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Red Hat, the world's leading open-source and Linux provider, is headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina, with satellite offices spanning the globe. The most trusted name in open source, CIOs and other senior-level IT executives have ranked Red Hat as the industry's most valued vendor for two consecutive years in the CIO Insight Magazine Vendor Value study. Red Hat is leading Linux and open-source solutions into the mainstream by making high quality, low cost technology accessible. Red Hat provides operating system software along with middleware, applications and management solutions. Red Hat also offers support, training and consulting services to its customers worldwide and through top-tier partnerships. Red Hat's open-source strategy offers customers a long term plan for building infrastructures that are based on and leverage open source technologies with focus on security and ease of management.
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Gelato is working with the Eclipse Foundation to provide the IA-64 build for Eclipse. Eclipse is an open platform for tool integration built by an open community of tool providers. Operating under an open-source paradigm, with a common public license that provides royalty free source code and world wide redistribution rights, the Eclipse Platform provides tool developers with ultimate flexibility and control over their software technology. The Eclipse Foundation is a non-profit corporation formed to advance the creation, evolution, promotion, and support of the Eclipse Platform and to cultivate both an open source community and an ecosystem of complementary products, capabilities, and services.
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The Gelato Federation is actively working
with the Free Standards Group (FSG)
to contribute back to the IA-64 Linux Standards Base (LSB) specification
and to participate in the broader Free Standards community. The Federation
feels the LSB will be an enabler to take Gelato technologies and contributions
mainstream and will strive to distribute its benefits to the Linux Itanium
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Gelato is working with Progeny to package various
applications together for first run deployment and testing for the 64-bit Itanium architecture. Progeny is the leading independent provider of Linux platform technology.
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SHARCNET is a collaboration of 11 universities and colleges in South-Central Ontario, Cananda, with a mission to provide leading HPC resources and services to our partners. The SHARCNET partners are the Universities of Western Ontario, Brock, Guelph, McMaster, Ontario Institute of Technology, Waterloo, Wilfrid Laurier, Windsor and York, and Fanshawe and Sheridan Colleges. SHARCNET provides a range of HPC architectures together with system and application support as well as a range of fellowship programs designed to build community expertise. We support leading research in both traditional disciplines such as engineering, chemistry, and physics as well as in emerging areas such as bioinformatics and financial mathematics.
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Cluster Builder highlights a broad spectrum of high-performance computing technologies and acts as a portal to information and research on the many cluster solutions available. It is organized into different software and hardware categories such as resource managers, workload managers, compilers, hardware monitors, processors, interconnects, and more. The site also links to a free cluster quoting service where one quote form is completed and sent to multiple hardware vendors of choice.
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Media Partners
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For more than a decade HPCwire, the worldwide electronic publication of record for all aspects of the high-performance computing (HPC) industry, continues to keep its readers at the leading edge of HPC news and information. HPCwire continues to be devoted primarily to ongoing developments across the entire spectrum of computationally-intensive hardware, software, and integrated systems technology. HPCwire's "BREAKING NEWS" provides readers with daily HPC news and is published every Friday providing its readers with the most current news and information. HPCwire: keeping its readers in the know. The Gelato Federation is pleased to announce the support of HPCwire of the May 2005 Meeting. Additionally, any May 2005 Gelato Federation Meeting attendee, who does not already subscribe to HPCwire, will receive a one-year complimentary subscription provided by HPCwire, the publication of record for high-performance computing.
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GRIDtoday, is the only weekly e-publication for news and information specifically focusing on grid computing. Read by over 42,578 subscribers, GRIDtoday features compelling information from over 20,000 breaking news sources worldwide and its contributing editors are the "Who's Who" in grid technology. This makes GRIDtoday a must for grid computing professionals. Subscribers can read GRIDtoday via instantly retrievable email text or on the Web. They are kept abreast of feature stories, industry reports and analyses, product advertising announcements and job listings. Every corner of grid computing is covered every hour of the day. Any Gelato Federation Meeting attendee, who does not already subscribe to GRIDtoday, may receive a one-year complimentary subscription provided by GRIDtoday, news, and information for the global Grid community.
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The Gelato Federation appreciates the efforts of LinuxHPC.org
in promoting Gelato and the whole
Linux on Itanium movement. LinuxHPC.org is a website for system administrators, developers,
and enterprise managers, offering recent industry news, events, mailing lists and links, etc.
related to high performance technical computing and clustering with Linux.
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Honorary Members
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Brian Lynn spent 25 years with HP, where he held a variety of positions working with computers running the MPE, HP-UX and Linux operating systems; and supporting 16-bit stack, 32-bit RISC and 64-bit EPIC architectures. His last position at HP was as a Research Manager in HP Labs. While at HP Labs, Brian helped found the Gelato Federation, and then served as HP Lab's Gelato liaison until October 2005. After 25 years in California, Brian now reads the Gelato postings from Massachusetts.
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David Mosberger is one of the primary architects and designers behind the Itanium Linux kernel and as such has many years of experience with architecting, designing, implementing, analyzing, and performance-tuning of Itanium-related software. David is also the primary author of the book "IA-64 Linux Kernel: Design and Implementation."
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Clemens Roothaan is Professor Emeritus of Physics and Chemistry at the University of Chicago. In the 1950's, he published detailed algorithms to solve quantum mechanical movements of electrons in molecules and atoms. Today, most computer programs in this area are based on his method. After his retirement from the University in 1988, Roothaan started to work for HP Labs in Palo Alto, California. He has worked on the Itanium design team since 1990. Currently, Roothaan is working on a large software suite of scientific tools for function evaluation.
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From 1995-2003, Jean-Pol Taffin was the General Secretary of the ESIEE Group, a five-year engineering school in France that is known internationally as a center for advanced technical and scientific education, concentrating mainly in electronic and computer science areas. From 1972 to 1995, Taffin held several positions with the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Paris (CCIP). Unlike most other Gelato Members who focus on the technical aspects of the Linux on Itanium movement, Taffin's concentration is on management. Now retired, he brings 30+ years experience in the field of business management to the Gelato Federation as an Honorary Member.
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Acknowledgments
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James R. (Jim) Duley (1939-2005), Director of Technology Programs at HP University Relations, was a very strong advocate of Gelato within HP and provided valuable input and guidance to grow and expand the Federation. We appreciate the work he put into our organization. Jim will be missed by all the Federation members who had the fortune to work with him.
Jim received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1967. He had been employed at IBM, Allen Bradley, and Danish Technical University in Denmark. He spent most of his 30+ year HP career in the area of Design Automation of digital computers and ICs, while working closely with IC manufacturing. For 10 years, he was the Director of the Design Technology Laboratory and held a number of other management positions including, Strategic Program Manager at HP Laboratories and eventually Director of Technology Programs. In this role, Jim continued to advance the mission of UR by aligning the HPL technology roadmap with our external university partners. His success can be seen in the implementation and leadership role he played in the Gelato (Linux on Itanium), Tiramisu (Grid) and Digital Publishing programs along with the establishment of the HPL China Program. He later played a significant and pivotal role in tying Brazil's R&D investment to HPL.
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The Gelato Federation would like to thank Cyrille Carry for the original penguin logo
artwork
and Ralph Hyver for his intensive participation during
the development phase of this portal.
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The Federation would like to send a thank you to
Luke Wroblewski for
designing the user interface for Gelato.org as well as the look and feel of the
entire portal. He also worked with tech staff at NCSA to deliver the
voting system and on-line application form for the private area of the portal.
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