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For Strategy Gen 4 specifications and fact sheet, select 905. ============================== IN THIS ISSUE ================================ 1091) NEWS BRIEFS: NCSA Installs Meta Series to Fulfill Metacomputer Vision 347) COMMENTARY: Selling Computers in Japan -- Slip in While Window's Open 349) ANALYSIS: In Competitive Whirlwind, Wireless E-Mail Becomes Reality 1814) FACTS & FIGURES: A Tentative List of the Top 210 Computers Worldwide ============================================================================= ***************************************************************************** QUOTE OF THE WEEK: 1097) "I knew it would work. I think we're going to be able to make some rapid strides [with gallium arsenide]. Its time has not yet come. We're going to be pioneers in this." -- Seymour Cray on his Cray-3 supercomputer. ***************************************************************************** NEWS BRIEFS 1091) NCSA INSTALLS META SERIES TO FULFILL METACOMPUTER VISION Palo Alto, Calif. -- Hewlett-Packard Co., Convex Computer Corp. and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications Tuesday announced a collaborative effort centered around a Convex supercomputer and a cluster of high-performance HP workstations. -------------------- 1092) WANT TO REACH BILL CLINTON? TRY PRESIDENT@WHITEHOUSE.GOV Washington, D.C. -- The Internet community now possesses one of the most direct methods of contacting President Bill Clinton: electronic mail. -------------------- 1093) NCAR READIES HETEROGENEOUS GLOBAL CLIMATE MODELING PROJECT Boulder, Colo. -- The National Center for Atmospheric Research Tuesday announced the activation of its Thinking Machines CM-5 and Cray Computer Cray-3 supercomputers -- systems that will provide the foundation to answer critical questions about global warming and greenhouse gases, NCAR said. -------------------- 1094) CRAY RESEARCH ANNOUNCES T3D EMULATOR FOR FIRST MPP SYSTEM Eagan, Minn. -- Cray Research Inc. Tuesday introduced the Cray T3D Emulator, a software tool that gives customers a head start in developing high-performance applications for the company's first massively parallel processing system, the Cray T3D, due out later this year. -------------------- 1095) MCI TO PROVIDE INTERNET SERVICES TO EIGHT REGIONAL NETWORKS Washington, D.C. -- MCI Communications Corp. will soon link thousands of computer users in schools, libraries, research centers, businesses and colleges to the nation's information superhighway under an agreement with CoREN, a group of eight regional data networking services providers. -------------------- 1096) INFORMATION UNDERCLASS FEARED AS BUSINESS DISCOVERS INTERNET New York, N.Y. -- An Associated Press report on the development of data superhighways expressed concern that the promise of the Information Age may not produce as many benefits for educational systems -- especially in the inner cities and poor rural areas -- as it will for commercial enterprises. -------------------- ALSO THIS WEEK: (Full stories available from more@hpcwire.ans.net) 1097) Father of Supercomputing Seymour Cray Keeps His Dream Alive 1098) French National Science Agency Orders Cray C98 Supercomputer 1099) Intel SSD Names Eli Lamb Director of Software Engineering 1100) Convex Adds H. Berry Cash to Its Board of Directors 1101) Cray Research Unveils Fortran 6.0 Programming Environment 1102) Seymour Cray Buys 1.8 Million Shares of Cray Computer Stock 1103) Parsytec Releases Independent Performance Report on T9000 1104) Intel Donates $960,000 iPSC/860 Supercomputer to UC Davis 1105) Sunergy Live Broadcast on June 8 to Cover Multiprocessing 1106) Digital Equipment Launches New Subsidiary in South Africa 1107) IBM Power Visualization System Enables Digital Video CDs 1108) For the Record: Miscellaneous HPC News and Notes -- 14 Items ***************************************************************************** INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT 733) Avalon's New AlphaCard Delivers Alpha AXP Performance for VAX Users ***************************************************************************** ANALYSIS & FEATURES 347) SELLING COMPUTERS IN JAPAN: SLIP IN WHILE THE WINDOW'S OPEN Commentary by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large The following purports to be an official memo arguing for a fundamental change in U.S. policy regarding trade in computers with Japan, including an exhortation to mount an all-out U.S. effort to exploit current opportunities and capture a greater share of the Japanese market before it is too late. -------------------- 348) FEATURE: APPLIED NETWORK RESEARCH BUILDS INTERNET MODELS By Kim Claffy and Marsha Jovanovic, San Diego Supercomputer Center During 1992, the Applied Network Research group at the San Diego Supercomputer Center made significant strides toward comprehensive modeling of a variety of networking environments. -------------------- 349) IN COMPETITIVE WHIRLWIND, WIRELESS E-MAIL BECOMES REALITY News Analysis by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large While computing sometimes appears increasingly to be a footnote appended to a whirlwind of cosmic struggles among telecommunications giants and cable barons, one of the most crucial emerging intersections between communications and computers -- wireless messaging -- has reached affordable reality. -------------------- 350) MESSAGE-PASSING: LETTERS TO THE EDITOR ***************************************************************************** SCIENCE NEWS 442) Dentists Could Use Lasers as New Weapon Against Tooth Decay 443) Geologists Study Earthquake Cycles in Midwest, New England 444) Voyager Probes Discover Evidence of the Solar System's Edge ***************************************************************************** SELECT NEWS INFORMATION 601) Subscription Rates for HPC Select News 602) Contribute Your News, Tips and Information for Select News 603) HPC Select News Masthead and Contact Information ***************************************************************************** OTHER INFORMATION AVAILABLE THIS WEEK: BENCHMARKS 1813) NAS Benchmark Results: Other Results From Intel and Thinking Machines BACKGROUND 1814) The Effort to Track the Top 500 Computers Installed Worldwide FACTS & FIGURES 1815) A Tentative List of the Top 210 Computers Installed Worldwide 1816) The President's Fiscal Year 1994 Budget Request for the HPCC Program BEHIND THE SCENES 1817) Report From the First PVM Users' Group Meeting RESEARCH REGISTER 1818) MPPs Used to Study Mesoscopic Defects in the Design of New Materials RESOURCES 1819) Anonymous ftp Site for Fortran 90 Benchmark Results and Source Code BACK ISSUES 950) A Complete Index of HPC Select News Back Issues ***************************************************************************** LAST WEEK'S MOST REQUESTED ITEMS FROM HPC SELECT NEWS 344) Q&A: Craig Barrett, Chief Operating Officer of Intel Corp. 345) Commentary: Whatever Happened to the Supercomputer? 1076) GAO Provides Pointed Criticism for ARPA's HPC Program 1074) Cray Computer Delivers First Cray-3, Readies Cray-4 for '94 ***************************************************************************** SPONSORS: Free information available from the following companies 901) ANS 902) IBM Corp. 903) Network Systems 904) Intel 905) Maximum Strategy 906) nCUBE 907) Digital Equipment 908) Hewlett-Packard 909) Fujitsu America 910) Convex Computer 911) Fed Data 912) Avalon (NEW INFO!) 913) The Smaby Group 914) Applied Parallel Res. 915) Genias Software 916) MasPar Computer 917) MMB Development 918) FastComm 920) R.J. 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