Winter 1998, Vol. 19, No. 1

Columns

• Director's column
  Charting the course for '98

• An invitation from Bill Buzbee for CSL proposals
  Submission deadline is 27 February 1998

• What's happening in computing systems at climate modeling centers abroad
  SCD Director Bill Buzbee submits report to National Research Council

Features

• On tour with NCAR
  
  • The road to San Jose: SCD does SC97
    
  • The road to San Francisco: SCD does AGU
    
  • The road to Phoenix: SCD does AMS

• Special section on SCxx
  . . . the conference formerly known as "Supercomputing"
  • Flash! SC97 in photos
    
  • Networking and peripherals take SC97 spotlight
    
  • SC98: Oh, Orlando!
    

• Volsh: A tool for real-time, interactive visualization
  Renders images of time-evolving volumetric data

• Merrill and Irwin recognized for accomplishments
  From hippies to HIPPI

News

• HP, new J90: More compute cycles for community users
  J90 to increase GAU pool by 50%

• The good neighbor's guide to winterpark
  New usage policy instated

• Sneak preview of UNICOS 10
  New, improved, with bleach

• To pack or not to pack
  Consider these accuracy and interoperability caveats

  
  

• Secrets of F90 compiler optimization
  How to specify levels

• Convert now!
  . . . to Fortran 90 makefile compiler macros

• When names collide
  Strange results reported

• Today's tar tip
  Use pax command to bypass absolute paths

  
  

• New and revised userdocs available
  
• New and upgraded SCD software installed
  
• Get your GAU charges on the Web
  
• Turnaround times now available for SCD Crays
  
• NAGWare set of tools for F77 available on meeker
  
• MSS import/export output now returned by e-mail
  
• SCD calendar
  

Singularities

• Hello from the shirts
  Nice threads!