Word: cray
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...even among the reams of bad poetry, gems are to be found. Mike Godwin, a Washington-based lawyer who posts under the pen name "mnemonic," tells the story of Joe Green, a technical writer at Cray Research who turned a moribund discussion group called rec.arts.poems into a real poetry workshop by mercilessly critiquing the pieces he found there. "Some people got angry and said if he was such a god of poetry, why didn't he publish his poems to the group?" recalls Godwin. "He did, and blew them all away." Green's Well Met in Minnesota, a mock-epic...
...knew that neither wants a showdown. Jiang needs the MFN trade status. Clinton was working to preserve % U.S. access to one of the most important markets of the 21st century. In what officials described as a humanitarian gesture, the U.S. last week offered to sell China an $8 million Cray supercomputer designed to help prepare against weather-related disasters. In the past, such hardware has been embargoed on national security grounds. In addition, there is talk that Westinghouse and General Electric may be allowed to sell China turbines for nuclear power plants. The message: a balance must be struck between...
...Minneapolis. There are more than half a dozen start-up companies selling parallel- processing computers of one sort or another. Both Digital Equipment and IBM, the two largest U.S. computer manufacturers, have endorsed the concept (IBM by forming a joint venture in September with Thinking Machines), and even Cray Research has begun work on a massively parallel supercomputer. Japan has selected the technology as the target for one of its long-term research undertakings, and at least three Japanese manufacturers -- NEC, Hitachi and Fujitsu -- are busy making their own Connection Machine-like computers...
...flying against the dark of space, but would have trouble tracking a low-flying missile against a warm, crowded earth--the very weapons Third World countries would use. The development of SDI technology also requires a computer the size of a cigarette pack, but with the power of a Cray supercomputer. Supposedly, all this will cost less than $1 million for each unit...
COMPUTER MORASS. The Weather Service finally replaced its main number- crunching supercomputer -- a clunky Control Data machine -- with a slick new Cray Y-MP last year, and has been upgrading the software for its radar and satellite stations. To speed the dissemination of data and forecasts between its central office in Camp Springs, Md., and weather stations around the country, it is building AWIPS, the Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System. However, AWIPS is already a year late. Meanwhile, a report by the National Research Council in May cast doubt on the ability of the NWS's small staff to manage...