From:	 Bruce Knox <bknox@www.cox-internet.com>
To:	 lwn@lwn.net
Subject: News Release: HP and openMosix Collaborate for IA-64 Port
Date:	 Wed, 08 May 2002 05:56:13 -0500

News Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Bruce Knox, openMosix Project
501.362.2644.
bknox@cox-internet.com


HP and openMosix Collaborate for IA-64 Port

Tel Aviv, Israel(May 8, 2002) - The openMosix Project has announced that a 
sponsor and founding member of the recently founded Gelato Federation, the 
Hewlett-Packard Company, has invited the openMosix Team to port openMosix 
to the Intel(r) IA64(tm) Processor Family.

The porting project by the openMosix team will begin immediately with the 
cooperation and technical support of HP.  HP Linux Systems Operations will 
provide IA-64 computers to be used for the porting project development and 
testing.

HP, long a major participant in the IA-64 Linux Project, has recently 
announced significant additional commitments to the Linux Open Source 
community.  Representative of these is the co-founding of the Gelato 
Federation.  openMosix is the type of scalable, Open Source computing 
solution that Gelato seeks to bring to the IA-64.

openMosix, created and lead by kernel hacker and book author Moshe Bar, is 
the only Linux-based Single System Image Clustering platform in current 
production that is Open Source.  IA-64 will offer a hardware upgrade path 
for thousands of current openMosix installations, totalling many dozens of 
thousands of invididual computing nodes.

The porting project is expected to last over six months, due to the 
exceptional complexity of the mostly kernel-based openMosix source 
code.  Porting openMosix will create the first native High Performance 
Computing (HPC) platform for the IA-64.

openMosix is a Linux kernel extension for Single System Image Clustering 
and is an Open Source Linux-based project under the GNU General Public 
License (GPL) Version 2.  Information about openMosix can be found at 
http://www.openmosix.org.

Gelato Federation is a worldwide consortium focused on enabling Open Source 
Linux-based Intel(r) Itanium(tm) Processor Family computing solutions for 
academic, government and industrial research.

Hewlett-Packard Company is a leading global provider of computing and 
imaging solutions and services, and is focused on making technology and its 
benefits accessible to all.  Information about HP and its products can be 
found on the World Wide Web at http://www.hp.com.

Intel, IA64,  and Itanium are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel 
Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries. 
Mosix may be a trademark of Amnon Barak. Other names and brands may be 
claimed as the property of others.

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