Universidad de Chile and Universidad de Buenos Aires recently became two of the newest members of the Gelato Federation, an international organization dedicated to advancing Linux on Itanium.
May 9, 2005 (Press Release) --
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (May 5, 2005)—In the last two weeks, Universidad de Chile and Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) became two of the newest members of the Gelato Federation (http://www.gelato.org), an international organization composed of leading universities, supercomputing centers, national labs, and research institutes, dedicated to advancing Linux on the Intel® Itanium® processor. Also announced at a visit to UBA on April 18 and a press conference held at Universidad de Chile on April 21 were donations by HP, Gelato’s founding sponsor, of HP Integrity servers to both universities.
"We're delighted to expand the Gelato Latin American family and look forward to dynamic partnerships promoting research on the Linux Itanium platform," stated Lueny Morell, Director for University Relations in Latin America at HP.
Participants at Universidad de Chile’s press conference included Bess Stephens, Vice President for Corporate Philanthropy and Education at HP; Lueny Morell, Doctor Patricio Poblete, Director of the Engineering and Science College; Doctor Dalia Finkelstein, Vice-Director for Management and External Projects at the Center for Mathematical Modeling, as well as other University and HP officials.
During HP’s visit to UBA on April 18, UBA Dean of Exact Sciences Doctor Pablo Jacovkis confirmed that “this distinction places UBA on a par with top universities and world-renowned research groups, besides playing a key role in developing cutting-edge research in computing technology.”
Gelato is composed of 49 member institutions—to which Universidad de Chile and UBA are the most recent additions from Latin America—for a total of five institutions from the region, including: the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul and the Universidade Federal da Campina Grande, both from Brazil, and the Instituto Tecnologico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Mexico. With members from almost every continent on the globe, the work of the Federation centers around seven main focus areas: compilers, parallel file systems, performance, scalability, cluster and grid computing, Linux Itanium Standards, and Linux Itanium tool integration. Within these areas, Gelato members are applying new technology and solutions to specific applications in bioinformatics, high-energy physics, and atmospheric sciences just to name a few. Research results are published to the entire community through Gelato’s website, http://www.gelato.org.
Both Universidad de Chile and UBA were invited to participate in Gelato as sponsored members by HP. The universities will contribute to the community through research in software and applications for Linux on Itanium. The teams at both institutions will undertake research projects with doctoral- and masters-level students in computer science, as well as with external collaborators.
"We're delighted to expand the Gelato Latin American family and look forward to dynamic partnerships promoting research on the Linux Itanium platform," stated Lueny Morell, Director for University Relations in Latin America at HP.
Participants at Universidad de Chile’s press conference included Bess Stephens, Vice President for Corporate Philanthropy and Education at HP; Lueny Morell, Doctor Patricio Poblete, Director of the Engineering and Science College; Doctor Dalia Finkelstein, Vice-Director for Management and External Projects at the Center for Mathematical Modeling, as well as other University and HP officials.
During HP’s visit to UBA on April 18, UBA Dean of Exact Sciences Doctor Pablo Jacovkis confirmed that “this distinction places UBA on a par with top universities and world-renowned research groups, besides playing a key role in developing cutting-edge research in computing technology.”
Gelato is composed of 49 member institutions—to which Universidad de Chile and UBA are the most recent additions from Latin America—for a total of five institutions from the region, including: the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul and the Universidade Federal da Campina Grande, both from Brazil, and the Instituto Tecnologico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Mexico. With members from almost every continent on the globe, the work of the Federation centers around seven main focus areas: compilers, parallel file systems, performance, scalability, cluster and grid computing, Linux Itanium Standards, and Linux Itanium tool integration. Within these areas, Gelato members are applying new technology and solutions to specific applications in bioinformatics, high-energy physics, and atmospheric sciences just to name a few. Research results are published to the entire community through Gelato’s website, http://www.gelato.org.
Both Universidad de Chile and UBA were invited to participate in Gelato as sponsored members by HP. The universities will contribute to the community through research in software and applications for Linux on Itanium. The teams at both institutions will undertake research projects with doctoral- and masters-level students in computer science, as well as with external collaborators.
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