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 1234) NEWS BRIEFS: Convex Lays Off 185; Second-Quarter Losses Hit $41.8M
  376) COMMENTARY: "A Dangerously Flawed Congressional Report" by Ken Kennedy
  377) ANALYSIS: Fujitsu Beta Site Gets 100-Plus GFLOPS on VPP 500
  379) COMMENTARY: Has the Time Arrived to End Computer Export Licenses?
 1863) FACTS & FIGURES: Performance for SGI's RealityEngine Subsystems
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QUOTE OF THE WEEK:
 1239) "The employees have borne an unbelievable burden. Morale in some parts
    of the company is not strong. I'm worried about that. We want to put an
    end to the Chinese water torture they've been going through quarter after
    quarter, year after year."
       -- IBM CEO Louis Gerstner
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NEWS BRIEFS
 1234) CONVEX LAYS OFF 185; SECOND-QUARTER LOSS HITS $41.8 MILLION   47 Lines
    Richardson, Texas -- Convex Computer Corp. this week laid off 185
 employees -- 16 percent of its work force -- following the company's first
 quarterly loss since 1991, a company official told Select News.
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 1235) INTEL RELEASES SCALABLE OPERATING SYSTEM FOR PARAGON XP/S     57 Lines
    Beaverton, Ore. -- Intel Corp.'s Supercomputer Systems Division Monday
 announced the production release of what it called "the industry's first
 truly scalable Unix operating system," OSF/1 AD MK.
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 1236) IBM UNVEILS CFD/GIS INTEGRATION IN DATA EXPLORER VERSION 2   122 Lines
    Yorktown Heights, N.Y. -- IBM Thursday announced Version 2 of its Data
 Explorer scientific visualization software, along with integration between
 Data Explorer and computational fluid dynamics packages from Fluent Inc. as
 well as ESRI's ARC/INFO geographic information system software.
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 1237) JAPANESE RESEARCHERS ENVISION THOUGHT-CONTROLLED COMPUTER     61 Lines
    Yokosuka, Japan -- An Associated Press feature Monday discussed the
 potential for computers of the future to be controlled not by keyboards and
 hand-held mice, or even by human speech -- but by human thoughts.
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 1238) ALPHA TEST DRIVE ENDS OVER "SUPERCOMPUTER" EXPORT FEARS       78 Lines
    New York, N.Y. -- Digital Equipment Corp. abruptly pulled two powerful
 Alpha AXP 4000 workstations off the Internet out of concerns about possible
 export violations, even though the computers never left the country.
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 1239) IBM SLASHES 35,000 JOBS FOLLOWING Q2 LOSSES OF $8 BILLION    305 Lines
    New York, N.Y. -- In the wake of an $8 billion second-quarter loss and
 the announcement of yet another layoff involving a staggering 35,000
 employees, IBM CEO Louis Gerstner Tuesday said he expects the once staid
 computer giant to remain in a constant state of change.
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 1240) VISTANET GIGABIT TESTBED GIVES GLIMPSE OF DATA SUPERHIGHWAY   82 Lines
    Research Triangle Park, N.C. -- GTE Corp. and BellSouth Corp. Tuesday
 said they have successfully operated the nation's first ultra-high-speed
 communications network linking a supercomputer, a high-resolution graphics
 source and medical research facilities via the public telephone network.
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ALSO THIS WEEK: (Full stories available from more@hpcwire.ans.net)
 1241) Network Systems President/CEO Leaves to Join Pacific Bell     26 Lines
 1242) Cray Releases V5.0 of MPGS Engineering Graphics Software      48 Lines
 1243) Leading CEM Scientist From Sandia Labs Joins Intel SSD        52 Lines
 1244) SGI to Offer Maximum Strategy's Gen 4 RAID Storage Server     48 Lines
 1245) Sun's SPARCclassic X System Is Upgradable to a Workstation    66 Lines
 1246) HP Workstations and Servers to Be Sold Under Hitachi Label    33 Lines
 1247) Financial Firm Freddie Mac Installs Second Cray Y-MP EL       28 Lines
 1248) Alias' PowerAnimator 5.0 Eases Creation of Special Effects   100 Lines
 1249) Network Systems to Sell Maximum Strategy Servers in Europe    40 Lines
 1250) SGI-Based Online Digital Video Broadcast Service Unveiled     52 Lines
 1251) For the Record: Miscellaneous HPC News & Notes -- 22 Items   229 Lines
CORPORATE WATCH
 1252) Cray Research's Q2 Profits Fall Below Analysts' Estimates     44 Lines
 1253) Digital Equipment Records First Quarterly Profit Since 1991  204 Lines
 1254) Silicon Graphics Tops $1 Billion Mark in Revenues for 1993    63 Lines
 1255) Sun Microsystems Doubles Earnings to $76.1 Million in Q4      51 Lines
 1256) Cray Computer Loses $23.3 Million in First Half of 1993       61 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
 9006) A DANGEROUSLY FLAWED CONGRESSIONAL REPORT                     89 Lines
       Commentary by Ken Kennedy, Director, CRPC
  The Congressional Budget Office study entitled, "Promoting High-Performance
Computing and Communications" suffers from serious shortcomings that make it
more likely to be harmful than useful.
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  377) FUJITSU BETA SITE GETS 100+ GFLOPS ON CFD CODES FOR VPP500    60 Lines
       News Analysis by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large
  Silicon Valley, Calif. -- Researchers at a beta test site in Japan running
real-world computational fluid dynamics codes have achieved performance of
well over 100 gigaflops on medium-sized (100-plus nodes) configurations of
Fujitsu's new VPP500 highly parallel system.
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  378) SUPERCOMPUTERS AND HIGH-TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTIVITY        216 Lines
       Feature Story by Jarrett Cohen, NCSA
  "Superconductivity is perhaps the most remarkable physical property in the
universe," says David Pines, who has sought to understand superconductivity
for nearly 40 years. Pines has used Fast Fourier Transforms on the Cray Y-MP
at NCSA to carry out breakthrough research in this complex field of physics.
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  379) HAS THE TIME ARRIVED TO END COMPUTER EXPORT LICENSES?        167 Lines
       Commentary by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large
  Perhaps it is time to acknowledge that the worldwide trade in high-
performance computing has become as diverse, complex and uncontrollable as
the circulation of the winds and clouds.
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  380) MESSAGE-PASSING: LETTERS TO THE EDITOR                        25 Lines
  -- Kudos for Last Week's Michael Levine Interview
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SCIENCE NEWS
  466) Crystallume, LANL to Make Diamond-Based Electronic Devices    31 Lines
  467) Doctors Study Freezing Techniques for Surgery, Organ Banks    46 Lines
  468) Livermore to Work on Lens to Correct Major Vision Problems    38 Lines
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 1863) Performance for SGI's RealityEngine Graphics Subsystems       31 Lines
 1864) Yearly Fiscal Revenue for Silicon Graphics Inc., 1988-1993    15 Lines
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