Star Bridge delivers first supercomputer to CeriStarMidvale 14 August 2000 Star Bridge delivered two HAL-15GrW1 Hypercomputers to CeriStar, a Salt Lake City telecommunications company. Each HAL-15GrW1 is a desktop machine with processing power equal to 10,000 750 MHz Pentium III processors. Star Bridge will receive License and Lease fees of $685,000 for each system under a $20 million license that calls for delivery of a total of 32 machines to CeriStar over the next eleven months. This is the first delivery ever of Star Bridge Systems.
CeriStar's Marketing Vice President, Dane Goodfellow, said CeriStar plans
to use the two machines delivered today to develop software for a high-speed
platform for Internet telephone communications. He said the remaining
machines will be used as components in high speed networks. Goodfellow added:
"Star Bridge's technology is a key factor in our plans to provide enhanced
services in an IP Network that has the potential to bring consumers dramatic
cost savings, excellent voice quality, and enhanced application capability.
With Star Bridge's equipment, we expect development time, manufacturing costs
and costs of operation all to be lower than with circuit-based or packet-based
equipment available from other manufacturers."
Alfred J. DiMora, CEO of Star Bridge, said the delivery to CeriStar marks
the completion of the first version of Star Bridge's new Viva software
system. He said, "The combination of Viva running on our Hypercomputers
represents the world's most advanced computing system.
Together they represent the next generation of computing. We believe that
with our hardware and software, CeriStar will have the tools to build the
communications system of tomorrow -- today."
The Hypercomputers delivered today are in reality powerful, reconfigurable
parallel processing supercomputers. Star Bridge's Chief Technology Officer,
Kent L. Gilson, said, "Our technology features both reconfigurable and
parallel processing. With it CeriStar will be able to build a network that
not only offers superior voice quality and lower cost, but also the capacity
to add numerous enhanced services to basic local and long-distance services.
These include audio and video conferencing, Internet access, on-line billing
and payment, and more."
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