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Subject:      January '93 "DECNEWS for Education & Research"

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    January 4, 1993                                           Vol. 2, No. 1


    IN THIS ISSUE:
             Announcements
             . UNIX WORLD Names Alpha Workstations `Product of the Year'
             . Schools Across Europe, U.S. Embrace Alpha
             . CSLG Program Enhancements Discussed at U.S. DECUS
             . Digital-IBI Team to Deliver Client/Server Solutions
             . UNIX Network Backup, Restore Capabilities Expanded
             . Digital Launches MPP Technology Center in Norway
             . Digital Co-sponsors AIDS Seminar in California

             Customer News
             . Italian Physics Institute Licenses Alpha Chip
             . Carnegie Mellon to Use Alpha for Computational Chemistry
             . Washington University Uses MPP For Medical Research


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    UNIX WORLD NAMES ALPHA WORKSTATIONS `PRODUCT OF THE YEAR'.............

    Featuring a DEC 3000 Model 400 AXP system on its cover, the January
    issue of "UNIX WORLD" magazine names the AXP workstation family a
    "Product of the Year."  An article within the UNIX publication, which
    is distributed in 133 countries worldwide, reads: "Credit for the most
    important product announcement of 1992 has to go to Digital Equipment
    Corp.  Its lightening speed Alpha systems -- clocked at 118 SPECmarks
    at publication time -- vaulted the world's number-two computer company
    into the performance lead in the UNIX workstation market."


    SCHOOLS ACROSS EUROPE, U.S. EMBRACE ALPHA.............................

    Universities and research laboratories across Europe and the U.S. are
    quickly embracing Alpha, resulting in a flurry of Alpha AXP system
    sales.  In Europe, since the Nov. 10th announcement, new Alpha AXP
    customers include the University of Oxford and Swansea University in
    the U.K., Helsinki University of Technology in Finland, Ecole
    Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne in Switzerland, Universite de Liege
    in Belgium, and in Austria, the Vienna Business School, the Technical
    University of Vienna, the University of Salzburg, and the University of
    Vienna.  In the U.S., new customers include Indiana University,
    Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Georgetown University, and
    Florida State University.  (Also, see customer news on Carnegie Mellon
    University and the Italian Physics Institute.)


    CSLG PROGRAM ENHANCEMENTS DISCUSSED AT U.S. DECUS......................

    At the recent U.S. DECUS in Las Vegas, Digital introduced two new
    customer-designed programs that will replace the U.S. Campuswide
    Software License Grant Program (CSLG).  The new programs will be
    officially announced in the first quarter of calendar year 1993, with
    implementation beginning July 1, 1993.  One program will provide soft-
    ware licenses and rights to new versions for primary and secondary edu-
    cation customers; the other will provide licenses and technical support
    for all education customers.  The new programs -- enhanced, dramati-
    cally simplified versions of CSLG and the Education Software Library --
    will be available for a competitive fee.  They give customers greater
    flexibility, including the option of paying annually or monthly
    according to budget needs.  Also, "personal use" of campus-wide
    licenses on systems that have been purchased by the institution's
    faculty, students, or employees will now be allowed.


    DIGITAL-IBI TEAM TO DELIVER CLIENT/SERVER SOLUTIONS...................

    Digital recently announced a strategic partnership with Information
    Builders, Inc. (IBI) that will bring a new dimension of power to the
    desktop.  The partnership will deliver a family of client/server
    integrated products based on Digital's ACCESSWORKS servers for open
    multivendor database integration and IBI's Enterprise Data Access/SQL
    (EDA/SQL) client/server software.  The new product family will enable
    customers to access more than 50 relational and non-relational
    databases from their desktops, and file structures on 35 platforms
    supported by IBI's EDA/SQL.  Digital also announced a Deferred Query
    utility designed to improve the end-user's database access.
    OpenVMS/VAX and Alpha AXP platforms will support the new ACCESSWORKS
    family, which Digital and IBI will service and support.


    UNIX NETWORK BACKUP, RESTORE CAPABILITIES EXPANDED....................

