Beijing, China
The Itanium(R) Solutions Alliance has announced the winners of the Itanium Solutions Alliance Innovation Contest. The contest recognized top deployments of Itanium(R) 2-based systems in mission-critical computing environments. One winner in each of three categories will receive a $50,000 US cash prize or charitable donation. Category winners are Dr. Carlos Simmerling and team at Stony Brook University for Humanitarian Impact Innovation; Royal London Group for Enterprise Business Application; and Secure64 Software Corporation in the Entrepreneurial Innovation category.
"Efficiency, scalability and built-in reliability make the Itanium 2 processor a highly compelling platform for innovative computing -- especially for heavy load applications," said Gale Persil, director of product management operations at CA and Innovation Contest judge. "The Innovation Contest winners demonstrate how these attributes are being used to address a wide range of real-world challenges and achieve tangible, highly impressive results."
Humanitarian Impact Innovation category winner Dr. Carlos Simmerling at Stony Brook University is fulfilling a humanitarian need through ground-breaking biomedical research. Dr. Simmerling and his team of researchers utilized the inherent data processing capabilities of Itanium-based computing to enable advanced HIV and AIDS research. The Itanium-based solution allows researchers to create computer simulations that provide a view of HIV's dynamic behavior with unprecedented resolution in both time and space, providing an innovative tool for development of new AIDS treatments. Dr. Simmerling is also using simulations to enable vital research in the treatment of tuberculosis and cancer.
Enterprise Business Application winner Royal London Group developed a solution utilizing Itanium 2-based systems in the migration of 750 million data records and 10 million lines of application code for their Scottish Life Assurance division. Scottish Life Assurance saw significant gains in performance since online response times were no longer affected by unscheduled downtime caused by hardware issues. Operating costs were significantly lower, and over the next five years the total cost of ownership is expected to be half of those expected for the previous system.
The Entrepreneurial Innovation award recognizes enhanced business operations of companies with revenues under $25 million. Category winner Secure64 Software Corporation showcased their development of the SourceT micro operating system, an OS that takes advantage of the strong, built-in security and performance features of the Intel Itanium 2 architecture. Designing and developing a system that is invulnerable to attackers requires solving several critical problems unaddressed by current hardware and software architectures. Secure64 demonstrated its Genuinely Secure, high-performance computing environment that came from the combination of their solution and the Intel(R) Itanium(R) 2 architecture.
In addition to category winners, ten organizations from around the globe received honorable mentions for their Alliance Innovation Contest submissions. Honorable mention recipients from the Americas are: Gencom, Kindred Healthcare, PSI, Stanford University, the University of California -- Riverside, and the University of Houston. Asia-Pacific honorable mentions are: Infosys and Southwest University. European honorable mention recipients are: Amadeus Data Processing and the University of Karlsruhe -- Weather Computing Center.
For more information about the Alliance Innovation Contest or the winning organizations, visit http://www.itaniumsolutionsalliance.org/innovation/.
About The Itanium Solutions Alliance
The Itanium Solutions Alliance was formed by leading enterprise and technical computing solutions providers to work together toward a common objective of transitioning the world to open, industry-standard solutions based on Intel Itanium architecture. Together with leading enterprise software and hardware providers, the Alliance is dedicated to accelerating the adoption and ongoing development of Itanium-based solutions. Its membership comprises some of the most influential companies in the computing industry. For more information, visit www.itaniumsolutionsalliance.org.
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Source: Business Wire (Business Wire India)