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This week, select 9037 for your bonus item: 9037) SPEC Creates New Committee for High Performance Evaluation ============================================================================= The Text-On-Demand News Magazine for High-Performance Computing *** March 18, 1994: Vol. 3, No. 10, Circulation: 15,893 *** This Week's Table of Contents Represents 202 Pages of Text -------------------- * -------------------- Select 2930) for Final Program UNIFORUM '94 EXHIBITION & CONFERENCE March 21-25, 1994 San Francisco, California ____________________________IN THIS ISSUE_______________________________ | | | 1383) ANALYSIS: KSR Settles Suit as CEO Koch Ups Ante by $25 Million | | 608) CORRECTIONS: Article 1378 Silicon Graphics Multiprocessors | | 3023) BENCHMARKS: Cray Achieves Highest Performance Ever on MPP-System | |________________________________________________________________________| FOR INSTRUCTIONS ON RETRIEVING STORIES, PAGE TO THE END OF THIS FILE For a free 4-week trial subscription, e-mail: trial@hpcwire.ans.net Subscription Information: sub@hpcwire.ans.net or select 601 NEWS BRIEFS ================================================================= LINES 2598) CONVEX INTRODUCES THE EXEMPLAR SCALABLE PARALLEL SYSTEMS............138 Convex announced Tuesday its Exemplar SPP combines desktop compatibility and productivity with supercomputing performance. 9037) SPEC CREATES NEW COMMITTEE FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE EVALUATION...........58 The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) has created a new steering committee that will focus on standardized performance evaluation for supercomputers, clustered and highly parallel systems. 2600) TRANSTECH INTRODUCES PARAMID GF1 PARALLEL SUPERCOMPUTER..............23 Transtech Parallel Systems recently announced the PARAMID GF1 parallel supercomputer. The GF1 provides cost effective performance, delivering 1GFLOPS to researchers and scientists for around $75,000. 2601) DEFENSE AGENCY INSTALLS CRAY M98 AT LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LAB..........40 The CRAY system installed at Los Alamos for the Defense Nuclear Agency is configured with two gigawords of main memory and is one of the largest shared memory systems in the world. THIS WEEK =================================================================== 2602) BSDI/LOOX to Introduce Products at Uniforum '94....................46 2603) DEC's Virtual Egypt - Temple of Horus - at UniForum '94............50 2604) STB Scalable System on a Chip microSPARC-II Goes to 85 and 100MHz..41 2605) Engineers Take to the Road with Sun's Semi-Portable Workstation....20 2606) Sun Has Breakthrough with Powerful SPARCstation Voyager............87 2607) Fortran 90 Software Repository Formed..............................34 NETWORKING UPDATE 2609) H-P Offers Improved Booting from NFS/LAN Manager Servers with UNIX.61 SOFTWARE 2610) ANSYS Revision Has Full Capabilities of FLOTRAN (CFD) Program......37 2611) SunSoft Offers Solaris Developer Solution Pak for C++..............38 2612) UNIX Workstations to Have Windows Libraries Available..............88 2613) Oracle CDE Toolset Brings Enterprise Power to Workgroups...........26 2614) Sybase SQL Server 10 Ships on 10 New UNIX..........................57 INTERNATIONAL UPDATE 2615) So. African University Installs SPARCcenter Servers/Workstations...70 2616) Manchester Computing Center Chooses Cray Superserver System........62 2617) SCO Leads UNIX System Growth in Pacific Rim........................89 2618) Aachen Student Wins Parallel Processing Award.......................7 2619) Mercury Computer Systems Will Open European Office..................9 2620) German Telekom and Intel Form Multimedia Workstation Venture.......10 2621) University of Bremen Gets RS/6000 Cluster and SP1...................7 CONTRACTS/VENTURES 2622) Digital Has Agreement with Mylex for DAC960-E RAID Products........20 2623) CAChe Scientific/IBM Announce Partnership Agreement................64 2624) WATCOM Announces Agreement with Digital for Alpha AXP..............28 2625) SHL Systemhouse/Oracle Strike Marketing Deal.......................10 FINANCIAL WATCH 2626) Most Active HPC NASDAQ Stocks......................................27 2627) H-P Jumped into UNIX