High performance computing is the technological venue for the future of advances in social well-being and economic capacity, let alone the capacity to ensure all aspects of national security through the most basic means of protection.

Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU), its university members, and an array of Federal agencies including the Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) are gathering to provide an opportunity for Congressional and scientific leaders to learn about the vital importance of not only supporting high performance computing, but of helping make it a national priority. This forum includes a significant cross section of scientists from the academic and governmental research community who will convey the urgent message that high performance computing underpins the foundation of economic development and benefits that must continue to accrue to the United States.

The academic research community and federal research resources, in particular Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), are fully arrayed to provide the leadership in the science and the networking necessary to sustain robust world leadership in economic development and security. The focus of these assets is on attaining rapid scientific progress in nanotechnology and advanced materials, in biology and biomedical sciences, and in global climate.

The DOE Office of Science views computational power as the “third pillar” of scientific discovery—the means to model and simulate the pillars of theory and experimentation. The Japanese have shown the significance of powerful computing through the performance of their Earth Simulator, and they are beginning to demonstrate the magnitude of its impact on attracting to their society the fruits of global scientific findings.

An essential thrust of university-national lab partnerships is to lead the nation’s “computational comeback“ and to apply considerable talents and computing resources to exploring and transforming the resulting knowledge from nanotechnology and advanced materials, biology, and global climate research into economically useful outcomes. Central to this effort will be the broad regional participation in the National Lambda Rail initiative and the many existing partnerships such as the ORNL/University-led Southeast TeraGrid Extension for Neutron Science recently awarded by the NSF.

Attendance at this forum will be limited to 100 of this country’s leading research administrators, researchers, and decision makers. The desired outcomes for this event are unambiguous:

• Advocating the benefit and importance of a national investment in high performance computing, overall, and in nanotechnology, biology, and global change
• Highlighting the intellectual leadership qualities and resources inherent in university-national lab partnerships to lead this vital initiative
  

The meetings will be held in Washington, DC on Tuesday and Wednesday, March 9 and 10, 2004. The first afternoon will feature the business session of the Annual ORAU Council Meeting. Reports will be given on the State of ORAU, the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE), and partnership development activities. Wednesday is devoted to the Forum on High Performance Computing.

Attendance by the Councilor, as the institutional representative, is necessary to conduct the business of the corporation during the meeting. In the event you cannot attend the meeting, you may designate another representative from your institution, another member of the Council, or a member of the Board of Directors to vote on behalf of your institution. Such proxy shall be valid only for this meeting, and is automatically revoked if the Council member attends the meeting. You may indicate your proxy by marking the form and returning it to ORAU by Friday, February 13, 2004.

A limited number of rooms have been reserved at the Hilton Washington, 1919 Connecticut Avenue, for this meeting. These rooms have been reserved for Tuesday, March 9, 2004, and will be available at no charge (room and tax) for the first 50 registrants. To reserve one of these rooms and to register for the conference, you may fax the form located at the back of the brochure.

Due to space restrictions at the Library of Congress, participation is strictly limited to 100.

High-Performance Computing Forum
Library of Congress, Member's Room
March 10, 2004

All speakers have been confirmed

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Organizing Committee

A limited number of rooms have been reserved at the Hilton Washington, 1919 Connecticut Avenue, for this meeting. These rooms have been reserved for Tuesday, March 9, 2004, and will be available at no charge (room and tax) for the first 50 registrants. To reserve one of these rooms and to register for the conference, you may fax the form located at the back of the brochure.Hilton Washington
1919 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20009
202-483-3000
202-265-8221 Fax
www.hilton.com

For further information, please contact:

April Hackler
Oak Ridge Associated Universities
865-241-4339 Voice
865-576-3816 FAX