Gelato Joins FSG & Ports Eclipse 3.0 to Linux-Itanium

Gelato Joins Free Standards Group and Ports Eclipse 3.0 to Linux-Itanium

.	FSG and Gelato Well Aligned 
The Gelato Federation's been busy this summer. As the newest member of the
Free Standards Group, the Linux-Itanium champions join a distinguished body
of corporations and non-profits, all adherents of the open-source ideal, all
dedicated to strengthening the community with a common set of standards. In
fact, Gelato is among friends at FSG, including Gelato's Founding Sponsor,
HP, and Gelato's much-anticipated newest sponsor, Intel. 
	According to Gelato director Mark K. Smith, "Gelato's mission to
facilitate the development of open-source software infrastructure for Linux
on the Itanium 2 platform is very consistent with FSG's goals to ensure that
Linux applications and platforms work together seamlessly. We're delighted
to join the community that's coming together around FSG. As a research and
user community dedicated to advancing the Linux-Itanium platform, Gelato
recognizes the value and, in fact, the necessity of ensuring
interoperability in our open-source development efforts. FSG is doing an
incredibly important job for the open-source community, and we're proud to
be part of that effort. We look forward to extensive interaction with FSG as
our members explore additional applications and infrastructure for
Linux-Itanium users."
	Smith not only lauds the FSG but indicates that Gelato intends to be
a proactive member: "All Gelato Members are encouraged to make their
Linux-Itanium software compliant with the Linux Standards Base (LSB), the
prevailing Linux standard." And that could prove to be a big force in the
open-source community, since Gelato now boasts 30+ institutional members who
occupy literally dozens of spots on the Top500. The newest one, Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory, houses the world's largest Itanium cluster,
"Thunder," which comprises 1024 quad Itanium processor systems.
	"The Gelato Federation's work to advance the Linux Itanium platform
is important for the industry," said Jim Zemlin, executive director of the
Free Standards Group. "We are thrilled they've become a member of the FSG
and will join forces with us to promote Linux standards."

.	Gelato Makes Itanium-Friendly Eclipse Available at www.Gelato.Org
As its first formal collaboration with FSG, Gelato engineers have
successfully ported Eclipse 3.0 to the Linux-Itanium platform. The popular
open-source integrated development environment, including the Eclipse
source, binary, and all of its newly rebuilt dependencies, is now available
on the Gelato portal, www.gelato.org, and is ready to run on any
LSB-compliant IA64 system with a properly installed Java Virtual Machine.
The Itanium-based Eclipse will be demonstrated on an HP Itanium system at
Gelato's booth (#167) at LinuxWorld in Moscone Center, San Francisco, August
3-5. 
Gelato Engineer Kevin Cernekee of the University of Illinois contributed to
the new Itanium-friendly Eclipse 3.0 and will be on hand at LinuxWorld. He
notes that the package posted at www.gelato.org, includes "all the
enhancements of Eclipse 3.0 as released by the Eclipse Foundation (6-21-04:
http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/jun212004r30pr.html), with the code
cleaned and modified for Linux-Itanium users." In addition to the Eclipse
3.0 package, the Gelato portal also offers the 3.0 source build and Itanium
build, as well as a new version of the script that builds C dependencies
(e.g., the platform launcher and the libswt/C side), which can be tweaked
for research uses.  
Smith is enthusiastic about the new offering: "Eclipse 3.0 is an important
addition to the Linux-Itanium tool set. The IDE enhances the user experience
and provides a suitable interface environment for other tools and
applications. This bodes well for the advancement of Linux-Itanium overall
and underscores Gelato's long-term mission"
The Eclipse revisions for Itanium started with a Red Hat patch that made
Eclipse portable to AMD's 64-bit Opteron processor. Cernekee polished that
code and collaborated with Red Hat engineers for the Itanium porting. These
efforts came to the attention of the Eclipse Foundation, which anticipates
incorporating the Itanium code into an upcoming Eclipse release.  

.	About Gelato
The Gelato Federation is the global research community dedicated to
advancing the Linux Itanium platform through collaborative relationships
targeting real-world problems and solutions.  Gelato members are suppliers
and users of Linux Itanium technology whose goal is to produce open-source,
Linux-based Intel Itanium Processor Family computing solutions for academic,
government, and industrial HPC research. Federation business and
collaborations are conducted through the Gelato portal, www.gelato.org. All
Gelato Members' software and solutions are available through the portal, and
the HPC community is welcome to participate and contribute through the
portal. For more information, contact Mark K. Smith, managing director, at
mksmith@gelato.org. 

Contact: 	Laurie Talkington
		talkngtn@gelato.org


Laurie Talkington
Communications Director
Gelato Federation
1308 W. Main St., Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Phone: (217) 244-1081
Email: talkngtn@gelato.org
www.gelato.org