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RESOLUTION NO.
96-72
2 RESOLUTION OF THE MAYOR AND COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
SAN BERNARDINO SUPPORTING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A REGIONAL CENTER
3 OF HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING THROUGH THE INSTITUTE OF APPLIED
SUPERCOMPUTING AT CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SAN BERNARDINO.
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WHEREAS, high performance computing (popularly known as supercomputing) and the
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fields which combine to produce high performance computing which are high speed numeric
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processing, and high speed and large scale database communications at the local, metropolitan and
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wide area scales, are vital components to any competitive information environment; and
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WHEREAS, high performance computing is a vital and necessary component to promote
economic competitiveness; and
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WHEREAS, research into the theory, practice, and use of high performance computing is
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necessary to achieve the promise which performance computing has to offer; and
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WHEREAS, deployment and use of high performance computing systems is vital to attract
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and retain the civic and economic basis of a vibrant community; and
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WHEREAS, the Inland Empire region must remain economically and intellectually
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competitive as the regional economic base is a re-engineered to the information society of the 21 st
Century; and
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WHEREAS, the Federal Government is supporting and encouraging the wide spread regional
uses of high performance computing; and
WHEREAS, San Bernardino has a distinguished regional comprehensive university in its
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midst, to wit, California State University San Bernardino, with a mission to conduct research, educate
and train the community and to serve the interests of the region and the larger areas to which the
region is tied,
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NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY TIIE MAYOR AND COMMON COUNCIL
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OF THE CITY OF SAN BERNARDINO that the City of San Bernardino lends support and
encouragement to the initiative to establish, promote and expand a regional center of excellence in
high performance computing through the Institute of Applied Supercomputng at California State
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March 14, 1996
RES 96-72
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1 RESOLUTION...SUPPORTING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A REGIONAL
CENTER OF HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING THROUGH THE INSTITUTE OF
2 APPLIED SUPERCOMPUTING AT CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SAN
BERNARDINO.
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University San Bernardino, and will encourage the wide use and support of the high performance
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computing facility throughout the region, in both the public and private sectors.
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I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Resolution was duly adopted by the Mayor and
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Common Council of the City of San Bernardino at a regular
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18th day of, 1996, by the following vote, to wit:
meeting thereof, held on the
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The foregoing Resolution is hereby approved thisc#'--I-L day of
March
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1996.
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OM MINOR, Mayor
City of San Bernardino
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Approved as to form and
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25 JAMES F. PENMAN,
City Attorney
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