    Digital recently announced a new version of DEC Network Save and
    Restore (DECnsr) that will give users significant gains in system
    management productivity, and data and file availability and security --
    while keeping costs to a minimum through time and media savings.  A
    member of Digital's POLYCENTER family, DECnsr is specifically designed
    to provide backup capabilities for UNIX-based systems and PCs attached
    to TCP/IP networks and Digital's UNIX servers.  The new DECnsr V2.0
    includes the capability to backup an entire UNIX computing environment
    without a system operator in attendance, lower-cost licensing for PC
    clients, and support for HP 9000/700 clients.


    DIGITAL LAUNCHES MPP TECHNOLOGY CENTER IN NORWAY......................

    Digital recently launched a technology center for massively parallel
    processing (MPP) at the University of Bergen in Norway -- one of many
    recent initiatives to increase the range of applications available for
    MPP.  Digital selected the University of Bergen to host the center,
    called NParC, because of its expertise in parallel processing.  Also,
    NParC represents a continuation of the university's existing research
    agreement with Digital, which allows each party to draw on the
    expertise of the other.


    DIGITAL CO-SPONSORS AIDS SEMINAR IN CALIFORNIA........................

    Digital and the Stanford University Center for AIDS Research are
    co-sponsoring a one-day seminar on "AIDS: Infection, Gene Regulation
    and Therapy" for academic and commercial biotechnologists.  The seminar
    is scheduled Jan. 12th at Stanford's Fairchild Auditorium.

    Contact: Linda Rubinson, Digital's Biotech Marketing Manager,
    rubinson_li@sanfan.enet.dec.com


    ITALIAN PHYSICS INSTITUTE LICENSES ALPHA CHIP.........................

    Italy's Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) recently became
    one of the first non-commercial institutions worldwide to license
    Digital's Alpha AXP microprocessor.  The nuclear physics institute is
    working with Digital engineers to develop a high-performance board,
    based on Digital's Alpha AXP chip and FUTUREBUS+, for high-speed, cost-
    effective data acquisition.  After evaluating IBM, Hewlett-Packard, and
    Sun UNIX-based systems, the institute is also boosting the performance
    of its VAX-based compute-intensive applications, including CERNLIB,
    using over 45 new DEC 3000 Model 400 and 500 OpenVMS-based Alpha AXP
    systems connected by Ethernet and FDDI.

    Contact: Enzo Valente, President of INFN's Computer Committee,
    valente@infn.it


    CARNEGIE MELLON TO USE ALPHA FOR COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY..............

    Carnegie Mellon University's Chemistry Department is increasing its
    computing power for computational chemistry and physics with 15 new DEC
    3000 AXP workstations and servers running DEC OSF/1.  The new high-
    performance computers will be used for theoretical modeling, reaction
    simulation, and methodology development -- with specific applications
    in biopolymer dynamics, molecular energies, electron correlations,
    nuclear reactions, hydride transfers, non-linear optics, and gas-phase
    dynamics.   The department strongly considered IBM's RS/6000, but opted
    to go with Alpha based on its innovativeness, price/performance
    advantage, and the support available in the Pennsylvania, U.S.A. area.
    The AXP workstations will be configured and networked as a farm, a
    single computational resource, for running parallel applications.

    Contact: Dr. Morton Kaplan, Professor of Chemistry,
    kaplan@cmchem.chem.cmu.edu; or Dr. Charles Brooks, Professor of
    Chemistry, brooks@cmchem.chem.cmu.edu


    WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY USES MPP FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH...................

    Researchers at Washington University in Missouri, U.S.A. are conducting
    studies with three-dimensional medical imaging on a massively parallel
    computer to develop tools that will foster greater accuracy in medical
    diagnostics.  They are using Digital's DECmpp 12000 system to develop
    medical imaging algorithms for positron emission tomography (PET) and
    magnetic resonance imaging, powerful new medical diagnistic techniques
    for viewing the human body in three-dimensional form.  PET provides
    vastly improved visual representation for neurological surgery and is
    also used to research schizophrenia, Alzheimer's disease, tumors, and
    epilepsy.  Washington University is also collaborating with researchers
    at BELLCORE Corp. and Brown University to develop medical imaging and
    scene recognition applications.

    Contact: Michael Miller, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering
    and Biomedical Computing, mim@hyperion.wustl.edu

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