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       *** September 24, 1993: Vol. 2, No. 38. Circulation: 11,149 ***
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 2088) NEWS BRIEFS: Power2 Chip Nearly Doubles Performance of IBM RS/6000s
 2092) NEWS BRIEFS: Army HPC Center Sustains 37.5 GFLOPS on Aerospace Model
 1307) ANALYSIS: Cray Claims Best Price/Performance for Scalable T3D
  740) SPOTLIGHT: Complete Supercomputing '93 Advance Program
  490) SCIENCE: LANL Scientist Publishes Blueprint for Microscopic Computer
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NEWS BRIEFS
 2088) POWER2 CHIP NEARLY DOUBLES PERFORMANCE OF IBM RS/6000 LINE    97 Lines
    New York, N.Y. -- IBM Tuesday introduced what it called "the highest-
 performance microprocessor in the computing industry," Power2, as well as
 three new RISC System/6000 models that incorporate this new implementation
 of IBM's Power Architecture.
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 2089) CASA SENDS DATA BETWEEN HIPPI NETWORKS AT 650 MBITS/SEC       25 Lines
    San Diego, Calif. -- The San Diego Supercomputer Center said the CASA
 gigabit testbed, connecting SDSC with Caltech and NASA's Jet Propulsion
 Laboratory, has set a speed record for wide-area data communications.
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 2090) IBM TOUTS COMMERCIAL USES FOR NEW SCALABLE PARALLEL SYSTEM   107 Lines
    New York, N.Y. -- IBM Tuesday announced the general availability of its
 scalable PowerParallel system, the SP1.
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 2091) NETWORK SYSTEMS DELIVERS 622-MB/SEC HIPPI/SONET GATEWAY       35 Lines
    Minneapolis, Minn. -- Network Systems Tuesday said it has delivered to
 the Department of Defense the world's first HIPPI-over-SONET OC-12c gateway.
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 2092) OAK RIDGE LAB COMPLETES ACCEPTANCE OF 38-GFLOPS PARAGON       36 Lines
    Oak Ridge, Tenn. -- Oak Ridge National Laboratory has completed the
 initial acceptance phase for its 512-processor Intel Paragon XP/S.
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 2093) CONVEX ADDRESSES DATA-MANAGEMENT CRISES WITH DATASERIES       81 Lines
    Richardson, Texas -- Convex Computer Corp. Friday will announce the
 DataSeries, which combines Convex C Series supercomputers and Hewlett-
 Packard Apollo 9000/700 workstations with robotic tape systems and software.
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 2094) IBM SP1 AT THE CORE OF NEW HAWAIIAN SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER      97 Lines
    Albuquerque, N.M. -- A $21 million Air Force cooperative agreement,
 awarded Wednesday in Albuquerque, will establish a supercomputer center in
 Hawaii for educational institutions, industry and government agencies.
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ALSO THIS WEEK: (Full stories available from more@hpcwire.ans.net)
 2095) Army HPC Center Sustains 37.5 GFLOPS on CM-5 Aerospace Model  32 Lines
 2096) First PowerPC-Based Systems Added to IBM's RS/6000 Family    129 Lines
 2097) David Packard Retires as Chairman of Hewlett-Packard Co.      80 Lines
 2098) HP Unveils 75-MHz PA-RISC Workstations, Envizex X Stations   111 Lines
 2099) IBM, RSI Working on Interface Between Data Explorer and IDL   37 Lines
 2100) MasPar to Sponsor Data-Parallel Programming Competition       58 Lines
 2101) HyperParallel Introduces Portable Data-Parallel Language      72 Lines
 2102) HNC's SIMD Numerical Array Processor Peaks at 2.56 GFLOPS     45 Lines
 2103) Sun Announces Powerful SPARCcluster 1 Network File Server     55 Lines
 2104) IBM Releases Enhanced AIX/6000, New RS/6000 Software         158 Lines
 2105) Novell Moves to Bring Unix Into a Standardized Mainstream     73 Lines
 2106) StorageTek Expects to See Losses of $105 Million in Q3        42 Lines
 2107) Sun Solaris Users to Run Microsoft Windows With Wabi 1.0      46 Lines
 2108) For the Record -- Miscellaneous HPC News & Notes: 32 Items   358 Lines
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INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT
  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
  740) Complete Supercomputing '93 Advance Program: Updated 9/24   2467 Lines
  744) Conference: Commercial Applications of Parallel Systems      392 Lines
  745) Alpha AXP Performance and VAX/AlphaCard Information          165 Lines
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QUOTE OF THE WEEK:
 2091) "You can think of this gateway as the world's fastest modem -- one
    that moves data 60,000 times faster than a 9600-baud modem."
