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 9009) NEWS BRIEFS: Cornell Gets $13 Million Grant to Take SP1 to 100 GFLOPS
  385) NEWS ANALYSIS: Wallach Lifts Some Veils on Convex/HP SPP System
 1875) BENCHMARKS: GPC Picture-Level Benchmark Results for DEC Alpha Systems
 1876) FACTS & FIGURES: Specs and Performance for the SGI Indigo2 Family
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 1281) "If I see [Thinking Machines'] Danny Hillis quoted as an expert on
    massively parallel processing one more time, I'm going to puke."
       -- Oracle Corp. CEO Lawrence Ellison
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NEWS BRIEFS
 1277) NSF ASSISTANT DIRECTOR NICO HABERMANN DEAD OF HEART ATTACK    46 Lines
    Pittsburgh, Pa. -- A. Nico Habermann, assistant director for computer and
 information science and engineering at the National Science Foundation, died
 suddenly of a heart attack Sunday, August 8. He was 62.
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 9009) CORNELL GETS $13 MILLION GRANT TO TAKE SP1 TO 100 GFLOPS      50 Lines
    New York, N.Y. -- Cornell University announced Tuesday that it will
 receive $13 million in federal and state grants aimed primarily at boosting
 its IBM Scalable PowerParallel supercomputer from 64 to 512 processors.
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 1279) AUTOMAKERS CREATE CONSORTIUM FOR PARALLEL SOFTWARE RESEARCH   52 Lines
    Traverse City, Mich. -- The Big Three U.S. automakers and five Department
 of Energy laboratories have formed a new research consortium to develop
 portable software applications for high-performance parallel computers.
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 1280) LIVERMORE HOSTS FIRST FIBRE CHANNEL GIGABIT IMPLEMENTATION    44 Lines
    Livermore, Calif. -- The Fibre Channel Systems Initiative, a joint effort
 between Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Sun Microsystems, Wednesday announced the
 first prototype implementation of the high-speed Fiber Channel standard.
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 1281) ORACLE CHALLENGES MICROSOFT'S PLACE ATOP SOFTWARE PANTHEON    64 Lines
    Los Angeles, Calif. -- Oracle CEO Lawrence Ellison told a Los Angeles
 Times columnist that massively parallel processing software will give his
 company -- not Microsoft -- the key to the networked, metacomputing future.
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 1282) NOAA C916 TO HELP IMPROVE WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST MODELS     27 Lines
    Washington, D.C. -- The Commerce Department's National Oceanic and
 Atmospheric Administration said it has awarded a five-year, $46 million
 contract to Cray Research to lease a 16-processor Cray C90 supercomputer.
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ALSO THIS WEEK: (Full stories available from more@hpcwire.ans.net)
 1283) Cray Research Buys Undisclosed SSI Technologies From IBM      33 Lines
 1284) PowerPC Leader Leaves IBM to Head Mips Technologies           33 Lines
 1285) University of Hong Kong Orders Eight-Node IBM 9076 SP1        30 Lines
 1286) NSA Suspends Major Contract With Sun After Rival Complaints   46 Lines
 1287) Enhanced PEX 5.1 to Include Texture Mapping, Antialiasing     48 Lines
 1288) Silicon Graphics Introduces InPerson Conferencing Software    41 Lines
 1289) Cray Y-MP EL Ordered for Malaysian Computing Laboratory       31 Lines
 1290) E&S Freedom Series Accelerator Tops Picture-Level Benchmark   42 Lines
 1291) SGI Workstations Donated to USC Computer Animation Program    47 Lines
 1292) Digital Domain Partners With SoftImage, Buys SGI Hardware     32 Lines
 1293) People & Places: News on HPC Personnel -- 10 Items           112 Lines
 1294) For the Record: Miscellaneous HPC News & Notes -- 21 Items   215 Lines
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  720) ANS CO+RE Announces Lowest-Cost Nationwide Internet Access    57 Lines
  739) 800 FLY CORP Announces Corporate Travel Savings Via E-Mail    96 Lines
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ANALYSIS & FEATURES
  385) WALLACH LIFTS SOME VEILS ON CONVEX/HP SPP IMPLEMENTATION     150 Lines
       News Analysis by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large
  "Data locality is the name of the game" in scalable parallel processing,
according to Steve Wallach of Convex Computer. The upcoming Convex/HP SPP
design will use a new ASCII standard, Scalable Coherent Interface, to
expedite data locality and help maintain a shared-memory image.
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  386) STUDYING GALAXY FORMATION WITH COLD DARK MATTER AT CORNELL   209 Lines
       Research by Edmund Bertschinger, Associate Professor of Physics, MIT
  Virtually all galaxies seem to be immersed in vast clouds of nonluminous
matter of unknown form called dark matter. The gravity of the dark matter
affects the motions of the galaxies today, and it may even be responsible for
the formation of the galaxies in the first place.
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  387) MODELING THE FLOW OF MOLTEN STEEL                             99 Lines
       Feature Story by Michael Schneider, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
  Since 1989, U.S. Steel researchers have used the high-powered computing of
the Cray Y-MP and C90 to help understand the flow patterns of molten steel.
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  388) MESSAGE-PASSING: LETTERS TO THE EDITOR                        36 Lines
  -- Intel Fibbed When it Called OSF/1 AD MK an "Industry First."
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SCIENCE NEWS
  472) Economist Says Super Collider Project Adds Revenue, Jobs      60 Lines
  473) Simulation Sheds Light on Competitive Katydid Chirping        27 Lines
  474) Sperm Injection Method Is "Breakthrough" for Infertility      33 Lines
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 1874) An Overview of the GPC Picture-Level Benchmark Project       217 Lines
 1875) GPC Picture-Level Benchmark Results for DEC Alpha Systems     34 Lines
FACTS & FIGURES
 1876) Specifications and Performance for the SGI Indigo2 Family     41 Lines
RESEARCH REGISTER
 1877) Cornell Theory Center's IBM SP1: Quantum Condensed Matter     46 Lines
CONFERENCES
 1878) Common Desktop Environment Developers' Conference             46 Lines
 1879) Sun User Group Conference, Dec. 7-9, in San Jose, Calif.     155 Lines
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