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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 16, 1998: Vol. 7, No. 2 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 305 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 -------------------- * -------------------- [ ] 70572 WHATEVER you're into EXPLORE it at Intel Career Opportunities http://www.careermosaic.com/cm/intel/65.html ______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _______________________________ | | | [ ] 12467) FEATURES: RIP VAN WINKLE (AKA NORRIS PARKER SMITH) AWAKENS! | | [ ] 12470) SCIENCE NEWS: NEW CHIP MAY DBL CAPACITIES OF LINEAR TAPE DRIVES | | [ ] 12473) COMMERCIAL NEWS: IDC REVIEWS WORLDWIDE OPTICAL STORAGE MKT | | [ ] 12478) NEWS BRIEFS: NEC TO USE MERCED IN ACOS GENERAL COMPUTER LINE | |___________________________________________________________________________ _| * * * SPECIAL PRESIDENTS' LETTER SUPPLEMENT * * * Looking Back: Looking Ahead "PART 1" [ ] 70573) Sun closes 1997 with significant milestones and enters 1998 with great enthusiasm. A letter from Clark Masters Vice President & General Manager Data Center and High Performance Computing Product Group Sun Microsystems Inc. [ ] 70574) IBM RS/6000: World (and Other Worldly) Champ By Michael J. Borman, General Manager, IBM RS/6000 [ ] 70575) Cray supercomputers and SGI servers set new records for computational performance and scalability this past year. A Letter from Irene Qualters, President of Cray Research and Senior Vice President of Silicon Graphics [ ] 70576) MAXSTRAT provides the safest, fastest way to store supercomputing data. A letter from Del Masters President and CEO MAXSTRAT Corporation FEATURES ===================================================================== [ ] 12467 ) RIP VAN WINKLE AWAKENS, RETURNS TO NEWSOXICATION.............10.2K Commentary by Norris Parker Smith, editor at large After three months of transcontinental transition and withdrawal from notice of the news, a latter-day Rip Van Winkle prepares to grapple once again with the possible wider consequences of widespread financial weakness in Asia, the strange effects of the El Nino anomaly, and the hissy-fight between Microsoft and the federal government. [ ] 12468 ) INFORMATION WAR: HIGH LEVEL HACKING IN A NETWORKED WORLD......6.9K Security experts concerned over the threat of computer hacking that has come to be known as information warfare, or infowar, say no computer system is completely invulnerable. Perpetrators of infowar could be anyone from teen hackers loose on the Internet to disgruntled employees, organized crime, terrorists or rival governments. [ ] 12469 ) UK COMPANY EMPLOYS NEURAL COMPUTER TO MONITOR NTWK............4.1K An intelligent neural computer has been developed to monitor the performance of up to 10,000 Orange base stations in the UK. Known as ORBIT, the neural computer can diagnose potential faults in the mobile telecommunications network and direct an engineer to fix the problem. SCIENCE & ENGINEERING NEWS [ ] 12470 ) NEW CHIP MAY DOUBLE CAPACITIES OF LINEAR TAPE DRIVES..........3.5K Overland Data, Inc. has announced a chip that may double the capacities of linear tape drives -- an advance that could mean users need to keep fewer tapes to back up data. [ ] 12471 ) NCR TERADATA SELECTED FOR TRW'S VERY LARGE DB CONTRACT........3.6K NCR Corporation announced that systems integrator TRW Data Systems has chosen the NCR Teradata parallel relational database management system (RDBMS) as the new database for their Very Large Database contract with the U.S. government. COMMERCIAL NEWS [ ] 12472 ) COMPAQ'S TANDEM ACQUISITION BEARS FRUIT, A CLUSTERING PACKAGE.2.7K Integrity XC, a two-node cluster combining Compaq servers and Tandem software, will give enterprise users high availability to their applications and the ease of use of a single operating system. [ ] 12473 ) IDC RESEARCH REVIEWS WORLDWIDE OPTICAL STORAGE MARKET.........2.8K The overall worldwide optical drive market finished 1997 up 54 percent over 1996 