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This week, select 9044 for your bonus item: 9044) THE BUSINESS VALUE OF "INTERNETWORKING" AND THE INTERNET............331 ============================================================================= H P C w i r e The Text-On-Demand News Magazine for High-Performance Computing *** April 29 1994: Vol. 3, No. 16 Circulation: 15,107 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 192 Pages of Text -------------------- * -------------------- 604) NEED HELP? Place Your next job ad in cyberspace. HPCwire Job Bank offers you the opportunity to reach HPC professionals worldwide. _____________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _______________________________ | | | 4007) NEWS BRIEFS: NII Advisory Council to Launch 3 Mega Projects | | 1397) BOOK REVIEW: Two Guides to the Internet and Its Technoskeleton | | 4008) NEWS BRIEFS: FMC Corp. Receives National Award for Simulation | |___________________________________________________________________________| FOR INSTRUCTIONS ON RETRIEVING STORIES, PAGE TO THE END OF THIS FILE For a free 6-week trial subscription, e-mail: trial@hpcwire.ans.net Subscription Information: sub@hpcwire.ans.net NEWS BRIEFS ================================================================= LINES 4007) NII ADVISORY COUNCIL TO LAUNCH 3 MEGA PROJECTS TO DRIVE THE NII.....104 NIIAC will begin three Mega-Projects: 1) Vision and Goals, 2) Access to the NII, and 3) Privacy, Security and Intellectual Property. 4008) FMC CORP. RECEIVES NATIONAL AWARD FOR SIMULATION FROM NCSA...........81 For FMC, earning the Industrial Grand Challenge Award began with the creation of prototypes to model new products and processes. 4009) TPC BENCHMARKS: 50% MORE SERVER PERFORMANCE OVER HEWLETT-PACKARD.....39 Tandem announces TPC-C benchmark results which show 50 percent more server performance and 25 percent lower cost compared to Hewlett- Packard who previously had the highest recorded industry performance. 4010) GOODYEAR'S VIRTUAL ENTERPRISE 2000: PART 1..........................378 A guide to customer/consumer satisfaction in the year 2000. Discover how to delight your customers with high value, innovative solutions and motivate employees. THIS WEEK =================================================================== 4011) Oak Ridge National Lab's Paragon Passes Final Acceptance Test......41 4012) U.S. Government to Give Computer Industry $1 Billion in Aid........36 4013) Convex Gets First European Customers for SPP1000/XA................13 4014) Cray Research Announces New European Superserver Subsidiaries......74 4015) NCSA Focuses on Industrial Applications/Adds Convex Exemplar.......60 4016) Stern Announces New SSP Parallel System...........................107 4017) Four Cray T3Ds Ordered by National Center for Atmospheric Research.11 4018) DEC Receives "Product of the Year" Award for Client/Server Support.57 4019) COMSAT to Develop Proprietary Digital Video on Demand w/SGI Server.74 4020) Hi-Tech Firms Have Power Shift/Predict Compaq PC Leader Over IBM...53 NETWORKING UPDATE 4021) Cascade's WAN Connects Low Speed Frame Relay to High Speed ATMs....57 4022) Fast Ethernet Chip to Interface with 100Base-TX or 100Base-T4......44 4023) DigiBoard to Enter ATM Market with Network Interface Cards.........53 4024) Freeway 1000/High Level LAN-WAN Connectivity for UNIX/DEC/IBM/Sun..65 SOFTWARE 4025) Insignia's UNIX SoftWindows Available on H-P and Sun/SPARC.........30 4028) Oracle7 Database Servers Achieve U.S. & Euro Security Ratings.....109 CONTRACTS/VENTURES 4029) The Portland Group Announces 3 Major Parallel Systems Agreements...92 4030) Sun/Fujitsu Strengthen Strategic Relationship with New Agreements..81 FINANCIAL WATCH 4031) Silicon Graphics Reports 39% Increase in Revenue for Q3...........146 4032) Convex Computer Corp. Has Q1 Share Losses of $16 Million..........114 4033) Amdahl Announces First-Quarter Profits of $.06 Per Share...........66 PEOPLE/PROMOTIONS/PROFILES 4034) DEC Replaces Top Executive After Last Quarter Losses...............43 SUPERHIGHWAY REPORT 4035) U.N. Chief Foresees $3.5 Trillion Growth for Telecommunications....54 4036) Should the Info Superhighway Link Schools, Libraries, Hospitals?...43 4037) German TV Says Neo-Nazis Are Using Internet to Spread Propaganda...37 ___________________________ INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT ___________________________ | | | 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 Announces Lowest-Cost Nationwide Internet Access...............96| |___________________________________________________________________________| QUOTE OF THE WEEK =========================================================== 9044) "The amount of business information that we create and consume has increased exponentially over the past decade, yet our ability to effectively exchange this information from one facility to another is like trying to ram an elephant through a drinking straw." -- Joel Maloff, The Maloff Company ANALYSIS & FEATURES ========================================================= 1397) TWO GUIDES TO THE INTERNET AND ITS TECHNOSKELETON...................142 Book Review by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large More facts are stuffed into the expanded second edition of Krol's perennially popular "Whole Internet," while Gary McClain and 13 contributors illuminate and make comprehensible key standards and other technical aspects of local and long-distance networks. 9044) THE BUSINESS VALUE OF "INTERNETWORKING" AND THE INTERNET............331 by Joel Maloff, The Maloff Company Our methods of intercommunication have not kept pace with our ability to create or consume information. Many organizations have yet to realize the benefits of employing "internetworking" as a "strategic tool" for the enhancement of the business. 1399) 600-NODE CLUSTER & 16K MASPAR WIN 129-DIGIT PRIZE...................136 News Analysis by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large 600 volunteers around the world, organized into an ad hoc asynchronous cluster, and a MasPar SIMD system at Bellcore have factored the RSA 129 puzzle, posed in 1977. 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