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Subject: ADMIN: Index to Kahaner Reports from comp.research.japan
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Available Kahaner Reports (ordered by filename)
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[These reports can be retrieved using anonymous FTP from site
 cs.arizona.edu (192.12.69.5), directory japan/kahaner.reports]

10ssymp  (Jul 2, 1990)
     The tenth meeting of Software Symposium, held in Kyoto Japan 6-8 
     June 1990 is briefly summarized. The most interesting aspects were 
     discussions by the Chinese of their national project.  

2010.add  (Mar 13, 1992)
     Details of the Economic Planning Agency Technology Forecast to
     the Year 2010 in the area of information electronics are given.

2010.epa  (Sep 27, 1991)
     A summary of a Japanese Economic Planning Agency study group
     forcasting technology through the year 2010.

20nas  (Aug 12, 1991)
     Titles of papers presented at the 20th Numerical Analysis
     Symposium, held 17-19 June, 1991 at Ikoinomura Hinuma, Ibaraki, 
     Japan are given.

3d-2-92.1  (Feb 19, 1992)
3d-2-92.2
     Three dimensional imaging from computers and film is reviewed.  The
     International Symposium on Three Dimensional Image Technology and
     Arts, held 5-7 Feb 1992 (in Tokyo), plus industrial tours to NHK,
     Sony, and Matsushita are described. Part 1 contains text. Part 2
     contains abstracts presented at the Symposium.

aimac.91  (Sep 23, 1991)
     A summary of the 8th International Symposium on Artificial
     Intelligence Based Measurement and Control (AIMaC'91), 12-16 Sept
     1991, Kyoto Japan is given.

aimac.pap  (Oct 21, 1991)
     Titles and authors of papers presented at AIMaC'91 (Artificial
     Intelligence in Measurement and Control), Sept 12-16 1991, Kyoto Japan
     are given. See the report "aimac.91" 23 Sept 1991,  for a discussion of
     this conference.

aiso  (May 31, 1991)
     Our translation of an article "New Possibilities for the Next 
     Generation Computer", by H. Aiso (Keio University) is presented.

aistplan.91 (Feb 25, 1992)
     Plans for future directions generally and some specific
     projects from Japan's Agency of International Science and Technology
     (a part of MITI) are described.

alpha  (May 6, 1991)
    Japan's "Alpha" project to develop modern 3d CFD software.

alpha192  (Feb 25, 1992)
     Papers presented at The Fourth Computational Hydromechanics Symposium
     January 22-23, 1992, Tokyo, Japan are given.

alt.90  (Dec. 26, 1990)
    The First International Workshop on Algorithmic Learning Theory (ALT 
    '90) took place in Tokyo October 8-10, 1990, attended by 120 
    researchers. This report summarizes the major papers discussed there.  

amc.92  (Sep 29, 1992)
      Titles of papers presented at the 2nd IEEE International Workshop on
      Advanced Motion Control, 16-18 March 1992, Nagoya Japan.

anritsu  (Apr 28, 1990)
    Commercialization of PAX by Anritsu Corporation.

ap1000ws.91  (Jan 2, 1992)
     Titles of papers presented at the Second Fujitsu-Australian
     National University CAP (AP1000) Workshop, 28-29 Nov 1991, Canberra
     Australia.

asiacryp.91 (Feb 27, 1992)
     Titles and authors of papers presented at the meeting, AsiaCrypt '91,
     held Nov 11-22, 1991 in Japan are given.

asiacryp.upd  (Mar 22, 1992)
     A description of the meeting AsiaCrypt '91, Nov 11-22 1991, Japan
     is given. (Odlyzko).

atr   (Jun 14, 1990)
     The Advanced Telecommunication Research Institute (ATR) 

atr.92  (Feb 7, 1992)
     A visit to The Advanced Telecommunication Research Institute,
     (ATR) on 21 Jan 1992 is described.

austr1.791 A summary of high performance computing in Australia.  (Sep 6, 1991)
austr2.791         Part 2
austr3.791         Part 3
austr4.791         Part 4
austr5.791         Part 5
austr6.791         Part 6

autodif.92  (May 30, 1992)
     An example of a commercial automatic differentiation product.

autodif.92a  (Jun 4, 1992)
     Comments from Andreas Griewank re auto differentiation.

avirg.92  (Sep 21, 1992)
      Summary of two lectures on image reproduction presented at the
      Audio and Visual Information Research Group Seminar, held at
      University of Tokyo, 3 Sept 1992. (M. Kobayashi)

bench.91  (Oct 15, 1991)
     Nine benchmark problems for supercomputers are proposed.

bicsc.92  (Dec 24, 1992)
      A summary of 2nd Beijing International Conference on System
      Simulation and Scientific Computing (BICSC'92), 20-23 Oct 1992, Beijing
      PRC. I was surprised at the amount of parallel processing activity.

ccp.92  (Aug 19, 1992)
     First description of new Center for Computational Physics at
     Tsukuba University, with 300GFLOPS massively parallel computer.

cgi-rpt.92  (Aug 24, 1992)
     Computer Graphics International '92, 22-26 June 1992, Tokyo,
     summary report on important papers.

cgi.92  (Jul 29, 1992)
     Computer Graphics International '92, 22-26 June 1992, Tokyo.

chep.91  (May 22, 1991)
    The international Computing in High Energy Physics meeting, held 11-15
    March 1991, in Tsukuba Science City Japan is summarized.

china-st.92  (Dec 25, 1992)
      Thirty major research projects to energize (PRC) Chinese science
      through the end of this century.

china.net  (July 15, 1992)
     A description of networking activities in PRC (China).

china.nn  (Nov 30, 1992)
      Summary and titles of the International Joint Conference on
      Neural Networks (IJCNN'92), held in Beijing China November 3-6 1992.

cirp.92  (Oct 26, 1992)
      The First CIRP International Workshop on "Concurrent
      Engineering for Product Realization", held 27-28, June, 1992, in 
      Tokyo, Japan is summarized. In addition to the workshop summary and
      results, some background information about CIRP (International Academy 
      of Production Engineering Research), the organization which provided 
      the technical sponsorship to the workshop, is also included.

com-stat  (May 27, 1991)
    Statistics about Japanese computing, such as value of exports,
    are given.

computing.ch  (Aug 12, 1991)
    An overview of computing and related activities in China (PRC).

