At the luncheon, Dr. Roger Smith, chief scientist for U.S. Army PEO-STRI, presented the vision for extending training to all soldiers deployed around the world. One of the technical parts of supporting large and multiple simultaneous exercises is in the computer power at the simulation centers. High performance computers (HPCs) have evolved from unique devices employed for specialized problems to a broad line of machines that provide extensive processing power for a number of problems and customers that are difficult to satisfy with individual or networked computers. Potentially these machines may be useful in expending the breadth and depth of interactive simulations. Smith gave examples of JFCOM exercises which had used HPCs to drive one million active objects during the Urban Resolve experiments, as well as their use to accurately model chemical plume dispersion in conjunction with the OneSAF simulation. These experiments show that there is promise in HPCs for interactive simulation and suggest that simulation organizations, businesses, and technology professionals may soon be in a race to determine where the center of excellence for this type of processing resides. He listed a number of likely communities and challenged the Orlando community to join in the race.