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 2266) BRIEFS: Koch Takes KSR Helm Amid Storm of Accounting Uncertainties
 1341) COMMENTARY: Scalable Survival in 1994- I: Dynamics of Money and Ego
 1343) ANALYSIS: SCinet '93 Pioneers Technology at Supercomputing '93
 2867) BENCHMARKS: NAS Benchmarks Part IV: The 3-D FFT PDE (FT) Benchmark
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NEWS BRIEFS
 2266) KOCH TAKES KSR HELM AMID STORM OF ACCOUNTING UNCERTAINTIES   144 Lines
    Waltham, Mass. -- Kendall Square Research announced Wednesday that its
 Board of Directors has adopted a restructuring of the company's senior
 management, effective immediately. William I. Koch, Chairman of the Board
 and the company's largest shareholder, will act as Chief Executive Officer
 until a new CEO is engaged by the company.
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 2267) TIME WARNER SELECTS HITACHI ATM FOR SUPERHIGHWAY FIELD TRIAL  56 Lines
    Atlanta, Ga. -- Hitachi America Ltd. announced its new Asynchronous
 Transfer Mode (ATM) network multiplexing system has been selected by Time
 Warner Cable for incorporation into its Full Service Network, an interactive
 superhighway field trial being conducted in Orlando, Florida.
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 2268) MERRILL LYNCH INSTALLS CRAY RESEARCH Y-MP2E SUPERCOMPUTER     36 Lines
    Eagan, Minn. -- Cray Research announced last week that it has sold a CRAY
 Y-MP2E to Merrill Lynch & Co., Cray's first supercomputer installed on Wall
 Street.
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 2269) HPCC DEEP INTO MASSIVELY PARALLEL COMPUTERS, RUBBERT WARNS   348 Lines
    Washington, D.C. -- Fourth of a Series: In testimony before Congress,
 Paul Rubbert of Boeing comments on the CAS planning process and plan, its
 benefits to the U.S. aerospace industry, HPCC's appropriateness as a federal
 activity, and the lack of a non-governmental HPCC advisory committee.
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 2270) HP BOOSTS 3000 SERIES 9X7 LINE PERFORMANCE BY 30% USING SMP   54 Lines
    Palo Alto, Calif. -- Hewlett-Packard Co. introduced last week the
 HP 3000 Series 987/200, a symmetrical-multiprocessing (SMP) system that
 extends the performance of the midlevel HP 3000 Series 9X7 line by more
 than 30 percent.
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ALSO THIS WEEK: (Full stories available from more@hpcwire.ans.net)
 2271) Integrated Computer Systems Shipping Builder Xcessory 3.0     38 Lines
 2272) Auspex Systems Qualifies for ISO 9001 Quality Registration    42 Lines
 2273) Microsoft & Digital Develop Common Object Model Architecture  85 Lines
 2274) Japan In the News: Supercomputer Briefs From Tokyo (3 Items)  30 Lines
 2275) Harris and Evans & Sutherland Introduce First Joint System    44 Lines
 2276) Informix Software Introduces INFORMIX-OnLine Dynamic Server   77 Lines
 2277) Holstein Association Mooves from Mainframe to Workstations    63 Lines
 2278) OpenVision Names Former DEC-Hand Security Business Unit Head  38 Lines
 2279) NCR & Trilogy Development Reach Software Licensing Accord     31 Lines
 2280) Student Answers Internet Plea, Thwarts Thanksgiving Suicide   29 Lines
 2281) Digital Appoints Quinn VP of Corporate Strategy & Alliances   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
  745) AlphaCard Gives VAXes AXP Power for Number Crunching Tasks   165 Lines
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QUOTE OF THE WEEK:
 2266) "...we are naturally concerned about proper accounting, and we are
  putting systems in place to prevent this from happening again."
  -- William Koch, acting CEO of Kendall Square Research.
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ANALYSIS & FEATURES
 1341) SCALABLE SURVIVAL IN 1994- I: DYNAMICS OF MONEY AND EGO      332 Lines
       Commentary by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large
  A morning-line handicap review of the financial resources of the thirteen
contenders in the scalable computing market -- and their motivation to
survive -- suggests that most have enough money to endure a long struggle.
The consequence could be a slow, costly squeeze-out rather than a quick,
dramatic shakeout.
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 1342) CREATING THE NUMERICAL ENGINE: AUTOMAKERS RACE TO PLEASE     135 Lines
       Feature Story by Sara Latta
  Racing to meet environmental and consumer demands, automotive manufactures
are using supercomputers to model turbulent reactive flows, improve total
system design, and solve flows in two-stroke engines.
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 1343) SCINET '93 PIONEERS TECHNOLOGY AT SUPERCOMPUTING '93          96 Lines
       News Analysis by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large
  New communications technology demonstrated at SCinet '93 in Portland showed
capabilities of ATM, SONET at OC-2 bandwidth, switched virtual circuits, and
much more, while supporting on-floor communications plus high-speed links
with remote sites and installing permanent fiber infrastructure for Oregon
Convention Center.
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SCIENCE NEWS
 1420) Regardless of Rescue Outcome, Hubble Is Not Total Failure     76 Lines
 1421) Study Shows Link Between Bad Teeth, Oral Disease & Poverty    48 Lines
 1422) Scientists Discover Genes Causing Startle & Wilson Diseases   67 Lines
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BENCHMARKS
 2867) NAS Benchmarks Part IV: The 3-D FFT PDE (FT) Benchmark        75 Lines
RESEARCH REGISTER
 2868) CRPC's Differential Equations Group Seeks Parallel Solutions 157 Lines
PERSONALITY PROFILES
 2869) Dan Meiron: Caltech Executive Officer of Applied Mathematics  40 Lines
CONFERENCES
 2870) SCS Emergency Management & Planning Conf., Paper Summaries    46 Lines
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 1339) The Horus System: Designing a Base for Parallel Computing    240 Lines
 1340) Draft MPI Standard Seeks Message Passing Portability         103 Lines
 2252) Berlin Furnishes HPCC Roadmap for the 90s -- and Beyond      523 Lines
 2251) NSF Head Lane Gives Keynote Address at Supercomputing '93    552 Lines
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