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<p><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>FYI …</span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Cornell Joins Forces with Dell, Intel, and Microsoft to
Expand Usage of High Performance Cluster Computing in the Corporate </span></font><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>Data</span></font><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'> </span></font><font face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial'>Center</span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Aug. 5, 2002</span></font><font face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial'> - Cornell Theory Center (CTC) today announced an
agreement with Dell, Intel, and Microsoft to develop and deliver CTC
High-Performance Solutions, a suite of industry standards-based
high-performance computing (HPC) solutions and services for business,
government and academic clients. The agreement provides $60 million worth of
resources over the next four years to aid in solutions development.</span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>CTC High-Performance Solutions will be based on Dell PowerEdge
servers; Intel® Xeon™ and Itanium® family processors and tools;
and running Microsoft Server software. This combination is designed to provide
customers with the performance and availability once only achieved by
proprietary supercomputers at a fraction of the price. CTC will double the size
of its existing 425-server Dell, Intel and Windows-based HPC clusters as a
result of this agreement. With the standards-based technologies in CTC's
clusters, it can provide users with documented high performance, reliability
and security while functioning at significantly reduced total cost of ownership
when compared to the proprietary supercomputer CTC previously used. </span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>HPC clustering has been successfully used in university and
research environments for years to solve complex problems, but also has many
practical applications for business such as scalable online transaction
processing with Web clients, decision support systems, engineering design and
analysis, bioinformatics and more. CTC High-Performance Solutions will apply
its Windows HPC expertise to accelerate the deployment and scale out of
Windows-based IT infrastructure in the private sector. </span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>CTC High-Performance Solutions will develop robust Windows
HPC solution stacks for broad industry deployment, and will include HPC
services such as UNIX to Windows code porting, optimization, and porting to
parallel environments; systems planning and integration; systems and
applications training and testing; benchmarking. CTC will also offer
high-performance Web services based on Microsoft's .NET software and SQL
Server. CTC's TechExchange Consortium will provide members with more immediate
access to IT technologies and will help drive the evolution of Windows HPC. </span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>In addition, CTC will establish a technology showcase for
proof-of-concept applications for HPCC in the financial district of New York
City. This facility will be linked to related activities in CTC's </span></font><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>Ithaca</span></font><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>, </span></font><font face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial'>N.Y.</span></font><font face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial'>, laboratories and will serve as the setting for
customers to pilot projects. </span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>"Establishment of CTC High-Performance Solutions comes
at a time when all sectors of the economy face increasing competition, pressure
on margins, and the need to demonstrate strong and quick returns on
investment," said Thomas F. Coleman, CTC director and Cornell computer
scientist. "With our expanded relationships and combined strengths, we can
show companies, government agencies, and academic institutions how to expand
their technical computing environment, while reducing their overall IT budget.
They can take their existing expensive, proprietary systems, which are often
islands of performance requiring extra systems staff, and replace them with a
more flexible, scale-out clustered environment that is expandable and that fits
in the overall Windows-based office environment." <br>
<br>
"</span></font><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>Cornell</span></font><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'> </span></font><font face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial'>Theory</span></font><font face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial'> </span></font><font face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial'>Center</span></font><font face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial'> is playing an important leadership role in Windows
Server-based high-performance computing," said Brian Valentine, Microsoft
Senior Vice President, Windows Division. "They were first to move
completely to Windows for HPC. They have shown that it works in the most
demanding settings. And they will be instrumental in moving HPC out of the
research environment and into the mainstream industry. As we work together with
CTC, Dell, and Intel, the efforts coming out of this agreement will very
clearly show Windows brings the highest value to high-performance computing
applications and companies' business systems on an industry standards-based IT
platform."</span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>"The flexibility, performance and cost-effectiveness of
Dell PowerEdge servers with Intel technology is becoming more and more
attractive to customers in research-intensive industries outside of the
university, due in part to initiatives like CTC's Windows program," said
Russ Holt, vice president of Dell's Enterprise Systems Group. "Through
Dell's own HPCC program, we continue to see customers replacing legacy,
proprietary systems with Intel-based HPC clusters." </span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>"Intel continues to invest in HPC to propel the
industry forward and drive innovation using Intel's volume economics model -
delivering absolute performance, price/performance, flexibility and choice to
enable supercomputing for the masses," said Mike Fister, senior vice president
and general manager, Intel Enterprise Platforms Group. "Using the
industry-leading floating point performance of the Intel Itanium 2 processor
and the world-class price/performance of the Intel Xeon processor, CTC
High-Performance Solutions will help accelerate the migration of leading-edge
computational research into the corporate data center of the future."</span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>"This tremendous investment by Dell, Intel and
Microsoft in the </span></font><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>Cornell</span></font><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'> </span></font><font face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial'>Theory</span></font><font face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial'> </span></font><font face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial'>Center</span></font><font face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial'> is a true vote of confidence in the intellectual
power of one of our State's finest academic institutions," said Governor
Pataki. "Industry, university and government collaboration is critical to
economic success in our State and throughout the nation, especially in the
fast-paced world of information technology. This project is a prime example of
how expertise at </span></font><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>New
York</span></font><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'> </span></font><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>State</span></font><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>'s top-flight universities can help
industry solve complex problems that will benefit all sectors, public and
private." </span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>For more information about CTC High-Performance Solutions,
visit <a href="http://www.ctc-hpc.com">http://www.ctc-hpc.com</a>.</span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>About the </span></font><font face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial'>Cornell</span></font><font face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial'> </span></font><font face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial'>Theory</span></font><font face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial'> </span></font><font face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial'>Center</span></font><font face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial'><br>
CTC is a high-performance computing and interdisciplinary research center
located on the </span></font><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>Ithaca</span></font><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'> campus of </span></font><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>Cornell</span></font><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'> </span></font><font face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial'>University</span></font><font face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial'>. CTC currently operates a Dell/Intel/Windows cluster
complex consisting of more than 900 processors. Scientific and engineering
projects supported by CTC represent a vast variety of disciplines, including
bioinformatics, behavioral and social sciences, computer science, engineering,
geosciences, mathematics, physical sciences, and business.</span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>About CTC Systems<br>
CTC's Systems are configured into general purpose, strategic application, and
dedicated clusters. Among the dedicated research clusters housed at CTC are a
64-node system devoted to computational materials, 64 nodes for computational
biology solutions, 32 nodes to support the </span></font><font face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial'>USDA-ARS</span></font><font face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial'> </span></font><font face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial'>Center</span></font><font face=Arial><span
style='font-family:Arial'> for Agricultural Bioinformatics, and 32 nodes
dedicated to social and economic research. CTC also provides a novel
Windows/Dell/Intel 3D, stereo immersive CAVE environment for scientific
visualization. </span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Note: Intel, Itanium and Xeon are trademarks or registered
trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the </span></font><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>United States</span></font><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'> and other countries. Dell and PowerEdge
are trademarks or registered trademarks of Dell Corporation in the </span></font><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>United States</span></font><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'> and/or other countries. Microsoft,
Windows, SQL Server, and .NET are trademarks or registered trademarks of
Microsoft Corp. in the </span></font><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:
Arial'>United States</span></font><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:
Arial'> and/or other countries. Other names and brands may be claimed as the
property of others.</span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Paul Redfern
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<p><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>red@tc.cornell.edu</span></font></p>
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