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 2250) BRIEFS: Clinton Approves Cray Research Supercomputer Deal With China
 1340) ANALYSIS: Draft MPI Standard Seeks Message Passing Portability
 1339) FEATURE: The Horus System: Designing a Base for Parallel Computing
 2864) BENCHMARKS: NAS Benchmarks Part III: The Conjugate Gradient Benchmark
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NEWS BRIEFS
 2250) CLINTON APPROVES CRAY RESEARCH SUPERCOMPUTER DEAL WITH CHINA  80 Lines
    Seattle, Wash. -- The United States has agreed to sell a sophisticated
 $10-million Cray Research supercomputer to China in an apparent goodwill
 gesture on the eve of a summit between the countries' presidents, The New
 York Times and Reuters reported last week.
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 2251) NSF HEAD LANE GIVES KEYNOTE ADDRESS AT SUPERCOMPUTING '93    552 Lines
    Portland, Ore. -- In an optimistic speech, tinged with humor, Dr. Neal
 Lane discussed such topics as the role and status of the NSF and his
 expectations for the future. Within is the complete text of his speech.
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 2252) BERLIN FURNISHES HPCC ROADMAP FOR THE 90s -- AND BEYOND      523 Lines
    Washington, D.C. -- Fourth of a Series: In Congressional testimony on the
 High Performance Computing and Communications Program, F. Brett Berlin
 shows what is right and what is wrong with HPCC and reveals what the future
 holds, stating that "HPCC technology and capability are fundamental to the
 quality of life of 21st century industrialized nations."
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 2253) DIGITAL ANNOUNCES EXPANDABLE, LOW-COST ALPHA AXP SERVER       28 Lines
    Maynard, Mass. -- Digital Equipment Corp. last week announced a new, low-
 cost, highly expandable server -- the DEC 2000 Model 500 AXP server. This
 system is designed for customers who want a low-cost, high-performance
 server with large in-cabinet storage capabilities.
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 2254) HP 4th Quarter Earnings Quadruple, Stock Repurchase Okayed    20 Lines
    Palo Alto, Calif. -- Hewlett-Packard Co.'s board authorized last Friday
 spending $500 million for open-market repurchase of the company's stock
 after the computer-maker posted sharply improved earnings earlier this week,
 according to UPI. Hewlett-Packard did not set a date by which the
 repurchases will be completed.
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ALSO THIS WEEK: (Full stories available from more@hpcwire.ans.net)
 2255) Cray Research Announces New RAID Network Disk Array Product   41 Lines
 2256) Fujitsu Limited and HaL Computer Systems Announce Merger      21 Lines
 2257) Mathematrix DRMATHLIB Exceeds 1/2 GFLOP on Sun Workstation    42 Lines
 2258) AHPCRC Selects Ampex DST Technology For On-Site Storage       24 Lines
 2259) OpenVision Opens NSL UniTree Marketing Rights Negotiations    32 Lines
 2260) Alabama Supercomputer Authority Earns RCI Industry Award      28 Lines
 2261) Sun Forms Alliance With And Invests in Next Computer, Inc.    40 Lines
 2262) PSC's Cray T3D Runs Two Months Without Hardware Interrupts    88 Lines
 2263) Interfuse Names Polley President/Chief Operating Officer      54 Lines
 2264) Information Technology Review Studies World Economies         78 Lines
 2265) Merriam-Webster Adds Supercomputer and Dweeb To Dictionary    46 Lines
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INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT
  739) 800 FLY CORP Announces Corporate Travel Savings Via E-Mail    96 Lines
  745) AlphaCard Gives VAXes AXP Power for Number Crunching Tasks. Avalon
    Computer Systems' AlphaCard Runs Scientific Applications at Alpha AXP
    Speed in Existing VAX Systems for Easy Way to Top Performance.  165 Lines
  904) Facts & Figures: Intel's Supercomputer Systems Division      456 Lines
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QUOTE OF THE WEEK:
 2251) "Neal Armstrong said, 'That's one small step for a man, one giant leap
  for mankind.' We offer nothing less than a giant leap for humankind."
  -- Dr. Neal Lane, NSF Director, During Supercomputing '93 Keynote.
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ANALYSIS & FEATURES
 1338) GLOBALIZATION OF HPC BECKONS AS EXPORT BARRIERS FADE         222 Lines
       Commentary by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large
  Detailed reports on supercomputing in Indonesia and Malaysia at
Supercomputing '93 illustrated the need for vendors to grasp the uniqueness
of each specific case as U.S. export controls dissolve. High-performance
computing is poised on the edge of genuine globalization -- which is where
the money will be.
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 1339) THE HORUS SYSTEM: DESIGNING A BASE FOR PARALLEL COMPUTING    240 Lines
       Feature Story by Kenneth P. Birman, Robbert Van Renesse, and
       Thorsten Von Eicken, Cornell University
  Widespread, general purpose use of supercomputing will not occur until
better programming tools can be made available to software developers. The
Horus Project, underway at Cornell University since early 1992, seeks to
enable a new generation of flexible, highly reliable software tools
supporting dynamic styles of distributed and parallel computing.
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 1340) DRAFT MPI STANDARD SEEKS MESSAGE PASSING PORTABILITY         103 Lines
       News Analysis by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large
  After a swift effort, the MPI Forum delivered at Supercomputing '93 a
preliminary draft of a new message-passing interface standard that seeks
improved portability and ease of use. Comments are solicited prior to early
1994 release of Version 1.0.
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SCIENCE NEWS
 1417) Scientists Report Findings in Study of Cancer-Causing Gene    35 Lines
 1418) Texas A&M Seeks Link Between Pollution and Birth Defects      19 Lines
 1419) FDA Wants to Regulate Medical Devices Still in Design Stage   48 Lines
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                             OTHER DEPARTMENTS:
BENCHMARKS
 2864) NAS Benchmarks Part III: The Conjugate Gradient Benchmark     87 Lines
FACTS AND FIGURES
 2865) Updated List of the World's Most Powerful Computing Sites   1013 Lines
ORGANIZATIONS IN THE NEWS
 2866) Call For Participants For Geoscience Information Group        22 Lines
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LAST WEEK'S MOST REQUESTED ITEMS FROM HPCwire
 1335) Supercomputing '93: Parallelism, Clusters, ATM and More      176 Lines
 2235) Cray Research 128-Processor T3D Tops LINPACK Benchmark        29 Lines
 1337) Seymour Cray Seeks Success With Cray-4 Plans                  99 Lines
 2231) Thinking Machines Doubles Performance of Processing Nodes     32 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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