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Enterprise
Competency Centre in CityU
By
Noel Laam
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To allow application
software vendors and enterprise customers in Hong Kong to benchmark
their wares, and to enable CityU colleagues to carry out highly
CPU intensive work or research projects, the University and Sun
Microsystems have established a HK$20 million worth Enterprise
Competency Centre (ECC).
The ECC is housed inside the Computing
Services Centre (CSC) and equipped with an E10000, a supercomputer
class of machine with 24 top-of-the-line 400 MHz UltraSparc CPUs
with a total processing power of 19.2 Gflops. It also comes with
6GB memory and 460 GB disk space. Half of the machine is reserved
for CityUs’ general academic and research purposes, and the
other half for software vendors to demonstrate proof-of-concept
and to run application performance benchmarks.
An Opening Ceremony was held on 12
April 2000 to mark the launch of the ECC. Being the first of its
kind in the tertiary institutes in Hong Kong, the ECC attracted
much attention from major local newspapers, radios, TVs as well
as international journals and the Internet. The favourable comments
from the media denoted a good start for the collaboration between
the University and the commercial sector, and we believe the ECC
will prove its standing as time shows.
