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John Gustafson and
Diane Rover and
Stephen Elbert and
Michael Carter SLALOM --- The First Scalable
Supercomputer Benchmark . . . . . . . . 56--61
George Cybenko Supercomputer Performance Trends and the
Perfect Benchmarks . . . . . . . . . . . 53--60
Gary Smaby Outside Insights: Preemptive Strikes . . 18
William H. Allen Ancient Climates: How Ancient Climates
Affected Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
William H. Allen Ancient Climates: Supercomputers
Reconstruct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Richard H. Hill Gallium Arsenide Chipmaker Dispels GaAs
Myths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Michael Shur and
Tor A. Fjeldy and
Geir U. Jensen Supercomputer Simulations of Submicron
Semiconductor Devices . . . . . . . . . 27--32
Michael Shur and
Tor A. Fjeldy and
Geir U. Jensen Supercomputer Simulations of Submicron
Semiconductor Devices . . . . . . . . . 27
Norris Parker Smith Heterogeneous Supercomputing: Once
Again, FPS Pioneers Uncertain New
Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33--37
Hideki Kato Neural Networks: Neural Network
Simulations Showing the Possibility of a
Super Neurocomputer . . . . . . . . . . 38
Anonymous Workstation Outlook: US\$43 Billion
Total {U.S.} and {Europe} Markets for
Graphics Workstations Forecast for 1995 42
Anonymous Workstation News: MIPS Computer Systems:
Small Player at the Top Table . . . . . 43
Anonymous Workstation Storage: IBM Chooses Maximum
Strategy for RS/6000 RAID High-Speed
Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Norris Parker Smith The Workstation Word: Stardent Tries
Again . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Anonymous Workstation Showcase: Silicon Graphics
Enters Simulator Market with US\$210,000
Integrated {Skywriter} . . . . . . . . . 48
Anonymous Showcase: Three Cheers for the Red,
Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue and Violet 59
Gary Smaby Outside Insights: Conferenced Out . . . 22
Conrad J. Storad Supercomputing in Mathematics: Math on
the Brink . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--31
Michael Schneider Pittsburgh's Not-So-Odd Couple . . . . . 36
Daniel Menasce and
Virgilio Almeida Heterogeneous Supercomputing: Cost
Effective? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--41
Tad Furutsuki Japanese Supercomputing: The Japanese
Supercomputing Market, Part II: The
Japanese Vendors . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--45
Anonymous Workstation News: IBM's New
Visualization System . . . . . . . . . . 46
Anonymous Workstation Showcase: Weather and
Climate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Norris Parker Smith The Workstation Word: Blue Apples and
Multiprocessor Servers . . . . . . . . . 52
David H. Bailey Highly Parallel Perspective: Twelve Ways
to Fool the Masses When Giving
Performance Results on Parallel
Computers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Kris Herbst Supercomputing in Particle Theory:
Fermilab's Self-Wrought Mpp Solution
Meets Compute-Intensive Need . . . . . . 58--64
Tina Rathbone News Showcase: Silicon Graphics' New
Indigo System . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Jeffry Canin Outside Insights: Catalyst for MPP
Market Acceptance . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Anonymous Showcase: He Said, ``I'll Be Back,'' and
Meant It: Terminator II Computer
Animation Sequences . . . . . . . . . . 25
Patricia Barnes-Svarney Supercomputing in Astronomy: The Making
and Breaking of Stars . . . . . . . . . 28--32
Kris Herbst Japanese Supercomputing: Parallel
Computing in Japan, Part I . . . . . . . 33--35
Kris Herbst Japanese Supercomputing: Parallel
Computing in Japan, Part I . . . . . . . 33
Thomas M. Ruwart Cost-Effective Solutions: High-Speed,
Disk-Based Interactive Scientific
Animation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Mohammad M. Amini Corporate Perspective: Supercomputing in
Corporate America . . . . . . . . . . . 40--42
Mathew Burns Workstation News: Sun Projects Bright
Future Despite Competition . . . . . . . 43
Adam Beguelin and
Jack Dongarra and
Al Geist and
Robert Manchek and
Vaidy Sunderam Workstation Solutions: Opening the Door
to Heterogeneous Network Supercomputing 44--45
Norris Parker Smith The Workstation Word: Softgraph . . . . 46
Anonymous Workstation Showcase: Barcelona was
Built in 28 Days . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Gary Smaby Outside Insights: the Big Picture . . . 22
Tina Rathbone Showcase: Sculptural Mutations . . . . . 24
Michael Teter Supercomputing in the Commercial Sector:
the Evolution of Numerically Intensive
Computing at Corning . . . . . . . . . . 27--30
Mathew Burns The Supercomputing Marketplace:
Scientific Visualization Wars . . . . . 31--35
Richard F. Freund and
Larry J. Peterson Network Solutions: If the Network is the