constr.ind  (Jan 22, 1991)
    Japan Ministry of Construction's research vision for the 21st century.

consumers   (May 26, 1992)
     Japan's view of the importance of civil (consumer) demand compared 
     with military demand for the development of high technology.

consumers.upd  (Jun 4, 1992)
     Corrections to report "consumers", 26 May 1992.

control.34   (Aug 1, 1990)
     Proceedings of 34th annual Conference of Institute of Systems, 
     Control and Information Engineers. The papers cover topics in 
     optical computing, neural computing, fuzzy logic, control theory, 
     robotics, parallel computing, vision, knowledge engineering, 
     imaging, feature extraction, probability, communications networks, 
     etc., as well as applications to car location, fish school size 
     estimates, mathematical programming, factory automation and many 
     others.  

coop-res.nsf  (Aug  2, 1991)
     Summary of NSF "Directory of Japanese Company Laboratories
     Willing to Receive American Researchers".

cpc   (Jun 3, 1991)
     A brief description of ERATO and one of its projects, QMFL (Quantum
     Magneto Flux Logic), with particular emphasis on the Cyclic
     Pipelined Computer (CPC) is given. CPC is a shared pipelined memory,
     single processor, multiple instruction stream architecture,
     originally designed to be compatible with Josephson junction
     devices. This ERATO project ends this year.

crc   (Apr 25, 1990)  
     This report illustrates the breadth of applications and research 
     areas of a "service bureau" organization, Century Research 
     Corporation (CRC), Tokyo.

cw.91   (Oct 23, 1991)
     A summary of the international symposium Computer World '91,
     held in Osaka Japan 24-26 November 1991 is given.

dattab  (Sep 16, 1991)
     A summary of the Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems
     '91 conference (June 17-21 1991, Kobe Japan), and site visits in Japan,
     Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, and India by B.N. Datta.

dbpcj  (Jun 12, 1991)
     A proposal by Database Promotion Center, Japan for a joint
     research project on retrieval of Japanese databases is summarized.

data.eng  (May 30, 1991)
     Parallel processing research (mostly associated with dataflow model) 
     and database research in Japan, based on visits to various labs and 
     attendence at the IEEE Data Engineering Conference in Kobe (April 
     10-12, 1991) is summarized.  

database   (Oct 11, 1990)
     We describe the activities of the Japan Database Promotion Center,
     and summarize the current state of affairs with respect to databases
     in Japan, especially those of interest to scientists.

dataflow   (Aug 16, 1990)
    Bulletin Board for DATAFLOW computing information from ETL.

dynamics.92  (Dec 25, 1992)
      Titles and authors of papers presented at the Workshop on
      Dynamical Systems, Theory and its Applications, 2-4 Nov 1992, Kyoto Japan.

edr.92  (Mar 27, 1992)
     The Electronic Dictionary Research Institute is described and a
     potential new project on knowledge archives is discussed.

efta.92  (Sep 29, 1992)
      Titles of papers presented at the IEEE International Workshop
      on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (Technology for the
      Intelligent Factory), held in Melbourne, Australia 11-14 August 1992.

eitc.91   (Jul 30, 1991)
    Japan Electronics Show 1991, and 28th Electronics Industry
    Technical Convention, Oct 1-5 1991 (announcement).

elec-dev   (May 20, 1991)
    Titles and authors of papers presented at "9th Symposium on
    Future Electron Devices, Nov 14-15 1990, at Chiba Japan are given.

elec-svy   (Feb 22, 1991)
    Summary information from a  survey (by Tokyo Denshi Kogyo)
    of the outlook for nine areas of electronics technology is presented.

etl   (Jul 2, 1990)
     A visit to the Data Flow project at ETL is summarized. The Dataflow 
     SIGMA-1 computer project is ending. The new project EM-4, will have 
     1,024 processors and is designed to have less overhead. EM-4 was 
     originally proposed for symbolic rather than numeric computation, 
     but the designers now feel that with the inclusion of floating point 
     hardware it will also be used for numerical computation. Currently 
     an 80 processor version of EM-4 is running at 997 MIPs.  

face-nn.92  (Dec 25, 1992)
      Report on an experiment using a neural network for sex
      descrimination based on facial classification, from Osaka University.

fgcs  (Sep 11, 1990)
     Announcement of report by T. Kurozumi on ICOT Fifth Generation 
     Computer Systems Project.  

fgcs.toc  (Jun 22, 1992)
     Titles of papers presented at the Fifth Generation Computing
     Systems (ICOT) Conference, May 1992.

flexible   (Jul 30, 1990)
     A summary of "1990 Japan-USA Symposium on Flexible Automation"  9-13 
     July in Kyoto, Japan is given. Plant visits to IBM's 3090 
     manufacturing plant, Sumitomo Electric, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, 
     and Matshushita Electric are described.  

fujitsu.3d   (Apr 25, 1990)
    Fujitsu's 3D movie generated partially via CAP 256 parallel computer.

fujitsu.lsi  (Mar 22, 1992)
     Fujitsu's Director T.Hiraguri describes how LSI technology will
     evolve and its applications to large scale mainframe computers.

funding.jp  (Jan 27, 1992)
     Comments on Council for Science and Technology plan to increase
     S&T funding. Reference to EC's Directory of Sources of Japanese
     Information.

fuzzy   (Aug 24, 1990)
     A survey of recent  developments  is  given,  with  particular 
     emphasis on Japanese contributions.  

fuzzy-ds.91  (Nov 13, 1991)
     A survey and assessment of fuzzy systems and case-based
     reasoning research in Japan is given by D. Schwartz (FSU).

fuzzy.92  (Dec 22, 1992)
      Overview of fuzzy-neural systems research based on examination
      of papers presented at three Asian conferences. A great deal of the
      current work is ad hoc and there is a need for more fundamental
      research to help explain and direct future activities. (Nguyen)

fuzzy.gmd   (Jan 21, 1991)
    A hardware practice seminar (15 Dec 1990) on building real
    time control devices using commercially available fuzzy chips is
    described by Dr. Thomas Hagemann, GMD Tokyo.

fuzzy1.gmd   (May 17, 1991)
    Visit to OMRON's Fuzzy Business Promotion Center, Kyoto Japan
    by T. Hagemann GMD. Some other references on fuzzy applications are
    also given.

