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64-Bit Linux Spotlighted at Gelato ICE
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URBANA, Ill., May 23 -- Scientists, developers, and engineers from 56 companies and institutions convened from all around the globe for the April 2007 Gelato ICE: Itanium Conference & Expo held in San Jose, California. The event was organized by the Gelato Federation (http://www.gelato.org), an international technical community dedicated to advancing Linux on the Intel Itanium architecture. Conference sponsors included HP, Intel, and the Itanium Solutions Alliance, and media sponsors HPCwire and GRIDtoday.
"It was amazing to see the enthusiastic exchange and collaborative spirit among developers, researchers, ISVs, and system vendors during this conference," said Mark K. Smith, Gelato managing director. "It was also interesting to see a shift in Gelato ICE attendees from mainly research/HPC institutions to over 60 percent hardware and independent software vendors. We hope to take advantage of this trend by focusing on mission-critical computing topics at future conferences."
Presentations and Cutting-Edge Projects Showcased
A major goal of the Gelato Federation is education, an area in which the April 2007 Gelato ICE excelled. Focused on areas such as virtualization, multi-core programming, GCC improvements, and techniques for software developers, the event delivered an exceptional speaker line-up and technical program with over 70 presentations.
The conference covered an excellent variety of pertinent topics for Itanium architecture all the way from a research viewpoint by Prof. Wen-mei Hwu at the University of Illinois to an end-user talk from Oracle's VP for Linux Engineering, Wim Coekaerts, to an industry analyst perspective from IDC VP Jean Bozman. Attendee favorites included keynotes on Linux kernel development for Itanium architecture by the Linux 2.6 kernel maintainer, Andrew Morton, and the Itanium processor vision and roadmap by Intel's James Fister.
Other highlights were a popular new track covering IA-64 Linux kernel work and two award ceremonies. One presented the Gelato Innovative Projects for Itanium Processors (IP)2 Award given to North Carolina State University for their research on hardware profile-guided automatic page placement for ccNUMA Systems. The other honored Clemens Roothaan (University of Chicago) with a Gelato Federation Lifetime Achievement Award for his pioneering work to advance the Itanium-based platform.
Presentations can be found at http://www.ice.gelato.org/about/apr07_index.php.
In addition to presenting, Gelato members--some of the world's top supercomputing centers, national labs, research centers, and universities--were able to highlight their current Linux/Itanium research during a poster session. Thirty-three member institutions presented over 100 projects, denoting a wide range of activities, including: virtualization work from the University of New South Wales as well as from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul; various compiler projects at the Russian Academy of Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Tsinghua University; and diverse scientific applications from the Riken Genomic Sciences Center, the Supercomputing Center of Galicia, and the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm (KTH).
Posters can be found at http://www.gelato.org/participants/member_posters.php.
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