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The Ceram E-Mail Marketplace Offers Convenient On-line Shopping For HPC Memory And CPU Upgrades And Complete SPARC Based Workstations Send A Message To HPCMarket@Ceram.COM For A Copy Of The Current Catalog ____________________________IN THIS ISSUE_______________________________ | | | 2633) NEWS BRIEFS: MasPar/Intelligenetics Discover Colon Cancer Gene | | 9038) CISE Directorate Initiates Metacenter Regional Alliances | | 1384) COMMENTARY: Multiprocessor Systems/H-P's Baskin-Robbins Strategy | |________________________________________________________________________| 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 2633) MASPAR/INTELLIGENETICS COLLABORATE TO DISCOVER COLON CANCER GENE.....59 MasPar Computer Corporation and IntelliGenetics Inc. collaborated in the discovery of a second colon cancer gene by The Institute For Genomic Research, Johns Hopkins University, and Human Genome Sciences, Inc. 9038) CISE DIRECTORATE INITIATES PROGRAM OF METACENTER REGIONAL ALLIANCES.300 The purpose is to facilitate broad involvement in the emerging NII and contribute to the nation's ability to address Grand Challenge and National Challenge application problems in the HPCC Program. 2634) SPRINT/SILICON GRAPHICS TO JOINTLY DEVELOP "CREATIVE" NETWORK........89 Sprint and SGI announced a new communications arrangement that enables the entertainment industry to create films, commercials or other creative projects fully "on line," collaborating via computers from multiple sites. 2635) CRAY RESEARCH ANNOUNCES DOD "RED BOOK" SECURITY RATING...............58 After a four-year evaluation, Cray's Trusted UNICOS operating system has successfully completed the National Security Agency's Trusted Product Evaluation Program and become the first supercomputer firm to achieve U.S. DoD "red book" security rating. 2636) FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR SOFTWARE ENGINEERING INSTALLS IBM SP1.......10 The Fraunhofer Institute for Software Engineering and Systems Engineering in Dortmund, Germany, has installed an IBM SP1 with 8 nodes and the high performance switch. THIS WEEK =================================================================== 2637) Japan's Semiconductor Chip Purchases Show Progress is Possible.....72 2638) Sun Chosen Computer Supplier for Information Highway Projects......55 2639) SGI's Supercomputer Used in Advanced Virtual Living Environment....52 2640) ICL, Pyramid Technology Collaborate on Integrated SMP/MPP Systems..55 2641) Mercury Announces First Debugger for Embedded Multicomputers.......70 2642) Exabyte Sharpens Focus with Government VAR Programs................63 2643) Amdahl Introduces High Availability RAID Storage...................67 2644) From Metabytes to Terabytes with Sun's RAID Mass Storage Subsystem.85 2645) DEC Launches Design Engineering Conference for OEMS on Alpha AXP...46 2646) Insignia Solutions Sets April Release for SoftWindows for UNIX.....33 NETWORKING UPDATE 2647) Northern Telecom/Cisco Systems Alliance for Ethernet/LAN Routing...30 2648) Network Peripherals' Server Solution Boosts Network Bandwidth......70 2649) Florida Ins Dept Picks Wellfleet as Statewide Frame Relay Network..76 2650) H-P Has NetServers for PCs to High Performance Workgroup Servers...60 2651) Fast Ethernet Alliance Hosts Nationwide Seminar....................49 2652) New Pentium-Based Server from Wyse Supports SCO UNIX Environment...42 2653) LightStream ATM Switches Purchased by Continental Cablevision......20 2654) 36 Companies to Participate in ATM Interoperability Demonstration..35 SOFTWARE 2655) Cray Research Debuts Advanced "Commercial Strength" UNIX Software.106 2656) Atria Announces Release of Clearcase for UNIX Development Teams....81 2657) Oracle Licenses Encryption Software for All Major Platforms........51 2658) BASISplus Now Ported to SGI's RISC-Based Workstations/Servers......37 2659) SPRY, Inc. Adds NCSA Mosaic to AIR Series TCP/IP...................48 2660) Cray Research Announces New Version of CraySoft for UNIX...........50 2661) SunSoft Concludes $82.5M UNIX Licensing Agreement with Novell......68 INTERNATIONAL UPDATE 2662) Siemens Nixdorf Teams Up with SDRC in Central Europe................9 2663) Compagnie des Machines Bull SA Starts OEM Business with Pegasus.....7 CONTRACTS/VENTURES 2664) DEC/NeXT Have Agreement to Release PDO Software for ALPHA AXP......39 2665) Sun Announces SPARC Distribution Agreements with INTEGRA/TALVITO...51 2666) Avid Developing