Although the CRPC did not have a designated booth this year, several CRPC sites and affiliated sites exhibited at SC99, including Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Boston University, Caltech, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). The Center had a strong presence in the SC99 Technical Program. Papers co-authored by CRPC researchers included "A Network Performance Tool for Grid Environments" (Ian Foster, ANL, and Carl Kesselman, University of California Information Sciences Institute), "Querying Very Large Multi-dimensional Datasets in ADR" (Joel Saltz, University of Maryland), and "Managing Performance Analysis with Dynamic Statistical Protection Pursuit" (Daniel Reed, UIUC). Reed presented a State of the Field Talk on "Performance: Myth, Hype, and Reality."

Foster, Kesselman, and collaborators conducted a full-day tutorial on "The Globus Grid Programming Toolkit." CRPC Director Ken Kennedy, chairman of the SC99 Awards Program, was a member of two technical panels: "digital.revolution.com: Transforming Science and Engineering" and "Challenges and Opportunities of the Scalable Information Infrastructure," the latter of which was moderated by Foster. Geoffrey Fox of Syracuse University and Dennis Gannon of Indiana University were panelists on "The Role of Java in High Performance Network Computing." Fox was also a panelist for "Community Model Building," and Kesselman and Reed served on the panel for "Beyond Grids: Large-Scale Computing in a Connected World."

More than 5,000 people participated in SC99, including nearly 2,000 who paid to attend three days of technical presentations. For those unable to travel to the conference, a web-accessible camera was installed on the exhibition floor. More than 34,500 people outside the Oregon Convention Center took advantage of this service.

For more information on CRPC SC99 activities and SC99 in general, see www.SC99.org