Computer, Then . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Kris Herbst Japanese Supercomputing: Parallel
Computing in Japan, Part II . . . . . . 38--39
Margaret L. Simmons Workstation Comparison: a Performance
Evaluation of Five Workstations . . . . 40
Norris Parker Smith Workstation News: Sony's New MPP Face on
Muscle Beach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Anonymous The Workstation Word: Sales by Leading
Workstation Vendors Increase 40 Percent
Despite Wobbly International Economies 44
Anonymous Buyers' Guide: Workstations and
Visualization . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Jeffrey Canin Outside Insights: MacNeal-Schwendler:
CAE Leader Encounters Troubled Waters 24
Tina Rathbone Showcase: Divide and Conquer . . . . . . 26
Jan Rowell Applications in Medicine: Parallel
Supercomputers: Seeing the Shape of
Things in Biomedicine . . . . . . . . . 28
Kent Patterson Breakthrough in Geoscience:
Supercomputers Take on Environmental
Pollution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Marc Baber Parallel Software Solutions: the
Hypertasking Paracompiler . . . . . . . 41
Mathew Burns Workstation Showcase: Virtual Virtual
Reality: Scenes From the LawnMower Man 48
Len Grzanka Workstation Marketplace: Silicon
Graphics Opens GL Licensing . . . . . . 50
Norris Parker Smith The Workstation Word: Sun Never Sets:
New Servers and Software . . . . . . . . 55
Petter E. Bjorstad and
Erik Boman Benchmarking Perspectives: Slalom: A
Better Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Willie Schatz Supercomputing and Industry: Great
Expectations: Industrial Partnerships
Fall Short of Supercomputer Centers'
Projections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65--68
Norris Parker Smith and
Tina Rathbone SCInet Had It Wired . . . . . . . . . . 2
R. Andrew Rathbone Computer Chess Championships: Deep
Thought II Dug in for the Duration . . . 6
Tina Rathbone News Showcase: Visualizations on New
Supers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Gary Smaby Outside Insights: Conceptual Art . . . . 38
George Lawton Space Exploration: Target: Venus . . . . 40
Mathew Burns SGI Releases High-End Graphics System 42
Norris Parker Smith Wavetracer's Zephyr: A SIMD Deskside
Add-On for the Power-Hungry . . . . . . 42
Norris Parker Smith The Workstation Word: Seeing Things
Whole . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Bob Nilsson MPP Perspectives: a Software Checklist
for Massively Parallel Success . . . . . 50
Jeffrey Canin Outside Insights: Focus Means Success
for E and S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Wes Iverson Showcase: Virtual Environments Enhance 28
Wes Iverson Showcase: Visualization Techniques at
NCSA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Kris Herbst Japanese R and D Exclusive:
Computational Fluid Dynamics in Japan 30
Mathew Burns Supercomputers in Education: Educating
the Next Generation . . . . . . . . . . 39
David Loshin and
Dan Budge Compiler Tools in High-Performance
Computing: Breaking the Memory
Bottleneck, Part 1 . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Anonymous Workstation News: DEC Enters Low-Cost
Workstation Fray . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Anonymous Workstation Comparison: HP Outranks
Competition in Workstation Study . . . . 49
Norris Parker Smith The Workstation Word: Workstations and
Supercomputers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Patricia Barnes-Svarney Workstation Showcase: When a Drip is a
Drop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Anonymous Buyers' Guide: Hardware and Systems . . 56
Tina Rathbone PRINTWARE and OTHERWARE: Virtual
Reality: Real-World Applications and
Ivory-Tower Pontifications . . . . . . . 66
Anonymous In Midst of Sweeping Reorganization, IBM
Raises Status of Supercomputing, Joins
MPP Parade With New Project . . . . . . 6--7
Anonymous Cray Research and Sun to Join in
SPARC-Based Superserver Project . . . . 8
Anonymous Livermore Cancels Cray-3 Order; Opts for
C90 After Cray Computer Lags on December
Demo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Anonymous Control Data and NEC Agree on CDC Sales
of SX-3 Supercomputers . . . . . . . . . 10
Anonymous Los Alamos and Oak Ridge Labs Named DOE
Research Centers . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Anonymous Digital Agrees to Sell Low-End CRAY Y-MP
EL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Anonymous DARPA Moves to Form HPC Consortia . . . 14
Anonymous New Education Programs Geared Toward the
Curriculum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Anonymous Meiko Sale Spotlights Problems With CTP
Standard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Mathew Burns News Showcase: Sudden Impact . . . . . . 22
Gary Smaby Outside Insights: No, Virginia, There
Isn't a Santa Claus . . . . . . . . . . 24
Martha Vivoli and
Dana Chamberlain Systems Integrators, Part I: Expertise
