Challenge:
Port applications from 32-bit Intel® architecture and RISC platforms to the Intel® Itanium® platform, thus enhancing simulation, avoiding branching costs, and improving floating-point functionality.

Solution:
Build clusters of high-performance workstations based on the Intel Itanium processor for handling scientific calculations in particle physics.

		Hardware:			Fujitsu Siemens Computers* CELSIUS* 880 workstations with Intel Itanium processors
		Software:			LSF*, Linux*, CLHEP*, Geant4*, Sixtrack*, Root*