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Cray User Group Origin2000 Workshop
October 11-13, 1998
Denver, Colorado
(www.cug.org)

Where and When

The second Cray User Group Origin2000 Workshop will be held in Denver, Colorado beginning on Sunday, October 11 at 8 AM and ending at noon on Tuesday, October 13, 1998. If you went to the meeting last Fall, you will not want to miss this one. If you have any interest in the Origin2000 at all, you need to attend this meeting.

Registration

Registration fees for the meeting are

$285 for CUG Members
$785 for the first person from a non-member site ( includes a membership in CUG for one year, January 1, through December 31, 1999)
$285 for additional attendees from non-member sites.

The registration is closed!

Conference Program

The meeting will be

one-track for two and one half days starting 8 AM on Sunday, October 11
high in technical content, with much more customer content than our last Origin2000 workshop
include tutorials each morning

The Technical Program is available here.

Hotel Information

The meeting will be held at the Marriott City Center in downtown Denver. The room rate will be $119, single or double. There are a few rooms available at government rates of $92, plus $10 for an additional person. To make reservations, contact the hotel directly at

Denver Marriott City Center
1701 California Street
Denver, CO 80202
USA
Phone: (1-303) 297-1300
Fax: (1-303) 298-7474

and reference "CUG Origin Workshop". The room block will be held until September 18th, so get your reservation in soon. For information on the hotel, see http://www.marriott.com/marriott/DENDT.

Travel to Denver

You will want to fly into Denver International Airport (DIA) and if you have never been to DIA, information is available at http://infodenver.denver.co.us/~aviation/index.html. If you are coming from outside the USA, money exchange is available during most daytime hours on the "B" concourse, just west of the center of the terminal.

Transportation from the Airport to the Hotel

The Super Shuttle (1-303) 370-1300 is $15 one way, $27 round trip, every 15 minutes from outside baggage claim at DIA on level 5. Look for the sign "Hotel Shuttles." After 6PM, call the number to make a reservation in advance.

Local Information

Check out this web page for a sample of Denver's Fall scenery:

For information about Denver and things to do here, look up http://banzai.neosoft.com/citylink/denver/default.html

For information on public transportation in and around Denver, tyr http://denver.org/cgi-bin/j_main.pl?control=dmap

For news and weather about Denver check out http://www.kcncnews4.com

There are cameras set up that can give you an idea about what the weather and traffic is like here, http://www.coloradometromart.com/colosites.htm

The weather channel info for Denver is at http://www.weather.com/weather/us/cities/CO_Denver.html

For Assistance, Contact

Gary Jensen, Local Arrangements Chair
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
5598 Colt Dr.
Longmont, Colorado 80503 USA
(1-303) 530-0354
guido@ncsa.uiuc.edu

Bob Winget, Office Manager
Cray User Group Office
186 Mandela Road
Shepherdstown, WV 25443 USA
(1-304) 263-1756