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• 23 June 2005: HPTi President Named Entrepreneur Of The Year

  Timothy Keenan of High Performance Technologies, Inc. Named Winner of Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2005 Award
  
  Timothy P. Keenan, President of High Performance Technologies, Inc. (HPTi), a Reston-based information technology company, was named a winner for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2005 Awards in Greater Washington in the Emerging Government IT category. Mr. Keenan was selected from 30 finalists in the Greater Washington program by an independent panel of judges comprised of local business, academic, and community leaders and announced at an award banquet on June 23, at the Ritz-Carlton, Tysons Corner.
  
  The Ernst & Young-sponsored award recognizes outstanding entrepreneurs who are leading and building successful businesses. Mr. Keenan was one of the original founders of HPTi, starting the firm in 1992. Since its inception, the company has grown to nearly $40 million in annual revenues. With a vision of tackling some of America’s most challenging and unique technology problems, Mr. Keenan and HPTi have consistently delivered solutions that exceed client requirements. Among its many projects, HPTi has created the world’s 8th fastest supercomputer, developed one of the nation’s most secure payment systems, and performed critical work for the Department of Homeland Security. These challenging projects demonstrate Mr. Keenan’s entrepreneurial spirit and dedication—traits recognized by the Entrepreneur of the Year award.
  
  Mr. Keenan will be eligible for consideration for the Entrepreneur Of The Year 2005 national program. Winners in several national categories, as well as the overall national Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year, will be announced at the annual awards gala in Palm Springs, CA, on November 17-20, 2005.
  
  About The Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® Program
  
  The Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year Program was created and is produced by professional-services firm Ernst & Young LLP. As the first award of its kind, Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year recognizes outstanding entrepreneurs who are building and leading dynamic and growing businesses. The program honors entrepreneurs through regional, national and global award programs in over 100 cities and and 35 countries.

• 7 June 2005: Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist

  HPTi President Named Finalist for Prestigous Award
  
  President Tim Keenan Among Finalsists for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year
  
  Reston VA — June 07, 2005, Timothy P. Keenan, President of High Performance Technologies, Inc. (HPTi), a Reston-based information technology company, is a finalist for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award. Mr. Keenan is one of only 30 finalists in the Greater Washington Area. The current list of finalists was selected from a larger pool of nominees by a panel of independent judges comprised of area business leaders. Recipients of the award will be announced at the awards banquet on June 23, 2005, at the Ritz-Carlton in McLean, Virginia. Winners of the Greater Washington award will be eligible for the national awards program. The winners of the national Entrepreneur of the Year will be announced in November of this year in Palm Springs, California.
  
  The Ernst & Young-sponsored award recognizes outstanding entrepreneurs who are leading and building successful businesses. Mr. Keenan was one of the original founders of HPTi, starting the firm in 1992. Since its inception, the company has grown to nearly $40M in annual revenues. With a vision of tackling some of America’s most challenging and unique technology problems, Mr. Keenan and HPTi have consistently delivered solutions that exceed client requirements. Among its many projects, HPTi has created the world’s 8th fastest supercomputer, developed one of the nation’s most secure payment systems, and performed critical work for the Department of Homeland Security. These challenging projects evince Mr. Keenan’s entrepreneurial spirit and dedication—traits recognized by the Entrepreneur of the Year award.
  
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• 19 April 2005: HPTi Sponsors JMU Coding Competition

  Saturday, March 19, 2005: For the second consecutive year HPTi sponsored the 2005 Algorithms Competition at James Madison University (JMU) School of Computer Information Systems (CIS). HPTi donated the prize money and created the problem set for the competition.
  
  The competition consisted of eight real world problems. The students had to develop working solutions using the Java or VisualBasic programming languages within a four hour time frame. The problems included traditional algorithms, recursion, database access, GUI programming, and OO concepts (Java only). Twelve teams of two individuals participated, contributing 18 successful responses. The winning team of Jon Albert and Greg Kruk successfully completed three of the challenging problems.

• 23 March 2005: Supercomputing Improves Weather Prediction

  New phase of JET Supercomputer Released by High Performance Technologies
  
  The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Forecast Systems Laboratory (FSL) affects millions of people every day, but few of them realize the influence FSL has on ordinary things like their flight or local newscast. FSL researches and develops new observing and forecasting systems, then transfers those technologies to operational users such as the National Weather Service (NWS), other government agencies (e.g. U.S. Air Force and the FAA), the commercial and general aviation communities, foreign weather forecasting services, and other private interests. FSL depends on the latest supercomputer technology to provide the extraordinary amount of computer processing necessary to support the technology transfer process.
  
  The newest supercomputer in FSL’s list of weather prediction tools is the JET upgrade. Designed and integrated by High Performance Technologies, inc., JET uses the latest Intel 64-bit processors. It can process over 2 billion operations per second and has less than half the processors of the previous system, but can do the same amount of work in less time. JET is used by NOAA researchers to conduct real-time weather prediction, weather modeling, and to research new technologies in weather analysis.
  
  The new Intel processors bring 64-bit computing to commodity hardware. Programs and research at FSL are no longer constrained by the amount of memory a process can use. The JET upgrade is leveraging new SATA drives to provide high capacity, high performance storage at economical prices. The new storage system contains 50 Terabytes of data, 3 times larger than the current storage. The additional memory, computing power, and storage will allow researchers to run more complex tests and maintain studies for longer periods of time. The larger frames of reference will allow for more complete information and accurate prediction capabilities.
  
  Dr. Craig Tierney, an HPTi scientist at FSL’s Boulder, Colorado laboratory, stated, “JET is a stepping stone to the types of systems that will be used in the next decade. You’re just not going to beat the price performance you get from this type of solution.”
  
  The rapid advances and improvements seen in the new phase of JET hint at improvements that are coming to the world of supercomputers. The amount of computing power available today at FSL shows the capabilities integrators such as HPTi are placing at the finger tips of America’s scientists. One can only imagine the benefit faster more accurate weather prediction will have on protecting human life and enabling commerce.