the Internet. Targeted research areas include neurological diseases and other disorders. [ ] 12240 ) FIRST STARFIRE IN EUROPE GOES TO GERMANY'S BSH................9.1K by Uwe Harms Recently, Germany's Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH, Bundesamt fuer Seeschiffahrt und Hydrographie), the central government agency responsible for all naval affairs, effected a massive revamping of its computer system. Despite numerous economic and technical challenges, the changeover was completed successfully and on time. [ ] 12241 ) PSC & ALCOA TEAM ON ALUMINUM AUTO DESIGNS.....................7.2K by Michael Schneider, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Alcoa's partnership with PSC has allowed it to develop a highly accurate "constitutive model" for aluminum -- a mathematical description that relates the microstructure of the metal to how it behaves when formed into a manufactured product. [ ] 12242 ) MIT'S CAM EMPLOYS DIRECT MODELING, ABANDONS EQUATION-SOLVING..6.3K MIT's Cellular Automata Machine (CAM), under devlopment for ten years, has recently been gaining followers in the scientific and engineering community. Models of the current design, CAM8, are under construction by MIT's Information Mechanics Group for research centers, and two companies. [ ] 70492) POWER UP WITH HP AT SUPERCOMPUTING '97 THE POWER COMPUTING PARTNER FOR ENGINEERS AND SCIENTISTS IN BOOTH #117 Register to win an HP 320LX Palmtop PC--one drawing each day! SCIENCE & ENGINEERING NEWS [ ] 12243 ) NATIONAL COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE ALLIANCE STEPS OUT AT SC97.....5.9K Fourteen partners will take part in the Alliance research booth at the conference, demonstrating over 30 research projects from a variety of fields relating to the high-performance computing world. [ ] 12244 ) IBM TO ANNOUNCE BREAKTHROUGH IN DISK DRIVE TECHNOLOGY.........2.7K International Business Machines Corp. plans to announce a breakthrough in disk-drive technology that will reportedly lead to far-better personal computer storage devices in the future. [ ] 12245 ) VISUAL SUPERCOMPUTING TO BE DEMONSTRATED AT SC97..............8.4K The demo --- a 3D physics simulation --- will be computed on a CRAY T3E-600 system at Rechenzentrum Garching (RZG) in Garching, Germany and displayed on ImmersaDesk systems in the National Computational Science Alliance and Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) booths on the conference floor. [ ] 12246 ) UW DELIVERS DRAMATIC RESULTS IN WEATHER FORECASTING...........3.9K The University of Washington has just switched on the latest version of its MM5 weather forecasting system, the first in the world to diagnose and forecast local weather on a scale of a few thousand yards. [ ] 12247 ) USC INTROS MUGSPOT FACE RECOGNITION SOFTWARE..................4.7K The new "Mugspot" software module developed at the University of Southern California automatically analyzes video images, looking for passers-by. When it finds them, it picks out the heads in the images and then tracks the heads for as long as they remain in the camera's field. [ ] 12248 ) CAPS SCALES MODEL ON 1,328-PROCESSOR CRAY T3E-900.............3.8K Researchers from the Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms (CAPS) at the University of Oklahoma recently used a 1,328 processor CRAY T3E-900 supercomputer to achieve record results on tests they hope will improve both the speed and accuracy of severe weather forecasting. C A R E E R T R A C K _____________________S U P P L E M E N T___________________ | | [ ] 70493)Lockheed Martin Supercomputing `97 Hospitality Suite. Tuesday & Wednesday, November 18th &19th - Holiday Inn (Park Room) 4:00pm to 8:00pm. Current openings include: Senior Cray Systems