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To: TGPTNDR who wrote (105703)	11/13/2003 10:21:05 AM
From: Dan3	Respond to of 275872

11/12/03 Task force pushes forward on supercomputing coordination By Patricia Daukantas GCN Staff An interagency task force is well on its way to building a five-year roadmap for federal spending on high-end computers. About 60 employees from 10 agencies, including the Office of Management and Budget, are participating in the High-End Computing Revitalization Task Force, said John Grosh, associate director for advanced computing in the Office of the Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Science and Technology..... ....Any proposed high-end computing policy must succeed within tight fiscal constraints, said Juan D. Rogers, associate professor of public policy at Georgia Institute of Technology. He co-authored a recent report, Advancing High-End Computing: Linking to National Goals, for the IBM center. “The importance of high-end computing for contemporary science and technology cannot be exaggerated,” Rogers said. It’s not just a tool to achieve specific results, but a part of the process of knowledge creation, he said. Today’s high-end computing is tomorrow’s mainstream computing, but it’s a moving target for policy, Rogers said. Uncoordinated demands may create a fragmented computing environment, and the fragmented computing environment in turn may lead to a fragmented intellectual community, he said. Leadership in high-performance computing should be measured in sustained performance on real-world scientific problems, not raw performance on simple benchmarks, Rogers said.... There's more at: gcn.com

To: TGPTNDR who wrote (105703)	11/13/2003 10:23:48 AM
From: DRBES	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

(edit) Options remaining is the most difficult as well as the most relevant piece of information to ascertain. For example, if an insider has fifty times as many options that mature in the future (at much lower prices than all of the shares that he is currently selling) he would be a fool not to sell, particularly if he only has a small time window in which he must act. The data to analyze is very complex and we obviously only can get a small smattering of it. Enjoying the ride !

To: TGPTNDR who wrote (105703)	11/13/2003 2:27:03 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

I have a friend who is an insider at a tech company and he says yahoo posts "sell to covers" exactly like this Robert Herb sale. In other words yahoo reports it like you exercise the whole thing and sell the whole thing, when in fact your paperwork clearly indicated that you excercised and sold to cover. I don't know how to verify this, but come to think of it I haven't seen many exercise 50K shares coupled with sell 9312 shares (or some odd lot) on yahoo which I know is the most common stock option transaction.