Posted on: Saturday, February 19, 2005
BUSINESS BRIEFS
Honolulu fourth on costly cities list
Advertiser Staff and News Services
Honolulu was ranked as the fourth-most expensive place to live during the fourth quarter, according to the ACCRA Cost of Living Index released today. The list was headed by New York, San Francisco and San Jose, Calif. McAlester, Okla., was the least expensive city of the 305 urban areas surveyed.
ACCRA, a nonprofit economic development research center, bases its index on the cost of consumer goods, excluding taxes and nonconsumer expenditures.
The Hawai'i Telecommunications Association is hosting its February luncheon Wednesday at the Hale Koa Hotel, Waikiki Ballroom.
The topic will be "Enabling the Real-time Enterprise: Migration from Mainframe to Java."
Soren Burkhart, senior vice president and chief information officer at Aloha Airlines, will discuss his five-step approach to transforming a legacy mainframe environment to a dynamic real-time environment to be more responsive to customers' needs.
Registration starts at 11:30 a.m., lunch and program begins at noon. Cost is $25, $17 for HTCA members. For more information or to make reservations, call 441-8514 or e-mail htca@hawaii.rr.com.
The Maui High Performance Computing Center will soon be getting a new Cray XD1 supercomputer to increase space surveillance and image-processing capabilities.
The purchase is part of a $23 million order that Seattle-based Cray received from the U.S. Department of Defense High Performance Computing Modernization Program.
The Cray system will be able to perform more than 1.6 trillion calculations per second in support of the work of the Maui Space Surveillance Site on Haleakala.
The Maui Space Surveillance Site, which gathers data on near- and deep-space objects, combines operational satellite tracking facilities with research and development projects.
Telecom lunch Wednesday
Maui center gets supercomputer
