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Foundry Networks today announced that its HPC Ethernet Alliance partners will be meeting on November 16, 2005 during the SC2005 Conference this week. SC2005 is the premier international conference on high performance computing, data networking and storage being held at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center in Seattle. In recognition of the growing interest in cluster and high performance computing, Foundry has formed the HPC Ethernet Alliance Partners Program to accelerate and promote the deployment of high-performance Ethernet solutions in HPC and cluster computing environments. "The HPC Ethernet Alliance brings together industry leaders in Ethernet switching and high performance computing to promote open and mainstream technologies for HPC and cluster computing solutions," said Mark Danckert, Foundry's director of alliances. "During this first meeting of our alliance partners we will set the program's future course discussing a range of topics including: alliance charter, membership, organization, marketing programs and technical initiatives." The HPC Ethernet Alliance meeting will be held in Room 209 at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center from 8:00 am to 10:00 am on Wednesday, November 16, 2005. This meeting is open to Foundry's HPC Ethernet Alliance Partners.