Annual Feature Honors Educators, Researchers, and Industry Veterans Recognized as the Movers and Shakers of High Performance Computing

San Diego, CA — June 12, 2006 —HPCwire (www.hpcwire.com), the leading global source of news, information, and events on High Performance Computing (HPC) for the enterprise, scientific and technical computing communities, today announced the release of their annual “People to Watch� list, recognizing some of the most influential and interesting luminaries driving the changing landscape of high performance computing. The members of this group, who are determined by a selection committee that includes past People to Watch as well as a long list of advisors for the publication, features educators, researchers, and industry veterans who are making significant contributions to the cause of high performance computing.

“It’s a tremendous honor to be able to take time each year to recognize and highlight the people who are moving the dynamic field of high performance computing forward,� said Tom Tabor, founder of Tabor Communications, publisher of HPCwire and GRIDtoday. “I feel passionate about the importance of honoring the work and achievements that these dedicated thought leaders are accomplishing as they move this important industry forward. Ultimately, it’s not only technology that is being advanced by their efforts, but through that technology they are moving humanity forward. We believe in this industry and the power it has to profoundly affect our lives and our futures, and applaud the efforts of those selected as the 2006 People to Watch in HPC.�

The HPCwire 2006 “People to Watch�

Dan Atkins -National Science Foundation Office of Cyberinfrastructure
Jay Boris - Naval Research Laboratory
Keith Gray - British Petroleum
Robert Graybill* - Council on Competitiveness and USC Information Sciences Institute
John Grosh* - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (CASC)
Maria Klawe - Princeton/Harvey Mudd College
Ed Leonard - DreamWorks Animation SKG
Henry Markram - Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Switzerland
Tommy Minyard - Texas Advanced Computing Center
Henry Neeman - Oklahoma University Supercomputing Center for Education and Research
Steve Parker - University of Utah
Reza Rooholamini - Dell, Inc.
Jonathan Schwartz - Sun Microsystems
John West - ERDC Major Shared Resource Center
Stephen Wheat - Intel Corporation
Kathy Yelick - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

* - This is the second time that Robert Graybill and John Grosh have been selected for this prestigious recognition.

More information on each person on this list can be found on HPCwire at: http://www.taborcommunications.com/hpcwire/features/people06/index.html

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