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Thursday, November 9,1989 The Battalion Page 9 i LIIH Thur-sdety Nowemtjf5)r 9 7:30pm Rudder' Auditoirium — with — IBIR 3I K>]lLo and loCUIK OIl&IoIO Floriculture-Ornamental Horticulture Club Plant Sale NEW LOCATION Ficus Trees - Hanging Baskets - Various Indoor Foliage Saturday, Nov.11,10a.m.-2p.m. Plenty of Parking d^litijcuUure- Forest Sciuice bu.Ua i no ± 3t floor 'Design Lai>s Vairking Area. □ Biom#<Uc<x.l u F.-.h K «h n SoiJ L.t L L«t l£l^k>*rr} dro^> StA texts WOMEN’S RAPE PREVENTION & SEXUAL ASSAULT SEMINAR A SELF DEFENSE SYSTEM FOR YOUR PERSONAL PROTECTION THAT REALLY WORKS Introduced By: Pro-Tech Training Systems & Taekwondo USA SEMINAR INCLUDES: * Instruction of the pressure point & control tactics system * Escape methods * The Pro-T^gh Tool with practical applications * Certification of course completion * Situational avoidance tips * Free review policy ALSO: * No strength necessary- Vs to 2 pounds of force * No extensive training or time commitment * Only 4 hours of instruction that could save your life! IT REALLY WORKS!!! ALL FOR JUST $29.95 THIS PROGRAM IS TAUGHT BY: BRIAN ROGERS Certified Taekwondo Instructor Certified Pressure Point & Control Tactics Instructor DON’T BE LEFT OUT... ACT NOW!!! WHEN: Sunday, Nov. 12 TIME: 12:00 p.m. TO 4:00 p.m. CALL: Brian Rogers WHERE: Brian Rogers Taekwondo USA Family Center Manor East Mall, Bryan 693-6414 J TAMU SNOW SKI CLUB presents COPPER MOUNTAIN and SKI THE SUMMIT! January 4-10,1990 $449 Includes Roundtrip Airfare 6 Nights Ski In/Ski Out Lodging 4 Day Lift Pass/5th Day Optional EVERYONE WELCOME! Meeting Monday, Nov. 20 7 PM, 308 Rudder Hurry to reserve space! Call or come by CUBE 2nd Floor Pavillion 845-0695 or call Todd Reeves 764-6437 or Laynee Jones 696-8759] In Advance Environmental forum held for Brazos Valley Representatives from area businesses and citizen groups will meet to educate the public on “Keeping Brazos Beautiful — It’s Everyone’s Job” tonight from 7 to 9 at the Brazos Center. A film on waste management and recycling will be followed by a panel discussion moderated by KBTX-TV anchor Lisa Keyes. Topics include problems such as pollution, waste disposal and recycling, and possible solutions. Randy Smith, program co-or- dinator for the Brazos Valley Mu seum, said the program is not in tended to be a debate, but a forum for community under standing. “We think the program should Tvxjirjvp and constructive be cause our panel members rep resent varied interests,” he said. “The last thing we want is people Fighting.” Panelists will represent Texas Commercial Waste, College Sta tion Sanitation, Bryan Public Works Administration and Envi ronmental Process Management. County Commissioner Gary Norton, whose precinct includes the Bryan landfill, will be present as well as community representa tives from Brazos Beautiful Inc. and the Texas Environmental Ac tion Coalition. The public is invited to attend the program at the Brazos Cen ter, located at 3232 Briarcrest. A $ 1 donation is appreciated. ACM hosts computer programming contest The Association for Comput ing Machinery will sponsor a pro gramming contest Saturday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. in 340A Zachry. Teams of one to four people will ‘■'ompet'* in " T '”rhn P-rscal 5.0. Completed entry forms and a $10 registration fee per team are due by 5 p.m. Friday. Forms are available outside 238 Zachry. Call 846-6713 for more information. MSC conducts auction for lost and found MSC Hospitality presents its campuswide lost and found auc tion, “Looking for a Steal? Let’s Make a Deal!” The auction will be today 10 a.m to 1 p.m. in the MSC Flag- room. Admission is free, but if you expect to buy anything, bring some cash. Everyone is invited to browse through the once lost articles and search for the best bargain. You might even find something that once belonged to you. Additional gifts will be donated by Baskin-Robbins, Wings N’Things, Thomas Sweet and other local merchants. Corps of Cadets presents annual fall review The Corps of Cadets will have its annual fall review at 5:15 p.m. today at the Gen. Ormond R. Simpson Drill Field. Presentations of the Wofford Cain Boot and Saber Awards, Outstanding Army ROTC Sum mer Camp Award and Outstand ing Naval Science Camp Award will be among the activities. The boot and saber awards are presented each fall to three se nior and three junior cadets in recognition of outstanding achievement. The awards were established in honor of Wofford Cain, Class of ’33, and will in clude a $1,200 scholarship for se nior winners and $600 schol arships for juniors winners. The camp awards recognize in dividual achievement by cadets during summer training camps. Reviewing officer will be Army Reserve Brig. Gen. John E. Simek, Class of ’65. Simek