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 1295) NEWS BRIEFS: Intel, PGI to Develop High-Performance Fortran Compilers
  389) COMMENTARY: Centric's Parallel Software: Cautious People & Tough Ports
 1881) BENCHMARKS: GPC Picture-Level Benchmark Results for HP PA-RISC Systems
 1882) FACTS & FIGURES: Specs for SGI Power Challenge Supercomputing Servers
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NEWS BRIEFS
 1295) INTEL, PGI TO DEVELOP HIGH-PERFORMANCE FORTRAN COMPILERS      44 Lines
    Beaverton, Ore. -- Intel Supercomputer and the Portland Group Thursday
 announced a joint effort to develop compilers for High-Performance Fortran,
 Fortran 90 and C++, as well as other software for Intel's Paragon system.
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 1296) INDIA SEARCHES FOR NEW ROUTES AROUND EXPORT RESTRICTIONS      49 Lines
    New Delhi, India -- Faced with U.S. restrictions on supercomputer
 exports, the Indian government has approved a new round of funding to make
 cheaper substitutes and is pursuing a parallel processing alliance with IBM
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 1297) FIBRE CHANNEL ASSOCIATION TO ADVANCE INTERCONNECT STANDARD    71 Lines
    San Francisco, Calif. -- More than 20 organizations Monday announced the
 Fibre Channel Association, which will promote Fibre Channel technology as a
 high-performance interconnect standard for moving large amounts of data.
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 1298) AURORA GIGABIT TESTBED IS BUILDING BLOCK FOR DATA HIGHWAY     72 Lines
    Philadelphia, Pa. -- In the birthplace of the first computer, researchers
 are helping to create its most useful and ubiquitous descendant to date --
 an information superhighway operating at gigabit speeds.
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 1299) CRAY FINDING WAYS TO BRING SYSTEMS TO OVERSEAS CUSTOMERS      45 Lines
    Eagan, Minn. -- Last week's sale of a Cray Y-MP EL to a Malaysian
 university -- Cray's first-ever supercomputer sale in Southeast Asia --
 reflects the company's newly upbeat attitude toward overseas exports.
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 2000) ELECTROMAGNETIC SIMULATION PACKAGE IMPROVES AIRPLANE SAFETY   58 Lines
    West Chicago, Ill. -- Parsytec Inc., Electro Magnetic Applications Inc.
 and Finite Element Graphics Systems Ltd. Tuesday said they have teamed up to
 provide the aeronautics/aerospace industry with "the first commercially
 available electromagnetic simulation package running on an MPP system."
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 2001) Cray Computer Says NCAR's Cray-3 Meeting Performance Goals    19 Lines
 2002) University of Toronto Will Be First Canadian KSR1 Site        40 Lines
 2003) Hewlett-Packard Enjoys 44 Percent Rise in Earnings for Q3    268 Lines
 2004) Investment Advisory Firm Orders Cray EL98 Supercomputer       27 Lines
 2005) Pact Ensures Links Between Cisco Routers, Novell NetWare      48 Lines
 2006) Digital Introduces DEChub 900 Intelligent Networking Line     38 Lines
 2007) IBM Unveils Adaptive Lossless Data Compression Technology     44 Lines
 2008) SPARCserver 1000 Breaks TPC-A Price/Performance Record        39 Lines
 2009) Control Data to Sell HP 9000 Workstations and Servers         46 Lines
 2010) CorelDraw 3 to Be Released on Wide Range of Unix Systems      41 Lines
 2011) Adobe Illustrator Ported for First Time to Sun Platform       31 Lines
 2012) For the Record: Miscellaneous HPC News & Notes -- 13 Items   139 Lines
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INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT
  720) ANS CO+RE Announces Lowest-Cost Nationwide Internet Access    57 Lines
  741) Complete Fact Sheets for Digital's DEChub 900 Family         393 Lines
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QUOTE OF THE WEEK:
 1296) "Countries like India must develop technology that is of critical
    national and strategic interest. Supercomputing is one of them."
       -- N. Vittal, former head of India's Department of Electronics
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ANALYSIS & FEATURES
  389) CENTRIC'S PARALLEL SOFTWARE: CAUTIOUS PEOPLE & TOUGH PORTS   143 Lines
       Commentary by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large
  What is the principal obstacle to the widespread adoption of parallel
processing? Many observers would answer: a lack of applications software
designed for parallel architectures. Software start-up Centric Engineering
Systems is encountering another obstacle: people.
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  390) TRANSLATION OF FORTRAN 77 TO FORTRAN 90 USING VAST-90        445 Lines
       Feature Story by John K. Prentice, Quetzal Computational Associates
  VAST-90 is an extremely powerful tool for migrating Fortran 77 to Fortran
90, going far beyond a simple translation of the syntax. Using VAST-90, I
have been able to migrate literally tens of thousands of lines of Fortran 77
code to Fortran 90 in an extremely short amount of time.
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  391) RESEARCH REPORT: NUMERICAL RELATIVITY                         83 Lines
  Andrew M. Abrahams uses supercomputers to simulate black hole formation and
neutron star interactions to calculate the resulting gravitational waves.
With these calculations, Abrahams will establish a theoretical template for
the gravitational waveforms, as seen from Earth.
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SCIENCE NEWS
  475) Virtual Reality Coming to Cable Television By Year-End 1994   45 Lines
  476) A First: Scientists Record Volcano Erupting on Ocean Floor    37 Lines
  477) Hockey Team Awaits Mars Explorer's Verdict on Alien Life      42 Lines
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Cirrus Logic Inc.                 18 3/4            26 5/8        + 7 7/8
Advanced Micro Devices            24 7/8            31 3/8        + 6 1/2
Cray Research Inc.                27                21            - 6
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 9010) GPC Picture-Level Benchmark Results for HP PA-RISC Systems   120 Lines
FACTS & FIGURES
 1882) Specs for SGI's Power Challenge Supercomputing Servers        63 Lines
 1883) MacNeal-Schwendler: Worldwide Installations By Category       18 Lines
RESEARCH REGISTER
 1884) Data Analysis of Rotationally Resolved Spectra at Cornell     48 Lines
INTERNET RESOURCES
 1885) SoftNet Novell/Unix Software Available Via Anonymous ftp      86 Lines
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