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Panel Discussion, Part of SC2004 Conference, will be the First Comprehensive Public Presentation of the National Academy of Sciences Report Chiaro Networks, developer of true infrastructure-class IP/MPLS routing platforms, today announced that Steven J. Wallach, the company's vice president of technology and a luminary in the field of supercomputers, is a member of a panel announcing results and discussing a report on "The Future of Supercomputing," which is being published today. The panel, also called The Future of Supercomputing, will be held at 8:30 am on Friday, November 12, the last day of SC2004, the High Performance Computing, Networking and Storage Conference. The Future of Supercomputing report presents the results of a study, begun in 2003, sponsored by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB). Wallach is one of 18 experts in computer and computational science from across industry, academia and national laboratories who have been conducting the study. "People are sometimes surprised that a supercomputing expert like me now works for a company that makes networking equipment -- albeit a new class of super-routers -- but I always point out that today's telecommunications networks are really the supercomputers of tomorrow, thanks to Grid computing technologies and the convergence of computing and communications," said Wallach. "The Future of Supercomputing report addresses the future of supercomputing and the design of high-performance systems. Personally, I believe that many of these systems will be Grid-enabled, and thus require extremely high-performance communications systems." The CSTB report on The Future of Supercomputing will answer questions such as: What is the current state of high-performance computing, both in the U.S. and internationally? What innovations are "in the pipeline" to improve that state? What are the driving applications that require supercomputing today? How can we invest to ensure future leadership in high-performance computing? Enstara: the First Infrastructure-Class IP/MPLS Platform The Chiaro Enstara router, the world's first highly available infrastructure-class IP/MPLS platform, defines infrastructure-class with the ultra reliability versatility and product longevity required to alleviate telecommunications carriers' "crisis of cost." Integrating a number of Chiaro technological breakthroughs -- and the result of applying expertise in the fields of networking, supercomputing, telecommunications and photonics -- the intelligent, carefully architected Enstara platform is the first to meld aspects of all these disciplines. As a result, it leads to no less than the transformation of IP networks. The same qualities that make the Enstara platform ideally suited for next-generation IP networks -- notably, ultra reliability, scalability, flexibility and line-speed performance -- also make it ideally suited for Grid applications. As a company, Chiaro Networks has embraced the vision of what Grids can and should become, and its telecommunications products are helping companies worldwide to move steadily toward Grid computing of the future. The Enstara IP/MPLS routing platform offers real value now, by helping service providers overcome their crisis of cost and begin gaining the efficiencies and economies associated with converging their disparate networks onto a unified IP infrastructure. At the same time, the Enstara platform was architected from the outset to pave the way for the future capabilities of Grid computing, as envisioned by today's best thinkers.