Fujitsu Siemens' hpcLine - more industrial users and more applications

Munich 14 January 2001 Fujitsu Siemens installed more hpcLine Linux-based systems in industry at Siemens Nuclear Power running STAR-HPC and BASF runs Fluent and Comet.

Siemens Nuclear Power installed a 16 node, 16 Intel Pentium III processors, hpcLine system for fluid mechanics using Computational Dynamics' STAR-HPC. This integrated cluster system with a high-speed interconnect - system area network - runs Linux.

BASF AG received a hpcLine system with 32 processors running the applications FLUENT and COMET.

These installations demonstrate the trend - also in industry - to cost-effective cluster solutions based on standard Intel processors and Linux as operating system. Fujitsu Siemens offering of the hpcLine is an integrated solution with support.

Further information: http://www.hpcline.de


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