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This week, select 9028 for your bonus item: 9028) The 1994 Arena -- Spectators: Ten; Gladiators: Zero ============================================================================= H P C w i r e The Electronic News Magazine for High-Performance Computing *** January 14, 1994: Vol. 3, No. 2, Circulation: 14,668 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 101 Pages of Text -------------------- * -------------------- This week's edition of HPCwire is sponsored by: ADVANCED NETWORK & SERVICES (ANS) Announcing Secure LAN-to-LAN Interconnect Service For complete specifications, select 743. =============================== IN THIS ISSUE =============================== 2339) NEWS BRIEFS: Kendall Square Research Appoints New Auditors 1353) ANALYSIS: Gore's Data Highway: How to Define Universal Access? 1355) FEATURE: SDSC Introduces Engineers/Scientists to Parallel Processing ***************************************************************************** FOR INSTRUCTIONS ON RETRIEVING STORIES, PAGE TO THE END OF THIS FILE Subscription Information: sub@hpcwire.ans.net. or Select 601 Advertising Information and Rates, Select 607 or Call: 1-800-795-4472 ================================ NEWS BRIEFS ================================ 2338) BELL ATLANTIC TAPS nCUBE/ORACLE FOR DATABASES........................95 Oracle Corp. chosen to supply multimedia software and storage systems. Software server to run on massively parallel machines designed by nCUBE. 2339) KENDALL SQUARE RESEARCH APPOINTS NEW AUDITORS........................49 Citing a fee dispute, troubled supercomputer maker KSR names Coopers and Lybrand to replace Price Waterhouse as its independent public accountants. 2340) CAL POLY LAUNCHES TOMORROW'S UNIVERSITY/IBM MAINFRAME MEGASERVER.....81 California Polytechnic State University launches vision for "virtual university" by transforming the way students learn via IBM ES/9000/a. 2341) LARGEST PRIME NUMBER DISCOVERED ON CRAY RESEARCH SUPERCOMPUTER.......81 Largest Mersenne prime number known discovered on CRAY C90. Number has 258,716 digits and printed in newspaper-sized type would fill approximately eight newspaper pages. ============================================================================= ALSO THIS WEEK: (Full stories available from more@hpcwire.ans.net) 2342) Data Visionary Vinton Cerf Joins MCI, Board of FTP Software..........85 2343) Sun Microsystems Ships 20-Processor SPARCcenter 2000 UNIX Server.....38 2344) KSR/Availability of M.A.T.I.S.S.E. Object-Oriented Database..........60 2345) IBM/Object Design Joint Venture to Support Leading Object Database...44 2346) Cray Research Announces First Direct FDDI Connection.................41 2347) Concurrent Computer Corp. Ships First MAXION Multiprocessor System...39 2348) Lockheed/Sanders to License Mercury's RACE Architecture..............50 2349) Cray Research Program/Attractive Migration Path for Customers........73 2350) World Workstation Market Will Quadruple by End of Century...........104 2351) Computer Sciences Corp. Wins $49 Million Subcontract at NASA.........33 2352) Sequent Computer Has Record Earnings/Forms Two New Divisions........109 2353) Microsoft's Myhrvold Named to NII Advisory Council...................30 2354) Sun Microsystems Protests Security Agency Procurement Rebid..........14 ============================ INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT ============================= 739) 800 FLY CORP Announces Corporate Travel Savings Via E-Mail...........96 752) Convex Computer Announces Software Environment and Applications Availability for Its New Exemplar Systems...........................122 755) HPCwire Electronic Publishing Software Now Available................101 ============================== QUOTE OF THE WEEK ============================ 1353) "Is the Internet considered too nerdy for prime time? As a member of a community that considers the Internet its life support, [Ed McCracken] would do well to get to the root of this omission." -- Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large ============================== ANALYSIS & FEATURES ========================== 1353) GORE'S DATA HIGHWAY: HOW TO DEFINE UNIVERSAL ACCESS?................256 News Analysis by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large Vice-President Gore outlined key principles for a new communications infrastructure but dodged some crucial issues. An open letter to Silicon Graphics' Ed McCracken, co-chairman of a new advisory panel, proposes pursuit of an updated definition of universal service. 1354) FULL TEXT OF VICE PRESIDENT GORE'S SUPERHIGHWAY SUMMIT SPEECH.......489 1355) SDSC INTRODUCES ENGINEERS/SCIENTISTS TO PARALLEL PROCESSING.........116 Feature Story by Marsha Jovanovic SDSC featured its 400-compute-node Intel Paragon XP/S 30 at annual NSF- funded advanced computational science institute to teach how parallel computing can be used in computational research. 1356) THE 1994 ARENA -- SPECTATORS: TEN; GLADIATORS: ZERO.................208 Commentary by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large 1994 will be a year of exceptional opportunity for customers who will be able to buy ever-higher performance at ever-lower prices, taking advantage of an overcrowded marketplace in which all vendors will face tighter profit margins and some may become extinct. =============================== SCIENCE NEWS ================================ 1434) Comet Shoemaker/Levy 9 Set to Collide with Jupiter in July...........51 1435) Post-World War II Government Radiation Experiments Conducted.........36 1436) Change in Pressurizing Spacecraft Fuel Tanks May Spell Doom at NASA..30 ============================ HPCwire INFORMATION ============================ 601) Subscription Information for HPCwire.................................57 602) Contribute Your News, Tips, and Information to HPCwire...............24 603) How to Get On/Off Distribution List; Masthead; E-Mail Contacts.......41 608) Letters to the Editor Information.....................................8 950) A Complete Index of HPCwire Back Issues..............................48 ================================= JOB BANK ================================== 667) Employment Opportunities for January 14, 1994.......................102 604) Post Your Help Wanted Listings in HPCwire's Job Bank.................58 ============================= OTHER DEPARTMENTS ============================= CONFERENCES 2888) Calendar of Upcoming HPC Events.......................................6 FACTS & FIGURES 2890) List of World's Most Powerful Computing Sites, January 9, 1994......974 SUPERHIGHWAY REPORT 2891) VP Gore Hosted Where Students Benefit Via Information Superhighway...20 2892) Pentagon Proposes Limiting Internet Army Links.......................26 =============== LAST ISSUE'S MOST REQUESTED ITEMS FROM HPCwire ============== 1350) Robert R. Borchers, Director of Advanced Scientific Computing, NSF..109 759) Cray Research's Ewald Extols 1993's Extraordinary Achievements.......82 667) Employment Opportunities for January 14, 1994.......................102 1351) Data Communications in 1993: Hope, Money and Greed..................383 ======================== H P C w i r e S P O N S O R S ==================== Product specifications and company information in this section are available to both subscribers and non-subscribers 901) ANS 902) IBM Corp. 904) Intel SSD 905) Maximum Strategy 906) nCUBE 907) Digital Equipment 908) Hewlett-Packard 909) Fujitsu America 910) Convex Computer 912) Avalon Computer 914) Applied Parallel Res. 915) Genias Software 916) MasPar Computer 919) Transtech Parallel 921) Cray Research Inc. ========================== UPCOMING ISSUES IN HPCwire ===================== * Supercomputer Hardware Buyers' Guide * HPCwire System Survey: Executive Summary and Samples ============================================================================= Copyright 1994 HPCwire. 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