1:30 PM-2:30 PM
Room: Texas Ballroom B
Moderator: Robert Lucas, NERSC, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
The panelists will address the following questions: Will all high-end machines be made from off-the-shelf networks and processors? If so, will there be traditional, vertically-integrated vendors? If not, will there be any profitable supercomputer vendors in 2004?
Panelists:
Forest Baskett, Silicon Graphics
Burton Smith, Tera Computer Company
Thomas Sterling, Jet Propulsion Laboratory and California Institute
of Technology
MMD, 11/16/98