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THIS WEEK =================================================================== 4100) UCSD/SDSC Make "In the Bag" Home Shopping a Virtual Reality........69 4101) NASA JPL Uses MPP CM-5 for Mission-Critical Application............54 4102) New "Record" Levels of TPC Achieved by SGI and DEC................149 4103) What is the LINPACK Benchmark?.....................................20 4104) ARSC Installs Three Visualization Labs/Equipment from SGI..........48 4105) New Product Development May Turn Cray Research to Outside Partners.16 4106) DEC's UNIX System Breaks File Service Performance Barrier..........91 4107) Exabyte Corp. Officially Opens New Scotland Hub Facility...........51 4108) Cray Research/Others Order Sun's New 85MHz SPARCstation 5 System...37 4109) FEA Pioneer John Swanson Elected ASME Fellow.......................58 NETWORKING 4110) Swiss Bank Purchases 12 Auspex High-Performance NetServers.........21 4111) High-Performance Router Sales Deal Signed by Racal/Wellfleet.......16 SOFTWARE 4112) TME 2.0 Provides Large-Scale Client/Server to Port AT&T 3000.......78 4113) Quarterdeck Signs Commercial License for Mosaic....................73 4114) Royal Navy Chooses Informix as Preferred PPD/Tools Supplier........35 4115) India's Rao to Discuss Software Issue with Clinton.................48 4116) BBN TotalView Multiprocess Debugger Available for AXP Workstations.50 PACIFIC RIM REPORT 4117) White House Considers More Moderate Japanese Trade Policy..........63 4118) Japan's MITI Plans Public Sector Information Network...............14 4119) AIR Develops Japanese-Language E-Mail Internet Access Software.....14 4120) NEC Develops Media Server Based on PP Computer/Set-Top-Box.........14 FINANCIAL WATCH 4121) Cisco Stock Plunges on Poor Earnings Results.......................29 4122) H-P Earnings Rose 17 Percent in Q2.................................32 4123) 10 Most Active NASDAQ HPC Stocks...................................26 SUPERHIGHWAY REPORT 4124) GTE Calif. 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This is the kind of teamwork that accelerates our nation's progress." -- Ed Barsis, Director, CCSM, Sandia National Laboratories ANALYSIS & FEATURES ========================================================= 1447) SMARTNET AND HETEROGENEITY: JUSTIFYING THE IMPLICATION..............126 News Commentary by Norris Parker Smith, Editor at Large SmartNet, a sophisticated system sponsored by the Navy and ARPA for task allocation in highly heterogeneous systems, will seek to demonstrate publicly a superior harvest of computational potential and deliver on the promise its name evokes. 1448) EXPLORING THE PROTEIN-FOLDING PROBLEM...............................114 FEATURE by Michael Schneider, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center For biomedical scientists, the protein phenomenon poses the kind of mystery science thrives on. 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