ACOG, IBM Team Up to Launch 1996 Olympic Games Information on the
World-Wide Web

SAN JOSE, CALIF., April 11, 1995 . . . Starting today, millions of people
around the world will be able to access official information about the
1996 Olympic Games by connecting with the 1996 Olympic Games' World-Wide
Web (WWW) server on the Internet. Point the browser to
http://www.atlanta.olympic.org.

Established by The Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games (ACOG) in
conjunction with IBM, this new server will provide a wealth of
continuously updated facts, figures, photos, illustrations, video and
audio content -- all aimed at providing the latest news possible on the
what, when and where of the sports, as well as how to buy tickets and be a
part of the excitement.

The 1996 Olympic Games Server presents an array of information under nine
major headings: Welcome; Sports & Venues; Official Programme; Travel
Information; Tickets; Official Products; Sponsors; Cultural Olympiad; and
What's New.

This is the first phase of information, which will be continuously updated
and supplemented with more detail. The most extensive delivery of
information will occur during the 1996 Games, with ACOG and IBM now
developing plans for presentation of real-time results and other
features.

Making the delivery of this information possible are powerful,
high-performance, parallel computers from IBM. "The 1996 Olympic Games
Server is a great example of how organizations and companies can benefit
from the power of the Internet," said John Patrick, IBM vice president of
Internet Applications, who delivered the keynote speech at Internet World
today. "Information on 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."

Donna Jonsson, ACOG deputy managing director of communications, emphasized,
"Interest about the 1996 Olympic Games is worldwide, and that interest is
increasing rapidly as the summer of 1996 moves closer and closer. The
Internet is an extremely effective means of responding to that interest
and providing the most up-to-date information possible."

ACOG -- the first Olympic organizing committee to establish a WWW server --
began actively investigating the possibility of putting information on the
Internet last year. "With more and more of the plans for the 1996 Olympic
Games being finalized, we wanted to take full advantage of the latest in
technology tools to ensure the widest distribution of Olympic information
ever," said Bob Neal, ACOG's director of Information Systems Services.
"With ACOG's presence on the WWW, we believe we're setting a precedent
that other organizing committees will follow."

IBM -- as the Official Internet Information Systems Provider for ACOG -- is
designing and formatting all ACOG data for the WWW. IBM is supplying all
hardware, systems software, WWW applications, technical support, systems
integration services, operations, facilities, document design, HTML
implementation, security and access tracking for the 1996 Olympic Games
Server.

IBM Internet security products allow retrieval of WWW information via the
Internet, but prevent removal or manipulation of data.

IBM Scalable POWERparallel System SP2 and RISC System/6000s will be the web
servers for the new Olympic information site. As the volume of information
about the 1996 Olympic Games increases, the servers have the flexibility
to scale up -- with additional processors and disk storage -- allowing
more users to access the WWW site simultaneously. SP2, the most powerful
offering in IBM's RS/6000 product line, runs AIX -- the company's open,
industry-standard UNIX operating system. This parallel supercomputer can
assign different tasks to each node -- serving database information,
video, or acting as a web server. Each of the nodes can work in parallel
or independently -- whichever is faster -- on compute-or data-intensive
jobs, responding to user requests. As information demands increase, mirror
SP2 and RS/6000 systems will be added.

As the worldwide information technology sponsor, IBM is providing systems
and people to help plan, manage and run the Olympic Games through the year
2000.

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