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         The Electronic News Magazine for High-Performance Computing
        *** October 15, 1993: Vol. 2, No. 41. Circulation: 11,514 ***
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 2147) NEWS BRIEFS: Investors Doubt KSR's Commercial Market Potential
 1319) COMMENTARY: Marketing Stress Supplants Parallel Technoromance
 1320) FEATURE: Shake and Bake -- Parallel Solutions in X-Ray Crystallography
 2836) BENCHMARKS: Updated Linpack Results -- Highly Parallel Computing
 2837) FACTS & FIGURES: Projected Worldwide MPP Shipments: SIMD Vs. MIMD
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NEWS BRIEFS
 2146) MASPAR TABS HPC MARKETING VETERAN AS NEW PRESIDENT AND CEO   124 Lines
    Sunnyvale, Calif. -- MasPar Computer Corp.'s new president and CEO, HPC
 industry veteran John M. Harte, told Select News this week that the company
 will refocus its sales efforts toward emerging business markets as well as
 select scientific and engineering applications.
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 2147) INVESTORS, ANALYSTS DOUBT KSR'S COMMERCIAL MARKET POTENTIAL   33 Lines
    New York, N.Y. -- Kendall Square Research's stock has tumbled in recent
 weeks as short sellers -- investors who bet that a stock will decline --
 challenged the company's claim that it is ready to penetrate the commercial
 market, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
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 2148) SANDIA TEAM CLOCKS 40.3 GFLOPS ON INTEL PARAGON XP/S          47 Lines
    Albuquerque, N.M. -- Sandia National Laboratories has achieved 40.3
 GFLOPS computing the LU factorization of a double-precision real matrix on a
 1,024-node configuration of their Paragon XP/S supercomputer.
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 2149) DEC ALLOWS INTERNET USERS TO "TEST-DRIVE" ALPHA AXP SYSTEM    37 Lines
    Maynard, Mass. -- Taking advantage of the Clinton administration's more
 liberal export control regulations, Digital Equipment Corp. has once again
 placed on the Internet a DEC 4000 AXP system running DEC OSF/1 Unix.
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 2150) INDUSTRY CHEERS TRANSFER OF UNIX TRADEMARK TO X/OPEN          89 Lines
    Trenton, N.J. -- Novell Inc. Monday announced an agreement with X/Open
 Company Ltd. under which the Unix trademark will be transferred to X/Open,
 an international open systems standards organization.
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ALSO THIS WEEK: (Full stories available from more@hpcwire.ans.net)
 2151) DEC Launches Client/Server Program With Speedy New Systems    63 Lines
 2152) MacNeal-Schwendler Appoints Former Aries Chief as President   28 Lines
 2153) Intel Sees 143 Percent Boost in Income During Record Q3      109 Lines
 2154) Exabyte Announces 20-GByte Tape Drive for Workstations        35 Lines
 2155) Oracle7 and Alpha AXP Break Transaction Processing Records    52 Lines
 2156) DEC Cuts Prices, Enhances Performance for Storage Products    22 Lines
 2157) Groundbreaking Computer Scientists Receive Turing Award       25 Lines
 2158) Sun Announces New Installations at Universities Worldwide     46 Lines
 2159) Adobe Unveils Photoshop 2.5 for Sun and SGI Workstations      88 Lines
 2160) Sun Microsystems Presents Millionth Computer to Fujitsu       24 Lines
 2161) Heavy-Duty Truck Maker Buys $1.4M in Pro/Engineer Software    22 Lines
 2162) Symbolics Ships Object-Oriented Version of Genera Software    33 Lines
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INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT
  739) 800 FLY CORP Announces Corporate Travel Savings Via E-Mail    96 Lines
  743) ANS CO+RE Announces Secure LAN-to-LAN Interconnect Service    75 Lines
  747) Info on Next Week's Supercomputing '93 Exhibitor Directory    23 Lines
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QUOTE OF THE WEEK:
 2146) "We're not going to be led down a path where we believe the most
    important thing at all times is to get the next version [of our system]
    out with even higher performance."
