Lenovo delivers hardware for Beijing Olympics
Mar 28, 2007 - 12:43:03 PM
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'Many of the critical applications used to manage the Games and BOCOG administration depend on Lenovo hardware, and the importance of Lenovo computing equipment to all aspects of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games cannot be exaggerated. We are happy to be off to a smooth start as the Integration Lab prepares the equipment for the upcoming test events,' he added.
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By IANS,
[RxPG] Kolkata/Beijing, March 28 - Computer maker Lenovo has completed the second of three hardware deliveries for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games to the Integration Test Centre of the Beijing Organising Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad -.
The shipment carried 700 pieces of hardware, including notebooks, desktops, desktop monitors and servers.
The company officials, in a teleconference from Beijing Tuesday, said Lenovo staffers were configuring the equipment in China for use in the upcoming test events that begin in July 2007 and end only weeks before the Games begin on Aug 8, 2008.
'With the completion of the latest hardware delivery, Lenovo is now running tests at the Integration Lab and preparing for the long, arduous test phase, which at nearly a year in length far exceeds the test period allocated to an average project, sports or otherwise,' said Lenovo's Olympic Technology and Sponsorship director Leon Xie from Beijing.
'The purpose of the 42 test events is not to find out how good we are, but to look for problems. We will use our equipment in the test events to see what's going right and wrong, and to see how our supporting team coordinates and cooperates with other sponsors' support teams - how is the flow, what are the issues? Then we will take the equipment back and modify it and determine how long it takes for the problem to be solved.'
Lenovo, the world's third-largest computer maker, is the exclusive computing equipment supplier for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. Virtually every aspect of the management of the Games, from gathering and storing participant data to displaying the scores to organising all BOCOG activities, depends on this hardware.
As of March 27, the start of the 500-day countdown to the Games, Lenovo will have provided BOCOG with approximately 300 servers, 800 desktop computers, 800 computer monitors and 70 notebook computers. By the time the Games commence, Lenovo would have delivered more than 14,000 pieces of computing equipment to support 56 venues in seven cities, including 39 competition venues and 17 data centres and BOCOG centres.
'We are delighted that Lenovo has been able to coordinate such a huge delivery of products to our Integration Test Centre on time and with seamless efficiency,' said Yichun Yang, director of the BOCOG Technology Department.
'Many of the critical applications used to manage the Games and BOCOG administration depend on Lenovo hardware, and the importance of Lenovo computing equipment to all aspects of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games cannot be exaggerated. We are happy to be off to a smooth start as the Integration Lab prepares the equipment for the upcoming test events,' he added.
The Beijing 2008 Olympic Games is set to dwarf previous such Games in terms of scale.
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