Elxsi Corp’s machines may have only modest success in the US, but they are definitely seen as sexy in the far-flung corners of the globe: the San Jose company has announced sales of its System 6400 mini-supercomputers to the Korean Institute of Science and Technology; the Oil and Natural Gas Commission of India; an unnamed Japanese company; a major British defense group; and a university in the Republic of China, which we have a suspicion is intended to indicate Taiwan and not the People’s Republic of China.