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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 *** January 9, 1998: Vol. 7, No. 1 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 425 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 -------------------- * -------------------- [ ] 70564) CANADIAN METEOROLOGICAL CENTRE TO REDUCE FORECASTING GRID SIZE TO 10-15 KILOMETERS ______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _______________________________ | | | [ ] 12423) FEATURES: TERA INSTALLS INITIAL MTA SYSTEM AT SDSC | | [ ] 12425) SCIENCE NEWS: JAPANESE SCIENTISTS DEVELOPING DNA COMPUTER | | [ ] 12430) COMMERCIAL NEWS: SUN TO PORT SOLARIS OS TO INTEL'S MERCED | | [ ] 12434) NEWS BRIEFS: SECANT APPROVED TO EXPORT 168-BIT ENCRYPTION | |___________________________________________________________________________ _| [ ] 70565) LOOKING FOR PEOPLE AS GOOD AS YOU ARE? You can reach them in our Career Track Supplement issue on February 13, 1998. Retrieve full information now! FEATURES ===================================================================== [ ] 12422 ) U.S. STARTS PATH TO 30 TFLOPS COMPUTER........................9.1K by Alex Wolfe, managing editor, EE Times The U.S. Department of Energy this month will kick off a strategic effort aimed at realizing by the year 2001 a 30-teraflops supercomputer -- fully 10 times the performance of the highest-powered existing systems. [ ] 12423 ) TERA INSTALLS INITIAL MTA SYSTEM AT SDSC......................2.9K Tera Computer Company, a Seattle-based supercomputer company, announced that it has installed the long awaited single processor Multithreaded Architecture (MTA) system at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), a part of the University of California, San Diego. [ ] 12424 ) MHPCC TO BOOST COMPUTING POWER, INSTALL RS/6000 SP............3.9K The Maui High Performance Computing Center (MHPCC) has announced that it will increase its computational capabilities by 50% with the purchase of 192 nodes of IBM's latest RS/6000 SP technology. SCIENCE & ENGINEERING NEWS [ ] 12425 ) JAPANESE SCIENTISTS DEVELOPING DNA COMPUTER...................6.1K To realize the vision of such a futuristic computer, computer scientists Masami Hagiya and Takashi Yokomori teamed up with three molecular biologists in 1996 in Japan to work on the project and have succeeded in developing their own ideas on the subject. [ ] 12426 ) SCIENTISTS MINE DATA TO ANALYZE GULF WAR ILLNESS..............3.8K The GeneticStorms research involves exploratory analysis of the CCEP database, which contains data on about 20,000 U.S. troops. The data analysis perspective is that a syndrome, if there is one, will show up as an unusual pattern between combinations of attributes. [ ] 12427 ) SGS-THOMSON & HITACHI TO DEVELOP .18 MICRON EMBEDDED MPU......3.5K SGS-Thomson Microelectronics Inc. and Hitachi Ltd. have agreed to jointly develop what is reported to be a next-generation microprocessor that is expected to deliver performance of up to 1,000 mips. [ ] 12428 ) WASHINGTON UNIV. RESEARCHERS SPEED INTERNET APPLICATIONS......8.1K Computer scientists at Washington University in St. Louis have patented two major inventions that should make Internet applications like e-mail, the World Wide Web and electronic commerce 10 times faster than they are now. COMMERCIAL NEWS [ ] 12429 ) DEC & SEQUENT LAUNCH INITIATIVE TO PORT DEC UNIX TO IA-64.....5.5K The 64-bit UNIX initiative, based on Digital UNIX, will add key Sequent technologies and be augmented with joint development by the two companies. Key to the initiative will be aggressive recruitment of additional partners and licensees. [ ] 12430 ) SUN TO PORT SOLARIS OS TO INTEL'S MERCED......................2.9K Intel recently announced that it has signed on Sun Microsystems to port its Solaris operating system to the Merced chip, making it the third competitor that the chip giant has won over to Merced. [ ] 12431 ) IBM & STORAGETEK REACH TENTATIVE AGRMT IN DATA-STORAGE CASE...3.1K IBM Corp. and Storage Technology Corp. have reached a tentative settlement with the United States Justice Department to resolve an investigation of antitrust activities in the mainframe computer market. [ ] 12432 ) SERVER CONSOLIDATION SPURS DEMAND FOR MORE SCALABLE SYSTEMS.....8K Server consolidation will drive the need for larger systems. Many companies are tired of the costs and management effort associated with hundreds of distributed servers and want to consolidate data and