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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 27, 1997: Vol. 6, No. 47 *** 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 -------------------- * -------------------- [ ] 70537) SUN MICROSYSTEMS ROUNDS OUT SC97 WITH STRONG PRESENCE IN TOP 500 AND IMPRESSIVE RESULTS FOR SPEC95 BENCHMARK - INDUSTRY LEADERS FOR SPECint_rate95 ON SINGLE AND CLUSTERED SYSTEMS ______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _______________________________ | | | [ ] 12293) FEATURES: ROBERT EADES DISCUSSES EMSL | | [ ] 12297) SCIENCE NEWS: NSF GRANTS $1.6M FOR INTERNET PERFORMANCE STUDY | | [ ] 12300) COMMERCIAL NEWS: QUANTUM CHANGES HIGH-END HDD BUSINESS | | [ ] 12301) NEWS BRIEFS: ISO APPROVES C++ GLOBAL STANDARDS | |___________________________________________________________________________ _| [ ] 70538) SILICON GRAPHICS/CRAY RESEARCH DOMINATES TOP 500 LIST YET AGAIN FEATURES ===================================================================== [ ] 12293 ) ROBERT EADES DISCUSSES EMSL...................................6.3K by Alan Beck, vice president of publications, TGC HPCwire recently interviewed Robert Eades, manager of the Molecular Science Computing Facility at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. The Facility is located in the new Environmental Molecular Science Laboratory (EMSL) built by the DOE (Department of Energy) to focus on environmental remediation problems. A major focus of the facility is high-performance simulation and modeling. [ ] 12294 ) PERFORMANCE COMPUTING IN THE WINTEL WORLD, PART I............11.6K by Paul Bemis, special to HPCwire In this first in a three part series, Paul Bemis will attempt to describe the causes and effects of the rapid convergence towards the Wintel model of computing that is about to occur, and thus allow the opportunity for success. [ ] 12295 ) HENESSY: VECTOR SUPERCOMPUTERS DISAPPEAR IN 5-10YRS...........6.6K In a talk on the future of supercomputing at SC97, John Hennessy, professor of computer science and dean of Stanford's School of Engineering, predicted that vector-based supercomputers will vanish in five to ten years. SCIENCE & ENGINEERING NEWS [ ] 12296 ) SHUTTLE EXPMT SEEKS FUTURE OF ELECTRONICS MINIATURIZATION.....6.9K After 20 years of exploring the esoteric nature of liquid helium when it is cooled to ultra-low temperatures in zero gravity, physicist John Lipa has discovered that his work may have important ramifications for miniaturization in the microelectronics industry. [ ] 12297 ) NSF GRANTS $1.6M FOR INTERNET PERFORMANCE STUDY...............4.8K A three-year grant was awarded to Merit's and the University of Michigan's Internet Performance Measurement and Analysis project, or IPMA. The project will develop technologies and deploy probe machines across the Internet to help monitor performance and track down network brown-outs and outages. [ ] 12298 ) EVOLUTION EXPERIMENT CREATES MUTATING COMPUTER LIFE FORM......6.6K In an experiment aimed at shedding light on basic evolutionary processes, researchers have developed an artificial "life form" that resides in a network of 150 computers worldwide and is undergoing complex mutations that appear to mimic the transition from simple to more complex organisms. COMMERCIAL NEWS [ ] 12299 ) STUDY PREDICTS RAID SUBSYSTEM SHIPMENTS OF 1.5M UNITS BY Y2K..4.5K The new DISK/TREND market study on disk drive arrays reports shipments of 775 thousand arrays in 1996, growing to an estimated 986 thousand in 1997, and projected to reach a shipment total of 1.5 million arrays in 2000. [ ] 12300 ) QUANTUM ANNOUNCES CHANGES TO HIGH-END HDD BUSINESS............5.2K Quantum Corporation announced changes to its hard disk drive business designed to improve the operation and lower the break-even point of the high-end portion of that business. QUOTE OF THE WEEK ============================================================ [ ] 12293 ) "Just porting a code is not the approach to take if you really want to reach high levels of parallelism for large applications. In our case, we went back to scratch and started over. That's the main piece of advice." -- Robert Eades, manager of the Molecular Science Computing Facility at PNNL. __________________________INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHTS________________________ [ ] 70539)TEXAS MEMORY Systems Announces New BASS Buffer Allocation Storage System [ ] 70540)HP's New 64-Bit Exemplar Technical Servers: The V-Class and K-Class Performance Leaders and A Full Suite of Applications [ ] 70541)UNIX Review's 1997 Outstanding Server Product of the Year! Starfire propelled SUN's entry into the TOP 500 worldwide ranking [ ] 70542)The Top 5 Reasons Why SGI Origin Users are Turning To PGI's PGHPF High Performance Fortran (And getting free Linux compilers!) [ ] 70543)VISUAL NUMERICS, INC. Annnounces Latest Fujitsu benchmark results for the IMSL Distributed Network Fortran Libray(DNFL V 1.0) [ ] 70544)Silicon Graphics Welcomes OpenMP, a New Industry Standard That Brings Portability to Shared-Memory Programming [ ] 70545)Scientific Computing Associates to exhibit Linda (r) and Paradise(r) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- [ ] 70546) This is the way our advertisers describe the people they are looking for. " ...hard to find HPC professionals, elite people in computing, most influential computing professionals in the world, intelligent individuals who want to work in an exciting, leading edge environment." If this describes you, you'll find 13 of these oportunities in our Job Bank section. 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