SCIENCE

Dear Colleague, As you may have heard the Maui High Performance Computing Center, which was established by UNM in 1993, is closing October 1, 2001. The MHPCC as a center of UNM with a full range of educational and research activities had close ties to the AFRL, HPCMO, others in DOD, and many commercial customers. A new more focused AFRL center will be established at the site with the University of Hawaii as the primary contractor along with SAIC and Boeing. MHPCC has been a proud and successful member of the HPC community. While we are sad to see it close, we expect the new center will continue to be an effective asset to the AFRL. The MHPCC has been a leader in distributed scalable computing with IBM SP technology and recently with a new large Linux based cluster. In addition the center has provided, networking, visualization, user support, and application support to a number of DOD, federal, state, and commercial customers. In all there are over 60 technical and administrative staff at the center all fully familiar with many aspects of HPC. While many may have the opportunity to stay with the AFRL center, others are thinking of new potential opportunities. Thus UNM invites you to visit the center as soon as is convenient, to present to interested staff opportunities your organization might have. In addition we will arrange one on one meetings with interested persons for you. We hope that you might take the opportunity to meet and interview prospective staff through the opportunity to visit Maui this month. If this timing is not possible, then a visit later would be possible, however we are trying to arrange visits so the current highly effective staff at MHPCC can have options for their future determined as soon as possible. If you have any questions regarding arrangements, etc., please call Mr. Ted Sheppard at 808-879-5077 or Mr. Ernest Herrera at 505-277-8249. I can be reached at 505-277-8249 after July 4th. We thank you for the your many past interactions with MHPCC and UNM. I invite you to view the MHPCC web pages (www.mhpcc.edu) for additional details of our operation. I hope that you will consider MHPCC staff in your future plans. Sincerely, Frank Gilfeather