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The CHREC center kick off meeting was held in GWU on December 5 and 6, 2006. 70 attendees from NSF, over 20 industrial and governmental CHREC members, GWU, UF, Virginia Tech and BYU have engaged in presentations and discussions to create the Advisory Board and establish the first year research agenda. Mr. Alan Hunsberger was elected to lead the CHREC industrial advisory board (IAB).The official GWU welcome and opening remarks were given by Executive Vice President Don Lehman of GWU.

The CHREC center kick off meeting was held in GWU on December 5 and 6, 2006. 70 attendees from NSF, over 20 industrial and governmental CHREC members, GWU, UF, Virginia Tech and BYU have engaged in presentations and discussions to create the Advisory Board and establish the first year research agenda. Mr. Alan Hunsberger was elected to lead the CHREC industrial advisory board (IAB). The official GWU welcome and opening remarks were given by Executive Vice President Don Lehman of GWU. In his remarks, Dr. Lehman stated “The CHREC as framed by the National Science Foundationrepresents a very positive collaboration among government, industry and universities. It is this consortium approach that gives me great confidence in our collective ability to create the leading national center for research in high-performance reconfigurable computing.”. Dr. Lehman has followed with announcing that GWU has now selected High-Performance Computing as an area of strategic excellence, and added “Given the expertise we have in place, the importance of HPC to our national security and national competitiveness, and the relationship of HPC to other priority research areas at GW including transportation safety and biomedical engineering, I feel very strongly that additional investment in this area will yield important results.

SEAS recently organized the first GW Symposium on High-Performance Computing and Applications, which was held at the Marvin Center in October 2006. The symposium was conceived to provide a forum to showcase advanced computing work at GW and to learn about the direction and key programs of the federal government in high performance computing. It was co-chaired by SEAS Professors Tarek El-Ghazawi, Steve Kan, and Rajat Mittal, and approximately 60 people from government, SEAS, and GW’s

SEAS recently organized the first GW Symposium on High-Performance Computing and Applications, which was held at the Marvin Center in October 2006. The symposium was conceived to provide a forum to showcase advanced computing work at GW and to learn about the direction and key programs of the federal government in high performance computing. It was co-chaired by SEAS Professors Tarek El-Ghazawi, Steve Kan, and Rajat Mittal, and approximately 60 people from government, SEAS, and GW’s Columbian College of Arts and Sciences attended. The opening remarks were given by the University’s Executive Vice President Donald R. Lehman. Among the topics covered at the symposium were computational fluid dynamics, crash analysis simulations, advanced computer systems and programming models, computational high-energy physics, and computational chemistry. In addition to the presentations given by SEAS and other GW faculty, leaders from various federal agencies and government laboratories also addressed the symposium. Among them were the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), National Science Foundation, Naval Research Laboratory, and the U.S. Department of Transportation.