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This week, select 9046 for your bonus item: 9046) CASE STUDY: MPP HELPS CONSULTING FIRM SOLVE COMPLEX PROBLEMS ============================================================================= H P C w i r e The Text-On-Demand News Magazine for High-Performance Computing *** May 13, 1994: Vol. 3, No. 18 Circulation: 14,979 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 172 Pages of Text -------------------- * -------------------- 760) SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER presents an intensive two-week institute on parallel computing August 8-19, 1994. This institute is open to commercial and government researchers from the U.S. and abroad, and academic researchers and graduate and undergraduate students based in the U.S. ______________________________ IN THIS ISSUE ______________________________ | | | 4070) NEWS BRIEFS: MPI Standard for Message Passing Finished & Available | | 1446) ANALYSIS: After "Dismal" 1Q 94, Kendall Square Seeks Customers | | 9046) FEATURE: Case Study: MPP Helps Consulting Firm Solve Problems | |___________________________________________________________________________| 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 4069) ANNOUNCEMENT: NEW SECTION TO BE LAUNCHED -- MO' WEB WATCH............30 Yesterday HPCwire announced an upcoming new section -- Mo' Web Watch. Within 12 hours, more than 20 listings have been submitted from super- computing centers and a university in Singapore, to an archive with 120M of files on Transputer processor, OCCAM and parallel computing. This exciting new weekly section will premiere in our June 3 issue. 4070) REPORT: MPI STANDARD FOR MESSAGE PASSING FINISHED AND AVAILABLE......40 By Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Researchers from the United States and Europe have been meeting to develop a standard for message passing. The standard, called the Message Passing Interface (MPI), provides a common interface for distributed memory concurrent computers and networks of workstations. 4071) MERCK RESEARCH LABS/CTC TO EXPLORE SCALABLE PARALLEL TECHNOLOGIES....80 Merck Research Laboratories will be applying the parallel computing resources of the Cornell Theory Center to work in computer-aided drug discovery and structure determination. THIS WEEK =================================================================== 4072) Bradner Benchmark: Cisco 7000 Runs 4 Times Faster Than Competitors.54 4073) ANDATACO Becomes VAR for Cray Research Superserver 6400 Systems....62 4074) Oracle Targets Law Enforcement Market and Offers Solutions.........50 4075) International Workshop on Chromosome 16 Hosted by PSC..............60 4076) CSC in $37M Telecom Pact with Belgium/$94M U.S. Defense Pact.......43 PACIFIC RIM REPORT 4077) Hitachi, Taiwan to Take $6 Billion Venture to Make CRTs............15 4078) IBM/China Ministry of Electronics Sign Broad Info Tech Agreement...55 4079) Singapore Company Takes Majority Stake in Chinese Electronics Firm.32 EUROPEAN UPDATE 4080) HPCN Centers Are Looking to Brussels for Funding...................13 4081) German Firm Debuts First Parallel Computer Based on Futurebus+.....10 4082) ECMWF Uses Maximum Strategy Storage Server..........................8 4083) NIMBUS and GLView: Two Tools From SINTEF Norway.....................9 4084) European Project: VALUE Report Available...........................15 FINANCIAL WATCH 4085) Intel Raises Quarterly Dividend to $0.06...........................36 4086) Avalon Software Attracts $6.8 Million in Financial Agreements......22 4087) Ten Most Active NASDAQ HPC Stocks..................................19 PEOPLE/PROMOTIONS/PROFILES 4088) Sun Scientist Honored with Prestigious Award.......................28 4089) Avalon Software appoints James McCloskey as CFO....................43 4090) Sun VP & Others Resign from Media Vision Board Under FBI Probe.....45 SUPERHIGHWAY REPORT 4091) Testimony to Senate: Utility Companies Can Play Key Role in NII...100 4092) William Murphy, Chairman of the NIIT, Delivered Keynote Address....47 4093) DEC Research VP Sees Commercial Use of the Internet Expand.........93 4094) Internet Article Prompts Libel Suit................................24 ___________________________ 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 CO+RE Announces Lowest-Cost Nationwide Internet Access.........96| |___________________________________________________________________________| QUOTE OF THE WEEK =========================================================== 1446) "The company's credibility with its various constituents was at an all- time low, and quite frankly, customers were concerned about its viability. Our customers know that I believe in [KSR's] products, and that I have the reputation of pursuing my goals until I succeed." -- William I. Koch, Chairman and CEO, Kendall Square Research ANALYSIS & FEATURES ========================================================= 1444) DEREGULATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE SUPERHIGHWAY IN JAPAN............85 PACIFIC RIM REPORT by Raul Mendez, Contributing Editor A main finding of a panel discussion at a recent four-day meeting -- "Where to Japan Inc." (literal translation, the Showa Era History of Japan Inc.) -- was that the system MITI helped to shape has gone awry in an unexpected way. The final conclusion of the panel is that 'Japan Inc.' must somehow be restructured into 'Japan International'. 9046) CASE STUDY: MPP HELPS CONSULTING FIRM SOLVE COMPLEX PROBLEMS.........39 FEATURE by Martha Keeley, Thinking Machines Corporation The Connection Machine CM-5 system purchased from Thinking Machines is used to develop massively parallel software, to convert existing applications to MPP and to execute large-scale application projects for Booz, Allen & Hamilton's client corporations. 1446) AFTER "DISMAL" 1Q 94, KENDALL SQUARE SEEKS CUSTOMERS................132 News Analysis by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large Kendall Square Research (KSR) lost $10 million in 1994's first quarter, three times as bad as the unprofitable first quarter of 1993. KSR chairman and main investor Koch said this was "dismal" but vowed to recover sales momentum. 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