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Gelato ICE: Itanium Conference & Expo Singapore will take place October 1-4, 2006, at the Matrix building at Biopolis. Below are the Top Ten reasons to attend the premier international conference spotlighting on Linux on Itanium architecture: # 10: Enjoy Singapore's really fresh seafood # 9: Receive an Early Bird discount until September 1 # 8: See old friends and make new ones # 7: Have an excuse to wear your Gelato orange shirt # 6: Exchange knowledge and share experiences # 5: Collaborate on cutting-edge R&D # 4: Network with key researchers, system vendors, industrial users, and ISVs # 3: Learn which tools to use and how to use them # 2: Discover how to maximize the performance of your systems And the # 1 reason to attend Gelato ICE Singapore -- Experience those amazing technical presentations! The Gelato Program Committee is planning 40 presentations. Several topics and speakers are already confirmed: - HP Keynote by Steve Geary - One-Day Seminar on Multi-Core Programming, applicable to any multi-core system but will include Montecito specifics - Full Virtualization of the Processor using Intel Virtualization Technology by Kevin Tian, Intel - PUCRS Research on Xen by César De Rose - NFS Scalability on IA-64 Linux by Mike Gigante, SGI - High Performance IO by Mike Gigante, SGI - Introduction to Itanium Optimizations (VTune, Compilers, Counters) by Eric W. Moore, Intel - Basic Itanium Architecture by Cameron McNairy, Intel - Itanium Performance Analysis by Cameron McNairy, Intel - Changes Necessary to Increase the Altix from 512 Processors to 1024 by Steve Neuner, SGI - Itanium Research at the University of New South Wales by Peter Chubb - An Update on the Osprey Project, the Alternative GCC Backend for Itanium by Shin-Ming Liu, HP - Criteria for Designing an Optimal Compiler for Modulo Scheduled Itanium Code by Clemens Roothaan - Itanium Research at the Riken Genomic Sciences Center by Akihiko Konagaya - Focus sessions on GCC - Focus sessions on Grid - Focus sessions on Scalability