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From: Michael Brown <mbrown>
Subject: Announce: SC'95 Visual Supercomputing Birds of a Feather
Organization: Silicon Graphics Inc., Mountain View, CA
Date: 30 Nov 1995 05:36:04 GMT
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Announcing

                                 the

                        Visual Supercomputing

                       SC'95 Birds of a Feather


                          5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
                       Tuesday December 5, 1995

                           Manchester Room
                      Hyatt Regency, San Diego, CA

                     Sponsored by Silicon Graphics

Come join the revolution in Supercomputing, be a pioneer at the first
Visual Supercomputing Birds of a Feather at SC'95.  

The goal of the SC'95 Visual Supercomputing Birds of a Feather is to 
begin the definition of a new category of computing, to identify ideas
that need exploration, and to foster the development of new research
and industry collaborations that will build on these ideas.  

The SC'95 Visual Supercomputing Birds of a Feather will feature five short 
talks, a panel discussion,and a questions and answers session with 
innovators in the field of Visual Supercomputing.  During this session, 
we plan on addressing such lofty issues as:

	What is Visual Supercomputing today?
	What should Visual Supercomputing become?
	What are the impediments to progress in Visual Supercomputing?

The speakers are:

	Dr. Karl-Heinz Winkler, Los Alamos National Laboratory
	Prof. Paul Woodward, Director, Laboratory for Computational 
		Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota
	Prof. Chris Johnson, Director, Scientific Computing and 
		Imaging Research Group, University of Utah
	Bob Haimes, Computational Aerosciences Laboratory,
		Massachusetts Institute of Technology
	Dr. Glenn Bresnahan, Director, Scientific Computing and 
		Visualization, Boston University

Of course, no Birds of Feather is complete without the requisite liquid
refreshments as well as WAY COOL T-SHIRTS.

Background:

Visual Supercomputing is the new frontier in Supercomputing.  As high-end
supercomputers have become more powerful, and greater than Cray Y-MP
performance has become available on the desktop, the scientific community
has witnessed an explosion in its ability to generate results.

As demonstrated by the I-WAY projects there are many aspects to Visual
Supercomputing and many ways to use it to gain insight into the results
of scientific and engineering calculations.

Systems, such as SGI's POWER Onyx, which tightly couple high performance
visualization with high performance computing are becoming more common
as are high performance networks which are beginning to allow remote
visualization and interaction with running simulations.

High performance networks are also allowing high performance computations
to occur on physically distributed systems.  Grand Challenge Testbed 
applications running at SC'95 are combining remote compute resources 
from SGI POWER CHALLENGEarrays, Cray supercomputers, IBM SP2, and others.

Projects such as the I-WAY push the frontiers of high performance computing,
networking, data manipulation, and systems software.  Silicon Graphics is
currently working with leading sites and is looking for further collaborations 
to develop new applications that extend the concept of Visual Supercomputing 
and is interested in fostering the growth of the overall use of Visual 
Visual Supercomputing technology.

-- 
Michael Brown, Visual Supercomputing Manager
Advanced Systems Division, Silicon Graphics Computer Systems

email: mbrown@asd.sgi.com  phone: +1(415)933.35.48   fax: +1(415)933.35.62