is sup port force commander of the 75th Maneuver Area Command and the University’s assistant ra diological safety officer. Political Forum speaker to discuss Europe 1992 Dr. Steven Cooney will speak as a guest of the MSC Political Fo rum on Nov. 9 at 7 p.m. in 701 Rudder Tower. . The topic will be the major is sues U.S. manufacturers will face in the European community when the European countries form a trade union in 1992. Cooney is the director of inter national investment and finance for the National Association of Manufacturers in Washington, DC. Cray (Continued from page 3) sonal computer) or maybe 10,000times more powerful depend ing onthe kind of calculations that you’re doing,” Dinkel said. “You always have to be careful about those kinds of statements — there are certain jobs that will run fasteron some of the other equip ment depending on what it is doing.” “This machine is designed to do specific kinds of calculations — ba sically large scale scientific calcula tions.” Dinkel said that the strength of the Cray lies in its ability to perform multiple operations with a single command. As an example, he said that two sets of numbers can be added together in blocks of 256 el ements at a time, rather than one at a time. The particular version purcha- sedby A&M is the first of the smaller Cray Y-MP two-processor models to beinstalled anywhere and among the fastest supercomputers in the world,he said. “What we anticipate will happen over the period of the next couple ofmonths is we will see the very large jobs move out of the VAX environ ment, move out of the IBM environ ment and move into the Cray envi ronment,” Dinkel said. “Jobs that run for tens of hours on these other machines are probably best processed on the Cray, where they are likely to run for maybe 2 or 3 minutes. “Things that were simply an im possibility 5 years ago, are now solved in a matter of seconds on these largemachines —just because of the speed.” Having a supercomputer will en able A&M to attract faculty and graduate students in fields that rely heavily on large computational re sources, and to compete more ag gressively for research grants, he said. “In terms of its impact with re gard to instruction in both graduate and undergraduate courses, there is tremendous demand for people to work in and around supercomput ing facilities in industry and in aca demic institutions,” Dinkel said. There are many special arrange ments that must be made for opera tion of a supercomputer. Dinkel said that aside from the complex cooling requirements, the supercomputer is very sensitive to static electricity and requires special flooring in the fa cility. Nassersharif said, “A machine like a supercomputer is an extremely complicated piece of machinery. “Not only does it have electronic circuits in it, but our Cray system here has three levels of cooling sys tems. “The machine itself has to be heat balanced — it’s important that all of the cards are plugged into the right places, otherwise the heat distribu tion of the machine will be offset. Dinkel said that the Cray is tied “X I hings that were simply an impossibility 5 years ago, are now solved in a matter of seconds on these large machines — just because of the speed.” — Dr. John Dinkel, associate provost into the campus network, but is gen erally not as accessible as the other resources and that applications must be made for access. Students can use the supercom- E uter, but they must be sponsored y a faculty member or taking a course that specifically requires the use of the machine, Nassersharif said. The supercomputer became oper ational on Sept. 11, 1989 and is lo cated in the High Visibilty Enclo sure, commonly called the Crystal Palace, in the lobby of Zachary. Plastics plant still searches for victims PASADENA (AP) — The search continued Wednesday for four workers still missing since a series of explosions last month tore through the Phillips Petroleum Co. plastics plant, officials said. Crews are using a dismantling ma chine called “The Dinosaur” to re move mangled steel from the seven- level finishing building where searchers expect to find the remains. Officials Wednesday also identi fied the 15th person killed in the Oct. 23 accident. He was Cipriano Rodriguez Jr., 42, a Phillips em ployee from Pasadena. Eighteen bodies have been recov ered from the No. 5 plant, while a 19th employee died of burns at a Pa sadena hospital. The Harris County Medical Examiner’s office is still working to identify the remains of four workers. MSC AGGIE CINEMA THE BATS ARE READY. ARE YOU? 201 Live Oak College Station, TX 77840 BehindLa Quinta 696-3411 Z E P*f YR CLUB 913a HARVEY ROAD DAILY HAPPY HOURS/CALL & SPECIALS 693-1989 yVEDNESDAY: T?AT TIll*^TOKi\f $2.00 Mezcal with Worm Free diploma from the order of the worm. SPY vs SPY THURSDAY, NOV. 9