“There will be a press conference on Wednesday, April 26, in
Boulder Colorado, regarding the successful production use of “jet”,
a 276-node Alpha Linux Supercomputer. This is the first Linux
cluster to ever win a traditional competetive procurement for a
supercomputer.”
| WHAT: | A press conference with one of NOAA’s leading weather technology experts and the president of a pioneering computer firm to unveil JET, a $15 million super computing system recently installed at NOAA’s Forecast Systems Laboratory in Boulder, Colo. |
| WHEN: | Wednesday, April 26, 2000 at 10 a.m. MDT |
| WHERE: | NOAA/David Skaggs Research Center, 325 Broadway, Boulder, Colorado Room GB-124. |
| WHO: | Dr. A. E. “Sandy” MacDonald, Director, Forecast Systems Laboratory Dr. Don Fitzpatrick, President and CEO, High Performance Technologies, Inc. (HPTi) |
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