Feasibility studies for implementing the "Supercomputing Environment and its Application (SEA)", one of the CAS projects for formation infrastructure construction during the 10th Five-Year Plan Period (2001--2005), passed the scrutiny of a panel of experts March 21, 2003 in Beijing.
The meeting was chaired by Gui Wenzhuang, director-general of CAS Bureau of High-Tech Research and Development. The panel was composed of 11 experts, including CAS member Wang Chengwei and CAS senior researcher Sun Jiachang.
After listening to an introduction made by Prof. Chi Xuebin, director of Supercomputing Center, CAS Computer Network Information Center, of the overall plan and implementation scheme of the SEA project, the experts went through a course of discussion and questioning. Then they expressed unanimous support of the scheme and proposed to the CAS Information Leading Group to give approval to the plan.
