Bulletin Autumn‧Winter 2002

t w o years in a r ow to clinch their eleventh championship title in 16 years. The CU team was also the overall champion i n the Eighth H o ng Ko ng Universities R o w i n g C h a m p i o n s h ip h e ld t w o we e ks earlier on 1st September. Student Exchange Ninth New Asia-Yale University Student Exchange Eight N ew Asia students paid a visit to Yale University f r om 2nd to 16th February 2002 and a similar delegation from Yale paid a return visit to N ew Asia College f r om 10th to 24th Ma r c h. The exchange has been an a n n u al event between the two institutions since 1993. The theme for this year was 'Mass Media'. Asian Students Meet to Discuss Higher Education Students f r om 38 Asian universities gathered at C h u ng Chi College to take part i n t wo c o n c u r r e nt s t u d e nt conferences, one on 'Higher Education in the New Century: Hong Kong, China, and the World' and the other on ' Ch r i s t i an H i g h er E d u c a t i on i n Asia: Changes and Challenges' f r om 29th Ma y to 4th June 2002. Seventy-three students, i n c l u d i ng 22 f r om Ch u ng Chi, 42 f r om ma i n l and China, and nine f r om Taiwan, took part in the first conference. Another group of 34 students from Ch u ng Chi, H o ng Ko ng Baptist University, Lingnan University, and universities in Taiwan, Japan, Korea, the Philippines, Thailand, and Indonesia participated in the second conference. Mainland and Taiwan Students Given a Taste of HK's Mass Media Un d er the H o n g K o n g - Ma i n l a n d - T a i w an Un i v e r s i ty Student Exchange Programme, students f r om Chingchi University in Taiwan and Beijing N o r mal Un i v e r s i ty attended a s y mp o s i um entitled ' Cu l t u re of the Mass Media in Chinese Society' organized by N ew A s i a College f r om 13th to 21st July 2002. D u r i n g t h e ir stay the s t u d e nt delegates v i s i t ed med ia organizations and attended academic t a l ks presented by p r o m i n e nt figures of the industry. A Vote of Thanks to Scholarship Donors The U n i v e r s i ty he ld a Ga l l o p i ng Horses Presentation Ceremony on 29th May 2002 in the Ho ng Ko ng Convention and Exhibition Centre to express its gratitude to donors of scholarships for its students. The support of these donors made possible the presentation of some 140 scholarship awards to deserving students newly admitted into the University i n 2001-2. A l l of the awardees had excelled themselves in University entrance examinations. O f f i c i a t i ng at the ceremony were Dr. the Honourable Rosanna Wong Yick-ming, chair of the Education Commission, and Prof. A r t hur K.C. Li, vice-chancellor of the University. CUHK Installs the Fastest Supercomputer in Hong Kong To meet the escalating demand for high performance computing (HPC) in the University, the HPC Support Team of the I n f o rma t i on Technology Services Centre recently installed an I BM pSeries supercomputer for supporting c omp u t a t i o n - i n t e n s i ve projects. The I BM pSeries s u p e r c omp u t er is a d i s t r i b u t e d- memo r y parallel system consisting of 16 compute nodes containing a total of 16 4-way POWER3-II 375 M H z processors and a high- performance SP switch (2.4 Gbps). It can deliver an aggregate computing power of 100 GFLOPS (giga floating-point operations per second). Equipped w i t h a general parallel file system (GPFS) 一 wh i ch is a h i gh performance and shared-disk file system 一 it can p r o v i de rapid data access to all compute nodes in the supercomputer. 5 8 Chinese University Bulletin Autumn • Winter 2002