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Monday, May 13, 2002

Supercomputing's "father" to speak Friday at Laboratory

Gordon Bell, former vice-president for research and development at Digital Equipment Corp. and currently a senior researcher at Microsoft Corp., also will promote the Laboratory's Supercomputing in Small Spaces project in Advanced Computing (CCS-1). His talk, "Technical Computing: Observations on An Ever Changing Landscape," is at 10:30 a.m., in the Jemez Room of the J. Robert Oppenheimer Study Center at Technical Area 3.

Bell will discuss the 20-year effort to build commodity, scalable computers and offer observations on computer standards, the recent announcement of the NEC Earth Simulator supercomputer and the Internet as a computer.

Bell is a graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and taught at Carnegie-Mellon University. He served as the first assistant director of the National Science Foundation's Computing Directorate. He led the National Research and Education Network panel that became the Internet and was an author of the first High Performance Computer and Communications Initiative.

Each year, the most outstanding achievements in high-performance computing are recognized by the Gordon Bell Awards. More information about Bell is available at http://research.microsoft.com/%7Egbell/ online.

The talk will be broadcast live on Labnet Channel 9 and Real Media on desktop computers. The talk is open to all badgeholders.

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