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On Monday, January 25, Governor Bill Richardson unveiled an interconnected system that will eventually link 33 sites around the state to Encanto, New Mexico’s Supercomputer.  Encanto is the fastest public supercomputer in the world. The Supercomputer, which is housed at Intel in Rio Rancho, can perform 172 trillion calculations per second.

The “Connect New Mexico” event connected all eight new gateway sites into the Supercomputer using its new teleconferencing capability. The sites are:

• The University of New Mexico
• New Mexico State University
• Eastern New Mexico
• Western New Mexico University
• New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
• Santa Fe Community College
• San Juan College
• The State Capitol

These sites will be utilized by the universities and local businesses that need high performance computing for design and modeling purposes. The Supercomputer can be used for research, educational activities, training, and business modeling in the areas of energy, environment, digital film, aerospace, and biotechnology, among others.

The founding institutions for the New Mexico Computing Applications Center, which runs the Supercomputer, are UNM, NMSU, New Mexico Tech, and Sandia and Los Alamos National Laboratories.

For more information about the event and future Supercomputer gateways, see the Governor’s newsroom and the NMSU News Center.

The 16th Annual NAFTA Institute “Supplier Meet the Buyer” Trade Conference attracted record crowds to Sunland Park, New Mexico on June 11-12. The event, held at the Sunland Park Racetrack and Casino, began with business-to-business roundtables between over 250 suppliers and buyers from 43 maquiladoras such as Foxconn, Delphi, Bombardier, Toro, Sumitomo, ADC Telecommunications and Electrolux. An additional 300 small businesses attended the event to promote their products in the small business B2B sessions and to learn about cross-border trade.

On the following day, attendees heard from experts on a variety of issues ranging from border security to rail shipping to financing issues. There were also presentations regarding Foxconn’s San Jeronimo project, Union Pacific’s Santa Teresa rail relocation project, and the Punta Colonet port project.

The annual event is organized by the International Business Accelerator (IBA). Additional event hosts for 2009 included the New Mexico Economic Development Department Office of Mexican Affairs, The North American Institute (NAMI), the Mesilla Valley Economic Development Alliance, Gobierno Municipal De Juarez, Western New Mexico University and the New Mexico Small Business Development Center (NMSBDC).

See related articles from the Las Cruces Sun-News, El Paso Times, New Mexico Business Journal .

The New Mexico Economic Development’s Office of Mexican Affairs, the North American Institute, the City of Juarez, the Mesilla Valley Economic Development Alliance, the New Mexico Small Business Development Network, Western New Mexico University, and the International Business Accelerator have joined together to co-host the “2009 NAFTA Institute/Supplier Meet the Buyer Conference,” which will take place on June 11 and 12, 2009 at the Sunland Park Racetrack and Casino in Sunland Park, New Mexico.

This unique event combines the activities of the “NAFTA Institute” and the “Supplier Meet the Buyer Trade B2B sessions.” The conference is designed for business people interested in selling their products to the North American market, importing products from Mexico and/or becoming a supplier to Mexico’s maquiladora industry. The organizers of the conference will match potential Mexican buyers/sellers with participants in private business-to-business sessions. Anybody interested in learning the mechanics of doing business with Mexico or Canada will also benefit from the NAFTA Institute sessions. During the event, topical experts will be discussing the various aspects of conducting cross-border business.

The event will begin with B2B sessions on June 11, followed by dinner and live entertainment that evening. On June 12, various experts will give presentations on cross-border trade topics.

The cost to participate in this event is $79, which includes meals, materials and entry to all sessions. A special rate of $49 will be charged to companies only wishing to participate in the business-to-business sessions.

Interested parties are urged to sign up quickly, as space is limited. Special hotel rates for conference participants have been arranged with area hotels. A limited amount of scholarships providing special pricing for this event are available on a first-come, first-served basis.

For more information please click here. If you have questions or would like specific information, please contact the International Business Accelerator at 575-589-2200 or at info@nmiba.com.