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TORONTO, CANADA -- In a compelling demonstration of collaboration and interoperability through Grid computing, Platform Computing and seven business partners will create a "True Grid" from the SC2002 show floor in Baltimore, incorporating IT resources across North America. Using Grid software Platform MultiCluster, Platform Globus and the Globus Toolkit(TM), Platform and its partners Apple, Dell, HP, IBM, Microway, RLX and SGI, will build a heterogeneous Grid integrating the system, cluster and Grid middleware levels. Deployments like this are being used to simulate real-life Grid computing for federal applications ranging from the design of defense systems to intelligence operations. HPC industry veteran Rene' Copeland, Platform's vice president, government and life sciences, will turn on Platform's "True Grid" at 10:00 a.m. Tuesday, November 19 in Booth #1205. Immediately following this, Ian Lumb, Grid solutions manager, will host a theatre presentation titled "True Grid: Enabling Extreme Interoperability Through Grid Computing", to describe how Grid software can help organizations to leverage high degrees of heterogeneity as a corporate strength. At the show, Copeland will also be announcing the creation of a new Platform division to develop and customize distributed and Grid computing solutions for the U.S. Federal Government. Platform's solutions are being used to tackle the compute-intensive needs of HPC customers including the U.S. Department of Defense, NASA, the U.S. National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration and the U.S. Air Force Intelligence Agency, among others. SC2002 Booth highlights include cutting-edge presentations from Platform experts, customers and partners: * Dr. Jay R. Boisseau, Director, Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), University of Texas, "Developing a Production Campus Grid for HPC" * Dave Jackson, Maui co-developer, "Managing HPC Systems with Platform LSF and the Maui Scheduler" * Kevin Noreen, Product Marketing Manager, Dell Computer, "Delivering High Performance Cluster Computing with Industry Standard Building Blocks" * Guodong Zhang, Product Manager, HP, "Itanium2 HP-UX Cluster Solution" * Ronald Watkins, IBM Grid Computing, Public Sector "IBM and the Grid" * Walter Stewart, Co-ordinator of SGI's Global Grid Strategy, "It's All About the Data" * Ian Baird, Chief Business Architect, Platform, "The Business of Grids" * Ming Xu, Senior Product Architect, Platform, "Platform MultiCluster Metascheduling for Enterprise Grids" * Brian MacDonald, Platform Product Solutions Architect, "Platform Intelligence for Government" In addition, on Tuesday, November 19, 2002 at 2.30 p.m., Platform's Lumb will present "Crossing the IT Chasm: Taking Applications from the Cluster to the Grid". Lumb will discuss how to transition from clusters to a Grid Computing model and the associated benefits for collaboration, high-throughput computing and data management.