IBM Helps Launch 1995 Wimbledon Tennis Information on Internet

WIMBLEDON, England, June 14, 1995. . . Starting today, millions of tennis
fans worldwide will be able to access official information about the June
26-July 9 Wimbledon tennis matches by connecting with a new Wimbledon Home
Page on the Internet, served by a powerful, IBM parallel processing
computer. The new World Wide Web (WWW) site can be accessed by pointing
the browser to http://www.wimbledon.org/.

Jointly established by The All England Lawn Tennis Club and by IBM, this
new server will provide a wealth of continuously updated facts, figures,
photos and illustrations -- all aimed at providing the latest news
possible on The Championships, Wimbledon. For example, Internet users will
be able to "surf" through a list of player seedings, order of play,
partial and final results, and historical information about the
Championships -- much more information on the events than available
anywhere else.

The Wimbledon home page presents an array of information under seven major
headings: Today's Order of Play; Matches in Progress; Championship Results
and Draw; News Flash; About Wimbledon; Wimbledon, the Future; and
Technology at Wimbledon.

Making the delivery of this information possible is a powerful,
high-performance, parallel processing computer from IBM -- an IBM Scalable
POWERparallel System* (SP) -- the same computer used as the server for the
recently announced 1996 Olympic Games home page, established by The
Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games (ACOG) and IBM. A powerful
computer is necessary as the home page server, both to access large
databases of sports information and to serve many users who may access the
home pages at the same time.

"The 1995 Wimbledon World Wide Web server is a great example of how
organizations and companies can benefit from the power of the Internet,"
said John Patrick, vice president of Internet Applications for IBM, who
spoke at a press teleconference yesterday about new IBM Internet security
applications. "Information on sports events like Wimbledon and the 1996
Olympic Games is in high demand around the world. By putting it on the
Internet, the data will be available to more people than ever before, it
will be available at any time, and it can be updated instantly. As we've
learned from other customers, the Internet is an invaluable tool to make
information easily accessible to a very wide audience." As Official
Information Technology Supplier and Consultant, IBM fulfills a number of
crucial roles for The All England Lawn Tennis Club during the
Championships and throughout the year.

IBM is involved in a rolling program of approximately 30 projects and
applications with The All England Club, including development work,
behind-the-scenes projects and year-round consultancy. For tennis lovers,
IBM provides a unique interface linking a captivated audience and the
tennis world. This includes providing vital information and insights from
the on-screen statistics and graphics used by the BBC and worldwide
broadcasters, to the on-site Championships Information Service.

About the IBM SP

The IBM Scalable POWERparallel System is IBM's general-purpose,
high-performance parallel processing computer that runs AIX*, IBM's open,
industry-standard UNIX** operating system. The SP, an integral part of
IBM's successful RS/6000 family, can assign different tasks to each of its
processors -- serving database information, video, or acting as a web
server.

It combines the numeric-intensive processing capabilities of scientific and
technical computers with the vast data storage and complex analysis
strengths typical of commercial information processing systems -- making
the SP particularly well-suited for solving extremely complex problems in
science and industry.

As the volume of information about Wimbledon and the 1996 Olympic Games
increases, the SP has the flexibility to scale up -- with additional
processors and disk storage --allowing more users to access the WWW site
simultaneously.

Parallel processing on the IBM SP links together from as few as two to as
many as 512 IBM RISC System/6000* (RS/6000*) processors to perform
numeric-intensive and data-intensive computations. The processors work on
different parts of a problem at the same time, enabling the
high-performance computer to support many users and analyze massive
amounts of data at blazing speeds. The flexibility of the SP allows
customers to run both parallel and non-parallel applications at the same
time.

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