Florida State University - Renegade / Tally Ho Yearbook (Tallahassee, FL)

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Esther has her antique jewelry booth set up every Wednesday, and is very popular with most students. ▲ The yearbook even managed to build a huge yellow sign and sit out in the Union weekly. Some people just like to relax with their friends on the Union Green (middle). Campus Life 1 7

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Wednesdays In The Union Every Wednesday for the past nine years, Florida State ' s Union Green has been con- verted to a flea market of sorts that attracts vendors of every kind to peddle their wares. Barring monsoon-type weather, these faithful souls pack up their products weekly and set up booths to display and hopefully sell their goods to all the students who pass through the Union on their way to class. Actually, many students make a special effort to get over to the Union Green some- time between ten and four Wednesdays to see what ' s new, or to purchase that some- thing special they had been eyeing for weeks, but had been too broke to afford. Students are rarely disappointed because there is such a wide variety of wares offered. There is Esther — the antique jewelry lady who ' s been out there every Wednesday for the last two years; Janice, one of the lingerie ladies, who not only sells lingerie weekly, but offers students the opportunity to go to lingerie parties (which are something on the order of tupperware parties). Other offerings incl ude: baseball cards, tapes and records, handmade jewelry, paint- ed t-shirts, plants, posters and other dorm adornments, and occasional bake sales. Even the yearbook staff faithfully manned a booth each Wednesday, selling books and personal ads, and making students more aware of our existence. But the fun doesn ' t stop there! Other oc- casional attractions include: Brother Jed and Sister Cindy the preachers, who always draw a large crowd and a lot of input, FPIRG and other interest groups who have something educational to pass along to the students; and even the Bloodmobile can often be seen parked in the Union with volunteers recruit- ing students to give of themselves. This weekly event not only provides a con- venient way to shop for many students, it also provides entertainment for anyone who stops by, even for a minute! Kristin Johnson There are numerous items for sale — like these handmade earrings. T A Sister Cindy preaches upon deaf ears ' ' about the sins of college life. Many students just like to hang out in the Union. ► 16 Charging Forward

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Computing Towards A Better Future On the fifth floor of the Keen Building, one will find the headquarters of the Supercomputer Com- putations Research Institute (SCRI). The SCRI here at Florida State is the nation ' s first university based partnership between the public and private sectors of our society. SCRI was au- thorized by an act of Congress (the big boys and girls in Washington, D.C.) in 1984. The organ- izations involved besides Florida State are the De- partment of Energy ' s Office of Energy Research, Control Data Corporation, the parent company of ETA Systems, Inc., and the State of Florida. Finally, for those of you that thought Bobby Bowden ' s Seminoles had a sizeable budget, SCRI ' s annual budget is approximately $10 million; 65% of the $10 million comes from the Office of Energy Re- search. This is the meaning of the big time. Like all well managed organizations, SCRI has a defined mission. On page one of the SCRI Annual Report for the fiscal year 1986, the first sentence states that The Supercomputer Computations Re- search Institute (SCRI) is dedicated to the utili- zation of the power and versatility of core science fields. This type of research is done by inno- vations in software design for supercomputers al- lowing for simulations of real complex events, like hurricanes, that only four years ago weren ' t pos- sible. Of course, this type of supertech requires an unusual type of hardware and SCRI has it. Located at Innovation Park, SCRI has two supercomputers available for use, the Cyber 205 and the ETA-10. Believe it or not, the ETA-10 is the fastest computer in the world, and one of them is in Tallahassee. The ETA-10 has the ability to process 10 gigaflops, which is 10 billion calculations per sec- ond. Putting that into perspective, the ETA-10 could count all the people in the world, twice, in ONE SECOND! The computer that helped send man to the moon was processing one megaflop per second or one million calculations per second. In short, the ETA-10 has serious power. Jonathan Baety (This story was reprinted and edited courtesy of the Tomahawk Magazine.) Florida Flambeau T Governor Martinez and President Sliger tour the Supercomputer facility (top). The Supercomputer facilities, which are located in Innovation Park. ► 18 Charging Forward