On Mon, 2 Dec 2002 alex@yuriev.com wrote:
Hello,
A friend of mine is working on one of the committees for next years Supercomputing conference and noticed that, in the past, they'd had participants from most continents but none from Africa. Does anyone know of a good organization/group/etc which we could spam with our conference notice and request for participation?
Would that friend be so kind as to name more than a handful places in Africa with IP connectivity (multinational companies do not count).
Most major cities in most countries have at a minimum ip dialup services, in major metropolitan centers there are now large numbers of wireless isps as well... A more interesting and germane question is how big is the number of people/organizations in africa with hpc applications and how do your reach them, since that is the subset of folks interested in attending super computing.
Alex
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