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URBANA, Ill. (March 28, 2007)—The Gelato Federation is proud to announce the technical program for the Gelato ICE: Itanium® Conference & Expo to be held on April 16-18, 2007, in San Jose, California. International Itanium architecture experts are scheduled to deliver over 70 top-notch presentations focusing on Linux® on the Intel® Itanium® architecture. The full program is now available online at www.ice.gelato.org/program/program.php.

"This year's program is phenomenal," stated Mark K. Smith, Gelato managing director. "The Program Committee has brought together all the big names in Linux and Itanium architecture. Attendees will not want to miss the presentation from Intel's James Fister outlining the latest, yet to be disclosed, Itanium processor roadmap."

Gelato ICE is the world's only conference dedicated specifically to Linux on the Intel Itanium architecture. Gelato ICE is targeted for technical users, application and tool developers, system researchers and vendors, and ISVs wanting to network and extend the impact of the platform. The conference is sponsored by HP, Intel, and the Itanium® Solutions Alliance, and media partners HPCwire and GRIDtoday.

Program Sessions and Tracks for Gelato ICE 2007

Program tracks covering the three-full days of Gelato ICE include: multi-core programming, IA-64 Linux kernel work, virtualization, tools and tuning, topics for enterprise, GCC improvements, and cutting-edge research. Linux keynote speakers will be Andrew Morton, Maintainer of the Linux 2.6 Kernel, and Wim Coekaerts, Senior Director for Linux Engineering at Oracle.

Intel and Gelato are offering a full day multi-core programming seminar and lab. Gelato and the Itanium® Solutions Alliance have organized a series of presentations covering the Itanium architecture and tool selection and use for porting applications and optimizing system performance.

Gelato ICE San Jose will be the year's highpoint for those wanting to learn more about using and developing Linux on Itanium architecture. Anyone working with this platform—or thinking about working with the platform—should attend. More information is available at www.ice.gelato.org.

About Gelato

The Gelato Federation is the global technical community dedicated to advancing Linux on the Intel Itanium-based platform through collaboration, education, and leadership. Information about Gelato members' software and solutions are available through the Gelato portal, and the community is welcome to participate and contribute.

For more information, please contact:
Nan Holda
nan@gelato.org
+1.217.265.0947

Intel and Itanium are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in several countries. All other trademarks mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners.

URBANA, Ill. (January 17, 2007)— On the eve of their fifth anniversary, the Gelato Federation (www.gelato.org) announces the opening of registration for the Gelato ICE: Itanium® Conference & Expo to be held on April 15-18, 2007, in San Jose, California. Gelato ICE is the world's only conference dedicated specifically to Linux® on the Intel® Itanium architecture and is sponsored by HP, Intel, and the Itanium® Solutions Alliance.

Gelato ICE 2007 will feature three full days and 70+ technical presentations spotlighting Linux on Itanium-based platforms. Presenters will include international experts working on this architecture and speaking on topics such as: optimization, multi-core programming, virtualization, compilers, and Gelato member research.

There will be a heavy emphasis on Linux at this year's event. Gelato ICE 2007 will feature a new track focusing on IA-64 Linux Kernel work. Keynote speakers will include: Wim Coekaerts, Senior Director for Linux Engineering at Oracle, and Andrew Morton, Maintainer of the Linux 2.6 Kernel.

"Many people are not aware that in the four-year period 2002 to 2005, Linux customers spent nearly $1.2 billion on Intel Itanium-based servers. This is second only to x86-based servers and almost six times as much as on all RISC-based servers running Linux combined," stated Mark K. Smith, Gelato managing director. "Because of this strong connection between the Linux operating system and the Itanium processor, we decided to highlight Linux at this Gelato ICE."

Gelato ICE is *the* conference for technical users, application and tool developers, system researchers and vendors, and ISVs looking to extend the impact of Linux on Itanium architecture. The event will address current high-performance computing issues and collaborative solutions specific to Linux on the Itanium processor, and will feature presentations, poster sessions, and the exchange of information in formal and informal settings. Attendees can network with key researchers, system vendors, industrial users, and ISVs. Participants will learn how to maximize the performance of their systems and discover which tools to use and how to use them.

Gelato ICE 2007 will be the year's highpoint for those wanting to learn more about using and developing Linux on Itanium architecture. Anyone working with this platform—or thinking about working with the platform—should attend. Conference sponsor and exhibitor opportunities are still available. For attendees, an Early Bird discount is in effect until March 22. More information is available at www.ice.gelato.org.

