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For subscription information, send e-mail to: sub@hpcwire.tgc.com \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\///////////////////////////////////////// H P C w i r e The Text-on-Demand E-zine for High Performance Computing *** January 23, 1998: Vol. 7, No. 3 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 320 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 -------------------- * -------------------- [ ] 70590 NAG Announces Parallel (SMP, MPI/PVM) Numerical Libraries Solutions Significant Performance Improvements On: Digital - Silicon Graphics - Sun ______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _______________________________ | | | [ ] 12496) FEATURES: NORRIS SMITH EXAMINES THE ASIAN FINANCIAL CRISIS | | [ ] 12499) SCIENCE NEWS: NEC PLANS TO DEVELOP A 32 TFLOPS COMPUTER | | [ ] 12502) COMMERCIAL NEWS: IDC RELEASES REPORT ON SERVER MKT | | [ ] 12507) NEWS BRIEFS: UNIV OF NEW MEXICO INHERITS IBM SP-2 FROM MHPCC | |____________________________________________________________________________| [ ] 70591 WHATEVER you're into EXPLORE it at Intel Career Opportunities http://www.careermosaic.com/cm/intel/65.html FEATURES ===================================================================== [ ] 12496 ) THE ASIAN FINANCIAL CRISIS: AN END TO OPTIMISM FOR HPC?.......8.2K Commentary by Norris Parker Smith, editor at large The ongoing downturn in Asian economies could spread within Asia -- and beyond. Immediate consequences are already affecting the bottom lines of HPC companies. Broader effects cannot be ruled out. The HPC community, accustomed to optimism and a technological perspective, should pay especially close attention to these developments. [ ] 12497 ) COMPUTER FIRMS, TELCOS PREPARE TO ENABLE HIGH-SPEED INET......5.5K Compaq, Intel and Microsoft have teamed up with GTE and four of the five Bell telephone companies to set technical standards for the next generation of access to cyberspace. SCIENCE & ENGINEERING NEWS [ ] 12498 ) INTEL DISCLOSES DETAILS ON KATMAI PROCESSORS..................3.2K Intel Corp. disclosed some technical details about the processor family, code-named Katmai, projected to arrive in the first half of 1999. The 32-bit chips will incorporate 70 new MMX instructions improving floating-point and 3D-intensive application performance. [ ] 12499 ) NEC ANNOUNCES PLANS TO DEVELOP 32 TFLOPS COMPUTER.............2.8K NEC announced plans to develop the world's fastest ultra computer with a maximum performance of over 32 TeraFLOPS as part of the Earth Simulator Program promoted by the Science and Technology Agency of Japan. [ ] 12500 ) GERMANY'S FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE CREATES VIRTUAL OCEANARIUM.....4.5K Torsten Frohlich, an engineer at the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics in Darmstadt, Germany, has been leading a team of ten and using several million dollars worth of computers and software programs to create one of the most spectacular virtual-reality applications to date. [ ] 12501 ) NSF DONATES $2M TO NCSA TO AID USERS WITH NTWK APPS...........3.8K The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $2 million over 30 months to the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign to help university users with high performance networking applications. COMMERCIAL NEWS [ ] 12502 ) IDC REPORTS SINGLE DIGIT SERVER MKT GROWTH....................3.4K The worldwide high-end server market remains on track to squeak out low single-digit compound annual growth through the end of the decade, despite a factory revenue decline of four percent in 1997, reports new research from International Data Corporation. [ ] 12503 ) VARS LEVERAGE ENORMOUS DEMAND FOR DISK SPACE..................5.7K A recent Gallup Organization survey revealed 85 percent of midsize businesses -- companies with annual revenue from $20 million to $500 million -- rely on resellers for storage products, such as hard drives. [ ] 12504 ) SEQUENT SHOWS LINEAR SCALABILITY WITH NUMA-Q 2000 ON TPC-D....4.3K Sequent Computer Systems, Inc. offered the first industry standard proof of linear scalability for a large commercial system with its NUMA-Q 2000 data center server, using the Transaction Processing Council's TPC-D benchmark. [ ] 12505 ) NBC TO USE SGI TECHNOLOGY TO ENHANCE SUPERBOWL BROADCAST......4.6K Silicon Graphics, Inc. announced that NBC Sports will incorporate Silicon Graphics-created real-time 3D graphics into its broadcast coverage of Super Bowl XXXII. An NBC Sports commentator will use these live, real-time, 3D animations to present complex statistics in a way never seen on network television. [ ] 12506 ) GERMAN BANK OFFERS REWARD FOR HACKER..........................2.7K Noris Verbraucherbank has announced it is offering a DM 10,000 (US$5,300) reward for information leading to the arrest of a hacker who the bank says is trying to blackmail the former private German bank. QUOTE OF THE WEEK ============================================================ [ ] 12498 ) "A combination of features will allow Intel to charge a premium price for Katmai, even if it appears at essentially the same clock speeds as Deschutes." -- Linley Gwennap, Microprocessor Report editor ___________________________INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHTS________________________ [ ] 70592)The Portland Group's parallelizing/optimizing Fortran, C, and C++ compilers and tools for Intel processor-based workstations [ ] 70593)SCIENTIFIC Products Provide Rapid, Cost-Effective Development of Portable, Parallel and Distributed Applications [ ] 70594)QUALCOMM's PureVoice Compression Technology Optimizes Apple's QuickTime Voice Quality While Minimizing File Size [ ] 70595)HP's New 64-Bit Exemplar Technical Servers: The V-Class and K-Class Performance Leaders and A Full Suite of Applications [ ] 70596)MAXSTRAT Storage With HIPPI, Fibre Channel, and UltraSCSI Connectivity, Speeds Over 250 MBytes/sec. and a TB of Capacity ----------------------------------------------------------------------- [ ] 70597) LOWER YOUR COST PER HIRE List your Career Opportunities in our Special Career Track Supplement issue on February 13, 1998. 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NEWS BRIEFS ================================================================== [ ] 12507 ) University of New Mexico Inherits IBM SP-2 from MHPCC.........2.5K [ ] 12508 ) Sun Adopts Schlumberger Test Sys for New SPARC, ASIC Chips....1.7K [ ] 12509 ) DEC Wins $45M in Systems Integration Contracts................2.1K [ ] 12510 ) Unisys Awarded $258M IDIQ Contract Supporting DOD Info Ctrs...1.8K [ ] 12511 ) DEC Alpha Posts TPC-C Results.................................0.9K [ ] 12512 ) SPEC Releases Upgrade of Benchmark, System File Server 2.0....2.3K [ ] 12513 ) Chinese Ministry of Power to Deploy Bay Networks Solution.....2.7K [ ] 12514 ) Building Controls Vndrs Select Visio for Visual Cntrl Logic...3.3K [ ] 12515 ) UK's Univ of Warwick Receives Grant to Create VR Lab..........2.8K [ ] 12516 ) SGI Opens Reality Centre to British Americas Cup Effort.......1.9K [ ] 12517 ) CACI Wins $23.7M Navy Advanced Technology Contract............2.5K [ ] 12518 ) Quantum Purchases Customized ANSYS License....................1.7K [ ] 12519 ) Mech Dynamics, DTI Asia Supply CAD Sim to Autodesk Mkt........2.7K [ ] 12520 ) Imagineer Tool Tracks Fire Engines For Ft Worth FD............2.5K [ ] 12521 ) Liquor Control Board Picks NCR To Build Unix Platform.........1.4K [ ] 12522 ) Parametric Technology Selects Dell Workstations...............1.9K [ ] 12523 ) Stratus to Implement Intlgnt Ntwk-Based Number Portability....3.2K SHORT TAKES [ ] 12524 ) Product Watch: Sun Intros 300MHz, 64-bit ULTRASPARC..........15.7K 333MHz Pentium II Due 26 Jan. 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