Vanocni darek od HPCwire
Vladimir Vrabec
vrabec at cs.felk.cvut.cz
Fri Dec 10 15:13:01 CET 1993
Vazeni,
pani kolegyne Jana Vasiljev me upozornila, ze HPCwire nabizi do 16.12.93
jako vanocni darek vsechny sve clanky zajemcum zdarma. Diky za tu zpravu.
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Vladimir Vrabec
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1993 Presidents' Letters & Year In Review
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1347) YEAR-END OUTLOOK: WEAK 1993 MARGINS FORESHADOW A BLEAK 1994 332 Lines
Special Commentary by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large
Customers' uncertainty about parallel systems, hypercompetitiveness, and
pressure on margins from workstations and clusters made 1993 an unpleasant
year.
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756) SILICONE GRAPHIC'S RON BERNAL RECAPS BUSY & SUCCESSFUL YEAR 72 Lines
"We became a serious player in the high-performance computing/supercomputing
markets with the introduction of our new server product families.... The
introduction of these revolutionary systems ushered in a new paradigm in
supercomputing.
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757) IBM POWER PARALLEL SYSTEM'S WLADAWSKY-BERGER ON '93 & BEYOND 65 Lines
"As we all work together to develop and transfer advanced parallel computing
technology, worldwide research, business and society will be the true
beneficiaries. We at IBM POWER Parallel Systems are proud to be part of this
important and exciting future!"
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2282) BRIEFS: Carnegie Mellon Receives $21.5 Million to Study L.A. Quakes
1347) COMMENTARY: Year-End Outlook: Weak 1993 Margins Foreshadow a Bleak
1994
1344) FEATURE: Envisioning the Earth: The Geosphere Project
2871) BENCHMARKS: NAS Benchmarks Part V: The Integer Sort Benchmark
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NEWS BRIEFS
2282) CARNEGIE MELLON RECEIVES $21.5 MILLION TO STUDY L.A. QUAKES 56 Lines
Pittsburgh -- Carnegie Mellon University researchers have received a
$2.15 million NSF Grand Challenge grant to develop computer simulations that
will show how the ground moves during an earthquake -- specifically in the
greater Los Angeles basin.
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2283) DEC AWARDED THREE PATENTS FOR VOLUME SHADOWING TECHNOLOGY 47 Lines
Maynard, Mass. -- Digital Equipment Corporation announced last Friday
that it has been awarded three U.S. patents for technology that provides high
levels of data availability in open client/server and time-share
environments.
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2284) ATM FORUM B-ICI SPEC TO SPEED AVAILABILITY OF ATM SERVICES 39 Lines
Mountain View, Calif. -- The ATM Forum announced Wednesday that it has
completed the specification for the Broadband ISDN Inter Carrier Interface
(B-ICI).
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2285) ANSI LAUDS SUN FOR THEIR STRATEGIC USE OF STANDARDIZATION 55 Lines
Mountain View, Calif. -- An on-going study contracted by the American
National Standards Institute (ANSI) has revealed that Sun Microsystems, Inc.
is one of America's top four industrial corporations that uses
standardization for strategic advantage.
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2286) Tandem Computers Joins X/Open as Technical Buy Out Member 39 Lines
2287) Interphase Joins Fast Ethernet Alliance as Observer Member 37 Lines
2288) Hewlett-Packard Endorses Novell's UnixWare Operating System 39 Lines
2289) Boling, Orahood & Associates, Encore Form Strategic Alliance 39 Lines
2290) Kalos Elected to Fellowship in American Physical Society 20 Lines
2291) Sherwin-Williams Installs NCR Workstations as POS Systems 47 Lines
2292) Kalpana, Inc. Debuts 2 Fault Tolerant EtherSwitch Solutions 97 Lines
2293) Sun Introduces a Low-Cost Multi-Port Ethernet Controller 46 Lines
2294) Exide Electronics Debuts OnliNet 3.0 NVX Power Management 70 Lines
2295) Oracle Heralds Applications Availability for DEC Platforms 34 Lines
2296) SunConnect Introduces Cooperative Management Product Line 99 Lines
2297) OpenVision Unveils Suite of VMS Security Management Products 48 Lines
2298) Century Releases TAE Plus 5.3 GUI Builder for HP 9000/700 73 Lines
2299) TGV Demos New MultiNet 3.3 Connectivity Software for OpenVMS 123 Lines
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INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT
739) 800 FLY CORP Announces Corporate Travel Savings Via E-Mail 96 Lines
743) ANS CO+RE Announces Secure LAN-to-LAN Interconnect Service 75 Lines
745) AlphaCard Gives VAXes AXP Power for Number Crunching Tasks 165 Lines
755) HPCwire Electronic Publishing Software Now Available 101 Lines
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QUOTE OF THE WEEK:
1345) "We found out that there is a very narrow hospitality zone for life."
-- Tom Van Zant, Geosphere Project founder, on exploring the solar system.
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ANALYSIS & FEATURES
1345) ENVISIONING THE EARTH: THE GEOSPHERE PROJECT 104 Lines
Feature Story by Sara Latta
The Geosphere Project, founded in 1989 by Tom Van Sant, is based on the
painter-sculptor-architectural designer's dream that complex Earth resource
management and global change issues could -- and should -- be understood as a
symbiotic continuum by policy makers, the research community, educators, and
the lay public alike.
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1346) INTEGRATING GLOBAL MODELS: CONFERENCE REPORT 131 Lines
Feature Story by Randall Graham and Fran Bond
"Ecological economics is an attempt to integrate social sciences and
natural sciences in order to provide the information necessary to formulate
policy dealing with global climate change," said Karl-Gran Maler, director of
the Beijer International Institute for Ecological Economics, to about 30
scientists who gathered for the Global Ecological Economic Modeling
Conference.
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1347) MESSAGE-PASSING: LETTERS TO THE EDITOR/CORRECTIONS 53 Lines
-- Ben Peek and Von Welch clarify and contribute SCinet '93 information.
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SCIENCE NEWS
1423) Artificial Pancreas May Free Diabetics from Daily Injections 99 Lines
1424) LLNL Shows Dynamic Stripping Successfully Cleans Gas Spill 81 Lines
1425) Screening for Inherited Tay-Sachs Disease Stops 67 Marriages 51 Lines
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2871) NAS Benchmarks Part V: The Integer Sort Benchmark 79 Lines
BOOKSHELF
2872) SIAM Offers "Templates for the Solution of Linear Systems" 51 Lines
CONFERENCES
2873) Spring '94 Cray User's Group Conference & Call For Papers 599 Lines
DOING THE RIGHT THING
2874) Book Publisher Launches Endangered Species Funding Program 81 Lines
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1341) Scalable Survival in 1994- I: Dynamics of Money and Ego 332 Lines
2266) Koch Takes KSR Helm Amid Storm of Accounting Uncertainties 144 Lines
2269) HPCC Deep Into Massively Parallel Computers, Rubbert Warns 348 Lines
1343) SCinet '93 Pioneers Technology at Supercomputing '93 96 Lines
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