gmd   (Dec 6, 1990)
     The German National Research Center for Computer Science (GMD),
     Gesellschaft fuer Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung, has a liaison
     office in Tokyo which was established about 15 years ago.  It has an
     annual budget of about $1.5 million US. Its basic functions are
     described.

grape.91  (Oct 22, 1991)
     Project GRAPE, a parallel computer for many-body calculations,
     which was developed at University of Tokyo, is summarized. The current
     version operates at 10GFlops.

helicopt   (Aug 5, 1991)
     A summary of research on helicopter flight control in Japan
     based on fuzzy logic techniques.

helicopt.92  (Jan 24, 1992)
     Further details about Tokyo Institute of Technology's unmanned
     helicopter with fuzzy controller.

highspd   (Jul 3, 1990)
     The major topics at the Conference of the Achievements of the 
     National R & D Program "High-Speed Computing System for Scientific 
     and Technological Uses", held 21 June 1990, at the Electrotechnical 
     Laboratory in Tsukuba Japan are summarized.  

hitachi   (Sep 21, 1990)
     Hitachi's research plan for the 1990's and computer related research 
     in the company's research laboratories are summarized. At the 
     Advanced Research Laboratory, the long term view is explicitly 
     manifest in the General Manager's office and also evident in the 
     researchers plans.  

hitachi.ai  (Aug 26, 1992)
      AI and Expert System activities at Hitachi are reviewed.
      Current and research projects are mentioned.

hitachi.exh   (Mar 16, 1991)
    Over 100 exhibits illustrating Hitachi's high technology plans
    for the next 2-5 years are described.

hongkong.492  (May 8, 1992)
     An update on progress at Hong Kong's newest university, Hong
     Kong University of Science and Technology, and an introduction to
     the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

hongkong.91  (Jul 11, 1991)
     Computing activities in Hong Kong are described.

hongkong.upd  (Aug 22, 1991)
     Additional comments about computing in Hong Kong.

hopcroft.abs  (Nov 1, 1992)
     Basic information about Professor John Hopcroft's visit to
     Singapore, Hong Kong, Macau, and Korea, 11/92.

ia.92  (Jun 15, 1992)
     Industrial Automation'92, Singapore May 1992 is summarized.
     We also describe Singapore Institute of Standards and Technology,
     and a new Institute for Manufacturing Technology, associated with 
     Nanyang University.

ia92.abs  (Jun 15, 1992)
     Titles/authors/abstracts of papers presented at IA'92,
     Industrial Automation 92, 20-23 May 1992, Singapore.

ibm-nic   (Jun 4, 1990)
     The IBM Tokyo Numerically Intensive Computation Center is reviewed.  
     This center mainly supports users who wish to develop vectorized 
     versions of programs on IBM's 3090 VF computers. The Tokyo Research 
     Laboratory performs longer term research in computer science, 
     mathematics, graphics, and languages.  

icat.92  (Aug 5, 1992)
     2nd Int Conf Artificial Reality & Tele-existence, 1-3 July, Tokyo
     is described.

iccim.91  (Nov 4, 1991)
     The International Conference on Computer Integrated Manufacturing 1991,
     (ICCIM'91) held 30 Sept--4 Oct 1991 in Singapore is summarized.

icot-sci   (May 17, 1991)
    A summary of Japan's Fifth Generation Computer Project is given.

icot.692   (Jun 4, 1992)
     A brief description is given of the Fifth Generation Computer
     System, 1992 (final) conference, and an evaluation.

icot.kl1  (Feb 28, 1992)
     A brief description of KL1 (Knowledge Language), used in the
     ICOT Fifth Generation Project is given.

ieice   (Sep 6, 1990)
     Papers presented at the joint Japanese Institute of Electronics, 
     Information and Communications Engineers (IEICE) and the Japanese 
     Information Processing Society meeting, July 18-20 1990 on parallel 
     processing.  

iieej.92  (Aug 7, 1992)
     Titles and abstracts presented at the Institute of Image
     Electronics Engineers of Japan, 9-11 June 1992, Tokyo Japan

iisc.92  (Jul 28, 1992)
     Titles and authors of papers presented at the 8th International
     Information Security Conference, 27-29 May 1992, Singapore.

iizuka.92  (Dec 22, 1992)
      Titles from the 2nd International Conference on Fuzzy Logic
      and Neural Networks (IIZUKA'92), held July 17-22 1992, in Iizuka Japan
      are given.

imacs.92  (Sep 29, 1992)
      Titles of (almost 300) papers presented at IMACS/SICE RM^2'92,
      International Symposium on Robotics, Mechatronics and Manufacturing
      Systems '92 in Kobe Japan, 16-20 Sept 1992.

image.lab  (Feb 17, 1991)
     MITI's plans for the establishment of an Image Laboratory in
     the Kansai area of Japan are detailed.

inet.92  (Jun 26, 1992)
     Summary of INET'92, The International Networking Conference,
     sponsored by the Internet Society, held in Kobe Japan, 15-18 June 1992.
     Some related comments about the Real World Computing network.

info-ind.21   (May 29, 1991)
    MITI's  view of the issues confronting Japan's Information
    Industry for the year 2000.

info90   (Jul 30, 1990)
     Announcement of meeting to be held in Tokyo early October 1990.

info90.toc   (Oct 24, 1990)
     The titles of papers and lectures presented at InfoJapan'90, Tokyo
     Japan, 1-5 October 1990, are given.

ipsj.91   (Feb 5, 1992)
     Titles from Transactions of Information Processing Society J.,
     Vol 32, #11, #12 (1991), and J Information Processing Society J.,
     Vol 32, #11, #12 (1991). Papers are all in Japanese.

ipsj5-33.92   (Jun 5, 1992)
     Titles from Transactions of Information Processing Society of Japan
     Vol. 33, No. 5 (1992) (all papers are in Japanese).

ipsjn33.1-4  (May 4, 1992)
     Titles and authors from Information Proc Soc of Jap (News),
     Vol 33#1-4 (92).

iros.91   (Jan 7, 1992)
     A summary of Japanese research in intelligent autonomous robot
     control, and especially of the conference, Intelligent Robots and
     Systems, 3-5 Nov 1991, is given. (Y. Kanayama, Naval Postgraduate School).

