The IT infrastructure will provide support for the 18 competition venues including the Marina Reservoir.

More than 2,000 computers, 170 servers and 500 network devices – this is the scope of the IT infrastructure resources that will be brought to bear to support the inaugural Youth Olympic Games in Singapore.

Some 5,000 athletes and team officials from the 205 National Olympic Committees, along with an estimated 1,200 media representatives, 20,000 volunteers and more than 500,000 spectators are expected to attend the Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Games which will take place from 14 to 26 August 2010. Young athletes - aged between 14 and 18 years - will compete in 26 sports and take part in the Culture and Education Programme (CEP).

The IT infrastructure will provide support for the 18 competition venues as well as the Culture and Education Programme sites, Main Media Centre, Youth Olympic Village, and Changi Airport, among other locations. The Technology Division of the Singapore Youth Olympic Games Organising Committee (SYOGOC), which is made up of staff assigned from the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA), and Games system integrator Atos Origin, are responsible for designing, building and operating the technology which is vital to the smooth running of the Games.

With the completion of the IT Infrastructure and Systems Design Phase for the Games, an Integration Test Lab (ITL) has been set up at the SYOGOC headquarters. The ITL, which was opened on 5 February 2010, will be a one-stop centre for integrating and testing the Games’ IT infrastructure and applications such as the Games Management System, Information Diffusion Systems; Timing, Scoring and Results Systems; and Internet and Digital Media Systems before they go live for the Games.

"The implementation of the Integration Test Laboratory marks the successful completion of a key milestone and the beginning of the next phase of the project, which is the testing of all systems application before Games Time," said Mr Goh Kee Nguan, Chief Executive Officer, SYOGOC. "It also reflects the close cooperation and teamwork among SYOGOC, Atos Origin and other Singapore 2010 partners such as Acer, Omega, and SingTel. Together with our partners’ extensive experience and expertise, we are confident of building a comprehensive and secured IT system for the inaugural Youth Olympic Games."

The lab will be conducting intensive end-to-end testing for more than 30,000 hours utilising some 258 computers. Testing is expected to complete by May 2010, after which the computers, services and network devices will be deployed to the various sites.