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 2036) NEWS BRIEFS: Prototype 32-Node Cray T3D Installed at Pittsburgh Center
  395) COMMENTARY: "Scalable" for IBM Not Quite the Same as for Competitors
  397) ANALYSIS: ATM's Rapid Rise -- Faster, Earlier, Cheaper High Bandwidth
 1895) BENCHMARKS: GPC Picture-Level Benchmark Results for IBM RS/6000s
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NEWS BRIEFS
 2036) PROTOTYPE 32-NODE CRAY T3D INSTALLED AT PITTSBURGH CENTER    117 Lines
    Pittsburgh, Pa. -- The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Thursday unveiled
 the first installed prototype of Cray Research Inc.'s newest supercomputer,
 the massively parallel processing Cray T3D.
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 2037) THINKING MACHINES NAMES RICHARD FISHMAN PRESIDENT AND COO     88 Lines
    Cambridge, Mass. -- In an effort to bolster its competitiveness in
 commercial markets, Thinking Machines Corp. Monday appointed veteran
 corporate lawyer Richard P. Fishman president and chief operating officer.
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 2038) UNIX OPERATING SYSTEM ENTERS NEW ERA OF SIMPLE PORTABILITY   157 Lines
    New York, N.Y. -- In a move that will make software portable across all
 variants of Unix, more than 75 of the world's leading Unix system suppliers
 and software developers Wednesday announced agreement on a common set of
 application programming interfaces for Unix-based operating systems.
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 2039) CRAY RESEARCH SHIFTS ORGANIZATION TO BOOST COMPETITIVENESS    89 Lines
    Eagan, Minn. -- In a company memo obtained this week by Select News, Cray
 Research Inc. executive vice president Robert Ewald announced a slew of
 organizational changes designed to help the company implement its overall
 strategy of "survive and attack."
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 2040) PSC RESEARCHER WINS AI AWARD FOR CM-2 TRANSLATION PROGRAM     57 Lines
    Pittsburgh, Pa. -- Hiroaki Kitano imagines a society in which hand-held
 computers will allow native and foreign speakers to converse on any street
 corner. Say a sentence in English, and out come the same words in French.
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 2041) INTERNATIONAL NETWORKING EXPERTS ATTEST TO INTERNET'S POWER   43 Lines
    San Francisco, Calif. --  More than 30 international networking experts
 from countries like Bosnia, Colombia, Chile, Moldova and Azerbaijan met last
 week at Interop '93 to discuss goals for global interconnectivity and the
 political and technical obstacles impeding its progress.
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 2042) Female Engineers Face Greater Pay Discrimination Over Time    52 Lines
 2043) Kendall Square to Move to Much Larger Facility in 1994        29 Lines
 2044) IBM/Livermore Using MPP Models to Boost Hard Drive Capacity   39 Lines
 2045) Texas Instruments to Manufacture 64-Bit UltraSPARC-I Chip     69 Lines
 2046) RSI Adds Numerical Recipes to IDL Visualization Software      24 Lines
 2047) Parsytec Introduces Parallel Character Recognition System     34 Lines
 2048) Navy Awards Largest Engineering and Drafting CAD Contract     53 Lines
 2049) Parametric Announces Third-Party Interfaces to Pro/Engineer  124 Lines
 2050) Park Place Equips 3-D Graphics Studio With SGI Workstations   40 Lines
 2051) ATM Forum Approves Data Exchange Interface Specification      31 Lines
 2052) People & Places: News on HPC Personnel -- 12 Items           151 Lines
 2053) For the Record: Miscellaneous HPC News & Notes -- 15 Items   174 Lines
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INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT
  739) 800 FLY CORP Announces Corporate Travel Savings Via E-Mail    96 Lines
  742) Used 16-Node Intel iPSC/860 Supercomputer for Sale            75 Lines
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 2037) "We brought in someone whose whole career has been one of focusing on
    how to compete and win."
       -- Thinking Machines Sheryl Handler, on the appointment of veteran
          corporate lawyer Richard Fishman as president and COO
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ANALYSIS & FEATURES
  395) "SCALABLE" FOR IBM NOT QUITE THE SAME AS FOR COMPETITORS     260 Lines
       Commentary by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large
  "Scalable," once an obscure term, has become an overnight sensation. But
different vendors use scalable in different ways, often to advance their own
purposes. This article focuses upon IBM's philosophy of scalability, its
implementation in IBM's new SP1, and other emerging meanings for the word.
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  396) FEATURE: PARALLEL TECHNOLOGIES FILTER DOWN AT CORNELL         72 Lines
  Robert Rosenberg, a Cornell University undergraduate majoring in
engineering physics, has been using the Cornell Theory Center's 32-node IBM
Power Visualization System for more than a year to create state-of-the art
visualizations and animations for scientists in a variety of fields.
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  397) ATM'S RAPID RISE: FASTER, EARLIER, CHEAPER HIGH BANDWIDTH    157 Lines
       News Analysis by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large
  San Francisco, Calif. -- ATM, a key stepping-stone toward higher bandwidth,
seemed to be featured everywhere at last week's Interop trade show. Much of
the ATM talk is futureware, but lots of sound, solid hardware firms and
telecoms companies are already offering ATM products and services. Prices are
bound to plummet as performance moves toward gigabit levels.
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  398) MESSAGE-PASSING: LETTERS TO THE EDITOR/CORRECTIONS            27 Lines
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SCIENCE NEWS
 9012) Scientists Will Weigh Penguins to Test Greenhouse Theory      20 Lines
  482) Are Left-Handers More Accident-Prone Than Right-Handers?      51 Lines
  483) Diamond Anvil Cell Could Substitute for Nuclear Testing       53 Lines
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 1895) GPC Picture-Level Benchmark Results for IBM RS/6000 Systems   79 Lines
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 1896) Specs and Performance for Sun's SPARCstation Desktop Family   81 Lines
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 1897) Simulation of Polypeptide and Protein Structure              306 Lines
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 1898) NSF Grand Challenge Allocations Committee: 31 Proposals      180 Lines
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 1899) Advancing Magnetic Resonance Imaging Using CFD at Argonne     39 Lines
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