HPC User Forum
September 26-28, 2005

Mission: The HPC User Forum is an organization of HPC users in industry, government and academia, along with HPC vendors and other interested parties, who collaborate to improve the health of the high-performance computing industry.

Meetings are held several times a year at locations around the world. The meetings are organized by IDC. The September 2005 meeting will be hosted at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge Tennessee.

Registration is now open for the HPC conference to be held at ORNL in September. Contact Mary Rolph at maryrolph@aol.com or 612-331-7413 to register. There will be an additional registration (badging) process required to gain access to the ORNL site. Badging registration deadline for non-US citizens will be August 5.

There will be a block of rooms reserved at the DoubleTree in Oak Ridge.

Safety and Security at ORNL: As a visitor to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, your safety and security are our utmost concern. Visitors to the ORNL campus are required to check in through the Visitor Center with photo id. A driver’s license, DOE photo badge, passport, and some other forms of photo id are acceptable. An ORNL visitor pass serves three purposes: (1) a record exists of who comes in for audit/accounting purposes, (2) a prox card is issued for access to specific building(s) without escort*, and (3) access to the ORNL visitor wireless can be granted based on the unique visitor badge number.

Holders of DOE photo badges (regardless of clearance level or contractor) are permitted on Bethel Valley Road; however, a DOE photo badge from another site does not allow access to any ORNL buildings nor to the ORNL visitor wireless network. Therefore, we request your assistance in addition to registering for the meeting, that you also complete the visitor pass request.

If we can be of any assistance, please do not hesitate to contact us at 865 574-6185.

*U.S. citizens only; non-citizens require escort

Local Contacts:
Thomas Zacharia (zac@ornl.gov)
Debbie McCoy (dco@ornl.gov)
865-574-6185