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Cover: The game of chess acts as a visual metaphor for the competitive drive of scientists engaged in HPCC Grand Challenge research. Each scientist, represented by a game piece, holds a symbol of his/her research area.
(Concept and illustration, John Havlik; research, Fran Bond)

Contacts Directory

Editor's Note: Challenging the Future

• Marching to the teraflop

Research

• Simulations of quantum systems
• Probing matter at its smallest scale with the CM-5
• Radio synthesis imaging
• Biomolecular modeling and structure determination
• Astrophysical crash: Computing colliding black holes
• Modeling the universe on the CM-5

Industrial Program

• Schlumberger: Fast, scalable seismic processing

Education

• The bridges of HPCC County

New Technology

• Using NCSA Mosaic
• New forum for finite element users
• Flash! NCSA Mosaic licenses signed
• PVM projects on NCSA's HP cluster
• NCSA refund policy and procedure
• New software on CONVEX C3880

Book Review

• Exploring Cyberspace

Center Activities

• NCSA Networks Champaign County