SC98 - HP displays high-performance technical-data-center solutions at SC98

HP's scalability spectrum provides customers with technical computing solutions ranging from a solution involving hundreds of processors to solve the largest research and engineering problems to a single operating system to support hundreds of users under time-to-market pressures.

HP will conduct demonstrations highlighting today's fastest RISC processor (the 64-bit PA-8500 processor) and its roadmap to IA-64, the scalability of the HP 9000 technical server and the power of the 64-bit HP-UX(1) 11 operating environment. Information technology (IT) demands scalable, high-performance solutions for today's technical market, and HP delivers high-capacity solutions with optimal application performance and the scalability needed for technical computing environments. This capability demonstrates HP's leadership in utilizing superior graphics solutions to improve engineering collaboration throughout the supply and design chain.

"Supercomputing `98 is an excellent opportunity for customers to see that only HP can deliver the combination of scalability, capability and capacity required for today's technical data centers," said Patrick Rogers, worldwide marketing manager for HP's High Performance Systems Division. " With HP's complete scalability spectrum, customers will achieve optimal job performance, faster throughput and increased system availability. HP can offer customers technology innovation combined with extreme reliability, which are the success factors necessary to outpace the competition.

HP's Design Visualization Center at its SuperComputing `98 booth features a powerful new family of immersive-visualization solutions that can enable entire project teams -- locally or globally -- to immerse themselves in their data to optimize product development and scientific visualization. These solutions allow design teams to walk through an entire, life-size virtual vehicle, airplane or building, or to walk through a giant-sized molecule, for example; interact with this data; and resolve design flaws in real time before physical prototypes are built.

HP will run demonstrations in mechanical and engineering design and analysis for automotive and aerospace applications, and it will run scientific-research simulations for modeling of large problem sets such as those in weather and space applications.

Supporting HP's performance, reliability and product-line depth, HP will also showcase its storage, connectivity and printing solutions. In addition to regularly scheduled presentations by leading technologists, HP will concentrate on its formula for eight drivers that deliver the essential eight success factors for technical computing. These success factors mean faster time to solution, more capacity and flexibility, and more advanced application capabilities for customers.