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This week, select 9039 for your bonus item: 9039) Intel CEO Warns UNIX Community of Windows NT Threat ============================================================================= H P C w i r e The Text-On-Demand News Magazine for High-Performance Computing *** April 1, 1994: Vol. 3, No. 12, Circulation: 15,105 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 186 Pages of Text -------------------- * -------------------- ANNOUNCING 926) Seventh SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing February 15-17, 1995 - San Francisco, California _____________________________ IN THIS ISSUE ____________________________ | | | 1386) COMMENTARY: CRAY'S CS 6400: Venturing Where Seymour Never Trod | | 9039) NEWS BRIEFS: Intel CEO Warns UNIX Community of Windows NT Threat | | 3033) BENCHMARKS: NAS Parallel Benchmark Results Update | |________________________________________________________________________| FOR INSTRUCTIONS ON RETRIEVING STORIES, PAGE TO THE END OF THIS FILE For a free 4-week trial subscription, e-mail: trial@hpcwire.ans.net Subscription Information: sub@hpcwire.ans.net or select 601 NEWS BRIEFS ================================================================= LINES 2677) OHIO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER RELEASES LAM/UNIX CLUSTER SOFTWARE.........78 OSC has announced the general release of LAM, a UNIX cluster implemen- tation of the MPI interprocess communication standard. 2678) DATAQUEST SURVEY FINDS CLIENT/SERVER USERS COST LESS TO SUPPORT......50 Results of a recent survey indicate corporations can save at least $500 per user and up to $1,500 per user in annual support costs when the user is in a client/server environment. 9039) INTEL CEO WARNS UNIX COMMUNITY OF WINDOWS NT THREAT..................58 The future of UNIX will get dimmer unless the UNIX community sets aside its differences and delivers a multi-vendor, enterprise capable operating system. 2680) THREE SUPERCOMPUTER CENTERS ORDER INSTRUMENTAL'S NEW UNIX SOFTWARE...55 European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) in the UK, Ford Motor Company, and Fujitsu America, have ordered PerfStat, its UNIX performance monitoring software. THIS WEEK =================================================================== 2681) Kendall Square Releases Audited 1993 & Restated Financials........152 2682) Amdahl to Unveil Massively Parallel Database Server Under Pact.....78 2683) Prediction Techniques Part of TMC's Intelligent Business Systems...45 2684) Maximum Strategy Continues Expansion with New Phoenix Office.......20 2685) Mercury Has Ruggedized Version of RACE Series Multicomputers.......81 2686) H-P Launches Program to Increase Presence of HP9000 Server Family..52 2687) NEC Samples World's First 16 and 18Mb RDRAM Devices................92 NETWORKING UPDATE 2688) DEC Gets $15M 5-Year Project/Provides NASA Network Infrastructure..33 2689) Xyplex Debuts First Integrated Switched Network for Routing Hub....78 2690) Minnesota/Israeli Firms to Develop High-Speed Network Analyzer.....70 2691) Newbridge Wins $25-$30 Million Venezuelan Network Contract.........30 2692) Network Systems Releases New ESCON Channel Interface...............27 SOFTWARE 2693) Oracle7 Available on Thinking Machines' Connection Machines........23 2694) H-P/SAIC Assign HP Task Broker Project Rights to TriTeal...........56 2695) Third Party Extensions to Oracle CDE Open for Client/Server Sys....46 EUROPEAN UPDATE 2696) Parsys Launches New Range of Massively Parallel Database Servers...54 2697) Dassault Systemes/Mental Images Announce Cooperation with CATI......7 PACIFIC RIM REPORT 2698) Japan's High Speed Information and Communication Project...........39 2699) Dataquest/China's High Tech Market to Soar Over $48B by 1997.......58 CONTRACTS/VENTURES 2700) nCUBE/Amdahl to Provide Advanced Massively Parallel Servers........47 2701) Tellabs/LightStream to Develop/Market ATM Switching Systems........59 2702) Leading Vendors Unify/Accelerate Open System Software Components...42 2703) Reliance Electric/Oracle Forge Interactive Agreement...............50 2704) Digital/UniSQL Deliver New Object-Relational Data Integration.....107 2705) Oracle in Applications Pacts with 19 Software Providers............14 SUPERHIGHWAY REPORT 2708) Protocol Police Set Date of Second SNMP Test Summit................44 2709) Pacific Bell to Test Movie Distribution by Phone to Theaters.......42 2710) TCI to Test "Intelligent" Interactive TV Cable in Mt. Prospect, Il.47 2711) BellSouth Extends ISDN to All Customers............................17 ___________________________ INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT ___________________________ | | | 925) HPCMarket@Ceram.com Offers Popular Memory Upgrades Under $40/MB....27| | 739) 800 FLY CORP Announces Corporate Travel Savings Via E-Mail.........96| | 790) HPCwire's Electronic Publishing Software Provides TEXT-ON-DEMAND...38| | 743) ANS CO+RE Announces Secure LAN-TO-LAN Interconnect Service.........75| |___________________________________________________________________________| QUOTE OF THE WEEK =========================================================== 9039) "Consolidation is crucial, rather than splitting. My plea is for you to set aside your differences and deliver a multi-vendor, enterprise capable operating system that will ensure our investment in UNIX has a life." -- Andrew S. Grove, President and CEO, Intel Corporation ANALYSIS & FEATURES ========================================================= 1386) CRAY'S CS 6400: VENTURING WHERE SEYMOUR NEVER TROD..................171 Commentary by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large Cray Research has joined the multiprocessor traffic jam with its new Superserver line of single-address-space systems, a radical departure from Cray tradition, based on Sun technology and Solaris and focused on commercial markets. 1387) QUEST FOR SPEED: "DENALI'S" BIG MEMORY SPEEDS UP DATA PROCESSING....103 Eric Muehling, Arctic Region Supercomputing Center Researchers are discovering that raw CPU power, coupled with in-memory programming techniques -- can achieve even faster computing times. 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