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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION
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General:
HECRTF Community Input Workshop
Report Now Online
An electronic version of the report from the community input workshop for
the
High End Computing Revitalization Task Force (HECRTF) is now available online
at the Computing Research Association (CRA) Web site.
The report summarizes a workshop held last June, during which eight
community
working groups developed a set of key findings and recommendations to advance
the state of high-end computing in the United States. The final report soon
will be distributed to interested individuals.
The community workshop report also will be discussed in a panel session at
SC2003, the annual high-performance computing and networking conference to be
held in Nov. 15-21 in Phoenix. The panel convenes 8:30 a.m.-10 a.m., Nov.
21. See www.sc-conference.org/sc2003/tech_panels.php for
details.
The interagency HECRTF was established to develop plans for high-end computing
and to create a five-year roadmap for core technology development in the
United States. The task force solicited ideas and opinions from high-end
computing experts across the country, and at the June workshop assembled 200
academic, industry, and government researchers and managers to address
high-end computing revitalization issues and to produce the report.
"The common theme throughout this community workshop report is the need for
sustained investment in research, development, and system acquisition," said
Dan Reed, chair of the workshop and director of the National Center for
Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). "Simply put, short-term strategies and
one-time investments are unlikely to develop the dynamic technology pipeline
we need to serve science, business and national security interests. We need
deep, long-term collaboration among academic researchers, government
laboratories, industrial laboratories and computer vendors."
Reed will join three other high-end computing experts on the SC2003 HECRTF
panel: John Grosh, Office of the Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Science
and Technology; Alan Laub, Department of Energy Office of Science; and Doug
Ball, manager of Enabling Technology and Research at The Boeing Company. David
B. Nelson, from the National Coordination Office for Information Technology
Research and Development, will serve as panel moderator.
For more on SC2003, see www.sc-conference.org/sc2003.
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