Programmer/ Analyst, UNIX System Administrator, and Facilities Engineer. [ ] 70494)HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING ON ROUTE 66 AND BEYOND High Performance Career Opportunities. With the High Performance Computing Education & Research Center (HPCERC) and its two Centers, (MHPCC) in Maui, Hawaii and (AHPCC) located in Albuquerque, New Mexico. [ ] 70495)TERA COMPUTER SYSTEMS is a high-performance computer company with a new architectural approach. Accepting Resumes for various positions, Booth # 1229 at Supercomputing '97 [ ] 70496)RICE UNIVERSITY'S CENTER FOR RESEARCH ON PARALLEL COMPUTATION (CRPC), a National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center, established in 1989 is searching for candidates for several staff positions. [ ] 70497)ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY and The UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO. Postdoctoral appointments and scientific programmer openings are available. COMMERCIAL NEWS [ ] 12249 ) INTEL STRATEGY PLANS PRODS FOR EVERY COMPUTING SEGMENT..........5K Intel Corp. has laid the foundation for expanding its reach in the computer market by disclosing plans to build products for everything from $500 Java-based clients to "lean" clients to eight-way servers. [ ] 12250 ) STUDY SHOWS DEVELOPER DISSATISFACTION WITH JAVA...............5.1K Market Decisions Corp. announced the results of a new research study questioning developers on their experiences with Java. The study discovered that the majority of developers have a high degree of dissatisfaction with Java and do not feel that it meets all of their expectations. [ ] 12251 ) SCO UNVEILS TARGETED RELEASE STRATEGY FOR UNIXWARE 7..........4.9K SCO has unveiled a targeted release strategy for its operating system, formerly code-named Gemini, now officially known as UnixWare 7. UnixWare 7 is initially targeted and optimized for high-end departmental computing and enterprise environments. [ ] 12252 ) OVERSEAS BANKS DRAGGING HEELS ON Y2K ISSUE....................5.3K Large United States banks and investment firms, needled by regulators, are making progress on the Year 2000 issue. Many overseas banks however, may be terribly behind or ignoring the problem all together. [ ] 12253 ) SURVEY SAYS IT EXECS SPEND TOO MUCH TIME ON OPERATIONS, ETC...4.4K A recent survey conducted among members of Cambridge Information Network (CIN), showed that 66% of senior IT executives would prefer to cut time spent on operations, human resource concerns and daily business support. Some 75% would like to devote more time to strategy and innovation. QUOTE OF THE WEEK ============================================================ [ ] 12242 ) "I think of these machines as 'crystalline computers'. The architecture closely resembles the structure of matter: a regular lattice of processors that interact with their nearest neighbors." -- Norman Margolus, a co-developer of MIT's CAM. __________________________INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHTS________________________ [ ] 70498)TEXAS MEMORY Systems Announces New BASS Buffer Allocation Storage System [ ] 70499)HP's New 64-Bit Exemplar Technical Servers: The V-Class and K-Class Performance Leaders and A Full Suite of Applications [ ] 70500)UNIX Review's 1997 Outstanding Server Product of the Year! Starfire propelled SUN's entry into the TOP 500 worldwide ranking [ ] 70501)The Top 5 Reasons Why SGI Origin Users are Turning To PGI's PGHPF High Performance Fortran (And getting free Linux compilers!) [ ] 70502)Nobel Prize Winner Glenn T. Seaborg to Speak at SC97 Education Program [ ] 70503)High Performance Fortran (HPF) - Practice and Experience. An SC '97 Tutorial. [ ] 70504)VISUAL NUMERICS, INC. Annnounces