New Supercomputer Unveiled: The world’s leading supplier...

New Supercomputer Unveiled: The world’s leading supplier of the most sophisticated computer simulation systems has raised the stakes in the U.S.-Japanese battle over supercomputers. Evans & Sutherland of Salt Lake City unveiled the ES-1 at its Mountain View, Calif., research center, touting it as the first “truly” general purpose supercomputer. It has the equivalent power of more than 60 IBM 3090 computers, the high end of the IBM line. Jean-Yves Leclerc, president of the company’s computer division, said its design, a modification of parallel processing, will greatly expand commercial applications of supercomputers.