HPCC '98 CONFERENCE PROGRAM

TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 1998 

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 1998 

THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 1998 

9:00  THE VIEW FROM THE TOP   
Dr. Margaret Myers
Acting Deputy Assistant  
Secretary of Defense (C3IA)
Department of Defense 
It Takes an Alliance to Build a Grid    
Dr. Larry Smarr   
Director,   
NCSA University of Illinois 
Communicating Science in the Next Generation   
Richard Luce
Director, Research Library,
Los Alamos National Lab 
9:45 Undersea Warfare in the 21st Century   
Stephen Swenson  
Executive Director, 
Naval Undersea Warfare Center 
Visual Supercomputing 
John Brown
Director,   
Strategic Market Development   
Silicon Graphics, Inc. 
Network Centric Warfare   
COL Lawrence Machabee 
Staff Analyst,   
Office, Assistant Secretary of Defense 

10:30 

Break - Expo Exhibits  Break - Expo Exhibits Break 

11:00 

Trends in Large-Scale Computing   
Mike Booth 
Vice President, Engineering   
Silicon Graphics/Cray Research 
An Integrator's Perspective of Computing Modernization   
Michael Solley   
President, 
Government Information Systems - Nichols Research 
Emerging Technologies for a National Computational Infrastructure   
John Toole 
Deputy Director,  
National Computational Science Alliance

11:45 

The Role of HPC in Designing Pharmaceuticals   
Dr. Fred Hausheer, MD   
Chairman & CEO, 
Bionumerik Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
DoD HPC Modernization Program: Update   
Thomas Dunn  
Deputy Director, 
DOD High Performance Computing Modernization Office 
Telemedicine in the DoD   
CDR C. Forrest Faison(USN) 
Program Director, DOD Telemedicine Office

12:30 

Lunch - Expo Exhibits Lunch - Expo Exhibits Conference Close 

1:30 

DOE Nuclear Simulation Program   
Dr. Paul Smith   
Special Assistant to the Deputy Assistant Secretary for
Strategic Computing and Simulation,
 
Department of Energy 
The New Age of Supercomputing   
Shahin Khan   
Director Data Center High Performance Group, Sun Microsystems 
 
 
 

2:15  

Global Diffusion of the Internet
Dr. Seymour Goodman  
Professor, 
University of Arizona and Stanford
HPC Fighting Terrorism   
Raju Namburu
Senior Research Engineer,   
US Army Waterways Experiment Station 
 
 
 

3:00 

Break - Expo Exhibits Break - Expo Exhibits  

3:30 

DoD Uses the Internet   
LTC Mike Dorohovich (USA) 
Special Asst, Decision Processes Div,
United States Atlantic Command JX 
DoD's Year 2000 Plans   
Linda Brown  
Senior Policy Analyst, 
OASD(C3I) Information Technology 

4:15 

Operational Atmospheric and Oceanographic Prediction   
Dr. Paul Moersdorf   
Technical Director, 
Fleet Numeric Meteorological Center 
Federal Telecommunications Plans and Programs   
Mary Whitley   
Assistant Commissioner,  
Information Technology Integration, GSA