       -- Bill Way, advanced networking product marketing director for
          Network Systems, on the company's HIPPI/SONET gateway.
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ANALYSIS & FEATURES
 1307) CRAY CLAIMS BEST PRICE/PERFORMANCE FOR SCALABLE T3D          168 Lines
       News Analysis by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large
  In pre-rollout interviews covering Cray Research's new T3D heterogeneous
vector-plus-highly parallel system, Cray product developers claimed superior
performance on the NAS benchmarks and price/performance equal to or better
than Cray's competitors.
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 1308) EARTHQUAKE GROUND-MOTION MODELING IN LARGE BASINS            118 Lines
       Feature Story by Steve Eisenberg, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
  Scientists are using massively parallel supercomputers to more accurately
gauge how earthquakes shake the Earth. The eventual goal is to develop three-
dimensional models for earthquake-prone areas that pinpoint within a few city
blocks -- instead of several square miles -- how the Earth moves.
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 1309) ATHENA AND MULTIMEDIA AT MIT: MAINSTREAM TECHNOLOGY           81 Lines
       Book Review by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large
  Five case studies drawn from the experience of MIT's Athena Project combine
with a lucid, balanced exposition of multimedia's possibilities to dispel the
clouds of hype and doubt that obscure this topic.
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 1310) MESSAGE-PASSING: LETTERS TO THE EDITOR/CORRECTIONS            87 Lines
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  -- SP1 Benchmark Results Not Sanctioned or Verified by NASA Ames
  -- Corrections to Article on SGI's 320-CPU CHALLENGEarray System
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SCIENCE NEWS
  490) LANL Scientist Publishes Blueprint for Microscopic Computer   83 Lines
  491) Livermore Astronomers Report First Evidence of Dark Matter    32 Lines
  492) Study: Women More Prone to Lung Cancer From Cigarettes        47 Lines
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                             OTHER DEPARTMENTS:
BENCHMARKS
 2816) GPC Picture-Level Benchmark Results for Sun Workstations      68 Lines
RESEARCH PROFILE
 2817) Mani Chandy of Caltech: "Parallel Power to the People"        75 Lines
RESEARCH REGISTER
 2818) Massively Scalar Compiler Project at Rice University          43 Lines
WORKSHOPS
 2819) Distributed Computing for Aerosciences Applications          348 Lines
BOOKSHELF
 2820) Visual Cues: Practical Data Visualization for HPC            103 Lines
 2821) Optimization of Structural Systems III                        46 Lines
CONFERENCES
 2822) The 1994 East Coast NextStep Developer Conference             72 Lines
BACK ISSUES
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 2070) U.S. Government Sets Agenda for Information Infrastructure    82 Lines
 2071) Coalition to Build Prototype National Information Highway     66 Lines
 1303) IBM's SP1 Price/Performance Under $700 Per Linpack MFLOP     172 Lines
 1305) New SGI 320-CPU Array Gets 4.9 Sustained GFLOPS on 3-D CFD   123 Lines
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  901) ANS                 902) IBM Corp.             903) Network Systems
  904) Intel (NEW INFO!)   905) Maximum Strategy      906) nCUBE
  907) Digital Equipment   908) Hewlett-Packard       909) Fujitsu America
  910) Convex Computer     911) FDC Technologies      912) Avalon Computer
  913) The Smaby Group     914) Applied Parallel Res. 915) Genias Software
  916) MasPar Computer     917) MMB Development       918) FastComm
  919) Transtech Parallel  920) R.J. Harvey & Assoc.  921) Cray Research Inc.
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