Below is a article written by David Stack of the University of Wisconsin
Milwaukee computing newsletter that can be edited and used on your campus
to promote awareness of NCSA.  Feel free to edit it in any way to make
it accurate for your campus.  I would suggest putting the article in your
computer center newsletter and/or an electronic bulletin board.

I would like to give special thanks to David for sending me a copy of the
article.  I would like to encourge everyone to send me your articles, 
training materials, ideas, etc., so I can make them available to all of us.  

Dave McWilliams
NCSA Academic Affiliates Coordinator
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                             A Bigger Hammer

Do you need a more powerful computer?  If you find even the Convex too slow,
read on.

Thanks to a special National Science Foundation program, you can use the
supercomputers at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

The computing workhorses at NCSA are two Cray supercomputers a CRAY-2S/4-128,
and a CRAY Y-MP 4/4-64.   These systems have powerful capabilities, performing
calculations in hours that might take days on the Convex.  The accompanying
graph compares the relative performance of the NCSA machines to UWM's Convex.
All three computers run versions of the Unix operating system.  This makes it
easy to more your work back and forth between them.

To "test drive" your work on one of the Crays contact David Stack (x5371) at
CSD.  He will set-up an account for you on the Cray X-MP.  If you find that a
powerful supercomputer is the tool you need, then you will can to prepare a
short proposal to NCSA for a larger time allotment.

Supercomputer Software
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Not only are the supercomputers at NCSA powerful, but they are also well
equiped with discipline specific software packages.  A complete list is too
long for this newslettter.  Contact David Stack (x5371) to enquire if the
packages you need are available.  There are offerings in the fields of:

   Astronomy
   Chemical Engineering
   Computational Fluid Dynamics
   Electrical Engineering
   Graphics
   Mathematics and Statistics
   Solid Mechanics
   General Engineering
.