Systems Revenue Lead by $1 Billion in 1993....21 PEOPLE/PROMOTIONS/PROFILES 2628) Bill Camp to Leave Sandia for Cray Research MPP Postion............16 2629) Former MasPar Executive to Head New ESL Venture....................15 2630) nCUBE Names Rob Walker Vice President of Manufacturing & Service...25 SUPERHIGHWAY REPORT 2631) British Telecommunications Takes First Steps on Superhighway.......18 2632) ATM Helps New Traffic Cops Cruise Europe's Info Superhighway.......14 ___________________________ INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT ___________________________ | | |925) Ceram's E-Mail Services: Price Discounts On HPC Systems & Upgrades..27| |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 Secure LAN-TO-LAN Interconnect Service..........75| |___________________________________________________________________________| QUOTE OF THE WEEK =========================================================== 9037) "The complexity of supercomputers and highly parallel systems requires that the SPEC/HPSC develop different run and reporting rules than those used by the SPEC/OSSC." -- SPEC Steering Committee ANALYSIS & FEATURES ========================================================= 1381) CONVEX & H-P LAUNCH EXEMPLAR INTO CROWDED MARKET....................164 Commentary by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large Convex and H-P collaboration on the new Exemplar scalable parallel system combines H-P chips with Convex software and a hybrid Mach/HP-UX operating system. Full desktop-to-TFLOP binary compatibility is claimed. An overcrowded market clouds its prospects. 1382) NETWORK BEHAVIOR, APPLIED NETWORK RESEARCH..........................176 by Marsha Jovanovic and Kimberly Claffy, San Diego Supercomputer Center Before researchers can develop realistic models of today's complex network infrastructure, they must characterize traffic flow and network performance. These needs are being addressed by the Applied Network Research group (ANR), a collaboration between SDSC and UCSD. 1383) KSR SETTLES SUIT AS CEO KOCH UPS ANTE BY $25 MILLION................100 News Analysis by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large Kendall Square and other defendants will pay over $5 million to settle a stockholder suit as CEO Bill Koch adds $25 million to his commitment, giving him a 47 percent stake (a total of $65 million) in KSR, whose estimated 1993 revenues may fall below $15 million. ___________________________ 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...62 | |950) A Complete Index of HPCwire Back Issues............................48 | |___________________________________________________________________________| JOB BANK ==================================================================== 667) Employment Opportunities (Updated Weekly)............................14 604) Post Your Help Wanted Listings in HPCwire's Job Bank.................58 OTHER DEPARTMENTS =========================================================== BENCHMARKS 3023) Cray Achieves Highest MPP-System Performance Ever on NAS Parallel..84 CONFERENCES 2888) Calendar of Upcoming HPC Events (Updated Weekly)...................43 SCIENCE & HUMAN INTEREST 3024) Black River Intermediate School Receives Grant for Sciences........30 3025) Columbia Returns Today, Experiments Far From Done..................47 3026) Air Purifier Developed in Biosphere 2 to Sell Soon.................18 _______________________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* | | | |_________________ *Updated information within last 30 days _______________| LAST ISSUE'S MOST REQUESTED ITEMS FROM HPCwire=============================== 1378) Silicon Graphics Multiprocessors: Power and Price.................211 2567) Four Corporations Sign NCSA Mosaic Licenses........................69 1380) Antidote for PowerPC Humbug: Wait for Zippier 620.................139 2570) IBM Introduces RISC/6000 PowerPC-Based UNIX Notebook Workstation..117 ============================= NEXT ISSUE IN HPCwire ========================= *** Highlights from the Uniforum '94 Exhibition & Conference *** *** Updated List of World's Most Powerful Computing Sites *** ***************************************************************************** Copyright 1994 HPCwire. 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