isa91.add  (Jan 24, 1992)
     Addition comments on the International Symposium on Algorithms '91,
     held in Taipei Taiwan ROC, Dec 1991.

isarc.92  (Sep 22, 1992)
      Titles of papers presented at the 9th ISARC, International
      Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction, Tokyo Japan,
      3-5 June 1992.

iscm   (Sep 19, 1990)
     The International Symposium on Computational Mathematics Matsuyama 
     (Shikoku Island) 30 August--4 September 1990 is summarized, with 
     special emphasis on the contributions from Japanese and Chinese 
     researchers. Visits by Kelley to Kyushu University, Kyoto 
     University, and the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, with 
     special emphasis on optimization research, are described.  

iskit.92  (Sep 21, 1992)
      Titles from International Symposia on Information Sciences
      (ISKIT) '92, held July 13-15 1992, in Iizuka Japan, are given.

ism    (Jan 9, 1991)
    Sample abstracts from Institute of Statistical Mathematics (Tokyo),
    Proceedings, Volume 38, Number 1 (1990).

isdn   (May 9, 1990)
    Papers on ISDN (Integrated Service Digital Network).

isdn.92  (May 6, 1992)
     A summary of Japan's activities in ISDN, Integrated Services
     Digital Network.

ispacs.92  (May 6, 1992)
     Titles and authors of papers presented at the Intelligent
     Signal Processing and Communications Systems '92 conference, held in
     Taipei Taiwan ROC, 19-21 March 1992. (See also "taiwan3.92" 24
     April 1992).

issmm  (May 24, 1991)
    The International Symposium on Shared Memory Multiprocessing
    (ISSMM), Tokyo, 2-4 April 1991 is summarized.

iwiid.92  (Oct 19, 1992)
      Key developments in flat panel technology are summarized and
      assessed, as discussed at the International Workshop on Information
      and Image Displays (IWIID92), 8-9 Oct 1992, Hitachi City, Japan.
      Also included is a very brief summary of Japan Display '92. An
      appendix contains the Executive Summary of the 6/92 JTEC report on
      Display Technologies in Japan for reference.

j-info.stc  (Jan 25, 1991)
    Papers from the 2nd International Conference on Japanese Information
    in Science, Technology and Commerce, held 23-25 October 1989, Berlin.

j-supers   (Sep 28, 1990)
     List of Supercomputers in Japan. 

j-supers.91  (Feb 7, 1992)
     Tables of supercomputers in Japan through end of 1991.

j3d-6-2.92  (Dec 25, 1992)
      Titles and authors of papers published in The Japanese Journal
      of Three Dimensional Images Vol. 6, No. 2 (June 1992).

jaeri.92  (Jan 17, 1992)
     A summary of computer related research at Japan Atomic Energy
     Research Institute (JAERI) is given.

jaeri90.tit  (Jun 14, 1991)
     A short list of English language papers from Japan Atomic Energy
     Research Institute (JAERI) on computer modeling.

japan.db  (Jun 18, 1991)
     Summary of science and technology related databases in Japan.

japan.eco  (Feb 20, 1991)
    Titles of papers printed for use by the Joint Economic Committee (US
    Congress). While primarily about economic issues there are several
    interesting papers on Japanese science and technology.  Other topics
    include economic policy, government/business relations, finance and
    investment, human resources (population, women, etc.), national
    security and foreign aid, and international economic relations.

japan.eml  (Feb 10, 1992)
     A list of standard electronic mail domains in Japan.

japan.net  (Jul 16, 1992)
     A description of networking activities in Japan.

japanwk.rev  (Mar 9, 1992)
     A review of the book "Working in Japan", by H. Honda, ASME Press, 1992.

jc-jour.92  (Sep 30, 1992)
      Titles and authors from Journal of Information Processing
      Society of Japan Vol. 33, Nos. 7-8, Quarterly Journal of Information
      Processing (JIP) Vol. 15, No 1., and Transactions of Information
      Processing Society of Japan Vol. 33, No. 7, all 1992.

jhpc-sc.92  (Jun 28, 1992)
     A summary of high performance computing in Japan (part 1 of 2,
     supercomputing).

jhpc-pp.92  (Jun 28, 1992)
     A summary of high performance computing in Japan (part 2 of 2,
     parallel computing).

jifip14.abs  (Jun 14, 1991)
     Titles and abstracts from Jour JIFIP V14#1 (1991)  and titles from
     Trans JIFIP V31#6-12 (1990). All the papers are in English.

jifip33.5-6  (Jul 28, 1992)
     Titles from Vol 33 No 5-6 Journal of Information Processing
     Society of Japan (Joho Shori). Papers mostly in Japanese.

jifip43.toc  (Jan 13, 1992)
jifip43.1
jifip43.2
jifip43.3
jifip43.4
jifip43.5
jifip43.6
     Titles of sessions organized at the 43rd Japan Information
     Processing Society General Meeting, 19-22 Oct 1991 (Nagoya) are given.

jifip.990   (Oct 15, 1990)
     We present titles and authors of papers from the Information
     Processing Society of Japan semiannual meeting, 4-6 September, 1990.

jip-391.toc  (May 8, 1991)
    Titles of papers presented at the semi-annual Info Proc Soc of
    Japan meeting, March 12-14 1991. This report contains the Table of
    Contents of the Proceedings.

jip-391.1  (May 8, 1991)
jip-391.2
jip-391.3
jip-391.4
jip-391.5
jip-391.6
    Titles and authors of papers presented at the semi-annual Info Proc Soc
    of Japan meeting, March 12-14 1991.

jips14-2.91  (Nov 4, 1991)
     Titles and authors from the (English) Journal of the Information
     Processing Society of Japan, Vol 14 No 2 (1991) are given.

jip14-3.91 (Feb 29, 1992)
     Six papers summarizing Japanese research in software engineering
     are described.

jipsj33.101  (Dec 25, 1992)
      Titles and authors from Journal of the Information
      Processing Society of Japan, Vol 33 Nos 10, 11. (1992).

jkaw.90  (Dec 27, 1990)
    The first Japanese Knowledge Acquisition for Knowledge-Based 
    Systems Workshop (JKAW-90), was held October 25-31, 1990, one (open) 
    part in Kyoto, and an invited part at Hitachi's Advanced Research 
    Lab. 

