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...computing," declared Doyle Knight, president of New Jersey's John von Neumann National Supercomputer Center. What dismayed Knight was the announcement last week by Control Data, based in Minneapolis, that it would halt its money-losing six-year foray into the growing world market for supercomputers. The decision leaves Cray Research, its crosstown rival and the industry leader, as the only U.S. supercomputer maker at a time when Japan's industry is moving vigorously into the field...
...illegal only if they can be proved to be clear-cut bribes that elicit favors in return. Thus prosecutors are looking closely at cases in which Recruit may have got something for its generosity. One such transaction is NTT's purchase in 1986 and '87 of two U.S.-made Cray Research supercomputers, which the utility in turn sold to Recruit. Investigators are looking into the possibility that NTT officials gave Recruit a special deal on the machines...
...Cray, the excavation project is more than a simple diversion. "I work when I'm at home," he recently told a visiting scientist. "I work for three hours, and then I get stumped, and I'm not making progress. So I quit, and I go and work in the tunnel. It takes me an hour or so to dig four inches and put in the 4-by-4s. Now, as you can see, I'm up in the Wisconsin woods, and there are elves in the woods. So when they see me leave, they come into my office and solve...
Rollwagen knows that Cray is only half kidding and that some of the designer's greatest inspirations come when he is digging. Says the chairman: "The real work happens when Seymour is in the tunnel...
...hard metamorphosis for a Senator's son who attended St. Albans and Harvard. But he seems most at home talking defense or microchips. The only passion he could muster in Illinois -- a speech about the Government's important role in the coming information revolution, delivered in front of a Cray X-MP/24 supercomputer -- is no more likely to find adherents in Rust Belt Michigan than it did in Illinois...