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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=maroon face="Neo Sans Intel"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Neo Sans Intel";color:maroon'>I am on the
steering committee of the ACM/IEEE SigARCH conference on high performance
computing, networking, storage and analytics, also known as <a
href="http://sc08.supercomp.org/?pg=about.html">SC</a>. I am interested in
creating a persistent virtual world for this community to use in education, presentation,
scientific collaboration and visualization.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=maroon face="Neo Sans Intel"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Neo Sans Intel";color:maroon'>I am looking
for members of this community who are interested in working with us to
establish this presence and develop the facilities we need to enable new modes
of work and collaboration. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=maroon face="Neo Sans Intel"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Neo Sans Intel";color:maroon'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=maroon face="Neo Sans Intel"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Neo Sans Intel";color:maroon'>Wilfred
Pinfold<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=maroon face="Neo Sans Intel"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Neo Sans Intel";color:maroon'>SC
Conference Steering Committee<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=maroon face="Neo Sans Intel"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Neo Sans Intel";color:maroon'>General
Manager IAS, Intel Corporation <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Neo Sans Intel";color:maroon'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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