applications onto fewer, larger machines. [ ] 12433 ) FIBRE CHANNEL GAINING ACCEPTANCE AMONG USERS, VENDORS.........3.3K The buzz words in the storage market this year are expected to be "Fibre Channel technology." Vendors are looking to Fibre Channel at the expense of the primary storage alternative, SCSI. QUOTE OF THE WEEK ============================================================ [ ] 12422 ) "In 2001 we're aiming for a 30-teraflops system. Around the 2004 or 2005 time frame, we want to achieve 100-teraflops systems." -- Richard Watson, chief scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and a Pathforward program manager. ___________________________INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHTS________________________ [ ] 70566)SCIENTIFIC Products Provide Rapid, Cost-Effective Development of Portable, Parallel and Distributed Applications [ ] 70567)The Portland Group's parallelizing/optimizing Fortran, C, and C++ compilers and tools for Intel processor-based workstations [ ] 70568)MAXSTRAT Storage With HIPPI, Fibre Channel, and UltraSCSI Connectivity, Speeds Over 250 MBytes/sec. and a TB of Capacity [ ] 70569)HP's New 64-Bit Exemplar Technical Servers: The V-Class and K-Class Performance Leaders and A Full Suite of Applications [ ] 70570)The Top 5 Reasons Why SGI Origin Users are Turning To PGI's PGHPF High Performance Fortran (And getting free Linux compilers!) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- [ ] 70571) Sony and Ovation Create Seismic Shift. In DTF(tm) Transfer Rate Across Multiple Data Formats. A break-through for oil and gas industry. NEWS BRIEFS ================================================================== [ ] 12434 ) Secant Approved to Export 168-Bit Triple DES Encryption.......1.4K [ ] 12435 ) Clinton Announces R & D Partnerships Valued at $200M..........1.8K [ ] 12436 ) NCSA Hosts Alliance '98 Conference............................2.2K [ ] 12437 ) USAF's AMC To Use CA`S Unicenter TNG For Network Management.....2K [ ] 12438 ) Data General Posts DS Record With AViiON NUMA Server..........2.5K [ ] 12439 ) US Telecom, Sequent & Oracle Announce New Benchmark...........2.4K [ ] 12440 ) Forbes Names Compaq Company of the Year.......................1.4K [ ] 12441 ) Mercury Prod To Power Avid's Shared Storage Solution..........1.5K [ ] 12442 ) Parametric Receives $1.2M Order from Bang & Olufsen A/S.......1.6K [ ] 12443 ) Unisys Inks $65M NT Deal with BASF............................1.4K [ ] 12444 ) BMW Signs Three Year Deal with Tecnomatix.....................2.2K [ ] 12445 ) Boeing & Lockheed Expand Usage of Tecnomatix Cape Tools.......1.5K [ ] 12446 ) UK's Cellnet Announces GSM Network Enhancement Program........1.3K [ ] 12447 ) NFL's KC Chiefs Employ Clariion Product.......................2.2K [ ] 12448 ) Quickturn Receives $3.3M in Orders from Unisys................1.5K [ ] 12449 ) Compaq Opens Enterprise Solution Center in Houston............2.1K [ ] 12450 ) SGI/Cray Announces Crayquest '98 Awards.......................1.1K [ ] 12451 ) Parametric Receives $1.5M Order for Software from FCI.........1.6K [ ] 12452 ) Missouri Dept of Transportation Selects GEOPAK Suite..........1.9K [ ] 12453 ) Latest Version of GPC News Posted to WWW......................1.3K [ ] 12454 ) Hitachi Intros Low-Cost Servers for Internet Phone Ntwks......1.3K [ ] 12455 ) London Stock Exchange Examines Y2K Bug Risks....................2K [ ] 12456 ) Parametric Receives $2.8 Million Order from Lucent Tech.......1.5K [ ] 12457 ) Nissan and SDRC Sign Deal Valued at Over $100M..................2K [ ] 12458 ) Perot Systems Consolidates onto EMC Storage Systems...........2.2K [ ] 12459 ) Japan's Sakura Bank Hit by High Tech Thieves..................1.4K [ ] 12460 ) Computron to Provide AR/Billing Sys to Brokerage Svcs Co......2.2K [ ] 12461 ) First Union National Bank Migrates to Alpha Platform..........2.2K SHORT TAKES [ ] 12462 ) Product Watch: HP Intros FC Long Range Hub...................27.2K Intel Cuts Prices, Boosts Speed. Sequent Adds Clstrng, FC to NUMA-Q. [ ] 12463 ) Financial Update: DEC Posts Cash Dividend on Stock............9.8K Sybase Notes Prelim Q4 Results. TMC Raises $3M for Expansion. [ ] 12464 ) Corporate Liaisons: HP, Newbridge Ntwks Note Agrmt...........22.4K TI to Purchase GO DSP Corp. SGI & ATI Ink Agreement. [ ] 12465 ) People and Positions: Intel Elects 4 New Officers.............4.4K SNIA Names Quantum VP Chair. Amdahl Names Barton CFO. 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