About Gelato

The Gelato Federation is the global technical community dedicated to advancing Linux on the Intel Itanium-based platform through collaboration, education, and leadership. Gelato members are suppliers and users of Linux/Itanium processor technology with a shared goal of producing open-source solutions for academic, government, and industrial high-performance computing users. The Gelato portal (www.gelato.org) serves as the primary channel for Federation business and collaborations. Information about Gelato members' software and solutions are available through the portal, and the community is welcome to participate and contribute.

For more information, please contact: Nan Holda nan@gelato.org 217.265.0947

URBANA, Ill. (November 1, 2006)‧'Over 100 scientists, developers, and engineers from more than 30 companies and institutions convened from all around the globe for the October 2006 Gelato ICE: Itanium® Conference & Expo held in Singapore. The event was organized by the Gelato Federation (http://www.gelato.org), an international user community dedicated to advancing Linux® on the Intel® Itanium® architecture. The conference was hosted by the Bioinformatics Institute (BII), Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC), and National Grid Office (NGO). Conference sponsors included HP, Intel, and the Itanium® Solutions Alliance, and media sponsors included HPCwire and GRIDtoday.

"NGO was very proud to partner the A*STAR research institutes in hosting Gelato ICE and to help provide a conducive environment for attendees to learn more about Linux on Itanium-based platforms," stated Hing-Yan Lee, deputy director of NGO. "As a user of this platform ourselves, we recognize the great asset that the Linux on Itanium architecture provides for high-end grid computing and high-performance computing in general."

Presentations and Cutting-Edge Projects Showcased

A major goal of the Gelato Federation is education, an area in which the October 2006 Gelato ICE excelled. Focused on areas such as virtualization, multi-core programming, grid, scalability, research, and techniques for software developers, the event delivered an exceptional speaker line- up and technical program with nearly 40 presentations. Highlights were the keynote speeches given by Steve Geary (HP), Cameron McNairy (Intel), and Jeff Adie (SGI and the Itanium Solutions Alliance), and a ceremony for the inaugural Gelato Innovative Projects for Itanium Processors (IP)2 Award, given to Peter Chubb of the University of New South Wales (UNSW) for his team's work on large memory pages (superpages).

A new program track on multi-core programming was voted a favorite by attendees as was a track targeting software developers sponsored by the Itanium Solutions Alliance. Notable in this track were: "An Update on the Perfmon2 Interface" by Stéphane Eranian (HP); "64-Bit Migration to Linux on Itanium: Challenges, Advantages, and Tools" by Soumitra Chatterjee (HP); and "Hyper-Threading on Dual-Core Intel Itanium 2 Processors" by Cameron McNairy (Intel).

Presentations from the conference can be found at http://ice.gelato.org/about/oct06_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-nine member institutions presented over 80 projects, denoting a wide range of activities, including: kernel work from UNSW; testing of the Xen virtual machine monitor by the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul; various compiler work at the Russian Academy of Sciences, National University of Defense Technology, and Tsinghua University; diverse scientific applications from the Riken Genomic Sciences Center and the University of Tokyo; and projects from Singapore hosts IHPC and NGO.

Posters from the conference can be found at http://www.gelato.org/participants/member_posters.php.

"It was amazing to see the enthusiastic exchange and collaborative spirit among end users, developers, researchers, ISVs, and system vendors during this conference," said Mark K. Smith, Gelato managing director. "It was also exciting to hold this Gelato ICE in Singapore, given the strong Itanium processor adoption rate in the Asia-Pacific region."

Upcoming Events for Gelato Federation

Gelato will exhibit at booth #848 at the upcoming Supercomputing Conference (SC06) on November 13-16 in Tampa, Florida and will feature a demonstration highlighting Xen on the Itanium processor as well as examples of the Gelato ICE multi-core programming training.

With the tremendous amount of high-quality technical information delivered and critical mass of Linux and Itanium processor experts attending, the October 2006 Gelato ICE was a major success. The next Gelato ICE is planned for April 15-18, 2007, in San Jose, California. The following Gelato ICE is set for September 30-October 3 in Singapore. Stay tuned to http://www.ice.gelato.org/ for details.

About Gelato

The Gelato Federation is the global technical community dedicated to advancing Linux on the Intel Itanium-based platform through collaboration, education, and leadership. Gelato members are suppliers and users of Linux/Itanium processor technology with a shared goal of producing open- source solutions for academic, government, and industrial high-performance computing users. The Gelato portal (http://www.gelato.org) serves as the primary channel for Federation business and collaborations. Information about Gelato members' software and solutions are available through the portal, and the community is welcome to participate and contribute.