japgovt   (Jul 30, 1990)
     A brief outline of Japanese Government ministries and agencies is 
     shown with an emphasis of those that support science and technology.  
     Several major projects related to computing are described.  

journals.cs   (Oct 14, 1991)
     A listing of Computer Science related periodicals published in
     Japan.

jsai.90  (Dec. 26, 1990)
    The 1990 Joint Artificial Intelligence Symposium, sponsored by JSAI, 
    was held December 5-6 1990 in Tokyo. Three special-interest groups 
    organized the meeting: Fundamental AI, Knowledge-based Systems, and 
    Human Interfaces and Cognition. Attendance  numbered about 70. A 
    proceedings (in Japanese) was issued containing the papers presented 
    on the second day of the symposium. This report lists the titles and 
    authors of the Symposium, in English. 

jscience.gov  (Mar 16, 1992)
     An overview of organizations within the Japanese government that
     support science, and sources of support for international exchanges.

jspp.91  (Jun 13, 1991)
     An overview is given of the Joint Symposium on Parallel Processing
     '91, held in Kobe Japan, 14-16 May 1991, as well as titles and some
     abstracts.  Also appended are the titles/authors of IFIP Vol 33#4,
     which was a special issue on massively parallel computers.
 
jspp.92  (Jun 29, 1992)
     A summary of the Joint Symposium on Parallel Processing, held
     15-17 June 1992 in Yokohama, Japan.

jsuper.92  (Dec 21, 1992)
      An informal listing of supercomputers and parallel computers
      installed and in use in Japan is given, as of Dec 1992 (or to be
      installed shortly thereafter.)

jsuper.992  (Sep 23, 1992)
      Brief update on Fujitsu's new supercomputer (VPP) and Tokyo's
      Institute for Computational Fluid Dynamics.

jtec-db  (Jun 9, 1992)
     A summary of the JTEC report, Database Use and Technology in Japan,
     based on a trip, March 1991.

kansei.92  (Jun 27, 1992)
     Two new programs related to emotion content of information are
     discussed.

keio.91   (Apr 12, 1991)
    Titles of papers presented at "Advances in Numerical Methods
    for Large Sparse Sets of Linear Equations", Keio University, 1 March
    1991 are given.

keio8pcg.92  (Sep 21, 1992)
      Abstracts of papers presented at the 8th Preconditioned
      Conjugate Gradient Symposium, 28 Feb 1992, at Keio University,
      Yokohama Japan are presented.

kiss.90   (Dec 12, 1990)
     A brief trip to Korea to attend a Korea Information Science Society
     (KISS) meeting, and to visit Pohang Institute of Science and
     Technology (POSTECH), Korea Academy of Industrial Technology
     (KAIST), Korea Standards Research Institute (KSRI), and Korea
     Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) between 26-31 Oct 1990 is
     described. Some assessments of parallel processing projects at
     POSTECH and KAIST are also given.

kj-cv.91   (nov 8, 1991)
     A summary and assessment of the First Korea-Japan Conference on
     Computer Vision, held 10-11 Oct 1991 in Seoul Korea is presented.

klir   (Apr 12, 1991)
    A report by George Klir (SUNY Binghamton) on Fuzzy Logic research
    in Japan, based on a visit 15-30 Feb 1991.

kohsetsu  (Aug 16, 1991)
     A summary (provided by the US Embassy, Tokyo) of technology
     upgrading centers located at 172 sites in Japan.

korea.392  (Mar 13, 1992)
     A high level description of a half dozen Korean science
     institutions is given.

korea.592  (Jun 4, 1992)
     Notes from Korean news sources regarding S&T.

korea.91  (Jul 29, 1991)
     Various new developments in Korean science are described.

kyotorim.91  (Oct 16, 1991)
     Program for Kyoto RIMS Numerical Analysis Symposium, 20-22 Nov., 1991.

kyushueng.91  (Feb 19, 1992)
     Titles and authors of four issues of Memoirs of the Faculty of
     Engineering, Kyushu University (Vol 51, #1-4), 1991. All papers
     are in English.

mafpd.91  (Oct 30, 1991)
     Titles and authors of papers presented at the Workshop on
     Mathematical Aspects of Fluid and Plasma Dynamics Oct. 2-5, 1991,
     Kyoto Japan are given.

malaysia  (Apr 28, 1992)
     A two-week workshop at Standards and Industrial Research
     Institute of Malaysia focusing on computer use in engineering,
     emphasizes desire for cooperation in science and technology.

malaysia.92  (Sep 21, 1992)
      Summary of the Southeast Asia Regional Computer Conference
      (SEARCC'92) held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 11-14 August 1992.
      Also, a general overview of the state of Malaysian information
      technology activities is given.

malaysia.com  (Dec 25, 1992)
      A recent reduction in Malaysian import duties for computers is
      reported.

mechatrn   (Jun 18, 1991)
    The impact of Mechatronics on Japanese technology as viewed by 
    F. Kodama (National Institute for Science and Technology Policy) is 
    summarized. 

meetings   (Mar 20, 1991)
    A list (not complete) of computing and math related conferences 
    is presented.  

meetings.92  (May 26, 1992)
     A list of meetings/conferences in Japan/Asia relating to computing.

melco.92  (Feb 2, 1992)
     A profile of Mitsubishi Electric and comments about work in its
     Neurocomputing and Optoelectronics group in Osaka.

mgcv.92  (Jul 31, 1992)
     International Workshop on Modern Geometric Computing for Visualization,
     29-30 June 1992, Tokyo.

mhdcomp.91  (Jul 28, 1992)
     Titles from 1991 Workshop on Magneto Hydrodynamic
     Computations, held at National Institute for Fusion Science
     (Nagoya Japan), Nov 11-13, 1991. Papers mostly in Japanese.

micro.mac  (Sep 11, 1991)
     A description of MITI's new 10 year Micromachine Tech Program.

micromac.92  (Sep 22, 1992)
      Current status of Japan's Micromachine Technology project and
      the organizations that will participate are given.

micromac.92a  (Oct 14, 1992)
      Japan's expectations for their large micromachine project are
      described. First applications will be in medicine. Computer modeling
      can play a vital role in the basic research.

minimap.92  (Sep 12, 1992)
      Various developments in expanded use of Mimimap (for factory
      automation) in Japan (from newspapers).

