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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...
Despite all the German troop movements, despite sharp words between the two regimes, the supposedly crafty and suspicious Stalin foresaw nothing. The very night before the attack, Foreign Minister V.M. Molotov called in the German ambassador, Count Friedrich von der Schulenberg, and said the Soviets were "unable to understand the reasons for Germany's dissatisfaction." Schulenberg said he would try to find out. A few hours later, at dawn, he returned to the Kremlin with a message from Berlin. It accused the Soviets of violating the Nazi-Soviet pact, massing their troops and planning a surprise attack on Germany...
...original German plan was to launch a frontal assault by Army Group B on the Low Countries, just as in 1914, with a secondary attack in the Ardennes by Army Group A. But General Erich von Manstein, chief of staff for Army Group A, passionately argued that this would only lead to stalemate in northern France, again just as in 1914. By contrast, a strong armored offensive right through the supposedly impenetrable Ardennes could lead to a breakthrough all the way to the English Channel. The Allied armies would be encircled and cut off; all France would lie open. Manstein...