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        *** November 12, 1993: Vol. 2, No. 45, Circulation: 11,971 ***
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 2215) NEWS BRIEFS: SDSC Doubles Speed and Memory With New Cray Research C90
 1334) NEWS ANALYSIS: Hillis, Fishman Confident of Thinking Machines' Future
 1333) FEATURE: Solving Geophysical Mysteries With Synthetic Earthquakes
 2855) BENCHMARKS: Introduction and Part I -- NAS Parallel Benchmark Results
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SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT
 7117) SUPERCOMPUTING '93 SHOWCASE                                 2547 Lines
    Portland, Ore. -- HPCwire presents the complete Supercomputing '93
 Advance Program, plus a special section featuring industry leaders
 including: Academic Press, Compugen, Convex, Digital, Fujitsu,
 HyperParallel, Intel SSD, Kendall Square Research, MasPar, Maximum Strategy,
 Meiko, nCUBE, and the Portland Group.
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NEWS BRIEFS
 2215) SDSC DOUBLES SPEED AND MEMORY WITH NEW CRAY RESEARCH C90      74 Lines
    La Jolla, Calif. -- The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) announced
 today the installation of its newest Cray Research supercomputer, an eight
 processor CRAY C90 system, the latest parallel vector supercomputer in Cray
 Research's series.
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 2216) MASPAR TO REORGANIZE AS PART OF NEW TARGET MARKET STRATEGY    29 Lines
    Sunnyvale, Calif. -- MasPar Computer Corp. President and CEO John M.
 Harte Monday announced a reorganization targeted at focusing the company on
 key markets that play to the strengths of MasPar's family of massively
 parallel processing (MPP) systems. As part of the restructuring, MasPar will
 be reducing its workforce by approximately 25 percent.
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 2217) BLOOMQUIST URGES CONGRESS TO SUPPORT "TRANSITION" TO MPP     186 Lines
    Washington, D.C. -- Second of a Series: In his testimony before Congress
 on the High Performance Computing and Communications Program, Marvin
 Bloomquist of Mobil -- a company that has used supercomputers for seismic
 exploration since 1967 -- says the potential of massively parallel computers
 has "just begun to be tapped."
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 2218) MAXIMUM STRATEGY UNVEILS NEW SERVER FOR SUPERWORKSTATIONS     56 Lines
    Milpitas, Calif. -- Maximum Strategy, Inc. Friday announced the Strategy
 Gen 4L Storage Server, a high-performance HIPPI (High-Performance Parallel
 Interface)-attached storage server designed for use in "superworkstations"
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 2219) IBM SETS COURSE FOR PARALLEL PROCESSING WITH PRODUCT DEMOS    51 Lines
     White Plains, N.Y. -- IBM's Large Scale Computing Division (LSCD)
 Tuesday outlined its parallel processing strategy and demonstrated the
 capabilities of both its System/390 parallel and RISC-based POWERparallel
 computers.
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ALSO THIS WEEK: (Full stories available from more@hpcwire.ans.net)
 2220) NCR Marks MPP 10th Anniversary with New Hardware, Software    59 Lines
 2221) Oracle Announces Server Support for IBM Parallel Processors   28 Lines
 2222) Rutgers to Use nCUBE MPP System for Speech Research Program   52 Lines
 2223) Kendall Square to Report Third-Quarter Results by Nov. 30     26 Lines
 2224) Cray Research, EMASS Reach Agreement on Storage Solutions     37 Lines
 2225) Intergraph Adds Pentium Processor to Workstations, Servers    35 Lines
 2226) Digital Equipment Corp. Joins Fast Ethernet Alliance          26 Lines
 2227) Interphase Unveils New Network CoProcessor for SBUS Servers   41 Lines
 2228) SofTek of Japan Garners Distribution Rights for PerfStat      26 Lines
 2229) Los Alamos, GM Use Cray Y-MP To Develop Auto Crash Model      29 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
  904) Facts & Figures: Intel's Supercomputer Systems Division      456 Lines
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QUOTE OF THE WEEK:
 1334) "We can charge more, because with us [the buyer] is getting the
  job done."
      --Danny Hillis, co-founder and chief scientist, Thinking Machines Corp.
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ANALYSIS & FEATURES
 1332) WILL NCR KEEP ITS LEAD IN COMMERCIAL PARALLEL MARKET?        215 Lines
       Commentary by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large
  NCR/AT&T, now upgrading its microprocessors, is by far the biggest
player in the commercial market for parallel systems. Its customer base
and ability to draw upon the long successful history of Teradata are
substantial advantages. For other parallel vendors, NCR's strengths
complicate a market that may have looked easy but never was.
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 1333) SOLVING GEOPHYSICAL MYSTERIES WITH SYNTHETIC EARTHQUAKES     109 Lines
  Paris-based researcher Peter Mora calls the results from his recent
earthquake simulation experiments using MPP "a breakthrough, in that they
represent the beginning of an era in which we have the means to simulate the
physics of earthquakes with a high degree of realism."
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 1334) HILLIS, FISHMAN CONFIDENT OF THINKING MACHINES' FUTURE       195 Lines
       News Analysis by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large
  Thinking Machines' customers "are making money ... ours is the only
[scalable parallel] machine that does production problems," according to co-
founder Danny Hillis and new president Richard Fishman. They foresee a
prosperous 1994 for TMC and an "explosion" in parallel processing later this
decade as clusters attract third-party applications.
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SCIENCE NEWS
 1411) Report Predicts Severe Water Shortages Within 30 Years        49 Lines
 1412) Scientists Make Breakthrough in Alzheimer's Research          45 Lines
 1413) Magnesium Injections Don't Help Heart Attack Victims          48 Lines
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                             OTHER DEPARTMENTS:
BENCHMARKS
 2855) Introduction and Background: NAS Parallel Benchmark Results  387 Lines
 2856) NAS Benchmarks Part I: The Embarrassingly Parallel Benchmark 114 Lines
MPP ROUNDUP
 2857) Locus Presents Simplified Environment for Scalable Systems   181 Lines
CONFERENCES
 2858) Second Call for Papers, HPCN Europe 1994                     109 Lines
GRANTS AND ALLOCATIONS
 2859) 1994 MetaCenter Grant Applications Available                  51 Lines
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LAST WEEK'S MOST REQUESTED ITEMS FROM HPCwire
 2199) Kendall Square Research Unveils Next-Generation System        63 Lines
 1331) Intel's Masi Focuses on Interconnects, Not Processors        112 Lines
 2196) Industry Leaders Tout HPCC Program on Capital Hill           105 Lines
 1329) Kendall Square Launches KSR2 While Wall St. Frowns           182 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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