misc12.92  (Dec 15, 1992)
      Miscellaneous computer and policy items.

misc12a.92  (Dec 25, 1992)
      Miscellaneous computer and policy items.

miti.inf   (Jan 4, 1991)
    An overview of the directions and programs that MITI is taking
    to improve the computing industry in Japan.

mitiinfo.92  (Sep 25, 1992)
      A summary of MITI's Machinery and Information Bureau Budget
      for the period 1 April 1992 through 31 March 1993.

mitjp921.a, mitjp921.b  (Aug 24, 1992)
     Japanese technology ideology illustrated via the Japanese
     aircraft industry. (Friedman & Samuels extracts, in two parts).

mitsubis  (Sep 23, 1991)
     Some of Mitsubishi's research directions are summarized.

mva.92  (Dec 18, 1992)
      Summary of International Association for Pattern Recognition's
      conference, Machine Vision Applications (MVA'92), held in Tokyo, 7-9
      Dec, 1992. 

nal-symp.91  (Jul 28, 1992)
     Papers presented at the National Aerospace Laboratory 9th
     Symposium on Aircraft Computational Aerodynamics, 12-14 June 1991,
     Tokyo Japan. Papers are in Japanese with English abstracts.

nal.91   (Oct 28, 1991)
     A discussion with National Aerospace Lab's Computing Division
     Director, Mr. Hajime Miyoshi.

neural.isr (Apr 27, 1992)
     This report gives an overview of selected Japanese state-of-the-art
     efforts in high performance neurocomputing. (S.Lawson, ISR)

nhk.92  (Aug 24, 1992)
     Visit to NHK Science & Technical Research Lab, Aug 1992

nikkei.ai  (Jul 22, 1992)
     Summary of a survey by the Japanese publication, Nikkei AI, on
     expert systems in Japan, conducted winter 1991.

nippon.st  (Mar 18, 1991)
    A visit to Nippon Steel's Kimitsu Works is described.

nipt   (Jun 26, 1990)
     A proposed new MITI national project "New Information Processing 
     Technology" (NIPT) merging soft information processing with massive 
     parallelism is described. The proposed project is also compared to 
     related work in other countries. I am told that the project, in some 
     form, has a good chance of being supported in the near future.  

nipt11.91  (Nov 11, 1991)
     A brief description of the 1st NIPT Workshop 1991, Nov 5-8 1991,
     Yokohama Japan is given.

nipt.90  (Dec. 26, 1990)
    A two day workshop 1-2 Dec 1990, was held in Hakone Japan to discuss 
    aspects of a possible Japanese new ten year program to follow the 5-
    th Generation (ICOT) program that is to end in 1992. A summary of the 
    discussions is presented and some opinions about the directions that 
    this program might take.  

nipt391  (Apr 7, 1991)
    An International Symposium on New Information Processing
    Technologies (NIPT) '91 13-14 March 1991, Tokyo Japan is described.
    NIPT is to be the successor to the 5th Generation Project.

nipt691  (Jun 7, 1991)
     Feasibility study and workshops for NIPT are given.

nipt791  (Jul 8, 1991)
     Notice of report from GOJ on preliminary study of NIPT (March 1991).

num-meth.792 (Jul 20, 1992)
     The Twenty-First Symposium on Numerical Methods, held in
     Sendai Japan, 10-12 June 1992 (in Japanese) is summarized.

ntt-rev.590   (Jul 17, 1990)
     A new English journal from NTT is described.

ohbayashi   (May 24, 1990)
    Computer Modeling in the Construction Industry--
    Ohbayashi Corporation's Research Lab

oja-nsf   (Oct 17, 1990)
     Information from Office of Japan Affairs & Nat Science Foundation

oki-ps  (May 9, 1992)
     Description of Oki Electric's activities in software production systems.

oki-sw.92  (Aug 10, 1992)
     Oki Electric's software improvement activities are summarized.

optical   (Aug 17, 1990)
      Optical computing activities in Japan are surveyed.

package.sc  (Dec 29, 1992)
      Packaging technologies used in current supercomputers in the
      US and Japan are compared. (Thorndyke)

parallel.901   (Nov 6, 1990)
     Aspects of Parallel Computing Research in Japan--Summary. Part 1.

parallel.902   (Nov 6, 1990)
     Aspects of Parallel Computing Research in Japan---NEC & Fujitsu. Part 2.

parallel.903   (Nov 6, 1990)
     Aspects of Parallel Computing Research in Japan---Hitachi, Matsushita,
     and Japan Electronics Show 1990. Part 3.

parallel.904   (Nov 6, 1990)
     Aspects of Parallel Computing Research in Japan---Kyushu & Tsukuba
     Univ., ETL, Sanyo, New Info Proc Technology project. Part 4.

parallel.db  (Jun 5, 1992)
     Parallel computer database research at Kitsuregawa's U-Tokyo laboratory.

parhi.vid   (Aug 5, 1991)
     Overview of digital video research in Japan, by K. Parhi, Univ
     of Minnesota.

pax   (Apr 12, 1990)
     The PAX parallel processing project developed at the University of 
     Tsukuba by T. Hoshino is summarized. PAX is a two dimensional array 
     of processors which operate in MIMD form. QCDPAX has a fast floating 
     point unit, specially programmed for QCD calculations.  Peak 
     performance is 12.5 Gigaflops.  

pp90   (Jun 5, 1990)
     Titles of papers presented at Information Processing Society of 
     Japan Symposium on Parallel Processing '90, 17-19 May 1990.  

prfts.91  (Oct 15, 199(
     A summary of the two-day international symposium, Pacific Rim
     Fault Tolerant Systems, held 26-27 Sept 1991, in Kawasaki Japan is given.

pricai.90   (Dec 27, 1990)
    Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence '90,
    14-16 November 1990, Nagoya Japan. Researchers from 19 countries presented
    papers. This report lists the titles and authors, in English.

pricai.92  (Oct 15, 1992)
      The second Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial
      Intelligence '92 (PRICAI'92), held in Seoul, Republic of Korea,
      15-18 September, 1992 is summarized and general trends of Asian
      AI research are assessed.

prolamat.92  (Aug 19, 1992)
     The 1992 PROLAMAT (PROgramming Languages for MAchine Tools)
     conference, held 24-26 June, 1992, in Tokyo, Japan is summarized.
     The major theme of this conference was ``Human Aspects in Computer
     Integrated Manufacturing''.

