Menu of Items Published April 30, 1993 in HPC Select News NEWS BRIEFS 1000) Convex Announces Details for Its First Scalable MPP Machine 1001) Compatibility From Desktop to MPP: Convex Licenses HP-UX 1002) Lockheed Acquires 16,384-Processor MP-2 System From MasPar 1003) Gerstner Faces Angry Shareholders, Promises "Bold Strides" 1004) Survey: Executives See Computers As Key to Competitiveness 1005) Intel Stock Takes Wild Ride Amidst Competitive Challenges 1006) MasPar Announces Joint R&D Effort With Lawrence Berkeley Lab 1007) Alpha AXP Workstations Chosen to Help Map Human Genome 1008) Las Cruces School Wins New Mexico Supercomputing Challenge 1009) Cray, ACRI to Develop Fortran 90 Compilers and Apps for MPP 1010) More Changes: IBM Vice Chairman Jack Kuehler to Retire 1011) NSF Sends Video on Internet for Global Schoolhouse Project 1012) Convex Computer Breaks Even in First Quarter of Fiscal '93 1013) Matsushita to Make D-3 Subassemblies for StorageTek Devices 1014) SunPro Introduces Solaris Multiprocessor Development Kit 1015) Parametric's Performance Improves for 20th Straight Quarter 1016) Cray to Sponsor This Weekend's Mathcounts Competition 1017) HP's SoftBench Development Environment Now Supports Solaris ANALYSIS & FEATURES 331) Commentary: Will Clustering Long Shot Win Roses in Parallel Derby? 332) Feature: FEA Techniques in the Design of High-Speed TGV Trains 333) Analysis: Boss Says High-Bandwidth IBM PVS is Boss for Movie Effects SCIENCE NEWS 427) GM Developing "Night Vision" for Automobiles of the Future 428) FDA Prepared to Give Final Approval to First Female Condom 429) Transplants, Vision Devices Among Potential Blindness Cures HPC STOCKS 505) List of 70 High-Performance Computing stocks, from Apr. 14-28 SELECT NEWS INFORMATION 601) Charter Subscription Rates for Select News End May 1 602) Get Involved With Tips and Contributions for Select News 603) HPC Select News Masthead and Contact Information INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT 728) More Than 1,400 Alpha AXP Applications Shipping By July 1 BENCHMARKS 879) NAS Benchmark Results: The 3-D FFT PDE Benchmark FACTS & FIGURES 880) Performance and Specs for New Mips R4000-Based DECstations and Servers 881) Processor Speed Comparisons: Cray Y-MP Family SOFTWARE 882) Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM) Version 3.1 Now Available TRANSCRIPT 883) Press Conference: Convex/HP Announce MPP System, Software Licensing EDUCATION 884) Computational Science and Education at CRPC Sites BACK ISSUES 950) A Complete Index of HPC Select News Back Issues ***************************************************************************** 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 914) APR (NEW SPONSOR!) 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".