Intel Itanium(tm) Architecture

Intel Itanium(tm) Architecture TO BE foundation
for One of world's most

powerful scientific computing systems



3300 Intel Processors to Be Linked in a System Capable of

Calculating More Than 13.6 Trillion Operations Per Second



Note: Executives from NCSA, SDSC, Intel, IBM and Qwest will host a

teleconference to discuss details of this announcement and answer questions

at 1:30 p.m. PDT (4:30 p.m. EDT) on Thursday, Aug. 9. Press and analysts may

join the teleconference by dialing (888) 202-2422. A full recording of this

press conference will be available until Aug. 15 by calling 719-457-0820,

passcode 752071.



SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 9, 2001 - Intel today announced that its

Itanium(tm) family of processors will be used to build a distributed

scientific computing system expected to be the largest of its kind in the

world. The computing system, dubbed the "TeraGrid," is part of a $53
million

award by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to four facilities to address

complex scientific research by creating a Distributed Terascale Facility

(DTF). The TeraGrid will link computers powered by more than 3,300 Intel®

Itanium family processors. It will be capable of more than 13.6 trillion

calculations per second (13.6 teraflops) and have the ability to store,

access and share more than 450 trillion bytes of information.

The TeraGrid will be accessible to researchers across the United States so

that they can more quickly analyze, simulate and help solve some of the most

complex scientific problems. Examples of research areas include molecular

modeling for disease detection, cures and drug discovery, automobile crash

simulations, research on alternative energy sources and climate and

atmospheric simulations for more accurate weather predictions.

"The Itanium processor family is bringing a new level of performance,

scalability and lower costs to high-performance computing," said Abhi

Talwalkar, Intel vice president and assistant general manager, Enterprise

Platforms Group. "Today's NSF award is a major show of support for Itanium

technology. All of us at Intel are proud of the role our products play in

helping to advance the progress of scientific discovery."

The system announced today has been dubbed "TeraGrid" due to its
speed,

distributed design and deployment across multiple networked geographic

sites. It will achieve "tera" performance with its ability to
calculate

trillions of floating point operations per second (teraflops) and store

trillions of bytes (terabytes) of data. The grid is a resource for

researchers to mutually access the system and collaborate using shared

computing hardware, software and information.

Expected to be available in 2002, the TeraGrid is planned to be the most

comprehensive distributed scientific computing infrastructure of its kind.

It will build upon an existing one-teraflops solution with more than 300

Itanium processors now being deployed at the National Center for

Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). The TeraGrid will be based on both

Intel's Itanium and "McKinley" processors. McKinley is the code name
for the

second product in Intel's Itanium processor family, due in 2002.

The largest portion of the DTF computing power will be at the NCSA at the

University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. NCSA has three DTF partners

which will also deploy Itanium systems: the San Diego Supercomputer Center

(SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego; Argonne National

Laboratory in suburban Chicago; and the California Institute of Technology

in Pasadena.

The system will consist of clustered IBM servers running the Linux operating

system, and will be connected by a Qwest high-speed optical network. In

addition to providing the processors powering the IBM systems, Intel will

supply the TeraGrid with key compilers, software, tools and engineering

design, and tuning support services.

The Itanium architecture design enables breakthrough capabilities in

processing terabytes of data at high speeds and processing complex

computations. Itanium-based solutions are providing the highest levels of

floating-point performance for complex, numerical-intensive applications --

surpassing many of the best RISC-based results and benchmarks to date. The

Itanium processor's floating-point engine enables up to 6.4 billion

operations per second and includes increased system memory bandwidth.



Intel, the world's largest chip maker, is also a leading manufacturer of

computer, networking and communications products. Additional information

about Intel is available at www.intel.com/pressroom.

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