For more information, please contact: Nan Holda nan@gelato.org 217.265.0947

Intel and Itanium are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in several countries. All other trademarks mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners.

URBANA, Ill. (August 16, 2006)--The Gelato Federation (www.gelato.org) is proud to announce the keynote speakers for the Gelato ICE: Itanium® Conference & Expo to be held on October 1-4, 2006 at the Biopolis in Singapore. The conference is hosted by the Bioinformatics Institute, Institute of High Performance Computing, and National Grid Office and sponsored by HP, Intel, and the Itanium® Solutions Alliance. Keynote speakers, Steve Geary (HP) and Cameron McNairy (Intel), will deliver vital insights regarding the Intel® Itanium® architecture.

"The recent release of the Dual-Core Intel® Itanium® 2 Processor 9000 series, with its excellent raw performance, performance/watt, and reliability features, has generated intense interest in the Itanium architecture processors. Gelato ICE offers a great setting to learn more about the architecture and the opportunities and challenges the new processor brings," stated Cameron McNairy, Principal Engineer and Intel Architect.

Gelato ICE (www.ice.gelato.org) is the world's only conference dedicated specifically to Linux® on the Intel Itanium architecture. The event will address current high-performance computing issues and collaborative solutions specific to the platform through three full days of presentations and tutorials. Learn how to get the best performance out of your Itanium-based systems and discover which tools to use and how to use them. International experts will speak on topics such as: optimization, scalability, compilers, and grids. New for Gelato ICE Singapore are sessions targeting multi-core programming and an Itanium® Solutions Alliance software developer track.

Gelato ICE Keynotes

Steve Geary, HP Steve Geary will discuss ideas for harnessing the power of the world's largest Linux/Itanium community. Geary is responsible for overseeing HP's open-source and Linux technical strategy as well as development of open-source and Linux technologies and solutions. Geary is also responsible for centralized open-source and Linux functions such as technical support; HP's Open Source Program Offices; HP's Open Source Review Board; and HP's R&D relationship with commercial distributions.

Cameron McNairy, Intel Cameron McNairy will present an exploration of systems and software built around Itanium processors. McNairy is a Principal Engineer and an Intel Architect for the Montecito program. Previous to Montecito, McNairy was a micro-architect for the Itanium 2 processor, contributing to its design and final validation. He came to the Itanium 2 team soon after its inception from performance work on the first Itanium processor.

Register Now--Early Bird Pricing Ends September 1

Gelato ICE Singapore will be the year's highpoint for those wanting to learn more about using and developing Linux on Itanium architecture. Anyone working with this platform--or thinking about working with the platform--should attend. Early Bird pricing and special hotel rates are available until September 1. Details are available at www.ice.gelato.org.

About Gelato

The Gelato Federation is the global technical community dedicated to advancing Linux on the Intel Itanium-based platform through collaboration, education, and leadership. Gelato members are suppliers and users of Linux/Itanium processor technology with a shared goal of producing open-source solutions for academic, government, and industrial high-performance computing users.

Contact info: Nan Holda nan@gelato.org +1.217.265.0947

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URBANA, Ill. (June 28, 2006)--The Gelato Federation (www.gelato.org) announced today the opening of registration for the Gelato ICE: Itanium(r) Conference & Expo to be held on October 1-4, 2006 at the Biopolis in Singapore. Gelato ICE is the world's only conference dedicated specifically to Linux(r) on the Intel(r) Itanium architecture. The conference will be hosted by the Bioinformatics Institute, Institute of High Performance Computing, and National Grid Office and will be sponsored by HP. Conference sponsor and exhibitor opportunities are still available. For attendees, an Early Bird discount is in effect until September 1, 2006.

Gelato ICE Singapore will feature three full days and 40 technical presentations spotlighting Linux on Itanium-based platforms. Presenters will include international experts working on this architecture and speaking on topics such as: optimization, scalability, compilers, and grids. New for Gelato ICE Singapore are program tracks targeting Itanium processor customers and multi-core programming.

"With the upcoming release of the dual-core Intel Itanium 'Montecito' processor, we are very pleased to provide ICE presentations on multi-core programming to address the software challenges and opportunities it brings," stated Mark K. Smith, Gelato managing director. "We are also excited about holding Gelato ICE in Singapore, given the strong Itanium processor adoption rate in the Asia-Pacific region."

