E-SCIENCE GRID GROWS WITH INTEL INSIDE

SWINDON, UK, 22nd October 2002 - Intel Corporation has today announced that it is enabling Imperial College London and The University of Southampton to boost the capabilities of their research and e-Science communities. Both institutions have implemented Intel(r)-based clusters to support departments and research communities that require high-throughput or high-performance computing resources.

These resources are used to aid studies in data-intensive research fields such as high-energy physics, bioinformatics and fluid dynamics. As part of the UK e-Science grid the clusters will also support collaborative research into various projects established to develop the foundations and blueprints for future grid infrastructures and middleware.

Dr. Steven Newhouse, Technical Director of the London e-Science Centre at Imperial College, explained why both institutions have chosen Intel-based
solutions: "Intel processor-based clusters were an obvious choice for our computational needs. Both Imperial and The University of Southampton have a large community of researchers, each undertaking projects that require huge amounts of data to be processed every second. Therefore, we need a high-performance and cost-effective solution that can support a large number of users with varying workloads. Intel architecture delivers exactly that."

Simon Cox, Professor of Computational Methods, University of Southampton, explained further: "When the project began 18 months ago, we committed ourselves to Intel's future technology roadmap and they have delivered exactly what they promised. We have already upgraded the system at The University of Southampton to use higher performing Intel processors and we will continue to upgrade with Intel architecture in the future."

Rick Skett, Director UK and Ireland, Intel said: "This just shows that at an organisational level Intel technology can enable world class science and engineering. Previously, the computational resources of individual departmental-sized machines limited research capabilities but with a grid-enabled cluster solution, the available processing power has grown in magnitude. Now the possibilities are endless."

Intel(r) Premier Provider*, Compusys, supplied and integrated the systems as turnkey projects at both Imperial College and the University of Southampton. Commercial Director, Gordon Davies, explained their
involvement: "We are playing an active role in grid research and development by collaborating with various Universities to ensure their systems are grid ready. This project was of particular interest to us because the Intel European Virtual Centre for Grid Computing offers the possibility of uniting many of the institutions we have been working closely with."

The University of Southampton's system comprises of 405 Intel processors including 1GHz Pentium(r) III processors, 1.5GHz and 1.8GHz Xeon(tm) processors and high-end Itanium(r) based servers. Imperial College's high-performance system is a cluster of 64 dual 2GHz Pentium 4 processors each with 2Gb RAM. In addition, their high throughput community is supported by a cluster of 34 Pentium 4 processors with 2GB RAM and 34
Pentium 4 processors with 1GB RAM. As part of the UK e-Science grid
and
the Intel European Virtual Centre for Grid Computing, these resources support various projects including 'Genie', a grid enabled integrated earth systems model that will investigate the use of distributed grid computing to aid climate modeling; 'Oscar-G', an e-Science project to develop grid fabric and the infrastructure that will support the management of virtual organizations and; 'Geodise', a grid-enabled optimisation and design search system for engineering.

* The Intel(r) Premier Provider program (IPP) is one of Intel's Channel programs. IPPs are preferred vendors of Intel technology-based solutions.

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