Oct. 25, 2004

Michael Mewhinney</br> NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.</br> Phone: 650/604-3937 or 650/604-9000</br> E-mail: Michael.Mewhinney@nasa.gov</br></br>RELEASE: 04-100AR

NASA TO BROADCAST SUPERCOMPUTER NEWS BRIEFING ON INTERNET

News media are invited to view a Webcast of a news conference for 
NASA's newest supercomputer. The news conference is at 10 a.m. PDT 
Tuesday, Oct. 26, in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) facility 
in Building N-258 at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, 
Calif.</br></br> NASA Ames Director G. Scott Hubbard, Bob Bishop, CEO 
of Silicon Graphics Inc., and Paul Otellini, president and COO of 
Intel Corporation are participating in the press conference. 
</br></br> The news conference will be broadcast on the Internet. The 
URL is:</br></br> 

http://vanseg-1.arc.nasa.gov/2004/NAS041026-01.ram

</br></br> This link is currently active so viewers can check their 
RealPlayers ahead of the event. To download the free RealPlayer 
basic, you can go to http://www.real.com and select the "Download 
RealPlayer" button. On the page that pops up, on the right hand side, 
is a text link to "Download Free RealPlayer."</br></br> High 
resolution images of the new Columbia supercomputer are available 
at:</br></br> 

http://amesnews.arc.nasa.gov/releases/2004/supercomputer/supercomputer.html

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