Gelato ICE is *the* conference for technical users, application and tool developers, system researchers and vendors, and ISVs looking to extend the impact of Linux on Itanium architecture. The event will address current high-performance computing issues and collaborative solutions specific to Linux on the Itanium processor, and will feature presentations, poster sessions, and the exchange of information in formal and informal settings. Attendees can network with key researchers, system vendors, industrial users, and ISVs. Participants will learn how to maximize the performance of their systems and discover which tools to use and how to use them. More information is available at www.ice.gelato.org.

Call for Speakers

Gelato ICE is seeking quality technical speakers to share their expertise of Linux on Itanium architecture for the October 2006 conference. We are looking for a wide-variety of presenters--researchers, developers, engineers, end users, system vendors, and ISVs--knowledgeable about the platform and willing to give a speech on a technical level.

Are you wrapping up an interesting project that involves the Itanium architecture? Do you have an idea for a compelling presentation topic? Perhaps you or someone you know would be an interesting speaker? If so, now is the time to start thinking about submitting your contribution for consideration as part of the Gelato ICE technical program. Gelato will be accepting speaker/topic proposals until July 31, 2006.

About Gelato

The Gelato Federation is the global technical community dedicated to advancing Linux on the Intel Itanium-based platform through collaboration, education, and leadership. Gelato members are suppliers and users of Linux/Itanium processor technology with a shared goal of producing open-source solutions for academic, government, and industrial high-performance computing users. The Gelato portal (www.gelato.org) serves as the primary channel for Federation business and collaborations. Information about Gelato members' software and solutions are available through the portal, and the community is welcome to participate and contribute.

For more information, please contact: Nan Holda nan@gelato.org 217.265.0947

Intel and Itanium are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in several countries. All other trademarks mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners.

URBANA, Ill. (May 19, 2006)--Over 200 scientists, developers, and engineers convened from all around the globe for the April 2006 Gelato ICE: Itanium(r) Conference & Expo. The event was organized by the Gelato Federation (http://www.gelato.org), an international user community dedicated to advancing Linux(r) on the Intel(r) Itanium(r) architecture. It was the largest gathering of Linux and Itanium professionals that the world has seen to date with delegates from more than 80 companies and institutions attending. Conference sponsors included HP, Intel, and the Itanium(r) Solutions Alliance, and media sponsors included HPCwire and Linux HPC.org.

"It was amazing to see the enthusiastic exchange and collaborative spirit among end users, developers, researchers, ISVs, and system vendors during the April conference," stated Mark K. Smith, Gelato managing director. "We believe a strong technical community is going to be the key factor for the overall success of Linux on the Itanium architecture, and Gelato ICE provides a nurturing environment for the community to grow and thrive."

Presentations and Cutting-Edge Projects Showcased

A major goal of the Gelato Federation is education, an area in which the April 2006 Gelato ICE excelled. Focused on areas such as tools and tuning, scalability, enterprise use, and research, the event delivered an exceptional speaker line-up and technical program with over 65 presentations. Highlights were the keynote speeches given by Jerry Huck (HP), Don Soltis and James Reinders (Intel), and Bill Worley (Secure64 and Itanium Solutions Alliance). Other favorites included: decimal floating-point, scaling Linux to 512 processors on SGI(r) Altix(r) servers, and virtualization and vNUMA research at the University of New South Wales. The technical track targeting the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) proved to be the most popular with topics such as introductions to link-time optimization and the LLVM (low level virtual machine) compiler.

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 and Itanium research during a poster session. Three dozen member institutions presented over 75 projects, denoting a wide range of activities, including: kernel work from the University of New South Wales and the University of Waterloo; grid projects from the University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez and the European Organization for Nuclear Research; compiler work at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Russian Academy of Sciences; and diverse scientific applications from the University of Chile and the University of Tokyo.

Presentations and posters from the conference can be found at http://www.gelato.org/community/events.php#ICE06apr.

Intel(r) Software Development Product Betas Announced

The April 2006 Gelato ICE offered the backdrop for Intel to demonstrate its continued commitment to the Itanium(r) processor by announcing several new beta opportunities: a new parallel programming model, Intel(r) Thread Checker, and Intel(r) VTune(tm) Performance Analyzer for Linux.

"This conference was the perfect occasion to announce the new beta versions of our software products," said James Reinders, director of business development and marketing, Intel Developer Products Division. "Gelato ICE attendees are people and organizations that are passionate about the Itanium(r) processor and the advancement of the architecture. Intel is proud to deliver tools to support the evolving needs of these developers of Itanium applications."

