East meets West in Hawaii to discuss supercomputing issues

Maui 16 Feb 00 Technology leaders will gather on Maui April 5 and 6 to discuss the changing role of advanced technologies at the RCI Global Symposium, "East Meets West: The Globalization of High Performance Computing and Communications." Hosted by the Maui High Performance Computing Center (MHPCC), this conference will provide a forum for users, vendors, technologists, and consultants to analyze the forces and challenges that are propelling the supercomputing industry.

The featured keynote speaker for the RCI Global Symposium will be supercomputing pioneer C. Gordon Bell. A senior researcher in Microsoft's Telepresence Research Group, Bell designed one of the first time-sharing computers for Digital Equipment Corporation in 1965 and established the computing directorate at the National Science Foundation in 1986. He is also a founding board member of the Computer Museum History Center at Moffett Field, Mountain View, CA.

RCI also sponsors a Special Interest Group (SIG) meeting on Maui April 2-4 to review the status, plans, and lessons learned at ocean modeling, climate modeling, and weather forecast centers around the world. Titled "A Global Look at Computing in Ocean, Climate and Weather Forecasting," the meeting includes presentations by representatives from the Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography, the German Climate Center at Hamburg, the Japanese Earth Simulator Project, the Meteorological Service of Canada, MHPCC, the National Center for Atmospheric Research, and the Naval Postgraduate School.

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