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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 30, 1998: Vol. 7, No. 4 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 325 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 -------------------- * -------------------- [ ] 70598) OUTSTANDING OPPORTUNITIES INCREDIBLE RESULTS INTEL Career Opportunities http://www.careermosaic.com/cm/intel/intel65.html ______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _______________________________ | | | [ ] 12531) FEATURES: NORRIS SMITH VIEWS COMPAQ'S ACQUISITION OF DEC | | [ ] 12533) SCIENCE NEWS: INTEL'S VERIFICATION CHALLENGE...MERCED | | [ ] 12537) COMMERCIAL NEWS: IDC REPORT EXAMINES WORLDWIDE HPC MARKET | | [ ] 12540) NEWS BRIEFS: INTEL DELIVERS 333MHz PENTIUM II | |____________________________________________________________________________| The Fifth Annual HPCwire High Performance Computing HARDWARE BUYERS' GUIDE The only complete and up-to-date listing of all major hardware vendors and their products. LIST OF COMPANIES: [ ] 70599) Digital Equipment Corporation [ ] 70600) Fujitsu [ ] 70601) HAL Computers [ ] 70602) Hewlett-Packard [ ] 70603) Hitachi Ltd. [ ] 70604) IBM Corporation [ ] 70605) MAXSTRAT Corporation [ ] 70606) NEC [ ] 70607) Quadrics [ ] 70608) Silicon Graphics/Cray Research [ ] 70609) Sun Microsystems, Inc. [ ] 70610) Tera Computer Company FEATURES ===================================================================== [ ] 12531 ) COMPAQ & DEC: A HAPPY WEDDING OR LOPSIDED MARRIAGE?...........9.5K Commentary by Norris Parker Smith, editor at large In a search for bigness, PC leader Compaq plans to wed DEC, which has been in desperate need of a suitor. Does Compaq really need to become big, the cause of DEC's desperation? Will DEC's weaknesses divert the attention of Compaq's bosses from the demands of the volatile PC market? [ ] 12532 ) COMPAQ DETAILS STRATEGY TO ADVANCE STANDARDS-BASED COMPUTING..5.6K Compaq Computer Corporation announced its plans to propel Compaq and standards-based computing to the pinnacle of the enterprise market. The cornerstone of the strategy is Compaq's E2000 Platform Architecture. SCIENCE & ENGINEERING NEWS [ ] 12533 ) INTEL FACES ITS TOUGHEST VERIFICATION CHALLENGE YET...MERCED....9K The toughest verification challenge Intel has faced yet lies dead ahead: the job of wringing all the bugs out of the new IA-64 architecture and its companion 64-bit Merced microprocessor, a highly parallel design of unprecedented complexity which is due for release in just two years. [ ] 12534 ) NLANR & SDSC HOST vBNS TECHNICAL MEETING......................3.4K The National Laboratory for Applied Network Research's National Center for Network Engineering recently held a meeting for technical personnel involved in connecting their sites to the very high speed backbone (vBNS) network sponsored by NSF and administered by MCI Corporation. [ ] 12535 ) SUPERHIPPI POISED TO CHANGE THE CONCEPTION OF NETWORKS........5.6K Hippi-6400, also known as superhippi, is preparing to usher in the era of gigabyte-per-second networks. Boasting more than six times the capacity of Gigabit Ethernet or Fibre Channel, HIPPI (High Performance Parallel Interface)-6400 promises to radically change the conception of a LAN. [ ] 12536 ) A LOOK AT THE HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING INITIATIVE CONF......5.9K by Robert J. Allan, CLRC Daresbury Laboratory The HPCI Centre at CLRC Daresbury Laboratory, with assistance from the other Centers at the Universities of Edinburgh and Southampton, organized the first National HPCI Conference to assess the success of this service and indicate scientific requirements which may be met in coming years. COMMERCIAL NEWS [ ] 12537 ) IDC REPORTS WORLDWIDE HPC MARKET HITS $4.8 BILLION IN 1997....3.1K Rapid growth in the high-performance midrange (HPMR) segment helped propel the worldwide high-performance system market to more than $4.8 billion in 1997, according to International Data