Intel's new parallel programming model is a C++ template-based runtime library that simplifies the process of writing scalable, multi-threaded applications. The beta can be downloaded at: http://www.intel.com/software/products/tbb/beta. Intel(r) Thread Checker, the fastest way for developers to thread an application correctly and unleash its performance on Intel(r) multi-core processors, is also available in beta at: http://www.intel.com/software/products/threading/beta. Intel(r) VTune(tm) Performance Analyzer for Linux* beta makes multithreaded application performance tuning easier with a native GUI and a technology preview of the first memory checker for the Intel Itanium(r) 2 processor. To try VTune(tm) analyzer for Linux, send an email to: vtune_beta@intel.com.

With the tremendous amount of high-quality technical information delivered, exciting new tool announcements, and critical mass of Linux and Itanium experts attending, the April 2006 Gelato ICE was a major success. The next Gelato ICE is planned for October 1-4, 2006, in Singapore, to be hosted by the Bioinformatics Institute, the Institute of High Performance Computing, and the National Grid Office. Stay tuned to http://www.gelato.org/meeting for details.

About Gelato

The Gelato Federation is the global technical community dedicated to advancing Linux on the Intel Itanium-based platform through collaboration, education, and leadership. Gelato members are suppliers and users of Linux/Itanium processor technology with a shared goal of producing open-source solutions for academic, government, and industrial high-performance computing users. The Gelato portal (http://www.gelato.org) serves as the primary channel for Federation business and collaborations. Information about Gelato members' software and solutions are available through the portal, and the community is welcome to participate and contribute.

For more information, please contact: Nan Holda nan@gelato.org 217.265.0947

Intel and Itanium are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries. Silicon Graphics, SGI and Altix are registered trademarks of Silicon Graphics, Inc., in the United States and/or other countries worldwide. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in several countries. All other trademarks mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (April 11, 2006)--The Gelato Federation is proud to announce the technical program for the Gelato ICE: Itanium® Conference & Expo to be held on April 23-26, 2006 in San Jose, California, USA. International Itanium architecture experts are scheduled to deliver 65+ presentations focusing on Linux® on the Intel® Itanium® architecture, including keynotes by Jerry Huck (HP), James Reinders (Intel Corporation), Don Soltis (Intel Corporation), and William Worley (Secure64 and Itanium® Solutions Alliance). The full program is now available online at http://www.gelato.org/pdf/apr2006/gelatoICE_agenda.pdf.

"Our presentation line-up for this conference is impressive considering the depth and breadth of topics in conjunction with the high level of technical knowledge," stated Mark K. Smith, Gelato managing director. "Our speakers include the most proficient architects and software specialists who have worked on Linux on Itanium-based platforms. They will cover subjects as wide-ranging as virtualization, scalability, compilers, and memory management."

Gelato ICE is the world's only conference dedicated specifically to Linux on the Intel Itanium architecture. It will address current high-performance computing issues and collaborative solutions specific to the platform, and will feature presentations and the exchange of information in formal and informal settings. Gelato ICE is targeted for technical users, application and tool developers, system researchers and vendors, and ISVs looking to extend the impact of the platform. The conference is hosted by the Gelato Federation and sponsored by HP, Intel, and the Itanium Solutions Alliance.

New for Gelato ICE 2006

An exhibition area and a program track targeting corporate developers and IT decision makers have been added to Gelato ICE 2006. The expanded technical program will include enterprise-specific topics like enterprise graphics and hardware reliability. In the exhibition area, HP, Intel, Itanium Solutions Alliance, N-VINT, and SGI will be showcasing some of the newest technology solutions.

Also new is integrated technical content to complement the collocated Itanium Solutions Alliance Developer Days to be held on April 26-28. Developer Days are Alliance-organized workshops established to facilitate porting of targeted applications to Itanium platforms. Software developers receive training, technical assistance, and industry-leading tools from Alliance Founding Sponsors and members. Registration for Developer Days is separate from Gelato ICE registration. Details can be found at https://www.itaniumsolutionsalliance.org/events/developer_days/.

The week-long combination--Gelato ICE 2006 and the collocated Itanium Solutions Alliance Developer Days--will be the year's highpoint for those wanting to learn more about using and developing Linux on Itanium architecture. Anyone working with this platform--or thinking about working with the platform--should attend. More information is available at http://www.gelato.org/meeting.

About Gelato

The Gelato Federation is the global technical community dedicated to advancing Linux on the Intel Itanium-based platform through collaboration, education, and leadership. Gelato members are suppliers and users of Linux/Itanium processor technology with a shared goal of producing open-source solutions for academic, government, and industrial high-performance computing users. The Gelato portal (http://www.gelato.org) serves as the primary channel for Federation business and collaborations. Information about Gelato members' software and solutions are available through the portal, and the community is welcome to participate and contribute.

