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This week, select 9027 for your bonus item: 9029) CLUSTERS -- PART I: WRINGING CYCLES OUT OF IDLE DESKTOPS Commentary by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large..................197 ============================================================================= H P C w i r e The Electronic News Magazine for High-Performance Computing *** January 21, 1994: Vol. 3, No. 3, Circulation: 15,495 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 134 Pages of Text -------------------- * -------------------- HPCwire encourages its readers to respond to the content or comments in our magazine. Please send remarks to editor@hpcwire.ans.net Carol Cramer, Managing Editor =============================== IN THIS ISSUE =============================== 2905) SUPERHIGHWAY REPORT: L.A. Quake Takes Toll on CERFnet Backbone Sites 1357) ANALYSIS: Intel's $92M Sales Led 1993 Parallel Market by a Hair 1360) GUEST COMMENTARY: High Performance Computing in Trouble ***************************************************************************** FOR INSTRUCTIONS ON RETRIEVING STORIES, PAGE TO THE END OF THIS FILE For a free 4-week trial subscription, email: trial@hpcwire.ans.net Subscription Information: sub@hpcwire.ans.net. or Select 601 ================================== NEWS BRIEFS ============================== LINES FINANCIAL WATCH: THREE MAJOR PLAYERS FALL SHORT OF WALL ST. EXPECTATIONS 2355) Intel's 4Q Earnings Up 38% Yet Below Wall Street Expectations.......243 2356) Digital Reports Loss Worse Than Expected............................199 2357) Sun Microsystems Earnings Up Sharply; Bookings at Record High ......138 2358) SUN MICROSYSTEMS LICENSES SPARCstation LX DESIGN TO CHINA............68 Beijing Huasun Computer Company, largest Chinese manufacturer of computer workstations based on SPARC architecture, licensed micro-SPARC-based board design. Agreement represents first time for Chinese company to license this level of technology from U.S. 2359) SONY AND TRI-PLEX TRANSFER DATA AT 31.4 MEGABYTES PER SECOND.........56 Sony's DIR-1000 digital data recorder and TRI-PLEX's TSC/STX controller/ interface were combined to transfer data over SCinet's HIPPI network. 2360) NEW MEMORY MIMD PROGRAMMING FROM SOFTWARE GROUP AT OHIO SC CENTER....37 Distributed memory MIMD programming and operating environment for heterogeneous UNIX computers is now on a network. ============================================================================= ALSO THIS WEEK 2361) IFREMER Seeks New Ways to Explore Sea with Convex Meta Series........34 2362) Major Reorganization/Expansion for Concurrent Computer Corp..........95 2363) nCUBE MPP Architecture Ideal for Multimedia Services.................26 2364) Lockheed Offers Industry High Performance Computing Services.........37 2365) Cisco Beefs Up Security for Remote Access Routing....................95 2366) PSC Volume Renderer Wins Most Heterogeneous Award....................57 2367) Cerner Corp. Departmental Clinical Info Available on IBM RISC.......117 2368) Sun/NON-STOP Partnership May Slash Grocery Costs by Billions.........46 2369) Concurrent Computer Corporation Achieves ISO Certification...........58 2370) Landmark/Intera to Develop ECLIPSE/OpenWorks Link....................45 2371) Microsoft Develops PC MPP Software for 32-Bit Sega Game Machines.....80 EUROPEAN UPDATE 2372) 30 Million ECU Europort Parallelization Project Started..............11 2373) Dutch National Supercomputer Center to Replace IBM ES/9000-720VF.....13 2374) Parallel Iterative Methods Package from University of Kent...........13 2375) Siemens to Build Semiconductor Plant in Dresden......................10 NETWORKING UPDATE 2894) Wellfleet Demonstrates Its Support for ATM Interoperability.........140 2895) IBM Awards T3plus Networking $1 Million Internet Contract............68 2896) Network Management Experts Proclaim SNMP Test Summit A Success.......94 SUPERHIGHWAY REPORT 2905) L.A. Quake Takes Toll on Two CERFnet Backbone Sites.................164 2906) What's Shaking? Internet Spurs Communication in Quake's Wake.........67 2907) Gore's Technology Challenge Includes White House Data System.........88 2908) Electronic Data Commerce To Double in 4 Years/Case Studies..........128 ============================ INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT ============================= 739) 800 FLY CORP Announces Corporate Travel Savings Via E-Mail..........96 755) HPCwire Electronic Publishing Software Now Available...............101 ============================== QUOTE OF THE WEEK ============================ 1357) "It should be remembered KSR's difficulties with its sales claims...were unusual only because KSR, as a publicly-traded company, had to substantiate claims. Its competitors are privately held except Intel, which as a division within a large company need not make its sales figures public." -- Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large ============================== ANALYSIS & FEATURES ========================== 1357) INTEL'S $92M SALES LED 1993 PARALLEL MARKET BY A HAIR...............115 News Analysis by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large Intel led total MPP sales in 1993 with a market share of 30.7 percent, with Thinking Machines close behind. Market analyst Gary Smaby forecasts a $3.7 billion market for all parallel and vector systems in 1998, with vector systems accounting for only 12 percent of the total. 1359) HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING IN TROUBLE................................59 Guest Commentary by Ken Kennedy, Director, CRPC, Rice University Last year's Congressional appropriations debate highlighted the extent to which the HPCC program has fallen from grace. While... smaller reductions would be less destructive than those originally proposed, they will neverthe- less severely impede progress in the HPCC program. 1360) CLUSTERS -- PART I: WRINGING CYCLES OUT OF IDLE DESKTOPS............197 Commentary by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large In the first of several columns on workstation clusters, this discussion explains why ad hoc clusters that borrow time from sometimes reluctant desktop proprietors may remain the most enduring form of clustering. ============================ 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; Masthead; E-Mail Contacts.......41 608) Corrections/Letters to the Editor....................................32 950) A Complete Index of HPCwire Back Issues..............................48 ================================= JOB BANK ================================== 667) Employment Opportunities for January 21, 1994........................24 604) Post Your Help Wanted Listings in HPCwire's Job Bank.................58 ============================= OTHER DEPARTMENTS============================== BENCHMARKS 2893) Parkbench Committee Releases Parallel Benchmarks....................134 COMPUTER CENTERS 2897) At NOAA - Doing Something About the Weather MPP Style................40 2898) Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center -- Update on 1993...................158 CONFERENCES 2888) Calendar of Upcoming HPC Events......................................10 ========================= SCIENCE & HUMAN INTEREST NEWS ===================== 1437) Repaired Hubble Addresses Key Questions on Universe..................64 1438) Gravitational Microlensing Events Indicate MACHOs....................41 2904) First-Hand Account of "Weathering L.A. 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