News & features

• Historic San Jose hosts "seismic" conference -- Dale Clark, Arctic Region Supercomputing Center
  
• Reflections on the (pleasantly upbeat) Silicon Valley CUG -- Tom Baring, Arctic Region Supercomputing Center
  
• CUG keynote: What works on the Web and why? -- Dale Clark, Arctic Region Supercomputing Center
  
• Smile! You're on candid camera -- Lynda Lester, CUG.log editor

• Special section: Why CUG?
  • The praises of CUG -- Mike Viscount, North Carolina Supercomputing Center
    
  • Technical details from CUG are invaluable -- Leslie Southern, Ohio Supercomputer Center
    
  • First time attendee? (Well, sort of) -- Sally Haerer, National Center for Atmospheric Research

• An interview with SGI executive vice president Robert Ewald -- Lynda Lester, CUG.log editor

CUG reports

• Changes coming down the pipeline for CUG -- Gary Jensen, CUG president
  
• CUG's financial bill of health improves -- Gary Christoph, CUG treasurer
  
• North American regional meetings discussed -- Barry Sharp, regional director of the Americas
  
• Latin users are active -- Philippe Martinez, Latin User Group representative
  
• What does the CUG Office really do, then? -- Bob Winget, CUG office manager
  

Special Interest Group reports

• SIC/MIGs become SIGs!
  
• Applications and Algorithms -- Richard Shaginaw, SIG chair
  
• Graphics -- Eric Greenwade, SIG chair
  
• IRIX -- Nicholas Cardo, SIG chair
  
• J90 -- Jean Shuler, SIG chair
  
• Mass Storage Systems -- Robert Silvia, SIG chair

• Operating Systems
  
  • OS business meeting/buildable source code panel -- Barry Sharp, regional director of the Americas
    
  • See also "Future operating system direction for Cray customers" (next section)

• Operations -- Dan Drobnis, SIG chair
  
• Performance and Evaluation -- Jeff Kuehn, SIG chair
  
• Security -- Bonnie Hall, SIG chair
  
• Software Tools -- Hans-Hermann Frese, SIG chair
  
• User Services -- Barbara Horner-Miller, SIG chair

  
  

SGI/Cray Research reports

• Two summaries of SGI/CRI's "New Hardware Report"
  • Existing products to converge in Scalable Node 2 -- Barry Sharp, regional director of the Americas
    
  • SGI/CRI hardware evolution discussed -- Dale Clark, Arctic Region Supercomputing Center

• Future operating system direction for Cray customers -- Don Mason, Cray Research
  
• CUG provides key input on customer service -- Gary Sparks, Cray Research

• Cray Research press releases (external link)
• Silicon Graphics press releases (external link)

Future meetings

• Fall '97 Origin2000 Workshop to be held in Minnesota
  
• Announcing the 40th Cray User Group Conference: Stuttgart '98 -- Grethe Knapp-Christiansen and Walter Wehinger, Local Arrangements '98