For more information, please contact: Nan Holda nan@gelato.org 217.265.0947

Intel and Itanium are registered trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in several countries. All other trademarks mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (March 17, 2006)--The Gelato Federation (www.gelato.org) is proud to announce the keynote speakers for the Gelato ICE: Itanium® Conference & Expo to be held on April 23-26, 2006 in San Jose, California, USA. Jerry Huck (HP), James Reinders (Intel Corporation), Don Soltis (Intel Corporation), and William Worley (Secure64 and Itanium® Solutions Alliance) are scheduled to present on the past, present, and future developments of the Intel® Itanium® architecture.

"Itanium architecture provides unmatched capabilities for constructing secure systems and it's time these capabilities were used," commented Dr. William Worley Jr., CTO of Secure64, an Itanium Solutions Alliance member.

Gelato ICE is the world's only conference dedicated specifically to Linux® on the Intel Itanium architecture. It will address current high-performance computing issues and collaborative solutions specific to the platform, and will feature 50+ presentations and the exchange of information in formal and informal settings. The conference will be hosted by the Gelato Federation and sponsored by HP, Intel, and the Itanium Solutions Alliance. An Early Bird discount is in effect until March 25, 2006. Program and registration details are available at www.gelato.org/meeting.

"We are very excited about these keynotes, as well as the general presentation line-up. Our speakers include the most knowledgeable architects and software specialists who have worked on Linux on Itanium-based platforms," stated Mark K. Smith, Gelato Managing Director. "These international experts will cover topics as wide-ranging as virtualization, scalability, compilers, and memory management."

Gelato ICE Keynotes

Jerry Huck, HP Jerry Huck will present trends in computer system design. Huck is an HP Fellow in HP's Business Critical Server unit, which produces HP Integrity servers powered by Itanium processors. Joining HP in 1983, Huck participated in the development of HP's PA-RISC architecture, specializing in floating-point and virtual memory definition. He and his team developed the 64-bit instruction set extensions to PA-RISC in the early 90s. Starting in 1994, Huck led the HP side of the instruction set and platform definition team for the co-developed Intel Itanium architecture.

James Reinders, Intel James Reinders will discuss current and future Intel software development tools for the Itanium processor. Reinders is a Senior Engineer who joined Intel Corporation in 1989 and has contributed to projects including the world's first TeraFLOP supercomputer (ASCI Red), compilers and architecture work for the iWarp, Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Itanium, and Pentium 4 processors. Reinders is currently the Director of Business Development and Marketing for Intel's Software Development Products.

Don Soltis, Intel Don Soltis will outline the future Itanium processor hardware features. Don is a Senior Principal Engineer at Intel and has spent the past 10 years on Itanium CPU architecture, design and development. He has 20 years experience in CPU and ASIC design, working on PA-RISC CPUs, I/O, memory and graphics chips.

Dr. William (Bill) Worley Jr., Secure64 and Itanium Solutions Alliance Bill Worley will present a history of the Itanium processor: its rationale and potential from an HP Labs perspective. Worley is the Co-Founder, Vice President, and CTO of Secure64, a member of the Itanium Solutions Alliance. Prior to founding Secure64, Worley worked for HP as an HP Fellow, Distinguished Contributor, and Chief Scientist. While at HP, Worley was the Technical Director and Principal Architect of both the PA-RISC and PA-Wide Word processor architectures, which are the basis for today's Itanium processor.

New for Gelato ICE 2006

An exhibition area and a program track targeting corporate developers and IT decision makers have been added to Gelato ICE 2006. The expanded technical program will include enterprise-specific topics like enterprise graphics and hardware reliability. In the exhibition area, HP, Intel, Itanium Solutions Alliance, and SGI will be showcasing some of the newest technology solutions.

Also new is integrated technical content to complement the collocated Itanium Solutions Alliance Developer Days to be held on April 26-28. Developer Days are Alliance-organized workshops established to facilitate porting of targeted applications to Itanium platforms. Software developers receive training, technical assistance, and industry-leading tools from Alliance Founding Sponsors and members. Registration for Developer Days is separate from Gelato ICE registration. Details can be found at www.itaniumsolutionsalliance.org/events/developer_days/.

