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Harvard will lose access to one of the nation's five supercomputers when the National Science Foundation cuts funding for the John von Neumann Supercomputer Center in Princeton, N.J. next September, officials said yesterday...
...With the company out of business, there will be no one to fix it," Weber said. The director added that the von Neumann computers had also experienced considerable installation, hardware and software problems...
Four supercomputers remain in service in the United States, spread around the Midwest and on the West Coast, said Professor of Physics David Vanderbilt. Vanderbilt, who is one of Harvard's two board members at the von Neumann site, called the NSF decision "not crippling but somewhat inconvenient...
...Monday was a sad day in American 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...
Some analysts detected a trend that could influence next year's regional and national elections. Said Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, head of the Allensbach public opinion institute: "This weakening of the big center parties and the strengthening of the fringes is not a short-term phenomenon. This trend will continue...