Illuminata's President to Chair Commercial High-Performance Computing Conference & Exposition

Westboro, MA (October 30, 2001)– Intermedia Group todayannounced that Jonathan Eunice, President and Principal Analyst ofIlluminata, Inc. will chair the Commercial High-PerformanceComputing Conference & Exposition, to be held March 19-20 atthe Hyatt Orlando in Orlando, Florida. The conference is specificallydesigned to educate management level attendees and covers howhigh-performance computing technologies and techniques can be appliedto mainstream corporate and commercial business systems in five maintracks:

· Commercial High-Performance Computing Trends (including GridComputing)

· “Scaling Up”: Processors, Multiprocessors andParallel Processing

· “Scaling Out”: Clusters, Distributed Computingand Blade/Brick Servers

· RASP Optimization (Reliability, Availability, Scalability andPerformance)

· Applications, Storage and Information Management

“Increasingly, commercial business systems, includinge-commerce, data warehouse and data mining, and OLTP, require theperformance, scalability, robustness and flexibility formally limitedto high-performance technical computing,” notes Jonathan Eunice.“Thankfully, advances in processors, clustering and distributedcomputing, including parallel software and storage, have increased theperformance, reduced the price and eliminated the risk of applyinghigh-performance computing solutions to business systems.”

Dan Kara, Executive Vice President and CTO of Intermedia Groupnotes, "We are delighted to have Jonathan Eunice as chairman of theCommercial High-Performance Computing Conference & Exposition.Jonathan is widely recognized as a leading authority inhigh-performance computing, particularly as it is applied to mainstreamcommercial and corporate business systems. More importantly, he is oneof the few individuals in the industry who has both a deepunderstanding of high-performance computing technical issues as well asoverall business trends, and how each relates to and impacts theother.”