The event will feature a discussion of technological contributions to computational fluid dynamics and the direction of petascale computing at Fujitsu. Speakers at the event include:

• Dr. Rupak Biswas, division chief, NASA Advanced Supercomputing Division
• Dr. Naoki Hirose, Sr. research scientist (retired), National Aerospace Laboratory of Japan (currently Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency)
• Dr. Kenichi Miura, fellow, Fujitsu Laboratories Limited (former head of Supercomputing Division, Fujitsu America)
• Mr. Moriyuki Takamura, chief architect VPP/NWT (currently fellow, Fujitsu Laboratories Limited)
• Mr. Tetsuo Urano, head of American operations, Fujitsu
• Moderator: Al Zmyslowski, Senior Vice President of Engineering, Fujitsu Computer Systems

In 1989, Fujitsu and the National Aerospace Laboratory (NAL) of Japan began work on a supercomputer aimed to deliver computational fluid dynamics performance more than 100 times faster than the Fujitsu VP400 vector processor computer, one of the fastest machines of the time. The resulting system, the Numerical Wind Tunnel, became operational in 1993 and debuted in first place in the TOP500 Supercomputer Sites list in November of the same year.