Menu of Items Published April 9, 1993 in HPC Select News NEWS BRIEFS 240) Thinking Machines Becoming Less Reliant on DARPA Money 241) Cornell First to Install IBM's New Parallel Supercomputer 242) Workstation Gravy Train Loses Steam As PCs Get New Engines 243) Advanced Micro Devices Pays Chairman $21.8 Million in 1992 244) Alpha AXP Breaks Supercomputer Record for Fastest Sort 245) CHPC, Motorola, IBM to Work on Multichip Module for Lynx 246) NSF Announces Network Information Center for Internet Users 247) Queen's University of Belfast Installs Cray Y-MP EL System 248) IBM RS/6000 Powerservers Get Top Price/Performance Numbers 249) SunSoft Debuts Multimedia Technologies With Solaris Live! 250) Network Systems Routers Chosen for Huge Corporate Backbone 251) Pact Signed By Moldflow, Cray to Benefit Plastics Industry 252) Software Flood, Performance Numbers Released for Alpha AXP 253) Telmat Informatique Sells Systems in Hungary and Poland 254) Convex Computer Takes Stake in German Microelectronics Firm 255) SPARCstation IPXs to Help Monitor Norwegian Air Traffic 256) Unix Performance Monitor Installed at Super Centers, Cray 257) Parametric Gets First Multimillion-Dollar European Order 258) Sun Machines to Run International Freight Management System 259) StorageTek Offering Expanded Memory for ES/9000 Model 9021 ANALYSIS & FEATURES 322) Commentary: George Lucas' Magic + SGI Digitalization = JEDI = $$$$ 323) Feature: High-Performance Storage -- Overcoming the I/O Bottleneck 324) Analysis: Kahaner Says Japan Lags in Multiprocessing and Networks SCIENCE NEWS 418) Unusually Bright Supernova Blazes Across Northern Skies 419) Parents Link Utility-Line Radiation to Daughter's Cancer 420) Reducing Blood Lead Levels May Increase Intelligence Scores SELECT NEWS INFORMATION 601) Charter Subscription Information for HPC Select News 602) Get Involved With Tips and Contributions for Select News INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT 724) fONOROLA to Link Canadian Network With ANS CO+RE Backbone BENCHMARKS 860) NAS Parallel Benchmark Results: The Embarrassingly Parallel Benchmark FACTS & FIGURES 861) Parallel Supercomputer Vendors: 1992 Worldwide Market Share 862) SPEC92 Performance Numbers for the Fastest Microprocessors RESEARCH REGISTER 863) Grand Challenges: Studying the Formation of the Galaxies 864) Modeling High-Temperature Superconductors at Argonne SOFTWARE 865) NCSA Software Listing: Updated Spring 1993 BACK ISSUES 993) Menu of Items Published April 5, 1993 in HPC Select News 994) Menu of Items Published March 26, 1993 in HPC Select News 995) Menu of Items Published March 19, 1993 in HPC Select News 996) Menu of Items Published March 12, 1993 in HPC Select News ***************************************************************************** SPONSORS: Free information available from the following companies 901) ANS 902) IBM Corp. 903) Network Systems 904) Intel (NEW INFO!) 905) Maximum Strategy 906) nCUBE 907) Digital Equipment 908) Hewlett-Packard 909) Fujitsu America 910) Convex Computer 911) Fed Data 912) Avalon Computers 913) The Smaby Group 915) Genias Software 916) MasPar Computer 917) MMB Development 920) R.J. Harvey & Assoc. ***************************************************************************** S E L E C T N E W S 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 908) Hewlett-Packard 909) Fujitsu America 910) Convex Computer 912) Avalon Computer 914) Applied Parallel Res. 915) Genias Software 916) MasPar Computer 919) Transtech Parallel 921) Cray Research Inc. ***************************************************************************** Copyright 1993 HPCwire. To receive the weekly HPC Select News Bulletin at no charge, send e-mail to "trial@hpcwire.ans.net".