Gelato Federation
The Gelato Federation, also known as Gelato, is working to develop
scalable, commodity software to enable researchers to advance
their studies in developing and technology-intensive areas,
such as life sciences and physical sciences. Gelato invites
participation from all interested organizations.
Co-founded
by HP and seven of the world’s leading research institutions,
Gelato is launching an open source community initiative designed
to foster the development and dissemination of focused computing
solutions for researchers and associated IT staffs working
on the Itanium Linux platform. Gelato will provide the research
community with software downloads, including new solutions
developed by Gelato member
institutions and by other contributors from the greater
open source community.
Gelato currently has six focus areas:
- Compilers
- Parallel file systems
- Performance monitoring in a box
- Performance monitoring in a cluster
- Scalability in a box
- Scalability in a cluster
Within these areas, Gelato is looking for ways to apply new technology
and solutions to specific applications in bioinformatics, high-energy physics,
and atmospheric sciences, in direct response to members' interests and needs.
Read more (pdf)
about some of the Gelato members' current projects.
Gelato also will supply information
services – such as forums and technical data –
to make the Itanium Linux platform more accessible to researchers
and their support staffs.
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