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\line{\hfil Dr Paul Coddington,}
\line{\hfil Northeast Parallel Architectures Center,}
\line{\hfil 111 College Place,}
\line{\hfil Syracuse University,}
\line{\hfil Syracuse, NY 13244.}
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\line{\hfil Tel: (315) 443-4883}
\line{\hfil FAX: (315) 443-1973}
\line{\hfil Email: paulc@npac.syr.edu}
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\line{\hfil 2/16/93}
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Dear Dr Williams,
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I am a research scientist at NPAC with a background in computational 
physics. I have recently been using the V7 switch at NPAC on a small 
number of RS/6000 workstations to run some of my parallel computational
physics codes, and
in particular comparing the performance of the switch to standard 
Ethernet connections and to a parallel computer (the nCUBE/2). 
The results are included as part of the enclosed paper, which
I have submitted to the High Performance Distributed Computing
conference (HPDC-2) to be held in July of this year. 
I would appreciate any comments you may have on it.

I am interested in finding out more about the state of development of 
this switch and others like it. If you have any details on the future
of the V7 project (or similar projects) at IBM, or any information 
about IBM's plans for network computing in general, I would be very
interested to hear about it.

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Yours sincerely,

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