HOPS INTERNATIONAL is a Finalist in the Intel 2009 Itanium Solutions Alliance Innovation Awards

Aug. 10, 2009 - PRLog -- Contact:  

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HOPS INTERNATIONAL SELECTED AS FINALIST IN THE COMPUTATIONALLY INTENSIVE APPLICATIONS CATEGORY OF THE 2009 ITANIUM SOLUTIONS ALLIANCE INNOVATION AWARDS


Miami Lakes, Fla. – August 10th, 2009 – The Itanium® Solutions Alliance has announced that HOPS International has been selected as a finalist in the Computationally Intensive Applications category for its 2009 Innovation Awards program.

The Itanium Solutions Alliance Innovation Awards program was designed to recognize and reward end users and developers for outstanding use of Intel® Itanium-based servers in their applications. A panel of distinguished judges evaluated submissions on a number of criteria such as difficulty of challenge, results produced, and originality of the solution.

“For our second annual Innovation Awards, we received a large number of very compelling entries from across the globe, showcasing a wide variety of innovative applications backed by Itanium-based technology,” said Joan Jacobs, president and executive director of the Itanium Solutions Alliance. “We are pleased to recognize this year’s finalists for their groundbreaking work with Itanium-based systems from across the spectrum of industry and research.”

The Computationally Intensive Applications category recognizes organizations that have applied their Itanium systems to tackle huge, critical workloads that demand consistently high performance and scalable, shared resources.

“We are thrilled to have been nominated a finalist for the 2009 Itanium Innovation Awards,” said John Moses, chief technical officer at HOPS ( jmoses@hops.com ). “The Itanium-based servers in our solution allow for fast CPUs, a fast I/O, and the cost advantages of significant upgrade paths with our long-standing partner, HP.”

All winners will be honored at a special event during the Intel Developer Forum, September 23rd, 2009 at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

About HOPS International
HOPS (www.hops.com) is a leading provider of data analytic tools and products, utilizing its unique data analysis engine to quickly get clients to places they have never been before. HOPS, which stands for Heuristic Optimized Processing System, is the fastest and most flexible on-demand analysis solution available for large sets of data. Currently, HOPS services over 100,000 unique subscribers, houses 600 terabytes of customer data and produces over 350,000 monthly reports for the health care, financial processing and retail markets. HOPS is headquartered in Miami Lakes, Florida.

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HOPS is a leading provider of data analytic tools and products, utilizing its unique data analysis engine to quickly get clients to places they have never been before. HOPS, which stands for Heuristic Optimized Processing System, is the fastest and most flexible on-demand analysis solution available for large sets of data. Currently, HOPS services over 100,000 unique subscribers, houses 600 terabytes of customer data and produces over 350,000 monthly reports for the health care, financial processing and retail markets. HOPS is headquartered in Miami Lakes, Florida.