Success Stories
2009 Innovation Award Finalist: Karlsruhe University
The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology's United Airways project in Germany used Itanium-based HP hardware to analyze the interaction of the human nose, sinuses, larynx and lungs with the goal of compiling a complete numerical simulation of flow behavior in the human respiratory system. The end benefits of this project include optimizing asthma sprays, improving the quality of medical operations and understanding the impact of respirable dust.
2009 Innovation Award Finalist: xDelta
The U.K.’s National Health Service Blood & Transplant organization (NHSBT) initiated its “Pulse Renewal” project to enhance its core business—saving lives. The project delivered a multi-datacenter disaster-tolerant national system that manages the entire supply chain of blood products all the way from donors, through testing and blood product production, to the safe and timely issue of blood products across England and North Wales. The “Pulse Renewal” system holds the world’s largest single national database of blood donors.
2009 Innovation Award Finalist: Revenue Management Solutions
Revenue Management Solutions maintains one of the largest Microsoft® SQL® Server databases in the world with more than 100 billion records, requiring a system that is secure, reliable, scalable and powerful enough to keep up with massive growth. The company’s current system configuration utilizes an 8-socket Itanium-based system from NEC.
2009 Innovation Award Finalist: Brazilian Navy
The Brazilian Navy migrated all mainframe-based database environments— including three large, complex, mission-critical systems: payroll, HR, and accounting systems—to an open, Linux-based system and adopted an HP and Oracle®-based distributed platform with Itanium processors. The project reduced costs by approximately 80 percent while significantly improving resource management.
2009 Innovation Award Finalist: CMC Ltd
CMC Limited of India designed and developed the BSE On-Line Trading System (BOLT) for the Bombay Stock Exchange. Due to market growth and IPOs, the system encountered dramatic increases in transaction loads that were straining resources. The migration to an HP Itanium-based system coupled with changes made in the application server doubled system performance.
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2009 Innovation Award Finalist: University of Warwick
University of Warwick in the United Kingdom greatly improved the computational approach to the Anderson model of localization, an important problem in quantum physics with a wide range of applications. Researchers from the University of Basel in Switzerland and the Braunschweig University of Technology in Germany were also involved in these large-scale numerical experiments performed on an SGI Altix® with 56 Intel IA-64 Itanium processors, each with 3 MB level 3 cache.
2009 Innovation Award Finalist: Masaryk University
Masaryk University in the Czech Republic deployed a massive online information system that integrates 1,600 applications actively used by more than 43,000 students, teachers and other staff into a uniform Web environment. SGI Altix servers running on Itanium processors host tools utilized for online enrollment, e-learning modules, as well as applications allowing students to make payments for services.
2009 Innovation Award Finalist: Enagas
Enagás, the company responsible for Spain’s gas management, consolidated its legacy Unix infrastructure into two Itanium-based HP Superdomes to streamline operations. The project reduced racks from 12 to four, dramatically lowered application response times and improved the time needed to provision a new test/development environment from several days to less than an hour.
2009 Innovation Award Winner: CESGA
Fundación CESGA, the Supercomputing Center of Galicia, Spain, is using the Finis Terrae Supercomputer to analyze massive computational electromagnetics problems, the largest with more than 500 million unknowns, for improvement of design in industry. Fundación CESGA, the Supercomputing Center of Galicia, Spain, is using the Finis Terrae Supercomputer to analyze massive computational electromagnetics problems, the largest with more than 500 million unknowns, for improvement of design in industry. CESGA relied on Itanium-based servers with 1,024 parallel processors and 6TB of memory in attaining the first-of-its-kind solution.
2009 Innovation Award Winner: Bernalillo County
Bernalillo County upgraded its server and storage infrastructure in order to operate more efficiently, deploy a new ERP solution, and provide additional services to county residents. The county’s Itanium-rich solution offers cost savings over the previous mainframe environment, boosts application reliability, and increases performance across multiple platforms.
2009 Innovation Award Winner: Mobiltel
Bulgaria’s leading telecommunications provider faced significant subscriber growth, which seriously impacted the performance of its customer relationship management and billing applications. The winning project saw Mobiltel migrate its infrastructure to an Itanium-based servers, running both HP-UX and Microsoft® Windows® Server, with significant gains in performance, customer service and scalability.
2009 Innovation Award Winner: Kiwok Nordic
Deployed in conjunction with caregivers and health systems, BodyKom Series™ ECG allows heart patients to live independently while their heart is monitored through a reliable wireless network powered by Itanium-based hardware. The Kiwok system provides automatic, real-time notifications as well as furnishing long-term data for diagnosis and treatment.
