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 1257) NEWS BRIEFS: Japanese Vendors Get First Government Contracts of '93
  381) ANALYSIS: SIGGRAPH Visions -- Pterodactyls and the Electronic Theater
  383) ANALYSIS: Unisys Parallel Venture Infused With Intel Backbeat
 1867) FACTS & FIGURES: Performance for Silicon Graphics' Indy Workstation
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NEWS BRIEFS
 1257) JAPANESE VENDORS GET FIRST FOUR GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS OF '93   31 Lines
    Washington, D.C. -- The Clinton administration is concerned that the
 inability of American supercomputer firms to win any recent contracts with
 the Japanese government is a breach of fair trade agreements.
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 1258) IBM RAISES THE CURTAIN ON NEW AND UPCOMING TECHNOLOGIES       67 Lines
    Anaheim, Calif. -- At the SIGGRAPH '93 trade show here this week, IBM
 demonstrated a variety of new and unreleased technologies, including a
 PowerPC-based RS/6000 workstation, Version 2 of its Data Explorer software
 and a 16-inch Thin Film Transistor LCD screen with 1280x1024 resolution.
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 1259) SDSC'S VIRTEX CYBERGLOVE HELPS ANALYZE GLOBAL CLIMATE DATA    40 Lines
    Anaheim, Calif. -- This week at SIGGRAPH '93, the San Diego Supercomputer
 Center displayed a new system to support the visualization of the large
 quantities of data generated by Project Sequoia 2000.
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 1260) AMPEX DST 600 SUBSYSTEM AND SGI ONYX PROVIDE VIDEO-ON-DEMAND  39 Lines
    Anaheim, Calif. -- At SIGGRAPH '93 here this week, Silicon Graphics Inc.
 demonstrated an Ampex Systems Corp. DST 600 tape drive subsystem interfaced
 to an Onyx graphics supercomputer acting as a video server.
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 1261) VISUAL NUMERICS UNVEILS EXPONENT GRAPHICS FOR X AND C         48 Lines
    Anaheim, Calif. -- Visual Numerics Inc. Tuesday announced the release of
 two new application development tools, Exponent Graphics for X and Exponent
 Graphics for C Version 2.0.
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 1262) TOMORROW'S REALITIES RANGE FROM ESSENTIAL TO ESOTERIC         56 Lines
    Anaheim, Calif. -- SIGGRAPH '93 this week highlighted virtual reality,
 new uses for computer graphics and the social implications of technology in
 a wide-ranging gallery called Tomorrow's Realities.
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 1263) DIGITAL RELEASES NEW GRAPHICS BOARDS, MULTIMEDIA PRODUCTS     37 Lines
    Maynard, Mass. -- Digital Equipment Corp. Tuesday announced a series of
 graphics and multimedia subsystems and software products for mid-range Alpha
 AXP systems costing $20,000 to $30,000.
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 1264) Intel and Unisys to Develop Pentium-Based Scalable Systems    79 Lines
 1265) SunSoft Announces NFS Version 3; Cray, Others License ONC+    71 Lines
 1266) Autodesk Acquires Ithaca Software and Hoops Graphics System   41 Lines
 1267) NAG Ports Iris Explorer to Five New Workstation Platforms     69 Lines
 1268) Du Pont Pixel, Sun Porting OpenGL to SPARCstation ZX/10ZX     55 Lines
 1269) E&S Introduces Conceptual Design & Rendering Software 5.0     62 Lines
 1270) AVS Heralds Support for Sun's New 3-D Graphics Workstations   23 Lines
 1271) Pro/Engineer Ported to Kubota's Denali Graphics Subsystem     34 Lines
 1272) Students Use Pro/Engineer to Build 3-D Model of Real Home     87 Lines
 1273) Du Pont Pixel's GLengines Double PX/Iris GL 3-D Performance   33 Lines
 1274) Parity Ships Memory for SGI Onyx, Power Challenge Machines    20 Lines
 1275) Cameron's New Special Effects Studio Signs Deal With Alias    27 Lines
 1276) Portable Graphics Brings Iris GL 4.0 to RS/6000 Systems       28 Lines
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INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT
  739) 800 FLY CORP Announces Corporate Travel Savings Via E-Mail    96 Lines
  740) Supercomputing '93 Conference Update & Advance Information   163 Lines
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QUOTE OF THE WEEK:
 1257) "Despite a trade agreement obligating the Japanese to provide a fair
    and open government procurement environment, our market share has
    actually decreased, to barely 10 percent, as a result of these latest
    awards."
       -- U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor, on Japan's choice of
          Japanese vendors for recent supercomputer contracts
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ANALYSIS & FEATURES
  381) SIGGRAPH VISIONS: PTERODACTYLS AND THE ELECTRONIC THEATER     90 Lines
       News Analysis by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large
  Anaheim, Calif. -- Presentations of computer animation and other products
of computer graphics at SIGGRAPH each summer are a valuable fever chart of
the accomplishments, preoccupations and trends of the visualization industry.
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  382) FEATURE STORY: PROTECTING A LARGE INTERNETWORK AT ORNL       122 Lines
  All internetwork operators want to control access to sensitive nodes and
isolate trouble spots in one area from the rest of the network. As an
operator of a very large scientific-research internetwork, Oak Ridge National
Laboratory will use the Cisco 7000 router as a firewall to gain protection of
its internal LANs and external WAN.
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  383) UNISYS PARALLEL VENTURE INFUSED WITH INTEL BACKBEAT           91 Lines
       News Analysis by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large
  Unisys is joining the parade of bands marching toward practical parallel
computing for commercial customers. It will perform mostly from its own
music, but Unisys is working with Intel in an effort that includes the new
Pentium chip and the mesh interconnect technology used in the Intel Paragon.
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  384) MESSAGE-PASSING: LETTERS TO THE EDITOR                        33 Lines
  -- Thanks for the Recent Materials Science Coverage
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 9008) Performance Chart for Silicon Graphics' Indy Workstation      24 Lines
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 1868) Vistanet Helps Physicians in Radiation Therapy Planning       69 Lines
 1869) IBM SP1 PowerParallel System at Cornell: Protein Folding      41 Lines
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