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Kantor said trade sanctions might be carried out if Japanese procurement policies are found to be unfair. -------------------- 1020) CRAY Y-MP MODELS ACTUAL EL NINO EFFECTS ON 1992 CLIMATE Washington, D.C. -- Researchers at NOAA explained how the eruption of Mount Pinatubo and the El Nino-Southern Oscillation created warmer, drier weather conditions over much of the globe in 1992. They also predicted that current conditions would hold through the summer, which should mean a second summer in a row with relatively few hurricanes for the U.S. -------------------- 1021) NCR PARALLELISM AND ORACLE SPEED CANADA'S MISLAID MAIL San Diego, Calif. -- Canada Post Corp (CPC), Canada's postal monopoly, is using an NCR 3600 massively parallel computer system running ORACLE Parallel Server software to implement a new change-of-address system designed to redirect more than 12 million pieces of mail a year, at half the cost and double the speed of its previous system. -------------------- ALSO THIS WEEK: (Full stories available from more@hpcwire.ans.net) 1022) RS/6000 Receipts in 1st Q '93 Up 50% over 1992 1023) Matisse OODBMS Ready for Parallel KSR1 in 1st Q '94 1024) Argonne FEA Code Achieves 333-Fold Speedup on Intel Delta 1025) Caterpillar Wins NCSA Industrial Challenge Award for VR Use 1026) DEC Announces SPARCstation Trade-In Program for Alpha AXP 1027) Defense Intelligence Agency to Buy 5,400 Sun Workstations 1028) Network Systems Ships New DXE Units for Routing, Networking 1029) AutoCAD and New MCAD Software Released for SGI Workstations 1030) StorageTek Eliminates CFCs From Manufacturing Operations 1031) Three Vendors Team to Manage E-Mail Backbone Using SNMP 1032) Sun Microsystems Foundation Grants $284,580 to 12 Groups 1033) HP Workstations to Help Improve French Air-Traffic Control 1034) Cray to Install Its First System on the African Continent 1035) Alias Opens SGI-Based Software to Standard Digital Formats ***************************************************************************** QUOTE OF THE WEEK: 1019) "It is crucial that the Japanese be prevented from repeating a previous pattern and close their market to massively parallel computers after similar Japanese products become available." -- An unnamed US official quoted by Reuters on the US/Japanese supercomputer agreement. ***************************************************************************** INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT 729) Digital Alpha AXP Systems Available on the Internet ***************************************************************************** ANALYSIS & FEATURES 334) TRACKING SUPERCOMPUTER VENDORS: A CAKEWALK NO MORE Financial Analysis by Gary Smaby, Smaby Group A decade ago, tallying up annual sales in the supercomputer market was a cakewalk. 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