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                    S P E C I A L   S U P P L E M E N T
                 1993 Presidents' Letters & Year In Review
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 1347) YEAR-END OUTLOOK: WEAK 1993 MARGINS FORESHADOW A BLEAK 1994  332 Lines
       Special Commentary by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large
 Customers' uncertainty about parallel systems, hypercompetitiveness, and
pressure on margins from workstations and clusters made 1993 an unpleasant
year.
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  756) SILICON GRAPHIC'S RON BERNAL RECAPS BUSY & SUCCESSFUL YEAR   72 Lines
 "We became a serious player in the high-performance computing/supercomputing
markets with the introduction of our new server product families.... The
introduction of these revolutionary systems ushered in a new paradigm in
supercomputing.
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  757) IBM POWER PARALLEL SYSTEM'S WLADAWSKY-BERGER ON '93 & BEYOND  65 Lines
 "As we all work together to develop and transfer advanced parallel computing
technology, worldwide research, business and society will be the true
beneficiaries. We at IBM POWER Parallel Systems are proud to be part of this
important and exciting future!"

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 2282) BRIEFS: Carnegie Mellon Receives $21.5 Million to Study L.A. Quakes
 1347) COMMENTARY: Year-End Outlook: Weak 1993 Margins Foreshadow Bleak 1994
 1344) FEATURE: Envisioning the Earth: The Geosphere Project
 2871) BENCHMARKS: NAS Benchmarks Part V: The Integer Sort Benchmark
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NEWS BRIEFS
 2282) CARNEGIE MELLON RECEIVES $21.5 MILLION TO STUDY L.A. QUAKES   56 Lines
    Pittsburgh -- Carnegie Mellon University researchers have received a
$2.15 million NSF Grand Challenge grant to develop computer simulations that
will show how the ground moves during an earthquake -- specifically in the
greater Los Angeles basin.
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 2283) DEC AWARDED THREE PATENTS FOR VOLUME SHADOWING TECHNOLOGY     47 Lines
    Maynard, Mass. -- Digital Equipment Corporation announced last Friday
that it has been awarded three U.S. patents for technology that provides high
levels of data availability in open client/server and time-share
environments.
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 2284) ATM FORUM B-ICI SPEC TO SPEED AVAILABILITY OF ATM SERVICES    39 Lines
    Mountain View, Calif. -- The ATM Forum announced Wednesday that it has
completed the specification for the Broadband ISDN Inter Carrier Interface
(B-ICI).
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 2285) ANSI LAUDS SUN FOR THEIR STRATEGIC USE OF STANDARDIZATION     55 Lines
    Mountain View, Calif. -- An on-going study contracted by the American
National Standards Institute (ANSI) has revealed that Sun Microsystems, Inc.
is one of America's top four industrial corporations that uses
standardization for strategic advantage.
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ALSO THIS WEEK: (Full stories available from more@hpcwire.ans.net)
 2286) Tandem Computers Joins X/Open as Technical Buy Out Member     39 Lines
 2287) Interphase Joins Fast Ethernet Alliance as Observer Member    37 Lines
 2288) Hewlett-Packard Endorses Novell's UnixWare Operating System   39 Lines
 2289) Boling, Orahood & Associates, Encore Form Strategic Alliance  39 Lines
 2290) Kalos Elected to Fellowship in American Physical Society      20 Lines
 2291) Sherwin-Williams Installs NCR Workstations as POS Systems     47 Lines
 2292) Kalpana, Inc. Debuts 2 Fault Tolerant EtherSwitch Solutions   97 Lines
 2293) Sun Introduces a Low-Cost Multi-Port Ethernet Controller      46 Lines
 2294) Exide Electronics Debuts OnliNet 3.0 NVX Power Management     70 Lines
 2295) Oracle Heralds Applications Availability for DEC Platforms    34 Lines
 2296) SunConnect Introduces Cooperative Management Product Line     99 Lines
 2297) OpenVision Unveils Suite of VMS Security Management Products  48 Lines
 2298) Century Releases TAE Plus 5.3 GUI Builder for HP 9000/700     73 Lines
 2299) TGV Demos New MultiNet 3.3 Connectivity Software for OpenVMS 123 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
  755) HPCwire Electronic Publishing Software Now Available         101 Lines
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QUOTE OF THE WEEK:
 1344) "We found out that there is a very narrow hospitality zone for life."
  -- Tom Van Zant, Geosphere Project founder, on exploring the solar system.
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ANALYSIS & FEATURES
 1344) ENVISIONING THE EARTH: THE GEOSPHERE PROJECT                 104 Lines
       Feature Story by Sara Latta
  The Geosphere Project, founded in 1989 by Tom Van Sant, is  based on the
painter-sculptor-architectural designer's dream that complex Earth resource
management and global change issues could -- and should -- be understood as a
symbiotic continuum by policy makers, the research community, educators, and
the lay public alike.
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 1345) INTEGRATING GLOBAL MODELS: CONFERENCE REPORT                 131 Lines
       Feature Story by Randall Graham and Fran Bond
  "Ecological economics is an attempt to integrate social sciences and
natural sciences in order to provide the information necessary to formulate
policy dealing with global climate change," said Karl-Gran Maler, director of
the Beijer International Institute for Ecological Economics, to about 30
scientists who gathered for the Global Ecological Economic Modeling
Conference.
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 1346) MESSAGE-PASSING: LETTERS TO THE EDITOR/CORRECTIONS            53 Lines
  -- Ben Peek and Von Welch clarify and contribute SCinet '93 information.
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SCIENCE NEWS
 1423) Artificial Pancreas May Free Diabetics from Daily Injections  99 Lines
 1424) LLNL Shows Dynamic Stripping Successfully Cleans Gas Spill    81 Lines
 1425) Screening for Inherited Tay-Sachs Disease Stops 67 Marriages  51 Lines
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                             OTHER DEPARTMENTS:
BENCHMARKS
 2871) NAS Benchmarks Part V: The Integer Sort Benchmark             79 Lines
BOOKSHELF
 2872) SIAM Offers "Templates for the Solution of Linear Systems"    51 Lines
CONFERENCES
 2873) Spring '94 Cray User's Group Conference & Call For Papers    599 Lines
DOING THE RIGHT THING
 2874) Book Publisher Launches Endangered Species Funding Program    81 Lines
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LAST WEEK'S MOST REQUESTED ITEMS FROM HPCwire
 1341) Scalable Survival in 1994- I: Dynamics of Money and Ego      332 Lines
 2266) Koch Takes KSR Helm Amid Storm of Accounting Uncertainties   144 Lines
 2269) HPCC Deep Into Massively Parallel Computers, Rubbert Warns   348 Lines
 1343) SCinet '93 Pioneers Technology at Supercomputing '93          96 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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  * NAS Benchmarks Part VI: Simulated CFD Application Benchmarks
  * NCSA and Structural Mechanics
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