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| D E C N E W S |
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| F O R E D U C A T I O N A N D R E S E A R C H |
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December 1, 1992 Vol. 1, No. 10
IN THIS ISSUE:
Announcements
. Multivendor Support for Networks Enhanced
. NAS 250 for SPARCstation Opens Sun Environment
. Vendor Program Launched to Support CRAY Y-MP EL
. Parallelization Project Begun with Gaussian
. PARASPHERE Tools for MPP Systems Unveiled
. New U.S. Education Pricing Program Introduced
Customer News
. DECstations Set Across Europe for Genetic Mapping
. Wharton Is First Business School to Use DECathena
. NASA, DOE To Upgrade National Research Networks
"DECNEWS for Education and Research" is a monthly electronic
publication from Digital Equipment Corporation's Education Business
Unit for the education and research communities worldwide. For
instructions on how to subscribe, copy supporting documents, and use
other pertinent commands, please see the end of this newsletter.
MULTIVENDOR SUPPORT FOR NETWORKS ENHANCED.............................
Digital recently announced a portfolio of networking products,
programs, and relationships that enable customers to further integrate
open networks based on the best technology available -- whether
developed by Digital, its partners, or other vendors. The new products
and enhancements are aimed at helping customers minimize risk and
maintain flexibility and choice for network investments made today and
in the future. The announcement included significant enhancements to
multiprotocol routing, ADVANTAGE-NETWORKS, Fiber Distributed Data
Interface (FDDI), LAN access, 802.5/Token ring, and network management
product families. Also, Digital announced that DECathena will support
Digital's MIPS-based family running OSF/1, and Sun, Silicon Graphics,
Microsoft, and Apple systems.
* Press release on networking enhancements, news1001.txt
NAS 250 FOR SPARCSTATION OPENS SUN ENVIRONMENT........................
Digital recently introduced Network Application Support (NAS) 250 for
SunOS SPARCstations, software enabling SunOS users to easily access
data and applications from different vendors' platforms while staying
within the SunOS environment. Also announced was V2.0 of the complete
line of existing NAS integrated software products for OpenVMS and
ULTRIX -- NAS 200, 250, 300 and 400 -- which offers significantly
increased functionality and open standards support. With the
enhancements, customers can run the first commercial implementation of
the Object Management Group's dynamic programming interface. Also
introduced were expanded support for Microsoft Windows and Apple Macin-
tosh systems, and enhanced multimedia support. Other NAS server plat-
forms will be delivered by the end of '93, including SCO Intel, OSF/1
Alpha, OpenVMS Alpha, Windows-NT Alpha, and Windows-NT Intel.
* Press release on NAS 250 for SPARCstation, news1002.txt
VENDOR PROGRAM LAUNCHED TO SUPPORT CRAY Y-MP EL.......................
Digital has launched a new third-party cooperative marketing program
to enable companies to more easily provide and support applications for
the CRAY Y-MP EL entry-level supercomputer. Formalizing existing
relationships between Digital and supercomputing applications develo-
pers, the program will enable Digital to deliver more tightly-
integrated, cost-effective customer solutions. Among the first program
participants are The MacNeal Schwendler Corp., a supplier of computer-
aided engineering software; and Molecular Simulations, Inc., a vendor
of molecular modeling applications. Digital is the exclusive
distributor of the CRAY Y-MP EL.
* System specifications for the CRAY Y-MP EL, news1003.txt
PARALLELIZATION PROJECT BEGUN WITH GAUSSIAN...........................
Digital and Gaussian, Inc. have begun a joint development effort to
adapt Gaussian 92 computational chemistry software to Digital's DECmpp
12000 series of massively parallel computers. Gaussian 92 is used to
model and analyze the structure and properties of molecular principles.
Digital's DECmpp 12000 systems range from 1,024 to 16,384-processor
models, and are capable of performing up to 300-million floating point
operations per second (MFLOPS). Massively parallel architectures offer
the hope of dramatically reduced time-to-solution for the large
problems that interest today's computational chemists.
PARASPHERE TOOLS FOR MPP SYSTEMS UNVEILED.............................
Digital recently unveiled the PARASPHERE software suite for massively
parallel computing, including the first mainstream CASE development
tool and a Fortran language compiler. Also announced were the: DECmpp
Parallel Performance Analyzer for fine-tuning programs; DECmpp Parallel
Debugger for fault identification; DECmpp image and math processing
libraries; DECmpp VAST-2 Optimization Preprocessor for automatic trans-
lation of standard Fortran Code into parallel code; DECmpp 12000/Sx
Model 200 system; and a new subsystem for external data storage.
* Press release on new MPP software and hardware, news1004.txt
NEW U.S. EDUCATION PRICING PROGRAM INTRODUCED.........................
Digital recently introduced a new U.S. Education Pricing Program
designed to greatly simplify the purchasing process while ensuring that
customers receive the most competitive prices available. Under the new
program, Digital will continue to offer education customers significant
discounts but these will now be reflected in a net education price.
This means sales representative will now quote the best price available
to Digital's education customers, not the discount percentage off of a
product's list price. The program specifically encourages the use of
direct order channels such as DECdirect and DESKtop Direct. As a
result, when U.S. customers know which products they want to buy, they
can obtain the best prices through these channels.
* Q and A on the new Education Pricing Program, news1005.txt
DECSTATIONS SET ACROSS EUROPE FOR GENETIC MAPPING.....................
A Science Program Research Grant from the European Community (EC) has
enabled the Imperial Cancer Research Fund (ICRF) to purchase 25
DECstation 5000 systems for genetic mapping in research laboratories
across Europe. The laboratories are collaborating on EUROGEM, a
project initiated under the EC's Human Genome Analysis Program.
Digital's UNIX-based workstations will be linked, using X.25 protocol,
to the ICRF network -- the first national TCP/IP network in the U.K.
The ICRF selected Digital workstations because it believes Digital's
open systems approach will provide flexibility and choice of platforms
in the future.
Contact: Andreas Klepsch, Scientific Administrator for the Human Genome
Analysis Program, +32-22-353210
WHARTON IS FIRST U.S. BUSINESS SCHOOL TO USE DECATHENA................
The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania will be the first
U.S. business school to manage its distributed workstation environment
with DECathena. Wharton is implementing Digital's DECathena software
and services to manage DECstation 5000 and other distributed work-
stations including Hewlett-Packard, IBM, and Sun systems -- providing a
higher level of service without increasing headcount. Graduate
students and faculty are using the RISC/UNIX-based workstations in a
client/server model for research and compute-intensive applications.
Also, participants in Wharton's executive education programs have
access to over 70 Digital DECpc 433ST computers, which were recently
installed in the Steinberg Conference Center and in on-campus hotel
guest rooms where participants stay.
Contact: Drusie Sheldon, Wharton's Director of Information Technology
Services, sheldon@wharton.upenn.edu
NASA, DOE TO UPGRADE NATIONAL RESEARCH NETWORKS.......................
To promote U.S. competitiveness in scientific computing and
communications, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
(NASA) and the Department of Energy (DOE) are upgrading three of their
national research data networks: DOE's Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
and NASA's AEROnet and Science INTERNET (NSI). These networks provide
national and international data communications to support a variety of
research and educational programs in energy, aeronautics, space, and
earth sciences. The two agencies recently selected Sprint to provide
broadband communications services that will enable the networks to
increase speed from 1.5 million to 622 million bits per second.
Digital will be responsible for the network management software.
Contact: Lee Holcomb, NASA's Director of High-Performance Computing and
Communications, l_holcomb@oaetqm.hq.nasa.gov
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