quality.sw   (Apr 11, 1990)
     The Second International Workshop on Software Quality Improvement
     was held in Kyoto, Japan, from 22-24 January 1990. The workshop was
     jointly organized by Professor Torii (Osaka University) and
     Professor Basili (University of Maryland). The workshop is
     summarized from the perspective of a numerical analyst. The major
     conclusions are that some Japanese companies are better at managing
     the software development process than comparable U.S. companies and
     that more interaction is needed between numerical and nonnumerical
     software developers.

quickies   (Feb 15, 1991)
    Computer related newsworthy items about MITI, Supercomputers, Fuzzy,
    etc. 

rcast.ai  (Aug 27, 1992)
      AI and Expert System activities at Research Center for Advanced 
      Science and Technology (RCAST), are reviewed. RCAST is a part
      of Tokyo University.

rick-691  (Jun 11, 1991)
     Trip reports of R. Schlichting (U Arizona) to Hokkaido-U,
     Osaka-U, Nagoya-U, NTT, Hiroshima-U, & Hitachi Systems Dev Lab, 
     during May 1990. 

ricks    (Jan 17, 1991)
    Trips by Professor Richard Schlichting (University of Arizona)
    to computer science laboratories at Fujitsu and ETL labs and to Kyushu,
    Tsukuba, and Shinshu Universities are described.

ricks.1  (Feb 15, 1991)
    Trips by Professor Richard Schlichting (University of Arizona)
    to computer science laboratories at IBM Tokyo Research Lab, NEC, 
    University of Tokyo, and Toshiba are described.

rims.91  (Dec 31, 1991)
     A summary of the workshop on Numerical Algorithms, sponsored
     by Kyoto University, Research Institute of Mathematical Sciences (RIMS),
     Nov 91 is given. (Dr. Mei Kobayashi, IBM Tokyo)

rims.92  (Dec 15, 1992)
      Summaries & titles of several workshops sponsored Kyoto University's
      Research Institute of Mathematics (RIMS), 1992.

robots  (Feb 28, 1991)
    Overview of trends in robot manufacturing, use, and sales in Japan.

rosing.etl  (Jan 18, 1991)
    Matt Rosing (U Colorado) reports on work during summer 
    1990 in the Computer Architecture Division of the Electrotechnical 
    Lab in Tsukuba Japan.  

rwc1-92.brf (Feb 19, 1992; Revised from 30 Jan 1992)
     A summary of the briefing given by MITI to foreign participants
     concerning the organization of the Real World Computing Program.

rwc3-92  (Mar 9, 1992)
     A summary of the Draft Master Plan for Japanese Real World Computing
     Program is described.

rwc6-92  (Jun 10, 1992)
     An update on the Japanese government Real World Computing Program.

rwcdraft.r-d  (Jan 31, 1992)
     Draft of the R&D Plan of the Real-World Computing Program (S. Amari).

sacad.92  (Jul 1, 1992)
     The 10th NAL Symposium on Aircraft Computational Aerodynamics 

sc-j-92  (Apr 27, 1992)
     Supercomputing Japan'92, 23-25 April 1992 is described, with
     particular emphasis on Hitachi's new 32GFLOP supercomputer.

scj90   (Apr 25, 1990)
     Supercomputing Japan 90, 27-29 March 1990, Tokyo, Japan, and visit 
     to NEC to see SX/3 supercomputer.  

security.91  (Oct 30, 1991)
     An assessment of computer security activities in Japan is given.

ship   (Jun 6, 1991)
     A brief description of the Superconducting Electromagnetic
     Propulsion Ship (SEMP) and National Aerospace Lab's concept for a
     Spaceplane.  From Japan External Trade Organization, Machinery and Tech
     Dept, Tokyo, New Tech Japan, Vol 19#1 (April 1991).

sice.92  (Sep 26, 1992)
      Titles and authors of (English language) papers presented at
      the 31st Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE) Annual
      Conference, 22-24 July 1992, Kumamoto Japan.

singapor  (Jun 19, 1991)
     Science and technology in Singapore, especially related to
     computing, is reviewed.

sna90   (Apr 11, 1990)
     The First International Conference on Supercomputing in Nuclear
     Applications (SNA90) was held from 12-15 March 1990 in Mito City,
     Japan.  This paper summarizes the significant presentations and
     vendor exhibits associated with Japanese software and hardware.

solvers.pde   (Jul 23, 1990)
     DEQSOL and ELLPACK : Two Problem Solving Environments For Partial 
     Differential Equations are compared. By R. Boisvert and D.  Kahaner.  

sony   (May 30, 1990)
     An overview of Sony's Computer Science Laboratory (CSL) is given.  
     CSL specializes in research on object-oriented programming and 
     distributed operating systems.  

speech.etl   (Apr 11, 1990)
    Summary of the report, Researches of the Electrotechnical Laboratory, 
    Number 905, December 1989.  "Studies on a Vocal Tract Model for 
    Speech Synthesis and Analysis" (126 pages including 124 item 
    bibliography) by
                       Hiroshi Ohmura 
                       Speech Processing Section
                       Machine Understanding Division
                       Electrotechnical Laboratory

spice   (Jul 2, 1990)
     We review research at Toshiba in vectorizing the circuit simulation 
     program SPICE, and research at NEC at building a special purpose 
     multiprocessor for circuit simulation modeling.  

st.91  (Oct 21, 1991)
     Two Japanese Government (English language) summaries of
     science, technology, and computing in Japan are described.

sta-mfg.92  (Jul 2, 1992)
     Summary of study by Japan Science and Technology Agency on
     research and development in Japanese manufacturing sector.

sta.492  (May 25, 1992)
     Results of a survey conducted by the Science and Technology
     Agency on comparison of research in US and Japan in Life Sciences,
     Materials, Information/Electronics, and Oceanography/Geoscience.

step.792  (Aug 3, 1992)
     Japanese program activities in standardizing product descriptions,
     STEP, are described. The Japan STEP Center is the hub of activity
     in this area.

stpolicy.92  (May 8, 1992)
     Text of Japanese Government Basic Policy for Science and
     Technology from Prime Minister's Council for S&T, 24 Jan 1992,
     translated 24 April 1992.

