HP still going strong with 168 TOP500 entriesHeidelberg 21 jun 2002 Dr. Frank Baetke insisted on sorting things out with regard to the Hewlett-Packard company organisation after the recent merger with Compaq. There are no such things as a separate HP and Compaq divisions. Within the new company structure, everything is fully integrated.
HP is specialised in processors, servers and operating environments and aims at meeting the
High Performance Technical Computing meeting needs of customers for performance and scalability. HP's choice therefore fell on UNIX or Linux and Windows OS, as lasting value with in-place upgrades with regard to investment protection, as Dr. Baetke explained.
HP processor roadmap is a future proof growth path with the Itanium processor family upgrades providing two cores on a single chip. The Madison and Itanium processor family has been upgraded.
As for the different platform and product categories, HP is present in workgroup computing, enterprise computing and supercomputing with scale-out performance. Dr. Baetke stressed that
HP has got the power to fit any problem and gave an example with the 2-CPU Itanium2 platform at PNNL consisting of 128+560 nodes.
HP-UX has been optimised with Tru64 enhancements and the HP-UX 11 constitutes the industry's only virtual partitioning capability with clustering features, file and storage management, and
high availability/RAS.
The HPTC solution segments targeted by HP are simulation and virtual prototyping, life and material sciences, signal and image processing, science and research.
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