1 Gelato Federation M. Benard – Hewlett Packard University Relations

2 Gelato Mission The Gelato Federation is a world-wide consortium of research organizations dedicated to enabling scalable, open source Linux-based Itanium computing solutions to address real world problems in academic, government, and industrial research.

3 Gelato Background Founded and launched in early 2002 Membership –Over twenty institutions –Diverse group consisting of suppliers and users of Itanium Linux from the HPC and research communities

4 Membership The Bioinformatics Institute (Singapore) Groupe ESIEE (France) The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (USA) Tsinghua University (China) The University of Illinois (USA) The University of Waterloo (Canada) The University of New South Wales (Australia) The National Center for Atmospheric Research (USA) CERN (Switzerland) Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (USA) Pacific Northwest National Labs (USA) INRIA (France) San Diego Supercomputer Center (USA) Ohio Supercomputer Center (USA) Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia) University of Karlsruhe (Germany) Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden) University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez (Puerto Rico) Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) Hewlett-Packard [sponsor] British Petroleum [sponsor: under discussion] Institute of Computer Science, Copenhagen University [active contributor]

5 A world-wide consortium UNSW BII Tsinghua University ESIEE INRIA UIUC NCSA UW HP (sponsor) CERN NCAR PSC PNNL SDSC U. of Karlsruhe KTH OSC BP (sponsor) RAS UPRM PUCRS DIKU

6 Gelato Focus and Purpose Research institutions –System researchers Encourage research and development of software that takes advantage of the Itanium architecture Promote Itanium as leading-edge technology Expand breath of contributions –Users, typically HPC Initial adopters of Itanium Create user community that can champion the platform Encourage sharing of tools, solutions, knowledge Linux –Often OS of choice for researchers, HPC –Encourages contributions: kernel through applications Bring together those improving Linux/ia64 and those using it

7 Gelato Portal Gelato.org is a central repository of knowledge for Linux on the Itanium Processor Family Platform. –Interact and collaborate with other world-leading researchers on important research problems –Post relevant news, information, and software –Download software for Itanium Linux

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9 Technical Focus Areas Performance –Single system –Cluster Scalability –Single system –Cluster Parallel file systems Compilers

10 Reasons for Joining Gelato (membership) Be a part of the Linux Itanium community –Network with peers –Benefit from the expertise and experiences of developers, users and vendors –Collaborate with world-leading institutions Be a leader –Take advantage of Gelato to give visibility to your institution's work (e.g. the Gelato portal) –Contribute to the community through Gelato discussions and open source software –Have an opportunity to contribute to the Gelato direction and objectives Be on the leading edge –Get access to the latest software from member institutions

11 Reasons for Promoting Gelato (sponsorship) Create a community –Introduce users and researchers to peers –Increase the number of knowledgeable resources available to users –Generate goodwill –Success in community building with early adopters can be leveraged to other markets (e.g. enterprise) Get direct access to users and researchers –Understand user requirements –Influence and awareness of current research –Demonstrate Itanium commitment and leadership –Collaboration opportunities –Promote Itanium (and Linux) Expand Linux Itanium software portfolio –Encourage development, optimization and redistribution of software

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