TurboLinux Shows World's First Demonstration of 16-Way Intel Itanium Processor on Linux; NEC's 16-Processor Intel Itanium Server on IA-64 TurboLinux Exhibited at LinuxWorld.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers LinuxWorld Conference & Expo SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 15, 2000 TurboLinux(R), Inc., the high-performance Linux company, and NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. Solutions, one of the world's leading server manufacturing companies, today announced the world's first public demonstration of a 64-bit Linux operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. on a 16-way Intel(R) Itanium(TM) processor based system at the TurboLinux booth (No. 1874) during LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in San Jose San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , running August 15 through August 17. AzusA, the NEC code name for its prototype 16-processor Itanium system, will display demonstrations of Mandelbrot and Ray Tracing on the TurboLinux for IA-64 developer's release operating system, modified by NEC. "NEC has been actively involved with IA-64 Linux Project and has made numerous contributions to the project in the process of the development of AzusA," said Minoru Terao of NEC Solutions, head of Computer System Division One. "This is the first time ever in the world that 64-bit Linux operating system has been demonstrated on an Intel Itanium system with more than four processors. With technical assistance from TurboLinux, we are very excited to be able to show this system at LinuxWorld. NEC will continue to work closely with IA-64 Linux Project member companies as well as the user community in order to make Linux for IA-64 more scalable and reliable." "TurboLinux is committed to maintaining its leadership on Linux for IA-64," said T. Paul Thomas, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of TurboLinux. "Our strategic relationship with NEC is important to our customers and we are pleased to partner with them at LinuxWorld to demonstrate the scalability of our IA-64 solutions." The commercial release of TurboLinux's IA-64 Linux offerings and the commercial release of NEC's 16-way AzusA Itanium system will coincide with Intel's general release of IA-64 Itanium processor based platforms. TurboLinux, which was the first company to make an IA-64 Linux distribution available to developers last March, recently announced the fifth upgrade of its TurboLinux for IA-64 developer's release operating system. It is available for download at ftp.turbolinux.com/pub/ia64. The TurboLinux IA-64 release is based on the kernel and tools developed by the IA-64 Linux Project, formerly known as the Trillian project, a group of companies that include TurboLinux, Caldera caldera: see crater. caldera Large, bowl-shaped volcanic depression that forms when the top of a volcanic cone collapses into the space left after magma is ejected during a violent volcanic eruption. The term is Spanish for “caldron. , CERN CERN or European Organization for Nuclear Research, nuclear and particle physics research center straddling the French-Swiss border W of Geneva, Switzerland. , Hewlett-Packard, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Intel, Red Hat, SuSE, SGI (SGI, Sunnyvale, CA, www.sgi.com) A manufacturer of workstations and servers, founded in 1982 by Jim Clark. The company was founded as Silicon Graphics, Inc., but changed to its acronym in 1999. and VA Linux. For more information on the IA-64 Project, http://www.linuxia64.org/. The commercial release of TurboLinux's IA-64 Linux offerings and the commercial release of NEC's 16-way AzusA Itanium system will coincide with Intel's general release of IA-64 Itanium processor based platforms. About TurboLinux, Inc. Founded in 1992, TurboLinux is a market leader in Linux software clustering solutions and Linux internationalization The support for monetary values, time and date for countries around the world. It also embraces the use of native characters and symbols in the different alphabets. See localization, i18n, Unicode and IDN. internationalization - internationalisation , with investment backing from more than 20 global computer companies, including Compaq, Dell, Intel, NEC, Novell, NTT NTT Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation NTT New Technology Telescope NTT National Technology Transfer, Inc NTT Name That Tune (TV game show) NTT National Tree Trust NTT Number Theoretic Transform and Oracle. Headquartered near San Francisco with offices around the world, TurboLinux solutions are supported globally by Compaq, Hewlett-Packard and IBM. The company's home page is located on the Internet at www.turbolinux.com, in Japanese at www.turbolinux.co.jp and in Chinese at www.turbolinux.com.cn. Note to Editors: TurboLinux is a registered trademark of TurboLinux, Inc. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. All other registered trademarks belong to their respective holders. |
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