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Santa Fe, NM and Orlando, FL - October 15, 2007
CIVA (Santa Fe, NM ) and Tsunamic Technologies (Orlando, FL)
have teamed up to help predict the spread of infectious
diseases and man-made pathogens. CIVA's EpiCast™ is the
only technology that models the early stages of a disease
outbreak – when intervention strategies have a chance
of averting an epidemic. EpiCast™ models let you see how
an
outbreak in your community or company could take hold and spread.
Using these models, you can create detailed and
realistic intervention plans that are based on real evidence
of a dangerous outbreak in order to avert a crisis. Emergency
preparedness plans based on EpiCast™ models will detail
which steps to make and when to enact them in order to
prevent as many people as possible from becoming ill.
These models require large amounts of computing power. CIVA
will use Tsunamic Technologies On-Demand highperformance
Linux clusters to run EpiCast™ models.
"Using Tsunamic Technologies' On-Demand Cluster Computing
services is a very cost-effective and efficient way to
increase our computing capability. It allows us to focus on
maintaining excellent customer interaction and enhancing
EpiCast™, rather than maintaining a large computer cluster.” said
Bob Libutti, Chairman of the Board of CIVA.
EpiCast™ models the critical early stages of an epidemic
outbreak when medical and social interventions can avert a
public health emergency. EpiCast™ integrates specific
population data that are used to create specific mitigation
strategies to offset the pathogen's predicted impact. These
mitigation suggestions can be accompanied by analytical
reports of costs and organization-specific liabilities and impacts.
EpiCast™ models the community-level transmission of
disease between people and their various contact groups, at
a unique level of detail – work, school, social, and even
household.
About CIVA
Based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, CIVA (www.civaglobal.com) is
the exclusive or "master" commercial licensee of
EpiCast™. CIVA was founded to commercialize the great
wealth of information and data mining technologies developed
at U.S. national laboratories including, but not limited to
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories,
and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. EpiCast™ is
only available through CIVA – the Company for Information
Visualization & Analysis. Contact CIVA directly in the U.S.
at 505-715-6982 or email info@civaglobal.com. More
information at: www.civaglobal.com.
Contact: Deborah Blackwell, APR CIVA, 703-722-2821
About Tsunamic Technologies, Inc.
Tsunamic Technologies, Inc. (www.clusterondemand.com) provides
on-demand cluster computing services via the
internet for commercial, governmental, and academic institutions.
Outsourcing cluster computing minimizes the daunting
cost of administrating and maintaining high-performance Linux
cluster systems. The company's business model allows
pay-as-you-go access to high performance computing which can
be used to meet peak requirements or as a complete
outsource host for high-performance platforms.
Contact: John Van Workum, President Tsunamic Technologies Inc,
877-492-8027 |
