Intel Investors (You Too SCUMbria) - HP is Establishing IA-64 educational facilities - Hardware, software, and MONEY - at 4 US Universities !
Looks like the ITanium is headed to college already !
"Hewlett-Packard Company, the IA-64 leader, today announced that it will provide four universities with grants totaling more than $2 million in cash and equipment to fund the teaching of Explicitly Parallel Instruction-set Computing (EPIC). EPIC is the foundation for IA-64 (Intel Architecture-64 bit), a next-generation computer architecture developed jointly by HP and Intel. "
This is the GOOD part : "Hewlett-Packard Company, the IA-64 leader"
Paul
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January 20, 2000 11:18
HP Donates $2 Million to Support University Teaching OF IA-64 Technologies; Cash, Equipment Will Go Toward Training New Generation in EPIC Architectures
PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 20, 2000-- Hewlett-Packard Company, the IA-64 leader, today announced that it will provide four universities with grants totaling more than $2 million in cash and equipment to fund the teaching of Explicitly Parallel Instruction-set Computing (EPIC). EPIC is the foundation for IA-64 (Intel Architecture-64 bit), a next-generation computer architecture developed jointly by HP and Intel.
The grants will support the teaching of EPIC principles at California State University, Los Angeles; the Georgia Institute of Technology; North Carolina State University; and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
The HP EPIC Architectures Initiative in Computer Science, a program sponsored by HP's University Grants Program, will fund curricula for training a new generation of computer engineers and software designers in EPIC-related concepts and will encourage the development of advanced technologies. Curriculum elements developed by the award recipients will be made widely available.
"HP wants to share its EPIC expertise with computer-science and computer-engineering students and expose them to the latest EPIC advances," said Bob Rau, senior research scientist for the Compiler and Architecture Research Group at HP Labs. "The arrival next year of Itanium, the first processor in the IA-64 family, will spur an increase in the number of professors working on and teaching about EPIC. The HP EPIC Architectures Initiative in Computer Science will help prepare for this increased interest."
EPIC balances a computer's hardware and software components to improve operation and performance. HP scientists believe that widespread use of products based on EPIC architectures will lead to the evolution of fundamental computer-science concepts. Taking a radical new approach to processor design, HP and Intel Corporation co-developed EPIC and IA-64, the first commercial EPIC-based microprocessor.
The grant recipients are as follows:
-- Professor Thomas M. Conte, Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering, North Carolina State University, for
classroom and distance-learning course modules, classroom
technology and textbook writing;
-- Professor Wen-Mei W. Hwu, Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering, and Coordinated Science Laboratory,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, for classroom and
distance-learning course modules, classroom technology and
textbook writing;
6 -- Professor Krishna V. Palem, Center for Research in Embedded
Systems and Technology, Georgia Institute of Technology, for
classroom technology and modules, laboratory modules and manuals,
and teacher-training materials; and
-- Professor Nancy J. Warter-Perez, School of Engineering and
Technology, California State University, Los Angeles, for
laboratory and classroom modules for dissemination via the
Internet.
In 1998, the Compiler and Architecture Research Group at HP Labs; the IMPACT compiler group at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; and the React-ILP Laboratory at New York University, which has evolved into the Center for Research in Embedded Systems and Technology at the Georgia Institute of Technology, introduced the Trimaran infrastructure, a set of EPIC development tools available to the public at trimaran.org. Trimaran technology will be important to the curriculum development supported by the HP EPIC Architectures Initiative in Computer Science.
About HP
Hewlett-Packard Company -- a leading global provider of computing and imaging solutions and services for business and home -- is focused on capitalizing on the opportunities of the Internet and the proliferation of electronic services.
HP plans to launch Agilent Technologies as an independent company by mid-calendar 2000. Agilent consists of HP's test and measurement, semiconductor products, chemical analysis and healthcare solutions businesses, and has leading positions in multiple market segments.
HP has 83,200 employees worldwide and had total revenue from continuing operations of $42.4 billion in its 1999 fiscal year. Information about HP, its products and the company's Year 2000 program can be found on the World Wide Web at hp.com.
CONTACT: Porter Novelli Convergence Group for HP
Bill Danielson, 415/538-7502
bill.danielson@pnicg.com |
