Newsgroups: comp.parallel
From: tanner@nas.nasa.gov (Leigh Ann Tanner)
Subject: Intel Supercomputer User's Group Newsletter Available
Organization: NAS/NASA-Ames Research Center
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1993 16:52:17 GMT

The first electronic edition of the Intel Supercomputer Users' Group
newsletter is now available via ftp.  This issue includes:

* Late-breaking news: Oak Ridge National Laboratory accepts delivery of one
of the largest Paragon(tm) supercomputers installed to date -- a 512- node
configuration with peak performance of 38 GFLOPS. 

* An article from Users' Group chair Gary Lamont (Air Force Institute of
Technology) on what's in store at the upcoming Supercomputer Users' Group
Annual Conference, which takes place Oct. 3-6 in St. Louis. 

* A report from Marsha Jovanovic (San Diego Supercomputer Center) on the
Paragon supercomputer and SDSC's recent summer institute. 

* A wrap-up from Thierry Priol (IRISA) on the Intel Supercomputer European
Users' Group Annual Conference, held last June in Munich. 

* An in-depth interview with Oregon State University professor and HPC user
advocate Dr. Cherri Pancake on Intel's new ParAide software development
environment, which will be available this fall on the Paragon
supercomputer.

* A write-up on this summer's SuperQuest Northwest, where winning teams of
high school students had a crack at parallel programming on an iPSC(R)/860
computer.

* An Intel News Roundup -- all the news that fits, including new Paragon
supercomputer configurations, a C++ CRADA with Sandia National
Laboratories, an alliance with Unisys to develop scalable computers based
on the Pentium(tm) processor and more. 

The ISUG newsletter is available via anonymous ftp at export.ssd.intel.com 
(137.102.222.129). The files are in plain ascii format, in the /pub/isug/ 
directory. The first issue is called "isug_newsletter.09.93", subsequent 
issues will be named to reflect the month and year of publication.

Happy reading!