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DENVER, CO -- The High Performance Computing Modernization Program’s (HPCMP’s) dramatic display at this week’s Supercomputing 2001 exhibit and conference highlights the DoD’s nearly decade-long period of growth in supercomputing capabilities. The exhibit showcases the program’s major initiatives and explores significant DoD research conducted in ten computational technology areas. Interactive presentations, videos, demonstrations, and posters describe how DoD technologists successfully apply supercomputing solution to national defense challenges. The press is invited to the DoD exhibit, booth R-309, to see a complete High Performance Computer center and one of the most advanced optical networks in the world. A video specially produced for Sc2001 will be shown heralding the last ten years of computational progress in the DoD. The HPCMP explores the transformations of computing at DoD from productivity enhancing labor devices to high performance, multiprocessing supercomputers. The Army first used the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC) to solve algebraic-type problems, like computing trajectories. ENIAC could compute a single trajectory in 30 seconds – manual calculations took as long as twenty hours. DoD scientists and engineers use today’s faster high performance systems to solve complex, three-dimensional, time-dependent, physics-based challenges. About the DoD High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP) Initiated by the Congress in 1992, the program has successfully leveraged the national infrastructure to create an integrated high technology environment within the Department’s science, technology, test, and evaluation communities that supports the finest scientific research and engineering breakthroughs in the word today. With 21 centers located in 14 states and the District of Columbia, the High Performance Computing Modernization Program is creating a pervasive culture among DoD’s scientists and engineers where they routinely use advanced computational environments to solve the most demanding problems, and had facilitated the rapid application of advanced technology into superior warfighting capabilities. Its centers provide a comprehensive computing environment to over 4,300 active users, delivering over 18 teraflops of computing power, offering scientific visualization, peripheral and archival mass storage devices. For more information about the program, please go to www.hpcmo.hpc.mil