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 1198) NEWS BRIEFS: Silicon Graphics Dives Into Multimedia With Low-Cost Indy
  369) NEWS ANALYSIS: Congressional Report Barbecues HPCC Sacred Cows
  372) LETTERS: Get Out of That Ivory Tower and Get in Touch With the Masses
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 1205) "The computer industry is not opening up. It's becoming tragically
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    that Intel and Microsoft stifled innovation."
       -- Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy
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NEWS BRIEFS
 1198) SILICON GRAPHICS DIVES INTO MULTIMEDIA WITH LOW-COST INDY    101 Lines
    Mountain View, Calif. -- Silicon Graphics Inc. Monday unveiled Indy, a
 desktop system starting at $4,995 that combines SGI compute and imaging
 technology with a host of digital media tools and a color video camera.
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 1199) GUI, GUI, GONE: SGI HERALDS NEW "MEDIA USER INTERFACE"        60 Lines
    Mountain View, Calif. -- Silicon Graphics Inc. Monday introduced the
 Indigo Magic user environment, a powerful interface that allows users to
 manipulate interactive media such as speech, music, video and pictures.
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 1200) IBM UNVEILS NEW RS/6000 SYSTEM, DRIVES, SOFTWARE, TOOLS      154 Lines
    White Plains, N.Y. -- IBM Tuesday announced a new desktop model for its
 RISC System/6000 family, cut RS/6000-related prices up to 34 percent, and
 released a host of disk drives, adapters, software and management tools.
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 1201) TMC BOASTS 23 FIRST-HALF INSTALLATIONS IN VARIETY OF FIELDS   49 Lines
    Cambridge, Mass. -- Thinking Machines Corp. Wednesday announced it
 installed 23 supercomputers during the first two quarters of 1993.
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 1202) INTERNET SATELLITE HOOK-UPS ENABLE REMOTE COMMUNICATIONS      47 Lines
    Washington, D.C. -- A recent Associated Press article noted how a
 satellite connected to the Internet is being used to send and receive vital
 medical information from remote places worldwide using radio transmissions.
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 1203) IBM ANNOUNCES FLURRY OF STORAGE SYSTEMS FOR RS/6000s         108 Lines
    San Jose, Calif. -- Adstar, IBM's storage subsidiary, Tuesday introduced
 a broad selection of disk, tape and optical storage products for RISC
 System/6000 workstations and servers.
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ALSO THIS WEEK: (Full stories available from more@hpcwire.ans.net)
 1204) LANL Researcher Models Self-Replicating Pattern on CM-200     77 Lines
 1205) Sun CEO Blasts Microsoft, Intel in Call for Open Systems      46 Lines
 1206) Paper Makers Fear the Possibility of the Paperless Office     53 Lines
 1207) Denmark's National Supercomputer Center Orders Cray C92A      39 Lines
 1208) Intel's First-Half Earnings Exceed Income for All of 1992    110 Lines
 1209) IBM Gives Long-Term Commitment to ATM Networking Technology   54 Lines
 1210) Hyundai Orders Cray Y-MP 4E for Engineering Center in Korea   36 Lines
 1211) Parsytec Ports Parix OS to MS-DOS; SGI and Mac to Come        29 Lines
 1212) U.K.'s Atomic Energy Authority Installs Used Cray Y-MP        23 Lines
 1213) NCD Introduces 19-Inch, Sound-Equipped Color X Terminal       48 Lines
 1214) People & Places: News on HPC Personnel -- 11 Items           114 Lines
 1215) For the Record: Miscellaneous HPC News & Notes -- 25 Items   254 Lines
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INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT
  739) 800 FLY CORP Announces Corporate Travel Savings Via E-Mail    96 Lines
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ANALYSIS & FEATURES
  369) CONGRESSIONAL REPORT BARBECUES HPCC SACRED COWS              135 Lines
       News Analysis by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large
  The Congressional Budget Office, in a recent carefully researched, tightly
argued, 60-page report, has raised sharp questions about almost all the basic
premises of the federal High-Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC)
act of 1991 and current proposals to expand the scope of HPCC.
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  370) ATOMIC-LEVEL COMPUTER SIMULATIONS IN MATERIALS SCIENCE       120 Lines
       Feature Story by Sara Latta, NCSA Science Writer
  What do improved automobile catalytic converters, more efficient solar
cells, stronger machine tools and better adhesives have in common? They are
all among the target applications for pioneering atomic-level computer
simulations carried out on NCSA's Cray Y-MP system.
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  371) SILICON GRAPHICS INDY WURLITZERPUTER JOLTS MULTIMEDIA SCENE  122 Lines
       Commentary by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large
  Mountain View, Calif. -- The high-performance computing community has been
accustomed to a steady august presence at the leading edge of computing. PC
vendors have been accustomed to profitable high-end sales based on products
with lots of lovely multimedia gadgets. Silicon Graphics Inc.'s new desktop
multimedia machine casts powerful doubt on both these assumptions.
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  372) MESSAGE-PASSING: LETTERS TO THE EDITOR                       101 Lines
  -- Michael Should Get Out of Ivory Tower and Get in Touch With the Masses
  -- Correcting NEC SX-3 Model Numbers in the Linpack Report
  -- Defining "Seats" of Software; "Buying the Farm"
  -- Clever Juxtaposition on New Workstation Claims
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SCIENCE NEWS
  460) Could Airships Holding Metal Platforms Save Ozone Layer?      28 Lines
  461) Professor Finds 100-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Rib in Beijing  15 Lines
  462) Study: Placebo Effect Helps 70 Percent Recover From Disease   50 Lines
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BENCHMARKS
 1851) Primary Linpack Results: Top 600 Computers (May 31)          672 Lines
FACTS & FIGURES
 9004) Price Reductions Announced Tuesday for IBM RS/6000 Products   30 Lines
 1853) Sun Microsystems/HPC Industry Acronyms Explained             194 Lines
OVER THE INTERNET
 1854) First Online Congressional Hearing to Focus on the Internet   51 Lines
BOOKSHELF
 1855) Unix Shell Programming and More: "Learning the Korn Shell"    41 Lines
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 1856) Workshop on High-Performance Computing & Structural Dynamics  39 Lines
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