Corporation. [ ] 12538 ) SGI IRIX SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGIES NOW AVAILABLE ON UNICOS........3.6K Silicon Graphics/Cray Research announced that several key software technologies originally implemented on Silicon Graphics computer systems running the IRIX operating system are now available for CRAY J90 and CRAY T90 supercomputers running the UNICOS operating system. [ ] 12539 ) IDC NAMES SEQUENT FASTEST GROWING MID-RANGE SERVER VENDOR.....4.3K The IDC Commercial Systems and Servers Bulletin, titled "1997 Midrange Server Year in Review," attributed Sequent's "outstanding growth" to the strength of its NUMA-Q 2000 data center server in commercial applications. QUOTE OF THE WEEK ============================================================ [ ] 12531 ) "Prophecies of doom have surrounded DEC for at least the past five years. Profitability has wobbled, mostly downward. For that matter, many investors clinging to DEC stock have been motivated primarily by hopes of a generous buy-out." -- Norris Parker Smith, HPCwire editor at large ___________________________INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHTS________________________ [ ] 70611) NAG Announces Parallel (SMP, MPI/PVM) Numerical Libraries Solutions Significant Performance Improvements [ ] 70612)The Portland Group's parallelizing/optimizing Fortran, C, and C++ compilers and tools for Intel processor-based workstations [ ] 70613)SCIENTIFIC Products Provide Rapid, Cost-Effective Development of Portable, Parallel and Distributed Applications [ ] 70614)QUALCOMM's PureVoice Compression Technology Optimizes Apple's QuickTime Voice Quality While Minimizing File Size [ ] 70615)HP's New 64-Bit Exemplar Technical Servers: The V-Class and K-Class Performance Leaders and A Full Suite of Applications ----------------------------------------------------------------------- [ ] 70616) LOWER YOUR COST PER HIRE List your Career Opportunities in our Special Career Track Supplement issue on February 13, 1998. Retrieve full information now! NEWS BRIEFS ================================================================== [ ] 12540 ) Intel Delivers 333MHz Pentium II Processor....................2.6K [ ] 12541 ) Motorola to Use Sun's Java Technology.........................1.4K [ ] 12542 ) FAA to Act on Y2K Bugs in Air-Traffic Computers...............2.1K [ ] 12543 ) Neo Aims at Bringing Parallelism to Route Processing..........2.1K [ ] 12544 ) Orion Network Sys to Distribute News Worldwide for USA TODAY..2.2K [ ] 12545 ) Computing Research Assoc. Invites Habermann Award Nominations.1.2K [ ] 12546 ) Lucent Unveils Global Optical Networking System...............2.4K [ ] 12547 ) NCR Wins $110M Contract From United States Postal Service.....1.8K [ ] 12548 ) South African Auto Manufacturers Choose NUMA-Q 2000 Systems...2.3K [ ] 12549 ) Essex County MA Purchases Unisys RAID Subsystem...............2.8K [ ] 12550 ) Finnair Reports 25% Growth with Unisys ARE System.............2.3K [ ] 12551 ) Hino Motors Selects SDRC`s I-DEAS Software for Truck Design...2.6K [ ] 12552 ) MCI to Employ Storage Computer's OmniRAID SuperServer.........2.5K [ ] 12553 ) Quickturn Receives $2M Order from Cisco Systems...............1.9K [ ] 12554 ) Innovative Tech Systems Announces $1.6M Deal With SW Bell.....1.7K [ ] 12555 ) Olicom Token Ring Switch Tops Tolly Group Tests.................2K SHORT TAKES [ ] 12556 ) Product Watch: SGI Intros UNICOS 10.0........................37.8K Sun Launches Intelligent Stor Srvr. NEC Unveils Spineware for Metacomp. [ ] 12557 ) Financial Update: SGI Reports Q2 Results.......................17K NEC Expects 51% Profit Drop. StorageTek Posts Record Q4. [ ] 12558 ) Corporate Liaisons: Sun & Insignia Ink Dist Agrmt............21.1K DEC & MSoft Expand Alliance. 3Com & Newbridge Ntwks Note Agrmt. [ ] 12559 ) People and Positions: Fujitsu Pres On Data Storage Board......5.7K EMC, StorageTek VPs Join Sun. SAS Names New Dir of Latin Amer. 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