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2007 Itanium® Solutions Alliance Innovation Award Winners

Global recipients represent innovative achievements in mission-critical computing with Itanium®-based systems. Each category winner receives a $50,000 US cash prize or charitable donation. Category winners are:

Humanitarian Impact Innovation:

“The speed of the Itanium processor made the simulations feasible for the first time. The Itanium-based cluster for method development and validation made it reasonable to commit precious researcher time to a project that had previously been intractable.”

Dr. Carlos Simmerling and team at Stony Brook University are 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.

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Enterprise Business Application:

“While key results arise from interoperation of the whole system, Itanium is at the core of the system and is hence central to the achievements.”

Royal London Group developed a solution utilizing Itanium-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 excepted for the previous system.

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Entrepreneurial Innovation:

“The Itanium architecture is the only commercial microprocessor architecture offering the hardware security features required to create a Genuinely Secure, high performance system.”

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® 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 Itanium architecture.

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Winners Selection:
Each of the winners demonstrated innovative computing using applications that take full advantage of Intel Itanium architecture. Judges included Matthew Eastwood, program vice president of IDC’s Enterprise Platform Group; William Jalby, head of Ph.D. graduate school covering economics, computer science and robotics at the University of Versailles; Renee J. James, vice president and general manager of the Software and Solutions Group for Intel Corporation, Intel; Gale Persil, director of product management operations, Computer Associates; Chen Qiwang, Itanium product manager, PowerLeader Science & Technology Co., Ltd; and Mark K. Smith, managing director, Gelato Federation; selected the winning solutions based on the difficulty of challenge, the results produced and originality.

In addition to category winners, ten organizations from around the globe received honorable mentions for their Alliance Innovation Award submissions. Honorable mention recipients from the Americas are: 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 a full list of honorable mentions and finalists, please click on one of the categories below.

1) Humanitarian Impact Innovation Finalists »
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3) Entrepreneurial Innovation Finalists »

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