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They offer tremendous improvements in the speed and cost of accessing large volumes of enterprise data. 4129) NEW X-RAY FACILITY TO BE BUILT AT ARGONNE'S ADVANCED PHOTON SOURCE...65 Scientific research at the APS will aid in the development and understanding of new materials that may lead to improved products such as magnetic disk drives, computer chips, and computer displays. 4130) TANDEM BREAKS WORLD TPC-C RECORD WITH FASTEST SERVER EVER TESTED.....93 In the third set of record-breaking TPC-C results Tandem has announced a 64-processor Himalaya K10000 parallel server achieved 12,021 tpmC (transactions per minute) at a cost of 1,528 $/tpmC. 4131) ORACLE ACHIEVES HIGHEST TPC-A RECORD ON IBM RISC SYSTEM/6000.........65 Oracle has attained the highest TPC-A benchmark performance ever recorded for a commercial, uniprocessor database system in the open systems market and one of the highest benchmark results for a loosely coupled cluster. THIS WEEK =================================================================== 4132) Pacific Northwest Lab Finished Acceptance Testing on KSR-2.........55 4133) Cray-XTicket Set Derivatives Product Pact..........................45 4134) KSR Provides Complete ODE for High-Performance Systems.............57 4135) Intel Scalable Multi-Server Techology Pairs with Microsoft's Tiger.55 4136) Cray/Datametrics to Develop Ruggedized Supercomputing System.......50 4137) data-CACHE Announces Sale of Parallel Processing Database System...55 4138) NSF Solicts Proposals for HPC Storage and Wide Band I/O...........192 4139) IBM Debuts Seven New Servers/Four New Workstations.................90 4140) StorageTek Finally Receives Revenue from Iceberg...................48 4141) Interphase to Develop Network CoProcessor for IBM RISC System 6000.62 4142) Conner Offers 4Gigabytes Uncompressed Storage for UNIX/HPC Market..12 4143) Toshiba Corp. Now Offers 200 MHz MIPS Chip.........................16 4144) Digital Rolls Out Windows NT/ALPHA AXP Solutions...................76 SOFTWARE 4145) IBM's DB2 Relational Database to be Available for Sun Platform.....42 4146) Informix Announces Data Warehousing Strategy.......................99 4147) ANDATACO Announces UNIX Only Driver-Less Tape Autoloaders..........50 4148) Montage Software Announces Ports to SGI/DEC Platforms..............80 4149) Development Environment & RDBMS/Available for Many UNIX Platforms..44 4150) Sybase Unveils Strategy and Products for New Class.................43 PACIFIC RIM REPORT 4151) Asia/Pacific to Approach N. America in Electronics Production......45 4152) $180M Electronics Venture Struck Between China/U.S. Companies......23 4153) Great Wall/GE Agree to Build Info Superhighway in China............22 4154) AIR Develops Japanese-Language E-Mail Internet Access Software.....14 4155) Japan Gears Up for Multimedia Business.............................36 4156) China to Jail - Even Execute - Copyright Pirates...................57 4157) Digital Sees Upswing on Fast-Growing Asian Demand..................12 CONTRACTS/VENTURES 4158) Lockheed Forms Space Imaging Inc. to Enter Remote Sensing Market...84 4159) Sun/Amdahl Win Schwab Workstation/Server Systems Contract..........74 SUPERHIGHWAY REPORT 4160) Pacific Bell Vows to Bring Superhighway to All Californians.......105 4161) H-P Licenses DigiCipher Technology for TV Set-Top Boxes............57 4162) CERT/The Internet Police Who Guard Against "Worms".................51 ___________________________ INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT ___________________________ | | | 771) Commercial Applic. of Parallel Processing Sys, Call for Papers....138| | 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 =========================================================== 9048) "When people found out about [a possible MSCI/Cray agreement], the Net just lit up. Everyone's worried about Cray competing with its own customers. Cray's official line is that any deal would be structured so it won't compete, but I don't see how they're going to manage that." -- Jim Kasdorf, Manager, Supercomputing for Westinghouse ANALYSIS & FEATURES ========================================================= 1449) PVM ADDS NON-CLUSTER ADOPTIONS, SPAWNS VERSION 3.3..................194 Commentary by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large PVM is evolving as it is used more widely on closely-coupled parallel systems as well as clusters, becomes more international, and adds a feature for out-sourcing resource management by straw-boss software like Condor. The new Version 3.3 exemplifies this evolution. 9048) MINNESOTA SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER -- A POSSIBLE CRAY VICTIM?...........119 SPECIAL COMMENTARY by Willie Schatz, Contributing Editor An agreement with MSCI would give Cray Research instant entry into the unfamiliar and frighteningly competitive worlds of systems integration, computer service outsourcing, specific applications solutions and disaster recovery facilities. 1451) IBM PURSUING MULTI-FRONTAL UNIX PRODUCT STRATEGY....................172 News Analysis by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large IBM's Unix strategy includes symmetrical multiprocessors (to be announced later), a new Fibre Channel capability, steady enhancements of RS/6000 products, and determined emphasis on commercial as well as technical markets for the SP2. ___________________________ 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.............................173 New listings from: Convex, Mercury Computer, NCSA, Silicon Graphics 604) Post Your Help Wanted Listings in HPCwire's Job Bank.................58 OTHER DEPARTMENTS =========================================================== CONFERENCES 2888) Calendar of Upcoming HPC Events (Updated Weekly)...................69 SCIENCE & HUMAN INTEREST 3067) Supercomputer Simulations May Unlock Neuromuscular Disease Secrets.62 3068) Lawrence Livermore Lab Targets Snipers with "Lifeguard"............71 3069) Telecast Commemorating Moon Landing Hosted by Buzz Aldrin..........27 3070) Mysterious Rings Spotted by Hubble Baffle Astronomers..............48 _______________________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.| | 927) ISR Corp. | |_________________ *Updated information within last 30 days _______________| *** LAST ISSUE'S MOST REQUESTED ITEMS FROM HPCwire *** 4095) Linpack Rating Returns "World's Fastest Computer" Title to U.S......59 667) JOB BANK...........................................................173 4097) Microsoft Touts PC Video Servers Better Than Supercomputers........142 4105) New Product Development May Turn Cray Research to Outside Partners..16 ***************************************************************************** Copyright 1994 HPCwire. 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