The week-long combination--Gelato ICE 2006 and the collocated Itanium Solutions Alliance Developer Days--will be the year's highpoint for those wanting to learn more about using and developing Linux on Itanium architecture. Anyone working with this platform--or thinking about working with the platform--should attend. Early Bird pricing ends March 25, so register now.

About Gelato

The Gelato Federation is the global technical community dedicated to advancing Linux on the Intel Itanium-based platform through collaboration, education, and leadership. Gelato members are suppliers and users of Linux/Itanium processor technology with a shared goal of producing open-source solutions for academic, government, and industrial high-performance computing users. The Gelato portal (http://www.gelato.org) serves as the primary channel for Federation business and collaborations. Information about Gelato members' software and solutions are available through the portal, and the community is welcome to participate and contribute.

For more information, please contact: Nan Holda nan@gelato.org 217.265.0947

Intel and Itanium are registered trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in several countries. All other trademarks mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners.

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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (February 15, 2006)--The Gelato Federation (www.gelato.org) announced today the opening of registration for the Gelato ICE: Itanium® Conference & Expo to be held on April 23-26, 2006 in San Jose, California, USA. Gelato ICE is the world's only conference dedicated specifically to Linux® on the Intel® Itanium architecture. The conference will be hosted by the Gelato Federation and sponsored by HP, Intel, and Itanium Solutions Alliance. Space is limited. An Early Bird discount is in effect until March 25, 2006. Registration information is available at www.gelato.org/meeting.

Gelato ICE is the conference for technical users, application and tool developers, system researchers and vendors, and ISVs looking to extend the impact of Linux on Itanium architecture. The event will address current high-performance computing issues and collaborative solutions specific to Linux on the Itanium processor, and will feature presentations, poster sessions, and the exchange of information in formal and informal settings. Attendees can network with key researchers, system vendors, industrial users, and ISVs. Participants will learn how to maximize the performance of their systems and discover which tools to use and how to use them.

"We are looking forward to this being our best conference to date with outstanding speakers from a variety of Itanium community participants as well as record attendance. The depth and breath of the technical program are impressive," stated Mark K. Smith, Gelato managing director. "We are also very excited about partnering with the Itanium Solutions Alliance on the collocated Developer Days event that immediately follows Gelato ICE."

Gelato ICE 2006 will feature three full days and 40+ technical presentations spotlighting Linux on Itanium-based platforms. Presenters will include international experts working on this architecture and speaking on topics such as: virtualization, scalability, compilers, and memory management. New for Gelato ICE 2006 are an exhibition area and a program track targeting corporate developers and IT decision makers. An expanded technical program will include enterprise-specific topics like database/data mining and hardware reliability.

Also new for Gelato ICE 2006 is integrated technical content to complement the collocated Itanium Solutions Alliance Developer Days to be held on April 26-28. Developer Days are Alliance-organized events established to facilitate porting of targeted applications to Itanium platforms. Software developers receive training, technical assistance, and industry-leading tools from Alliance Founding Sponsors and members. Registration for Developer Days is separate from Gelato ICE registration. Space at Developer Days is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. Details can be found at www.itaniumsolutionsalliance.org/events/developer_days/.

"The Itanium Solutions Alliance is thrilled to be collaborating with Gelato at the Gelato ICE 2006 and Alliance Developer Days events," said Bruce Toal, director of marketing and solutions for Hewlett Packard's High Performance Computing Division. "The combined knowledge and resources of these two industry-leading groups ensures that attendees of both events will receive the best training and information on Linux on Itanium architecture available."

The week-long combination--Gelato ICE 2006 and the collocated Itanium Solutions Alliance Developer Days--will be the year's highpoint for those wanting to learn more about using and developing Linux on Itanium architecture. Anyone working with this platform--or thinking about working with the platform--should attend.

About Gelato The Gelato Federation is the global technical community dedicated to advancing Linux on the Intel Itanium platform through collaboration, education, and leadership. Gelato members are suppliers and users of Linux/Itanium processor technology with a shared goal of producing open-source solutions for academic, government, and industrial high-performance computing users. The Gelato portal (http://www.gelato.org) serves as the primary channel for Federation business and collaborations. Information about Gelato members' software and solutions are available through the portal, and the community is welcome to participate and contribute.

For more information, please contact: Nan Holda nan@gelato.org 217.265.0947

Intel and Itanium are registered trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in several countries. All other trademarks mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners.

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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (November 11, 2005)--Ninety scientists, developers, and engineers convened from all around the globe for the October 2005 meeting of the Gelato Federation, an international technical organization dedicated to advancing Linux on the Intel® Itanium® processor. In attendance were delegates from more than 25 research and enterprise institutions, including Gelato members and sponsors, HP, Intel, and SGI. The event was hosted by the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) at their campus in Porto Alegre, Brazil.

