hpcc [sorry for formatting]

[David Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>]

Posted-Date: Wed, 1 Mar 1995 07:58:51 -0500
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 1995 07:58:20 -0500 (EST)
From: deyoung () ARPA MIL
Subject: NEW DIRECTOR OF HPCC NATIONAL COORDINATING OFFICE
To: farber () central cis upenn edu
Cc: dohrs () FARNSWORTH MIT EDU


David,


     Something that I'm sure your Interesting People list would
like to know.  By the way, John is exactly the right person for
this job.  He has been involved in the HPCC program from the
beginning, knows all the players and has the necessary management
skills to keep the high powered egos on all sides working toward
the right goals.  CONGRATULATIONS JOHN and GOOD LUCK!


Tice


> Date: Tue, 28 Feb 1995 11:21:04 -0800
> From: rborchelt () ostp eop gov
> Subject: attached release
> To: toole, carson () hpcc gov, lindberg () hpcc gov
>
>                                   The White House
>                               Office of Media Affairs
>
>
>
>     For Immediate Release                Contact:  Rick
Borchelt
>     (202/456-6018)
>     February 24, 1995
>
>
>               WHITE HOUSE NAMES CHIEF OF ADVANCED COMPUTING
RESEARCH
>          The Administration today named John C. Toole to direct
the
>     inter-agency High Performance Computing and Communications
(HPCC)
>     Program, the government's  premier high-technology research
program
>     aimed at advancing the information superhighway.  The
appointment is
>     effective March 1.
>
>          Mr. Toole most recently served as the Executive
Director of High
>     Performance Computing for the Department of Defense
Advanced Research
>     Projects Agency.  A biography is attached.
>
>          "John Toole's appointment brings us the first full-
time director
>     for the HPCC program, and demonstrates the Administration's
continuing
>     commitment to make the most of information technology for
all
>     Americans," noted Dr. John H. Gibbons, Assistant to the
President for
>     Science and Technology and Director of the Office of
Science and
>     Technology Policy.  "High-performance computing is
revolutionizing
>     commerce, health care, communications, and virtually every
other
>     aspect of our economy and our daily lives; this program is
a model for
>     directing the fruits of American research to the needs and
interests
>     of the American people.  If information is power -- and it
certainly
>     is in today's world -- HPCC is the key to power for us as
citizens and
>     for the nation as a whole."
>
>          The HPCC program involves 12 government agencies
tasked with
>     finding ways to keep America at the forefront of computing
and
>     communications research and helps make these technologies
available to
>     a variety of users.  Created in 1991 under legislation
>     sponsored by then-Senator Al Gore, the program serves as
the focal
>     point for Administration efforts to make sure that advances
in
>     information technology are used to improve such areas
>     as education, public health, weather forecasting, emergency
response
>     and preparedness, and effective business and manufacturing
practices.
>      It has a proposed budget for FY96 of about
>     $1.2 billion.
>
>          The appointment was announced jointly today by Dr.
Gibbons  and
>     Dr. Anita Jones, Director of Defense Research and
Engineering at the
>     Department of Defense.  Mr. Toole replaces Dr. Donald
Lindberg, who
>     also served as Director of the National Library of
>     Medicine (NLM) of the National Institutes of Health during
his
>     two-year tenure as HPCC director.  Dr. Lindberg will return
to
>     full-time service with the NLM.
>
>                                      #   #   #
>
>
>                                    John C. Toole
>
>
>                   Executive Director, High Performance
Computing
>                          Advanced Research Projects Agency
>
>
>
>
>          John C. Toole is currently Executive Director for High
>     Performance Computing for DoD's Advanced Research Projects
Agency
>     (ARPA). He is responsible for planning, initiation,
leadership, and
>     coordination of interrelated research and development
efforts in
>     HPC technology within ARPA, other components of the
Department of
>     Defense, and other Federal Agencies.  From August 93 to
Oct 94 he
>     served as Acting Director of the Computing Systems
Technology Office
>     (CSTO).   The Office is responsible for advancing the
frontier of
>     computing systems technology to insure DoD has technologies
to meet
>     its future mission requirements.  These include scalable
computing
>     systems, microsystems design and prototyping, scalable
software,
>     networking, and associated technologies. In addition, the
Office has
>     primary responsibility for the Federal High Performance
Computing
>     and Communications (HPCC) program,  with ARPA as the lead
DoD Agency
>     for advanced technology research within Defense.
>
>           In March 94, he  retired from the USAF, after serving
for over
>     22 years.  Prior to being assigned  to his current
positions,  he
>     served  as Deputy Director of CSTO for  2 years,  and as an
ARPA
>     program manager in the Microsystems Design and Prototyping
>     Program for 5 years.  In other related experience in the
AF, he
>     managed a VLSI Computer Aided Design (CAD) branch; attended
the
>     University of Texas at Austin in computer engineering;
spent several
>     years in hardware/software performance analysis of large
scale
>     computing systems; and has designed and implemented
portions of real
>     time operating systems.  Before entering the AF, he
received a BS and
>     MSEE from Cornell University.
>
>
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