High-End Authoring Workstation Technology for SGI..41 2667) H-P to Co-Fund Lucid's Energize System to H-P Workstation Family...33 FINANCIAL WATCH 2668) Oracle Earnings Jump 139 Percent...................................52 2669) DEC Prices $400 Million of Preferred Stock.........................30 2670) 10 Most Active HPC NASDAQ Stocks...................................19 PEOPLE/PROMOTIONS/PROFILES 2671) Network Peripherals Names Mark Smith as VP of Sales................25 2672) Peter J. Smith Named CEO at Swanson Analysis Systems...............45 2673) Seven Digital Engineers Honored as ACM Fellows.....................38 SUPERHIGHWAY REPORT 2674) U.S. Urges All Nations to Build "Network of Networks"..............14 2675) Instantaneous Electronic Images Available Via "Superskyway"........54 ___________________________ INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT ___________________________ | | |2946) SIAM Conf. on Parallel Processing for Sci Comp, Feb 15-17, 1995...295| | 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 =========================================================== 3028) "Physical scientists have used computer simulations for decades to study the behavior of large systems. With the Laboratory's supercomputers and defense-work expertise, computer simulations can now be used effectively to model a health care system." -- Harry Hoyt, Lab Associate, Los Alamos National Laboratory ANALYSIS & FEATURES ========================================================= 1384) MULTIPROCESSOR SYSTEMS: H-P'S BASKIN-ROBBINS STRATEGY..........xx Commentary by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large Hewlett-Packard's new 125 MHz PA-RISC chip, used in the 735-125 workstation and, before long, in clusters, fits into H-P's Baskin-Robbins product/ marketing strategy: a dizzying choice of flavors accompanies a wide, continuous range of performance at low prices. 1385) PROSPECTS FOR PARALLEL COMPUTING IN PROCESS & DEVICE SIMULATION.....152 by Dr. Wolfgang Fichtner, Swiss Federal Institute In the microelectronics industry, numerical simulation is a widely accepted technique for developing processes, devices, and circuits because this technique alleviates cost and timeconsuming experiments. ___________________________ 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................................18 | |608) Letters to Editor/Masthead/E-Mail Contacts/Submission Guidelines...62 | |950) A Complete Index of HPCwire Back Issues............................48 | |___________________________________________________________________________| JOB BANK ==================================================================== 667) Employment Opportunities (Updated Weekly)............................23 604) Post Your Help Wanted Listings in HPCwire's Job Bank.................58 OTHER DEPARTMENTS =========================================================== FACTS & FIGURES 3027) Updated List of World's Most Powerful Computing Sites.............999 RESEARCH REGISTER 3028) Los Alamos Lab Develops Computer Simulation for Health Care System.76 CONFERENCES 2888) Calendar of Upcoming HPC Events (Updated Weekly)...................28 SCIENCE & HUMAN INTEREST 3029) New Data Disputes Galactic Motion Theories.........................56 3030) Student Uses Supercomputer to Determine Math Structure to Music....17 3031) Earth Day Interactive Teleconference Special On April 22, 1994.....74 3032) Traveling the Information Superhighway in a '59 Cadillac...........53 _______________________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 | | 912) Avalon Computer 909) Fujitsu America 915) Genias Software | | 916) MasPar Computer 914) Applied Parallel Res* 921) Cray Research Inc.| | 919) Transtech Parallel* | | | |_________________ *Updated information within last 30 days _______________| LAST ISSUE'S MOST REQUESTED ITEMS FROM HPCwire=============================== 3023) BENCHMARKS: Cray Achieves Highest MPP System Performance Ever......84 2598) Convex Introduces the Exemplar Scalable Parallel Systems..........138 2599) SPEC Creates New Committee for High Performance Evaluation.........58 1381) COMMENTARY: Convex & H-P Launch Exemplar into Crowded Market......164 ============================= NEXT ISSUE IN HPCwire ========================= *** "Denali's" Big Memory Speeds Up Data Processing *** ***************************************************************************** Copyright 1994 HPCwire. 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