"We were delighted at the turnout of the Linux-Itanium community and industry representatives from around the world," stated Mark K. Smith, Gelato managing director. "It is very gratifying to see the range of presentation topics, especially those addressing Itanium tool chain improvement and presentations of interest to enterprise developers."

Details of the meeting are available at: http://www.gelato.org/community/events.php#OCT2005.

Technical Highlights

Themed "The Itanium ERA: Education, Research, Application," the meeting delivered an exceptional speaker line-up and technical program with over two dozen presentations. In addition to Gelato members and sponsors, speakers from BEA Systems, Secure64 Software, and Red Hat presented their current Itanium-related work. In addition, the Itanium Solutions Alliance presented details on their newly formed organization and received a tremendously positive endorsement from the attendees. Gelato is looking forward to working with the Alliance to meet the mutual objective of advancing the Linux-Itanium platform.

A popular session was led by the Gelato GCC on Itanium workgroup, which aims to produce the best GCC for Itanium possible. The group--including representatives from HP, Intel, Red Hat, the Gelato Federation, and the GCC community--presented recent accomplishments and goals. Gelato member the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) has implemented a high-level Superblock formation pass, which will provide larger code sequences to the optimizers, giving it more freedom to improve code performance. The UIUC team plans to further adjust Superblock formation to generate code sequences that optimized well, verify that optimizers can take advantage of larger code sequences, and tune formation heuristics to optimize performance. Gelato member the Institute for System Programming (ISP) of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) has implemented framework for data speculation, an alias propagation mechanism, region formation, and evaluation of probabilities. In the future, RAS will implement a new aggressive scheduler and enhancements for software pipelining.

Another hot subject is the trend for the Itanium processor market to grow beyond high-performance computing into the information technology sector. Several presentations at the Gelato meeting demonstrated this theme. Mark Davis examined some options on the Intel C++ Compiler for Linux (icc) for compiling transaction-intensive software, including optimizations known to perform well on database applications. An area of particular interest is virtualization, a process that can consolidate under-utilized servers to reduce capital/operating expenses, avoid downtime, and dynamically rebalance workloads to guarantee application service level agreements. Dan Magenheimer, senior scientist for HP Labs, presented on Xen-virtualized machines and a community effort to port Xen to the Itanium. Peter Chubb, senior research engineer at National ICT Australia and research officer at the University of New South Wales, detailed his work on automatic para-virtualization of Linux on the Itanium platform. Automatic para-virtualization massively reduces the engineering effort to convert an operating system to run on a virtual machine.

The Gelato Scalability in a Box focus group sessions continue to be well received. This group concentrates on making Linux perform and scale better in a single, multi-processor system. Lee Schermerhorn, HP software engineer, presented an overview of work done by the HP Open Source and Linux Organization (OSLO) Performance and Scalability team. Avelino F. Zorzo, senior lecturer at PUCRS, outlined work on the IA-64 NUMA platform done as part of the PeSO project. As a result of the presentation, HP and the Ohio Supercomputer Center plan to provide the PeSO project with access to multi-level NUMA platforms. Peter Chubb focused his talk on file system scalability, one of the many areas of Itanium processor research at UNSW. His team will continue to collaborate with SGI and HP to measure the scalability of Linux on large configurations.

Presentations are available at http://www.gelato.org/community/events.php#OCT2005.

With the tremendous amount of high-quality technical information delivered, Gelato's October 2005 meeting was a major success. At the end of 2-1/2 days of presentations, project updates, knowledge sharing, and brainstorming ideas for improving and expanding the platform, there was a palpable level of excitement as attendees were filled with a new vigor and determination to advance Linux on Itanium. The momentum will carry through to the Gelato Conference planned for April 24-26, 2006, in San Jose, California. Plans are already in place to expand to three full days of technical presentations and add an exposition area. Registration will begin early February 2006.

About Gelato

The Gelato Federation is the international user community dedicated to advancing the Linux-Itanium platform. Gelato members are suppliers and users of Linux-Itanium technology with a shared goal of improving the platform for academia, government, and industry use. Details about Gelato members' software and solutions can be found at www.gelato.org. All are welcome to participate and contribute.

For more information, please contact: Nan Holda nan@gelato.org 217.265.0947

Intel and Itanium are registered trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries. Linux® is the registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in the U.S. and other countries. All other trademarks mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners.

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