September 26, 2001
Anastassia Ailamaki (PI), Assistant Professor of CS and ECE, Todd Mowry, Associate Professor of CS and ECE, and David Nagle, Senior Research Scientist, CS and ECE, won one of the largest awards in Hewlett-Packard Company (HP) and Intel Corporation's new Itanium-based Systems Grant program. The grant includes six one-way workstations, one two-way Workstation, and one RX4610 server priced at $153,162.
"The Itanium architecture is extremely promising for database applications -- the software that dominates the commercial server market," said Ailamaki in an interview with Intel. "Inventing ways for database systems to take advantage of the Itanium processor's characteristics opens an exciting new research area that will lead in revolutionizing database software technology to deliver superb performance on this cutting-edge computer architecture."
As part of the program, 40 universities worldwide submitted proposals detailing how they could use Itanium-based systems to further their research in areas Intel reported ranged from bio-informatics and neural networks, to compilers and cluster computing, to computational science and scientific data mining. Those honored will receive HP servers and workstations based on the Intel Itanium processor.