                             --John M. Harte, president and CEO, MasPar
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ANALYSIS & FEATURES
 1319) MARKETING STRESS SUPPLANTS PARALLEL TECHNOROMANCE            205 Lines
       Commentary by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large
  The survivors of the technoromantic era of parallel processing now stress a
shift to managers with better marketing skills, partly in order to reach into
the more profitable commercial market. Big league competitors entering the
parallel arena could add a new kind of stress to this already difficult
transition.
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 1320) SHAKE AND BAKE: PARALLEL SOLUTIONS IN X-RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY  116 Lines
       Feature Story by Michael Schneider, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
  Using MPP Connection Machines and an algorithm affectionately known as
"Shake-and-Bake," a research team led by Nobel prize-winning biophysicist
Herbert Hauptman may be on the verge of cracking one of the premier problems
in contemporary science -- the phase problem of x-ray crystallography.
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 1321) POINTS IN PARALLEL: DOES "SPEEDUP" MATTER?                    93 Lines
       Feature Story by Carl Scarbnick, San Diego Supercomputer Center
  For some scientific programmers, achieving a "large speedup" for a parallel
application has become the Holy Grail. When measuring the performance of an
application, however, the most important consideration is run-time -- a focus
on speedup alone is misguided.
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SCIENCE NEWS
  499) Scientists Anticipate "Once-in-a-Lifetime" Study of Jupiter   53 Lines
 1400) Livermore Supercomputers to Aid in Breast Cancer Detection    55 Lines
 1401) 110-Million-Year-Old Australian Dinosaur Skull Unearthed      24 Lines
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SELECT NEWS INFORMATION
  601) Subscription Information for HPC Select News                  57 Lines
  602) Contribute Your News, Tips and Information for Select News    24 Lines
  603) HPC Select News Masthead and Contact Information              41 Lines
  950) A Complete Index of HPC Select News Back Issues               37 Lines
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JOB BANK
  659) Director of Maui HPC Center; Research Programmers at Rice     31 Lines
  604) Post Your Help Wanted Listings in Select News' Job Bank       95 Lines
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                             OTHER DEPARTMENTS:
BENCHMARKS
 2836) Linpack Results: Highly Parallel Computing (Sept. 21)        121 Lines
FACTS & FIGURES
 2837) Projected Worldwide MPP Shipments: SIMD Vs. MIMD              31 Lines
RESEARCH REGISTER
 2838) Concurrent Solver for Euler Equations on the Intel Delta      62 Lines
WORKSHOPS
 2839) Parallel Computation: Pasadena, Calif.                       547 Lines
SEMINARS
 2840) New Mechanical Design Automation Systems: Columbus, Ohio      33 Lines
RESOURCES
 2841) SunService's SunSolve Online Available Via Internet           85 Lines
BOOKSHELF
 2842) O'Reilly Lowers Price on "X Window System in a Nutshell"      40 Lines
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            LAST WEEK'S MOST REQUESTED ITEMS FROM HPC SELECT NEWS
 1315) MasPar I: Questioning Mainstream Parallel Strategies         161 Lines
 2130) ATM Links Supercomputing and Multimedia in Finland            35 Lines
 2128) Ultrahigh-Speed Network Allows Supercomputers to "Chat"       52 Lines
 2127) Handler Loses CEO Post as Fishman Joins Thinking Machines     38 Lines
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                   S E L E C T   N E W S   S P O N S O R S
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 901) ANS                 902) IBM Corp.             904) Intel SSD
 905) Maximum Strategy    906) nCUBE                 907) Digital Equipment
 908) Hewlett-Packard     909) Fujitsu America       910) Convex Computer
 912) Avalon Computer     914) Applied Parallel Res. 915) Genias Software
 916) MasPar Computer     919) Transtech Parallel    921) Cray Research Inc.
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  * Updated Linpack Benchmark Results: A Look at Parallel Processing
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