Latest Fujitsu benchmark results for the IMSL Distributed Network Fortran Libray(DNFL V 1.0) [ ] 70505)PALLAS sells 100th copy of its VAMPIR MPI TOOL, a versatile performance visulization and analysis tool for MPI programs. [ ] 70506)Silicon Graphics Welcomes OpenMP, a New Industry Standard That Brings Portability to Shared-Memory Programming [ ] 70507)Scientific Computing Associates to exhibit Linda (r) and Paradise(r) at SC97 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- [ ] 70508) SUN ANNOUNCES NEW HPC SOLUTIONS INCLUDING CLUSTERING CAPABILITIES UP TO 256 PROCESSORS WITH SUSTAINED PERFORMANCE OVER 100 GFLOPS - SOLUTIONS WILL BE FEATURED AT SUN BOOTH #1107 DURING SC97 NEWS BRIEFS ================================================================== [ ] 12254 ) 10th Edition of TOP500 Supercomputer Sites Released...........2.2K [ ] 12255 ) IBM Developing 1-GHz PowerPC Processor........................1.3K [ ] 12256 ) Intel Discovers Pentium Chip Flaw.............................1.7K [ ] 12257 ) U.S. & Japan Hold Supercomputer Talks, Issues Unresolved......1.9K [ ] 12258 ) Samsung to Market 400-600MHz Alphas by Feb. '98...............1.9K [ ] 12259 ) Texaco Builds Visualization Ctr Based on SGI Tech.............2.6K [ ] 12260 ) Cray Origin2000 Breaks SMP Scalability Barrier................2.4K [ ] 12261 ) HP'S Exemplar V2200 Posts Record Benchmark....................2.1K [ ] 12262 ) SGI ccNUMA Server Posts Record Benchmark......................2.2K [ ] 12263 ) DG & Oracle Post Record TPC-D Results.........................2.6K [ ] 12264 ) ALR's Revolution Server Posts Record TPC-C Benchmark..........1.9K [ ] 12265 ) Sequent, Oracle & US Telecom Intro New Benchmark.............2.4K [ ] 12266 ) Sun Defends Java CaffeineMark Practices.........................2K [ ] 12267 ) SC97 Town Hall Meetings Offer Early Participation.............4.1K [ ] 12268 ) SC97 Announces Keynoter Paul Saffo and Technical Panels.......4.8K [ ] 12269 ) Sun Delivers 100.4 Gflops on Linpack Benchmark................2.7K [ ] 12270 ) Quickturn Receives $1M Order From AMD.........................1.8K [ ] 12271 ) Philips Semiconductors Chooses Teradyne's Catalyst............2.4K [ ] 12272 ) MCI Building OC-12 Connection for Microsoft.....................2K [ ] 12273 ) Constellar & Oracle Team on Solutions for UK Utilities........2.1K [ ] 12274 ) Intermagnetics Wins Contract to Dvlp Cryogenic Cooling Sys....2.1K [ ] 12275 ) Data General To Supply Comparex With Enterprise Servers.......1.9K [ ] 12276 ) GTE Internetworking Selects Nortel Prods for Global Network...2.1K [ ] 12277 ) HP Wins GBP 9M Contract from British Telecom..................2.2K [ ] 12278 ) Impactdata Demos Key Attributes of DSNA.......................2.4K [ ] 12279 ) UMASS Professor Wins $1.4M Grant from NSF.....................2.6K [ ] 12280 ) MUSE Tech to Help U.S. Navy with Info Overload Problems.......2.9K [ ] 12281 ) Xactware Selects Oracle Data Server on NT.....................1.7K [ ] 12282 ) PALLAS Completes First Implementation of MPI-2 Standard.......1.6K [ ] 12283 ) Chinese Petrochem Complex Implements SIMSCI's ROM.............1.3K [ ] 12284 ) UCSD & NUS to Share Networking Resources, Info................2.5K [ ] 12285 ) Suit Still Brewing Between DG and IBM.........................1.6K [ ] 12286 ) Ancor Products Serve as Backbone for Subaru Telescope.........2.7K [ ] 12287 ) VeriBest Donates $500K in EDA Software To CU..................2.2K [ ] 70509) SUN MICROSYSTEMS DELIVERS 100.4 GFLOPS FOR LINPACK HIGHLY PARALLEL COMPUTING BENCHMARK WITH 256 CPU, 4-NODE CLUSTER SHORT TAKES [ ] 12288 ) Product Watch: Compaq Notes 4 New Proliant Srvrs.............30.6K Sun Intros HPC 2.0 Clstr Solution. 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