str   (Dec 7, 1990)
     A collection of papers by Japanese on Japanese scientific research,
     in English.

sumito.st   (May 18, 1991)
    Some examples of AI/Expert systems at Sumitomo.

sverre   (Feb 23, 1991)
    A discussion of high-end Japanese computing with needs of European high
    energy physics community in mind is presented.

switz.sx3   (Mar 24, 1991)
    Benchmarks from Swiss team tests on NEC SX-3/12 & /14, made 
    August and December 1990.

sx3sale   (Sep 19, 1990)
     Sale of SX-3 to National Aerospace Laboratory (NLR) of Holland

symplec   (Aug 27, 1991)
     Comments on symplectic integration research (China and US).

tachi.lab  (Mar 9, 1992)
     Tele-existence work at S. Tachi's University of Tokyo lab is described.

taiwan  (Jan 17, 1991)
    Two meetings at National Tsing Hua University (Taiwan),
    International Computer Symposium, and the First Workshop on Parallel 
    Processing, as well as a visit to the Institute for Information 
    Industry, (Taipei) are described. (17-21 Dec 1990)

taiwan12.91  (Jan 16, 1992)
     Summary of International Symposium on Algorithms '91, Academia
     Sinica, and National Center for High Performance Computing,
     Taiwan ROC, based on a visit during Dec 1991.

taiwan3.92  (Apr 24, 1992)
     Visits to Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI),
     Hsinchu Science Park, and National Center for High Performance
     Computing, and attendance at Intelligent Signal Processing and
     Communication Systems Workshop (ISPACS'92), all in Taiwan, are
     described.

takagi   (Aug 7, 1990)
     Text of paper by H. Takagi (Matshshita Electric), "Fusion Technology 
     of Fuzzy Theory and Neural Networks - Survey and Future Directions" 
     containing more than 90 references, many not known outside Japan.  

tech.rev  (Jan 16, 1992)
     Japanese Technology Reviews books from Gordon and Breach.

thailand.92  (May 1, 1992)
     Visits to three Thai research institutes. While basic research is
     not at US levels, Thai scientists are anxious to collaborate. Asian
     Institute of Technology is unusual in that all instruction is in
     English, it is supported internationally, and its mission is to
     serve Asia.

tifip33.6  (Jul 28, 1992)
     Titles from Vol 33 No 6 Transactions of Information Processing
     Society of Japan. Papers mostly in Japanese.

tipsj33.1-4  (May 4, 1992)
     Titles and authors of papers published in the Transactions of
     the Information Processing Society of Japan, TIPSJ, Vol 33 #1-4 1992.

tipsj33.811  (Dec 25, 1992)
      Titles and authors from Transactions of the Information
      Processing Society of Japan, Vol 33 Nos 8, 10, 11. (1992).

titles1.91  (Jun 5, 1991)
     Titles of articles from J Info Proc, Vol.13,  No.4, 1990,
     (articles in English), and Trans Info Proc Soc of Japan, Vol. 32 1991,
     (articles in Japanese).

tokush.91  (Oct 24, 1991)
     A two-day (Japanese language) workshop on applied mathematics
     at Tokushima University, 11-12 August 1991 is described.

transput.692  (Jun 7, 1992)
     Fourth Transputer Internat Conf (Tokyo, Jun 92) and Indian
     parallel computing project are summarized.

tron   (Mar 4, 1991)
    A project supported entirely by industry to develop the specifications
    for a computer operating system along with a global man-machine
    interface that will provide an environment for a very large number of
    small distributed computers to cooperate in real time. Several
    experimental systems have been built, including the TRON house which
    consists of about 1000 cooperating computers.

tron.his   (Dec 31,1991)
     Brief summaries of the second annual TRON SHOW and of FRIEND21
     Human Interface Symposium, held during November 1991, are given.
     (By U. Wattenberg, GMD Tokyo)

tron.udt  (Apr 7, 1991)
    Comments from readers about 4 Mar 1991 Tron report.

trp12-89   (Apr 11, 1990)
     Accompanying Professor Gene Golub, Computer Science Department,
     Stanford University to Institute of Statistical Mathematics, PAX
     computer project at University of Tsukuba, IBM's Tokyo Research
     Laboratory, Kyoto University's Research Institute for Mathematical
     Sciences, and Ryukoku University.

trprpt.290   (Apr 11, 1990)
    (1) Trip report 20-24 Feb 1990, Hiroshima and Ehime Universities
    (2) Brief reports:
                 9 Feb, Quantum Magneto Flux Project
                13-14 Feb, UTokyo
                15 Feb, Hitachi Central Research Lab
                26 Feb, Nat Res Lab Metrology, Tsukuba
                 1 Mar, Parallel computing meeting, Keio University

various8.91  (Aug 12, 1991)
     Assorted short items about computer and related activities in
     Japan.

vr-10.92  (Oct 26, 1992)
      A summary of recent Japanese activities in Virtual Reality (VR).

vr.791  (Sep 5, 1991)
     Brief summary of Artificial Reality/Tele-Existence Symposium,
     July 1991, Tokyo Japan.

vr.991  (Oct 9, 1991)
     Comments on Virtual/Artificial Reality research in Japan

wavelets.192  (Feb 4, 1992)
     A summary of the seminar on wavelets sponored by Audio Visual
     Information Research Group (AVIRG) is given (M. Kobayashi, IBM)

wavelets.91  (Nov 15, 1991)
     A brief summary of five seminars on wavelets, given in Tokyo
     14 Nov 1991 is presented. (Mei Kobayashi IBM Tokyo Research Lab)

workshop.isr   (Sep 27, 1990)
     This report describes the 4th ISR Supercomputing Workshop: The Road 
     to Parallel Applications, held from August 29 to 31, 1990 in Hakone, 
     Japan.  In addition, some observations on the trends and 
     characteristics of parallel supercomputing research in Japan are 
     presented.  

xian.rpt   (Aug 21, 1991)
     A summary of the Second International Conference on Numerical
     Optimization And its Applications, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an,
     China, June 24--27, 1991. Also a description of visits to the computing
     center at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Beijing), and to Fudan
     University (Shanghai).

yosh   (May 1, 1990)
    Report by H. Yoshihara on Japanese Supercomputer Performance on 
    specific computational fluid dynamics benchmark program and 
    comparison with Cray.