As a part of the ongoing collaboration with IBM, SCL hosted a high-profile visit by Mr. Vladimir Aninoiu, Director of Developing Markets from IBM Central and Eastern Europe, Mr. Milos Djurkovic, Director of IBM Serbia, and Ms. Jelena Vukajlovic, IBM Serbia's coordinator for collaboration with SCL/Institute of Physics Belgrade.

During the stimulating discussion with IBM representatives, SCL's A. Belic, A. Bogojevic and A. Balaz presented the laboratory, recent work, ongoing and future research and development projects, with special emphasis on the progress in establishing Blue Danube National Supercomputing and Data Storage Facility, testing of new computing architectures and porting of applications to PowerXCell programming paradigm done at SCL on the IBM demo machine delivered recently. IBM representatives presented company's strategic plans for the region and future collaboration with the Institute of Physics Belgrade in the framework of IBM Academic Initiative and beyond. Possible cooperation on some development projects was also discussed.