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This week, select 9041 for your bonus item: 9041) ENG/CISE IITA Initiative Program Announcement...........637 ============================================================================= H P C w i r e The Text-On-Demand News Magazine for High-Performance Computing *** April 15, 1994: Vol. 3, No. 14, Circulation: 15,264 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 170 Pages of Text -------------------- * -------------------- ANNOUNCING 926) Seventh SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing February 15-17, 1995 - San Francisco, California _____________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _______________________________ | | | 1393) ANALYSIS: DEC's Formula: ALPHA@$Attack Prices+NT+Fortran 90 | | 608) CORRECTION: Article 1386 -- Venturing Where Seymour Never Trod | | 2747) NEWS BRIEFS: Taisho/Cray's 1st Customer in Japanese Pharm. 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THIS WEEK =================================================================== 2752) Red Brick Warehouse Available on AT&T System 3400..................51 2753) DEC Sets Standards for Performance/Economy in Open Client/Server..202 2754) Scopus' New ProTEAM Version Supports ORACLE Database Systems......115 2755) Sybase Plans Navigation Server for IBM POWERparallel Systems SP2...47 NETWORKING UPDATE 2756) Fast Ethernet Alliance Forms Interoperability Test Suites at TRIL..70 2757) Cabletron/Xylogics Have 1st Direct Connect to Ethernet/Token/FDDI..58 2758) Xyplex Develops 520 ATM-to-Ethernet Bridge/Router Module...........55 2759) New Xilinx FPGA Family Delivers Highest Speed......................36 EUROPEAN UPDATE 2760) Concurrent Upgrades Real-Time Systems for Financial Services........8 2761) New Release of NXLIB for Workstation Clusters......................10 2762) Floating Point Systems UK Sells Single Board 64-Bit Computer........8 2763) British Telecommunications Plc Wins 40 Million Sterling Contract...10 CONTRACTS/VENTURES 2764) Oracle/Hewlett-Packard Expand OpenView/Oracle7 Alliance............62 2765) Fulcrum and WAIS Announce Strategic Partnership....................62 2766) NESTOR/Intel to Jointly Develop Ni1000 Recognition Accelerator.....69 2767) Logicon Awarded $670 Million Air Force I-CASE System Contract......13 FINANCIAL WATCH 2768) Convex Sees Q1 Results Below Estimates.............................13 2769) Sun Reports Higher Q3 Earnings as Profit Margin Rises.............124 2770) Two Latin American Stock Exchanges Go Electronic...................69 2771) 10 Most Active NASDAQ HPC Stocks...................................26 PEOPLE/PROMOTIONS/PROFILES 2772) Silicon Graphics' Vice Chairman Perry Joins Exabyte Board..........34 2773) Concurrent Computer Names Turkaly Worldwide Director...............43 SUPERHIGHWAY REPORT 2774) Regulation May Stall Information Infrastructure Say CEOs...........66 2775) Internet Shopping Network Has Nation's 1st Electronic Superstore...60 2776) Digital to Join Consortium to Build Electronic Commerce Network....55 2777) 1st Customizable Digital Chip for Interactive Video Market.........62 ___________________________ 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 =========================================================== 2774) "The danger in the information highway term is that people see it as only a provision of hardware." -- Martin Bangemann ANALYSIS & FEATURES ========================================================= 1391) MAKING (AND LOSING) MONEY ON HPC ETC. IN SILICON VALLEY.............106 Commentary by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large Comparative listings of financial returns for leading Silicon Valley firms confirm that computer vendors are struggling, some communications outfits are flying high, real competition should carry a Surgeon General's warning, and Intel is richer than Fort Knox. 1392) MODELING STEEL METALLURGY IN CONTINUOUS CASTING TUNDISHES...........140 by Michael Schneider, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Since 1989 when the research arm of U.S. Steel became a corporate affiliate of the PSC, U.S. Steel researchers have used the CRAY Y-MP and now the C90 to help understand the flow patterns of molten steel. 1393) DEC'S FORMULA: ALPHA@$ATTACK PRICES+NT+FORTRAN 90...................155 News Analysis by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large Digital Equipment's latest products include a Fortran 90 compiler in addition to aggressive pricing of new multiprocessor servers that deliver 358 Linpack/1000 MFLOPS for $54K, plus Windows NT for users who eschew UNIX. ___________________________ 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...70 | |950) A Complete Index of HPCwire Back Issues............................48 | |___________________________________________________________________________| JOB BANK ==================================================================== 667) Employment Opportunities/Updated Weekly (1 new listing)..............73 604) Post Your Help Wanted Listings in HPCwire's Job Bank.................58 OTHER DEPARTMENTS =========================================================== FACTS & FIGURES 3045) Parallel Supercomputer Vendors: 1993 Worldwide Market Share........59 3046) Updated List of the World's Most Powerful Computing Sites.........997 CONFERENCES 2888) Calendar of Upcoming HPC Events (Updated Weekly)...................23 SCIENCE & HUMAN INTEREST 3047) Edinburgh Science Festival Opens with Writer's Vision of Mars......44 3048) As the Biosphere Turns/An Update on the Arizona Saga...............71 3049) Lunar Amusement Park to Offer Reality Walk on the Moon.............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 927) ISR Corp. | |__________________________________________________________________________| *** LAST ISSUE'S MOST REQUESTED ITEMS FROM HPCwire *** 2714) What's the Best Parallel Programming Language?....................112 1388) IBM's Parallel Dilemma: Riding a Horse and a Camel................199 1390) IBM's New SP2: The Wolf Abandons Sheep's Clothing.................183 2718) Industry Analysts Rank Intel Number 1 in Parallel Supercomputing...54 <<<<<<< NEXT ISSUE IN HPCwire >>>>>>> ~~~ The Transition to a National Information Infrastructure ~~~ ***************************************************************************** Copyright 1994 HPCwire. 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