Gelato Federation

**Gelato Federation** (yawanci kawai Gelato) ya kasance "al'umma ce ta fasaha ta duniya da aka sadaukar don ci gaba da Linux a kan dandalin Intel Itanium ta hanyar haɗin gwiwa, ilimi, da jagoranci. "  An kafa shi a shekara ta 2001, membobin sun haɗa da ƙungiyoyin ilimi da bincike sama da saba'in a duniya, gami da da waɗanda ke aiki da manyan kwamfutocin Itanium a cikin jerin Top500. Kungiyar ta kasance mai aiki a cikin ayyukan don inganta kernel na Linux don Itanium da GCC don Itanium. Kungiyar ta dauki sunanta daga gelato na kayan zaki na Italiya, ta girmama wannan ta hanyar kiran ayyukan Gelato Vanilla da Gelato Coconut don nau'ikan kayan zaki.

## Tarihi

A ƙarshen shekara ta 2001, wakilan kungiyoyi bakwai sun sadu da Hewlett-Packard. Cibiyoyin sun kasance Cibiyar Bioinformatics, Singapore; Kungiyar ESIEE, Faransa; Kamfanin Hewlett-Packard; Cibiyar Nazarin Supercomputing, Amurka; Jami'ar Tsinghua, China; Jami'an Illinois a Urbana-Champaign, Amurka; Jihar New South Wales, Australia; da Jami'ar Waterloo, Kanada. Waɗannan su ne mambobin da suka kafa Gelato. 

Wakilan daga waɗannan ƙungiyoyi suna haɗuwa sau biyu a shekara. Taron farko (a Palo Alto, California 2001 da Paris 2002) sun kasance da farko "taron majalisa na dabarun" inda aka fitar da dokoki da sashi.

Taron Sydney a watan Oktoba 2002 shine na farko da ya hada da ranar gabatarwa ta fasaha. Wadannan sun zama fasalin yau da kullun na tarurruka, daga ƙarshe sun fadada zuwa tarurruka.

Kungiyar a bayyane ta daina aiki a shekara ta 2009. Intel ta dakatar da processor na Itanium a cikin 2021.

## Kasancewa memba

Tarayyar ta girma sosai bayan da aka kafa ta. Ya zuwa watan Afrilu na shekara ta 2007, akwai mambobi sama da 70 da masu tallafawa a duniya. Membobin cibiyoyi ne, amma akwai wasu mutane waɗanda, saboda gudummawar da suka bayar ga IA-64 a kan Linux ko Gelato, an sanya su membobin girmamawa. Wadannan sun hada da Clemens C. J. Roothaan (wanda ya ba da gudummawa ga ɗakunan karatu na lissafi na Itanium da kuma ma'auni mai iyo), Brian Lynn (wakilin HP na asali), David Mosberger-Tang (tsohon babban sakatare na ESIEE, kuma mai tasiri sosai a farkon kwanakin Gelato).

Wani mai siyar da IA-64 ne ya dauki nauyin membobin ma'aikata, ko kuma sun shigo da kansu. Membobin da aka tallafawa yawanci suna mai da hankali kan takamaiman ayyukan.

## Taron da aka yi

Gelato ICE: Taron Itanium & Expo ya sauya tsakanin San Jose, California da wani wuri a duniya, sau da yawa a kudu maso gabashin Asiya ko Turai. Taron Gelato shine inda aka kafa mafi yawan hadin gwiwa da hadin gwiwa tsakanin mambobi, kuma inda Intel ta bayyana wasu dabarun su na gaba don dandalin Itanium. An gudanar da taron karshe a Singapore a watan Oktoba 2007.

## Sauran ayyukan

Baya ga ayyukan membobin, Gelato ya ba da kuɗin Ayyuka na Tsakiya (wanda aka shirya a Jami'ar Illinois a Urbana-Champaign). Ayyukan Tsakiya, ban da gudanar da tarurruka sau biyu a shekara, sun yi ƙoƙari su daidaita da kuma gudanar da ayyukan da yawa. Wadannan sun hada da:

* Gelato GCC a kan Itanium Workgroup, ƙungiyar mambobi da masu tallafawa Gelato Federation da GCC) al'umma masu sha'awar inganta GCC a cikin masu sarrafa Itanium.
* Vanilla, ƙoƙari na hadin gwiwa don tashar jiragen ruwa da daidaita software don Itanium, samar da binaries da takardun tsarin daidaitawa.
* Coconut, tsarin samun dama ga injunan Itanium ga mambobi.
* Shirin Gelato System Grant, wanda ya samar da tsarin Itanium ga membobin.

## Masu tallafawa
Gelato ta sami tallafin HP, Intel, BP, Itanium Solutions Alliance, da SGI. Gelato Central Operations an ajiye shi a Cibiyar Nazarin Kimiyya a Jami'ar Illinois.

## Dubi kuma

* Linaro, irin wannan aikin don gine-ginen ARMGine-gine na ARM

## Manazarta