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        *** October 22, 1993: Vol. 2, No. 42, Circulation: 11,636 ***
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 2163) NEWS BRIEFS: Cray Research Announces Sale of Two MPP Systems in Europe
 1322) COMMENTARY: Clusters Thrive and Diversify; Farewell to Innocence?
 1323) FEATURE: Storm Warning: Validating a Thunderstorm Prediction Model
 2843) BENCHMARKS: Linpack Results: A Look at Parallel Processing (Sept. 21)
 2845) FACTS & FIGURES: Current and Projected Worldwide MPP Market Value
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NEWS BRIEFS
 2163) CRAY RESEARCH ANNOUNCES SALE OF TWO MPP SYSTEMS IN EUROPE     50 Lines
    A European Weather Forecasting Center has ordered a Cray T3D MPP system
 to run its ensemble prediction package, used to generate forecasts provided
 to national weather services throughout Europe, while the French Atomic
 Energy Commission will research laser physics and aerodynamics with a T3D.
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 2164) STORAGETEK REPORTS BIG LOSSES, BUT EXPECTS REBOUND IN 1994   186 Lines
    Testing of the long-awaited Iceberg disk subsytem continues, with
 shipments now expected by yearend, but Storagetek says revenue will not be
 generated from the program until early 1994. Meanwhile, the company reported
 a net loss for the third quarter of $108.7 million
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 2165) SUN POSTS RECORD Q1, BUT ANALYSTS CALL COMPANY "UNEVEN"      117 Lines
    Despite a record-setting $960 million in revenues, Wall Street analysts
 said they were disappointed in the consistency of Sun's quarter-to-quarter
 results, citing a drop in the numbers from the previous quarter.
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 2166) TEAMQUEST ANNOUNCES PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS PACKAGE FOR CRAY     32 Lines
    CMF.Baseline 5.1, now available for Cray Systems running the UNICOS
 operating system, provides client/server-based performance analysis and
 allows users to collect system performance and process data by workload and
 store the data in a historical database for trend analysis.
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 2167) DEC PROVIDES SERVER SOLUTION FOR BROADBAND INFRASTRUCTURE     40 Lines
    Maynard, Mass. -- Digital Equipment Corp. announced it will provide an
 integrated server platform to deliver video-on-demand and other interactive
 services for U S WEST's proposed broadband communications trial.
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ALSO THIS WEEK: (Full stories available from more@hpcwire.ans.net)
 2168) Digital Reduces Losses, Says 1994 Focus Remains Unchanged    143 Lines
 2169) Cray Reports $11 Million Loss in Q3, Results Similar to '92   64 Lines
 2170) Concurrent Unveils First Crosspoint Multiprocessor System     65 Lines
 2171) Mercury Boosts High-Speed VME Interlink with New Software     68 Lines
 2172) HP Selected to Implement Chevron's Switch to Unix Servers     48 Lines
 2173) Consilium to Ship MES Software On IBM's RISC System/6000      39 Lines
 2174) Storagetek to Expand Disk Offerings After Amperif Merger      20 Lines
 2175) Sun Offers Free Adobe Photoshop 2.5 With 10SX Workstation     26 Lines
 2176) U.S. Signs Agreement With Sri Lanka, Nation to Join Internet  17 Lines
 2177) Oregon Governor Proclaims Nov. 15-19 "Supercomputing Week"    42 Lines
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INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT
  739) 800 FLY CORP Announces Corporate Travel Savings Via E-Mail    96 Lines
  745) Alpha AXP Performance and VAX/AlphaCard Information          165 Lines
  749) InterNIC Brings Internet Info to the Desktop with NICLink    101 Lines
  750) HPC Marketers Reach Supercomputing '93 Attendees Via E-Mail   11 Lines
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QUOTE OF THE WEEK:
 2165) "They have pretty good products. It's really a question of whether
    their execution can improve to the point where their results are a little
    more consistent."
     --Doug Van Dorsten of Hambrecht & Quist, on Sun's First Quarter Results
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ANALYSIS & FEATURES
 1322) CLUSTERS THRIVE AND DIVERSIFY; FAREWELL TO INNOCENCE?        162 Lines
       Commentary by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large
  Clusters, born from powerful workstations, pervasive networks, and simple
software, are performing an increasingly significant proportion of the total
workload in high-performance computing. New software could add efficiency but
also threaten the economy -- in concept and cost -- that has been
clustering's hallmark.
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 1323) STORM WARNING: VALIDATING A THUNDERSTORM PREDICTION MODEL    116 Lines
       Feature Story by Steve Eisenberg and Michael Schneider, PSC
  What would it be worth in reduced property damage and lives saved to have
reliable warning of flooding or tornadoes headed in your direction?  The
answer comes from a research team that has developed a state-of-the-art
model for predicting storms.
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 1324) COMPUTER NOTABLES FOCUS ON IMPROVED COMMUNICATION            114 Lines
       News Analysis by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large
  Lower latency, higher bandwidth. This is the preferred cuisine for
distributed computing advocated, in different recipes, by three famous names
of computing: H.T. Kung, who now focuses on ATM;  Charles Seitz, about to
launch a gigabit LAN; and Gordon Bell, who also blesses ATM.
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SCIENCE NEWS
 1402) Livermore to Develop Technology for Computer Chip Machines    36 Lines
 1403) Homeowners Win Landmark Case Over Power Line "Cancerphobia"   39 Lines
 1404) Researchers Find Remedy for Bacteria in Oysters: Hot Sauce    52 Lines
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BENCHMARKS
 2843) Linpack Results: A Look at Parallel Processing (Sept. 21)    276 Lines
RESEARCH REGISTER
 2844) Numerical Simulations of Quantum Gravity on the Intel Delta   44 Lines
FACTS & FIGURES
 2845) Current and Projected Worldwide MPP Market Value              28 Lines
BOOKSHELF
 2846) MIT Press Publishes "The High Performance Fortran Handbook"   31 Lines
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            LAST WEEK'S MOST REQUESTED ITEMS FROM HPC SELECT NEWS
 2147) Investors, Analysts Doubt KSR's Commercial Market Potential   33 Lines
 2837) Projected Worldwide MPP Shipments: SIMD Vs. MIMD              31 Lines
 2836) Linpack Results: Highly Parallel Computing (Sept. 21)        121 Lines
 1321) Points in Parallel: Does "Speedup" Matter?                    93 Lines
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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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