Clinton Shiprock Visit Update (as of 13 Apr 2000 PM)

[Frank Gilfeather]

All,

Our greatest thanks and appreciation to all - especially the Argonne
team and especially Bill Nickless and to all who worked the AG on
Sunday. I can't express thanks enough to the entire AG team and
especially to Argonne.   This was a great opportunity, which was chancy
from the beginning as we were not on the original WH schedule.  The
Dine' and UNM  teams need to know they were exceptional especially when
faced with mounting hurdles as the weekend progressed.

We have many to thank everywhere for getting this ready and many
personal debts to pay.  We may be doing a discussion with Dine' from UNM
tonight if we can, but at this point see no need for anyone else to get
further involved.  This is very very hard and very disappointing.  The
WH did ask us to set up a camera and broadcast video of the President's
NetMeeting session to the gym so others could see.  I guess we are going
to do that for them at this point.

Unfortunately the opportunity for the President to see a NetMeeting
interaction on a slow connection and 16 hops won out - a private company
set it up on Thursday.  That was the original plan of the WH.
Unfortunately we were encouraged by many including the WH that they
would add AG to the schedule.  They did not and so we were left with
lots of debts to many many people.

In the end, the WH group made our job of setting up the grid impossible
and I am told they will seal off the part of the building containing the
visz lab and the AG node.  We did put in 6 T1 lines and Dine' is AG
enabled.  That we will work on this month to keep going.

We learned a lot.  However we have a good collaboration of native
American groups in the SW firmly established and this further cemented
some key working relations.

Again thanks and many many apologies.

On a  very positive side many learned about the great IT needs in the
remote areas of the country.  The President is making an appeal for
networking and other IT support for groups left out of the IT revolution
- here especially Native Americans -  so much good will come from the
greater event.

Sincerely,

Frank



Robert Olson wrote:

>  At 10:18 AM 4/17/2000 -0500, Allison Clark wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> Do we know who the pre-Clinton audience is? Is it just us or will it
>>
>> include government types, the press etc.?
>
>
> As per Ernie's latest mail, this is a moot point. No demo before
> tlaking circle. Unclear to me whether there will be a demo it all; my
> read is that it depends on if they drag the president to the vislab.

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Frank Gilfeather
Executive Director
High Performance Computing,
Education and Research Center
and Professor of Mathematics and Statistics
1601 Central Ave. NE
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM, 87131

Ph 505-277-8249, Fax 277-8235

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