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 9001) NEWS BRIEFS: Fujitsu Installs Fastest Single-Node Super in the U.S.
 1146) NEWS BRIEFS: Scientists Using Sun Systems to Learn About Dinosaur Life
  358) COMMENTARY: Open Letter to Apple's New CEO -- Harvest the Blue Apples
 1833) BENCHMARKS: Linpack Benchmark Results -- Highly Parallel Computing
 1834) FACTS & FIGURES: Specs for Transtech Paramid Parallel Supercomputer
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NEWS BRIEFS
 9001) FUJITSU INSTALLS FASTEST SINGLE-NODE SUPERCOMPUTER IN U.S.    73 Lines
    San Jose, Calif. -- In the wake of Fujitsu America's second supercomputer
 order in the U.S., Thomas Miller, vice president of Fujitsu's Supercomputer
 Group, told Select News Thursday that his goal is to capture 25 percent of
 Fujitsu's targeted American markets by early 1997.
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 1145) RESEARCH PROJECTS, NUMBER OF NODES GROW FOR SDSC'S PARAGON    39 Lines
    San Diego, Calif. -- The San Diego Supercomputer Center said Thursday
 that it has upgraded its Intel Paragon XP/S supercomputer to 400 processors.
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 1146) SCIENTISTS USING SUN SYSTEMS TO LEARN ABOUT DINOSAUR LIFE     78 Lines
    Mountain View, Calif. -- Noted paleontologist Jack Horner, the model for
 the lead character in the film "Jurassic Park," is one of several scientists
 using Sun workstations to learn more about the world of the dinosaurs.
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 1147) OAK RIDGE RESEARCHERS EXPLORE KSR1'S UNIQUE ARCHITECTURE      36 Lines
    Oak Ridge, Tennessee -- Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak
 Ridge National Laboratory are studying the unique architecture of the
 Kendall Square Research KSR1 supercomputer to determine its efficiency and
 scalability when adding processors, memory and disk storage.
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 1148) IBM HONORS TOP TECHNICAL ADVANCEMENTS, NAMES SIX FELLOWS     110 Lines
    Armonk, N.Y. -- IBM Tuesday night celebrated the technical achievements
 of its employees by naming six new IBM Fellows -- the company's highest
 technical honor -- and by presenting nearly $1 million in awards to 28 of
 its top scientists, engineers and programmers.
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 1149) CISCO COMMENDS GORE FOR FOSTERING NETWORK EXPERIMENTATION     27 Lines
    San Francisco, Calif. -- Cisco Systems Monday awarded the inaugural Cisco
 Circle Award to Vice President Albert Gore "in recognition of his visionary
 leadership in building global awareness of computer networking through the
 National Information Highway Initiative," the company said.
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ALSO THIS WEEK: (Full stories available from more@hpcwire.ans.net)
 1150) "Mario" Reigns As MVP (Most Valuable Processor) at PSC        25 Lines
 1151) Greek National Center Installs Two Convex Supercomputers      28 Lines
 1152) Cray Research Licenses Chorus Microkernel to Enhance Unicos   33 Lines
 1153) Sun Microsystems Named Exclusive Supplier for World Cup '94   40 Lines
 1154) Microsoft Corp. Licences Fortran 90 Technology From NAG       55 Lines
 1155) Convex C3840 to Be Used for French Military Vehicle Design    25 Lines
 1156) Myrias Unveils First Production Version of Workstation PAMS   93 Lines
 1157) Polaroid to Use Pro/Engineer for Mechanical Design Process    24 Lines
 1158) NetWare Management System, SunNet Manager to Interoperate     54 Lines
 1159) ECCS Releases Feature Fault-Tolerant RAID Storage Subsystem   26 Lines
 1160) People & Places: Changes in HPC Personnel -- 10 Items        131 Lines
 1161) For the Record: Miscellaneous HPC News & Notes -- 18 Items   186 Lines
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INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT
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QUOTE OF THE WEEK:
 1146) "I would say that CAT scanning and reconstructing images is how most
    research will be done in paleontology in the next 20 years."
       -- Jack Horner, the model paleontologist for the lead role in
          "Jurassic Park," on his use of Sun Microsystems workstations
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ANALYSIS & FEATURES
  358) AN OPEN LETTER TO APPLE'S NEW CEO: HARVEST THE BLUE APPLES   138 Lines
       Commentary by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large
  Dear Mike: IBM is in tougher shape than Apple, of course, but the
difficulties at Apple and IBM arise from the same basic causes -- although
this might seem heresy to the Apple Old Religion. The solutions are only
partially the same, but both involve high-performance computing directly.
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  359) MERGING DATABASE MANAGEMENT WITH VISUALIZATION SOFTWARE       73 Lines
       Feature Story by Marsha Jovanovic, San Diego Supercomputer Center
  One of the several goals of the DEC-sponsored Sequoia 2000 project is to
design a visualization management system to bring together database
management capabilities with scientific visualization systems and graphical
user interface builders.
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  360) THE MEASLING OF AMERICA'S BROADBAND COMMUNICATIONS           119 Lines
       News Analysis by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large
  The online future of American computing -- and American communications --
has a healthy, growing case of the measles. While universal plans to wire up
the country with broadband circuits languish in Washington, local initiative
is taking over. That might be expected here in Silicon Valley, but it also
flourishes in North Carolina and a wide range of other places.
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SCIENCE NEWS
  451) Mathematician Claims to Have Solved Fermat's Famous Theorem   45 Lines
  452) Science Fiction on CD Headed to Mars Aboard Russian Flight    18 Lines
  453) Scientists Say Several Asteroids Led to Dinosaur Extinction   42 Lines
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 1833) Linpack Results: Highly Parallel Computing (May 31)          135 Lines
FACTS & FIGURES
 1834) Specs for the Transtech Paramid Parallel Supercomputer        36 Lines
 1835) Paramid Performance for Image Processing, FFTs and Linpack    63 Lines
BACKGROUNDER
 1836) Information Superhighways: NREN and the HPCC Program          49 Lines
COMPUTER CENTERS
 1837) The Arctic Region Supercomputing Center                       43 Lines
SOFTWARE
 1838) Interactively Manipulate Protein Models With Sculpt           39 Lines
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