Nov, 2001 : Red Hat and HP Announce Linux Grants Robert B. Marks
📅 - Linux specialists Red Hat (redhat.com) and hardware firm Hewlett-Packard HP (hp.com) will be granting 40 universities free copies of the Red Hat Linux operating system, the companies announced today in a joint press release. This grant is part of the Itanium-based Systems Grant program operated by HP and chip maker Intel®.
Each of the forty universities will be provided with a copy of Red Hat Linux 7.1 and a one-year subscription to the Red Hat Network, a service specializing in open source and software information.
The grant was announced in September. It is a $2.5 million dollar venture that sees HP provide servers and workstations based on the Itanium processor to educational institutions. In this recent move, Red Hat and HP hope that the donation will accelerate the development of next-generation Linux programs for the Itanium platform.
The universities receiving the donation plan to use the computers in research projects ranging from neural networks to cluster computing to scientific data mining. "This grant will enable us to accelerate our research in code optimizations and operating system performance and, in turn, make Itanium-based systems and Linux even more powerful solutions in the research community," said Professor Wen-Mei Hwu of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Representatives from Red Hat and HP are pleased with the results of the program so far.
"Open source software demonstrates another dimension of its flexibility when used in an educational environment," said Michael Tiemann, Red Hat's CTO, stating that open source is a "tremendous" research tool.
"HP is pleased to work with Red Hat to provide grant recipients with key enabling technology for Linux research, which will also extend the deployment of open systems," said Martin Fink, General Manager of HP Linux Systems Operation.
Each of the forty universities will be provided with a copy of Red Hat Linux 7.1 and a one-year subscription to the Red Hat Network, a service specializing in open source and software information.
The grant was announced in September. It is a $2.5 million dollar venture that sees HP provide servers and workstations based on the Itanium processor to educational institutions. In this recent move, Red Hat and HP hope that the donation will accelerate the development of next-generation Linux programs for the Itanium platform.
The universities receiving the donation plan to use the computers in research projects ranging from neural networks to cluster computing to scientific data mining. "This grant will enable us to accelerate our research in code optimizations and operating system performance and, in turn, make Itanium-based systems and Linux even more powerful solutions in the research community," said Professor Wen-Mei Hwu of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Representatives from Red Hat and HP are pleased with the results of the program so far.
"Open source software demonstrates another dimension of its flexibility when used in an educational environment," said Michael Tiemann, Red Hat's CTO, stating that open source is a "tremendous" research tool.
"HP is pleased to work with Red Hat to provide grant recipients with key enabling technology for Linux research, which will also extend the deployment of open systems," said Martin Fink, General Manager of HP Linux Systems Operation.
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