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   361) BOOK REVIEW: "High-Performance Computing," by Kevin Dowd
   362) FEATURE STORY: Seeing Into the Quantum World
   364) LETTERS: Are We Over-Selling the Future of Parallel Computing?
  1839) BENCHMARKS: Linpack Report -- A Look at Parallel Processing
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  1162) GERMAN UNIVERSITY IS FIRST TO ORDER FUJITSU VPP500 SYSTEM     38 Lines
     Tokyo, Japan -- Fujitsu Ltd. said the Technical University of Aachen in
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  1163) TRANSTECH ANNOUNCES 1.6-GFLOPS, i860XP-BASED PARAMID SYSTEM   35 Lines
     High Wycombe, U.K. -- Transtech Parallel Systems announced a new family
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  1164) UNIX VENDORS RELEASE SPECS FOR COMMON DESKTOP ENVIRONMENT     70 Lines
     White Plains, N.Y. -- Hewlett-Packard, IBM, SunSoft and Unix System
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  innovative, intuitive, easy-to-use environment for multiple Unix systems.
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  1165) SEC INVESTIGATING STORAGETEK FOR INSIDER TRADING VIOLATIONS   39 Lines
     Louisville, Colo. -- The Securities and Exchange Commission is
  investigating Storage Technology Corp. for possible violations of insider
  trading laws surrounding its Iceberg product announcement last year.
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  1166) INTERNET LINKS PEOPLE OF THE WORLD IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE      87 Lines
     Washington, D.C. -- A Washington Post feature this week told of a couple
  living in separate countries who met through the Internet and are now
  married -- along with numerous other examples of how the worldwide network
  is changing the way businesses and individuals communicate.
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  1167) CONVEX COULD SUFFER LAYOFFS AFTER SECOND-QUARTER LOSSES       23 Lines
     Richardson, Texas -- Industry analyst Jeffrey Canin told the Dallas
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  1168) Korean Institute First in Asia-Pacific to Order Cray C916     35 Lines
  1169) HP and Locus to Work on Distributed Solutions for Clusters    22 Lines
  1170) National Storage Lab Installs 6.4-Terabyte Ampex DST 800      32 Lines
  1171) Chinese Ministry to Make Solaris/SPARC-Based Workstations     24 Lines
  1172) Cray Research on Schedule for MPP Release and '93 Earnings    16 Lines
  1173) Convex Details 20 Installations in Russia and East Europe     42 Lines
  1174) IBM's Blue-Laser Device Enables 6.5 GB on 5.25-Inch Disk      62 Lines
  1175) Cray's MPGS Post-Processing Software Available for Kenai      52 Lines
  1176) Sun to Repurchase Up to 9.5 Percent of Its Common Stock       30 Lines
  1177) Digital Selling Kubota Pacific's Denali Graphics Subsystem    31 Lines
  1178) CMF.Baseline 5.1 for Cray Analyzes Per-Process Performance    31 Lines
  1179) For the Record: Miscellaneous HPC News & Notes -- 12 Items   123 Lines
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   736) Digital Unveils Bridging Router for Multiprotocol Internets   64 Lines
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   361) THE LOWDOWN ON LOOPS, RISC, BENCHMARKS AND PARALLELIZING      96 Lines
        Book Review by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large
   This up-to-date book is immensely helpful for the reader who wishes to
 comprehend the fundamentals of large-scale parallelism, formulate the key
 questions, and begin to understand the answers. It is also very helpful for
 those contemplating new purchases of workstations -- or a better
 understanding of workstations they use already.
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   362) SEEING INTO THE QUANTUM WORLD                                140 Lines
        Feature Story by Randall Graham, Science Writer, NCSA
   "I work at the fundamental level, trying to solve the original equations of
 quantum theory to build from the ground level an understanding of atomic
 structure." -- NCSA research scientist and physics professor David Ceperley.
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   363) ATARI, IBM TO INAUGURATE 64-BIT REALISM FOR GAMEHEADS         53 Lines
        News Analysis by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large
   The elastic boundaries of high-performance computing will be stretched even
 further if IBM and Atari Corp. go through with plans to introduce 64-bit
 double-precision capabilities to the computer game scene.
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   364) MESSAGE-PASSING: LETTERS TO THE EDITOR                        46 Lines
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   454) NSF Scientists Reach Record Depth in Greenland Ice Sheet      30 Lines
   455) Group to Picket White House for Release of UFO Information    39 Lines
   456) Research Shows Workers With Windows Are Happier, Healthier    27 Lines
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  1839) Linpack Report: A Look at Parallel Processing (May 31)       226 Lines
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  1842) An Introduction to Materials Science                         108 Lines
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  1843) Congressional Budget Office Study: "Promoting HPCC"           44 Lines
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  1844) Studying the Quark-Gluon Plasma Using Parallel Computing      70 Lines
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