HP,
Intel Grant $2.5 Million in Itanium™-based Systems to Accelerate University
Research
PALO
ALTO, Calif., Sept. 26, 2001 -- Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE:HWP) and Intel
Corporation today announced that 40 universities worldwide will receive HP
servers and workstations based on the Intel® Itanium™ processor as part of HP
and Intel’s new Itanium-based Systems Grant program. The universities plan to
use the Itanium-based systems for research in areas ranging from bio-informatics
and neural networks, to compilers and cluster computing, to computational
science and scientific data mining.
The
selected universities will receive HP Workstation i2000 and HP Server rx4610
products as part of the $2.5 million joint effort by Intel and HP. The Itanium-based
Systems Grant program is part of each company’s ongoing commitment to support
education worldwide, to strengthen university research capabilities and to
enhance Itanium-based system performance and features for the benefit of all
customers.
“HP
and Intel are pleased to put Itanium-based systems into the hands of these
world-class university scientists,” said Patrick Scaglia, director of the
Center for Internet and Computing Platform Technologies, HP Labs. “We are
excited by the enthusiasm of the worldwide scientific community in harnessing
the potential of the Itanium architecture. The research proposed will
undoubtedly lead to major advances in many fields of science while showing the
true potential of this new architecture.”
“Universities
play a pivotal role in extending the value of our new technology for the broad
user community,” said David Tennenhouse, vice president and director of
research, Intel. “This university research will take advantage of the Itanium
processor’s unique capabilities and catalyse new and exciting applications in
business, science and engineering.”
HP
and Intel jointly developed the grant program under the administration of HP
University Relations and Intel Academic Relations and the auspices of Intel
Research and HP Labs. The Intel and HP team invited universities throughout the
world to propose how they would deploy the Itanium-based systems to strengthen
their research.
“The
Itanium architecture is extremely promising for database applications -- the
software that dominates the commercial server market,” said Anastassi Ailamaki,
assistant professor, School of Computer Science and Electrical and Computer
Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University. “Inventing ways for database systems
to take advantage of the Itanium processor’s characteristics opens an exciting
new research area that will lead in revolutionizing database software technology
to deliver superb performance on this cutting-edge computer architecture.”
“We
are investigating if processor and platform architectural features can enhance
security,” said Ruby Lee, Hamrick Professor of Engineering, Princeton
University. “For example, we plan to explore security issues such as how
Itanium-based servers can mitigate denial of service attacks or protect the
intellectual property rights of digital movies sent over the Internet.”
HP
and Intel awarded grants to the following universities, which are expected to
receive systems later this fall:
In
the United States: California Institute of Technology; Carnegie Mellon
University; Cornell University; Georgia Institute of Technology; Harvard
University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; North Carolina State
University; Princeton University; Rice University; State University of New York
at Stony Brook; University of Arizona, Tucson; University of California at
Berkeley; University of California, Davis; University of California, San Diego;
University of Colorado, Boulder; University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign;
University of Kentucky; University of Minnesota; University of Tennessee;
University of Wisconsin, Madison; and Washington University, St. Louis.
In Canada: McGill University; University of Alberta; University of Guelph;
and University of Waterloo.
In Asia Pacific: The Chinese Academy of Sciences; National University of
Singapore; Seoul National University; Tsinghau University (China); and
University of New South Wales (Australia).
In Europe: Dresden University (Germany); Groupe ESIEE Paris (France);
Hacettepe University (Turkey); INRIA Lorraine (France); INRIA Rhone Alpes
(Switzerland); Karlsruhe University (Germany); Ruhr-University of Bochum
(Germany); Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (Spain); University of Cambridge
(UK); and University of Perpignan (France).
About
Intel
Intel,
the world’s largest chip maker, is also a leading manufacturer of computer,
networking and communications products. For more information look here: http://www.intel.com/pressroom.
About
HP
Hewlett‑Packard
Company -- a leading global provider of computing and imaging solutions and
services -- is focused on making technology and its benefits accessible to all.
HP had total revenue from continuing operations of $48.8 billion in its 2000
fiscal year.
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at http://www.hp.com.
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