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 1181) NEWS BRIEFS: Finalists Top 60 GFLOPS in Gordon Bell Prize Competition
  365) COMMENTARY: Will CPU Exuberance and Pogo-Stickery Imperil Parallelism?
  367) ANALYSIS: Blue Lasers and Electron Spin -- Terrific Tiny Technology
  368) LETTERS: The Phrase "High-Performance Computing" Is Much Abused
 1846) FACTS & FIGURES: Specs and Performance for IBM RS/6000 Servers
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NEWS BRIEFS
 1181) FINALISTS TOP 60 GFLOPS IN GORDON BELL PRIZE COMPETITION      60 Lines
    Washington, D.C. -- Five finalists have been announced for the 1993
 Gordon Bell Prize competition, which annually honors significant
 achievements in parallel processing.
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 1182) SUN MICROSYSTEMS UNVEILS THREE NEW GRAPHICS WORKSTATIONS      53 Lines
    Mountain View, Calif. -- Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. Monday
 introduced a new line of graphics computers, including what it called "the
 industry's fastest 2-D graphics workstation and the fastest 3-D graphics
 workstation priced less than $20,000."
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 1183) SILICON GRAPHICS EXPANDS INDIGO2 LINE WITH TWO NEW SYSTEMS    53 Lines
    Mountain View, Calif. -- Silicon Graphics Inc. Monday said it had created
 "the world's fastest desktop product line" with the introduction of two new
 Indigo2 systems -- including an entry-level machine priced at $18,000.
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 1184) INTEL INTRODUCES SMALLER PARAGON XP/E SYSTEMS IN EUROPE       31 Lines
    Swindon, U.K. -- Intel's Supercomputer Systems Division Thursday
 announced a new program to help European universities gain hands-on access
 to scalable high-performance platforms for software development.
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 1185) "SX," "SUNVISION" TO EXPAND SUN'S 3-D AND VISUAL OFFERINGS    46 Lines
    Mountain View, Calif. -- Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. Monday detailed
 plans for new imaging-processing and video-compression technologies, which
 the company said will appear in commercial products by the end of this year.
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 1186) Fujitsu Cuts Prices on Supers to Attract Offers From Tokyo    13 Lines
 1187) Ford Motor Co. Buys Its Second High-End Cray Research C916    47 Lines
 1188) KFA Juelich Completes Paragon Acceptance, Orders Upgrade      39 Lines
 1189) Italian Supercomputing Consortium Buys $500,000 Alpha Farm    48 Lines
 1190) Fluid Researcher Is 100th User on Arctic Center's Y-MP M98    39 Lines
 1191) Weitek's "Power uP" Chip Boosts SPARCstation Performance      55 Lines
 1192) Visual Numerics Ships PV-Wave Advantage Analysis Software     40 Lines
 1193) IBM's New Gene-Searching Algorithm Available Over Internet    55 Lines
 1194) Novell Forms Unix Systems Group to Unify and Integrate Unix   41 Lines
 1195) Intergraph to Make SPARC Chips and Port Windows NT to SPARC   55 Lines
 1196) Carrier to Deploy Alpha AXP for Design and Manufacturing      56 Lines
 1197) For the Record: Miscellaneous HPC News & Notes -- 11 Items   114 Lines
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INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT
  738) ANS CO+RE Security to Use RSA Public Key Cryptography         73 Lines
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 9003) "For the first time since the invention of the telescope, a comet is
    hitting a planet."
       -- Amateur astronomer David Levy of Tucson, co-discoverer of a comet
          called Shoemaker-Levy 9 that's due to strike Jupiter next summer.
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ANALYSIS & FEATURES
  365) COULD CPU EXUBERANCE AND POGO-STICKERY IMPERIL PARALLELISM?  125 Lines
       Commentary by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large
  Rapid increases in microprocessor power harnessed in highly parallel
systems are creating a disparity between hardware performance and software
capabilities that is even broader than usual.
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  366) MANIPULATING ATOMS THROUGH MATERIALS SCIENCE                 191 Lines
       Feature Story by Wesley R. Iversen, NCSA Science Writer
  While no one yet has figured out how to turn lead into gold, advances made
possible by high-performance computing have enabled scientists to use the
elements provided by nature to create entirely new artificial materials with
properties tuned to meet a variety of mankind's needs.
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  367) BLUE LASERS AND ELECTRON SPIN: TERRIFIC TINY TECHNOLOGY      105 Lines
       News Analysis by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large
  Small may be beautiful, but tiny is terrific. Blue light is skinnier than
infrared, and electrons are vastly more compact than klunky silicon atoms.
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  368) MESSAGE-PASSING: LETTERS TO THE EDITOR/CORRECTIONS            79 Lines
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SCIENCE NEWS
 9003) Astronomers Anxiously Await Comet's Collision With Jupiter    90 Lines
  458) Amateur Fossil Hunters Find Tyrannosaurus Rex Skeleton        46 Lines
  459) Conservationists Capturing and Cloning Endangered Plants      48 Lines
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 1846) Specifications and Performance for IBM RS/6000 Servers        65 Lines
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 1847) National Consortium for HPC Advances Parallel Technology      93 Lines
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 1848) Supercomputing Japan Returns to Tokyo in June 1994            49 Lines
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