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The article presents information about benchmark tests of supercomputers. A Los Alamos National Laboratory test in Los Alamos, New Mexico, reveals that a traditional vector machine running faster than parallel machine. The benchmark tests identified interprocesssor communications, memory bandwidth and compilers. Los Alamos team compared Cray research's Y-MP⁄8 vector machine against the parallel computing connection machine-2 from thinking machines. Results emphasized that MP architectures are vital to the future of the high performance computing.

The article presents information related to a partially submerged particle accelerator in Albuquerque, New Mexico. In its 10 violent years of life, the Z machine, which was built to generate data for supercomputers that simulate nuclear explosions, has surprised its creators at Sandia National Laboratories. Using a technique known as the z-pinch, which sends massive current through a target, imploding it, the accelerator has unlocked a range of cosmic mysteries.

Focuses on use of computers to speed up the processing of documents in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Use of parallel machines for parallel processing; Development of computer algorithms designed to improve parallel processing; Problems encountered by computer programmers in wave propagation.

The article reports that the Red Storm computer, built by Cray Inc. at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico, received a $15 million upgrade which has increased its speed from 41.5 to 124.4 teraflops. According to Bill Camp, director of Computers, Information and Math Center at Sandia, Red Storm is the best in the world in terms of scalability. The Red Storm design became the basis for the development of Cray XT3 massively parallel processor (MPP) supercomputer.

This article reports that researchers at Sandia National Laboratory in Albuquerque, New Mexico, are developing a $90 million supercomputer called Red Storm, and expect it to be faster, smaller, and less expensive than previous supercomputers. The first quarter of the supercomputer, which can perform 41.5 trillion operations per second, was expected to be installed at Sandia, the National Nuclear Security Administration's laboratory, by the end of last month. It should be fully up and running by January, said Bill Camp, Sandia's director of computation, computers, information, and mathematics. By the end of 2005, each single-processor chip will be replaced with a new chip that contains two independent processors, each running 25 percent faster than the original chip. The computer is scalable from a single cabinet holding 96 processors, to about 300 cabinets with 30,000 processors.

Reports on the impact of massively parallel processors (MPP) in computing. Building computers out of least expensive components; Lack of standard means for interprocess communications within a parallel processor; Energy Department's award to Intel Corp. to jointly develop with Sandia National Laboratory a parallel processor that crashes through the terraflop barrier.