for Hire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Kirill Tchashchin High-Performance Computing in the
Russian Petroleum Industry . . . . . . . 32
Paul J. Morin and
Toshiro Tanimoto and
David A. Yuen and
Zhang Yu-shen Charting the Earth's Interior . . . . . 36
Norris Parker Smith The Workstation Word: Workstation
Olympics: HP Going for the Gold Across
the Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Tina Rathbone Workstation Showcase: Cheap, Easy and
Good-Looking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
David Loshin and
Dan Budge Compiler Tools in High-Performance
Computing: Breaking the Memory
Bottleneck, Part 2 . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Norris Parker Smith PRINTWARE and OTHERWARE: Connectivity
and Operability: Handy References . . . 58
Anonymous DARPA Awards US\$21 Million to {Intel}'s
Teraflops Effort . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Anonymous Cray Computer Shelving Cray-3 Release in
'92; Seeks Partnership . . . . . . . . . 8
Anonymous Bush Requests 23 Percent Increase for
HPCC Program in FY'93 . . . . . . . . . 10
Anonymous NEC Corp. Claims Top Peak Speeds for
Remodeled SX-3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Anonymous Will Storage Tek's New Iceberg Freeze
IBM, or Melt First? . . . . . . . . . . 12
Anonymous European Consortium Plans to Release
Teraflops Machine in 1993 . . . . . . . 13
Anonymous Worchester Center Signs MPP Contract
Worth US\$10.6 Million . . . . . . . . . 14
Jeffry Canin Outside Insights: Sun Microsystems:
Workstation Pacesetter . . . . . . . . . 16
Martha Vivoli and
Dana Chamberlain Systems Integrators, Part II: Refining
the Relationship . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Tina Rathbone Showcase: Making the World a Smaller
Place . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Peter Gregory MPP Perspective: Will MPP Always Be
Specialized? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Steve Eisenberg Supercomputers in Epidemiology: Modeling
the Spread of AIDS . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Anonymous Workstation News: DEC Releases
Industry's First OSF/1 OS . . . . . . . 40
Anonymous Workstation News: Tadpole Technologies
Ships SPARCbook . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Norris Parker Smith The Workstation Word: IBM: Doing Well in
the USA and in France . . . . . . . . . 41
Anonymous Special Supplement: Mass Storage . . . . 42
Patricia Barnes-Svarney Seeking the Sun . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Gary Smaby Guessing Games . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Jan Rowell Prudential Securities Pioneers
Supercomputing on Wall Street . . . . . 24--26
Mathew Burns Financiers Dump Spreadsheets for Visual
Data Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Kent Patterson Beyond the Microchip: Three Approaches
to Atomic-Scale Memory Devices . . . . . 30
George Lawton Diamond Innovations Bring New Power to
Computers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Mathew Burns Stanford Researcher Developing ``Virtual
Factory'' for Chip Design . . . . . . . 42
Norris Parker Smith The Workstation Word: Ten Years of Sun:
Price, Price, Software, Software . . . . 47
Jeffrey C. Kalb MPP Perspective: MPP Specialized? Au
Contraire: It's Ready for Prime Time . . 48
Norris Parker Smith PRINTWARE and OTHERWARE: Keeping up With
Mass Storage and Thinking About MPP . . 50
Anonymous The Information Resource for the
High-Performance Computing Community . . 57
Anonymous Delta Experience Demonstrates MPP and
HPCC Strategies Can Work . . . . . . . . 7
Anonymous Intel and Digital Join Forces to Develop
MPP Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Anonymous Pessimism Pervades Newport Conference 10
Anonymous Convex Discusses MPP Plans . . . . . . . 11
Anonymous Hitachi Claims Top Speeds for New
Supercomputers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Anonymous Applied Parallel Research FORGEs Ahead 13
Anonymous DOE and CSPP Accelerate Technology
Transfer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Anonymous Unix in Europe Predicted to Grow . . . . 15
Anonymous i860 SuperCompilers Stress Vectorization 16
Anonymous Parsytec MPP Awaits Chip . . . . . . . . 16
Jeffry Canin Tera Computer Attempts to Beat the Odds 18
Tina Rathbone The Software Vendors . . . . . . . . . . 21
Mathew Burns Putting Equations to Work . . . . . . . 26
Anonymous Interview: Edward Masi, Intel's New
Supercomputer Chief . . . . . . . . . . 32--35
Norris Parker Smith Microprocessors: Planets and Asteroids 39
Anonymous Special Supplement: Networking: Basics
and Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Anonymous The Information Resource for the
High-Performance Computing Community . . 57
Kenneth W. Neves A Broader Context . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Peter Gregory A Reply to Kalb and Neves . . . . . . . 62