1996 Gordon Bell Prize Winners

A ll three teams honored in this year’s Gordon Bell Prize competition benefited from new or scaled-up hardware introduced since work for last year’s competition was completed. While the gap in raw performance between the price/performance and performance winners narrowed, the ratio was still more than 300. All 1996 finalists in the annual competition, which recognizes significant achievements in the application of supercomputers to scientific and engineering problems, were in the categories of