with unit shipments reaching 74.7 million, according to new International Data Corporation research, Optical Storage Market: 1997 Year in Review and 1998 Forecast. [ ] 12474 ) INTEL ANNOUNCES FURTHER INVESTMENT IN SERVER ACTIVITIES.........2K Intel Corporation announced that it has hired a technology development group of 64 hardware design engineers from NCR Corporation. These engineers will be involved in the development of high-end server building blocks based on the latest IA-32 and IA-64 processors. [ ] 12475 ) WILLIAMS COS. RETURNS TO NATIONAL COMMUNICATIONS BUSINESS.....6.8K Somewhat overshadowed by $16 billion worth of telecommunications takeover agreements last week, the Williams Cos. announced its return to the national communications business with an 11,000-mile fiber optic network and $1 billion in contracts. QUOTE OF THE WEEK ============================================================ [ ] 12469 ) "Neural computers are a powerful tool because they can 'learn' what is a normal pattern of calls for each base station, automatically taking into account periodic changes such as the surge in use as people phone home to say they are on their way..." -- Simon Hancock, Technical Director for Neural Technologies ___________________________INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHTS________________________ [ ] 70577)QUALCOMM's PureVoice Compression Technology Optimizes Apple's QuickTime Voice Quality While Minimizing File Size [ ] 70578)SCIENTIFIC Products Provide Rapid, Cost-Effective Development of Portable, Parallel and Distributed Applications [ ] 70579)The Portland Group's parallelizing/optimizing Fortran, C, and C++ compilers and tools for Intel processor-based workstations [ ] 70580)MAXSTRAT Storage With HIPPI, Fibre Channel, and UltraSCSI Connectivity, Speeds Over 250 MBytes/sec. and a TB of Capacity [ ] 70581)HP's New 64-Bit Exemplar Technical Servers: The V-Class and K-Class Performance Leaders and A Full Suite of Applications ----------------------------------------------------------------------- [ ] 70582) LOOKING FOR THE BEST OF THE BEST? List your Career Opportunities in our Special Career Track Supplement issue on February 13, 1998. Retrieve full information now! NEWS BRIEFS ================================================================== [ ] 12476 ) BT, Korea Telecom Collaborate On New Neural Network Chips.....2.5K [ ] 12477 ) DARPA Seeks New Users for Innovative Security Network.........3.2K [ ] 12478 ) NEC to Employ Merced in ACOS General Computer Line............0.9K [ ] 12479 ) Sybase Chooses EMC's Symmetrix as Core Storage Platform.......2.4K [ ] 12480 ) HP Posts ViewPerf Benchmark Results...........................1.9K [ ] 12481 ) Oracle and IBM Post Record SAP R/3 Benchmark..................2.1K [ ] 12482 ) Sun Posts Record Benchmark for SAP/R3.........................2.6K [ ] 12483 ) Freeman Assoc. Report Names ATL #1 in DLT Library Mkt.........1.7K [ ] 12484 ) DEC Announces $300M in Multi-Year Contracts.....................2K [ ] 12485 ) FAA May Replace IBM Air Traffic Computers Early.................2K [ ] 12486 ) MPT Plans Joint Multimedia Research with Singapore............1.2K [ ] 12487 ) NAG Plans Numerical Libraries & Vis Software to Support IA-64.1.9K [ ] 12488 ) Lockheed Martin Spins Off Real 3D, Intel Buys 20%.............2.3K [ ] 12489 ) HBSI Moves Healthcare Data Warehouse to Red Brick.............2.1K [ ] 12490 ) Digital Signs NT Servers Contract with Reuters................1.8K SHORT TAKES [ ] 12491 ) Product Watch: Sun Intros SPARC Solaris Elite3D Sys..........21.1K Sun Intros Darwin Wkstn Line. IBM Intros 275-MHz PowerPC Prcssr. [ ] 12492 ) Financial Update: Intel Reports Yr-End Results................8.3K DEC Announces Q2 Results. AMD Notes Q4 & Yr-End Results. [ ] 12493 ) Corporate Liaisons: Fujitsu, Tandberg Ink OEM Deal.............13K CA & Procom Team on Tape Solutions. DEC & BEA Note Dist. Agrmt. [ ] 12494 ) People and Positions: Fujitsu Augments Exec. 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