Science and commerce better served with HPC from T-Systems

The company offers support for industrial CAE as well as application support with tools such as Nastran, Abaqus, LS-Dyna, and Madymo. For the integration of applications, T-Systems focuses on interface devlopment, work flow and data management. There is a strong emphasis on user support, according to Mr. Geiger. In addition, the company provides pre- and postprocessing tools like Medina.

The company works on system integration by means of networking, security and data management. The system administration is based on SLAs, a user help desk, on-site service, global management, and batch administration.

The support for HPC environments consists of compilers to develop these environments, visualisation, and Grid computing to enable distributed computing. Grid convergence is the business by excellence for T-Systems with coupled and distributed appliances, access management, data management, work flow management, and license management.

Applications such as Message Passing, rpc, and object oriented tools like Corba are used. The company focuses on applications, tools, programming environments, protocols including IPv6, and infrastructure.

The Competence Centers of T-Systems are located in Darmstadt for optical networks and brokerage of bandwidth; Nuremberg for public network projects; Berkom for grid concepts; and Stuttgart for grid applications.

Alfred Geiger considered supercomputing as an e-Business and mentioned MIDAS as a work flow and data management tool for car construction, which is used in Intranet.