Compaq achieves rank 1 in high performance revenue for second consecutive yearHouston 04 March 2002 For the second consecutive year, Compaq Computer Corporation is the number one vendor in high performance server revenue with a 22.8 percent overall market share and $1.15 billion in sales revenue, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Technical Systems and Servers 2001 Year in Review Report released in February 2002.
Compaq led all vendors in the "Departmental" segment of the IDC Report with 28 percent of the revenue, and Compaq's AlphaServer SC series running Tru64 UNIX has become the system of choice for many of the world's most demanding high performance customers, enabling Compaq to double its market share growth in the "Capability" segment.
The report provides continued proof for Compaq's focused strategy for high performance technical computing, and Compaq's leadership in this arena reflects a continuing wave of major supercomputer contract wins in genomics, bioinformatics, life sciences, research, computer simulation and animation during the past 12 months.
A Compaq supercomputer capable of performing 6 trillion operations per second (6 TeraOPS) called the Terascale Computing System is now up and running at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC). It is the world's largest unclassified supercomputer designed for open research.
In another project at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Compaq is collaborating with PSC in a project called CASP5 which is intended to provide large-scale computational resources to accurately predict the three-dimensional structure of proteins.
The State of New York selected Compaq supercomputing systems to power the Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics in Buffalo to enable new drug discoveries, innovative medical treatments, and specialised computer products.
Compaq has built the most powerful supercomputer in Europe for the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) to perform the digital simulation and testing of nuclear weapons. The system is capable of executing five trillion operations per second (5 TeraOPS), and, as a comparison, this supercomputer can do the work of 30,000 mathematicians working day and night for five years on handheld calculators.
Genoscope, the French National Sequencing Center, in February 2002 added eight more Compaq AlphaServer systems to multiply its computing power by a factor of five to significantly expand its work on sequencing the human genome.
There is also ASCI "Q" system at Los Alamos National Laboratory designed for the modelling and simulation of nuclear testing. When completed in 2002, it is expected to be the world's fastest and most powerful supercomputer capable of more than 30 trillion operations per second (30 TeraOPS).
Compaq supercomputer projects are equally proceeding on target with the Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing (APAC) supercomputer designed for research in chemistry, physics, engineering, environmental sciences, astronomy and finance. When completed in 2002, it will be the largest supercomputer in Australia. And, major Compaq-based supercomputer projects continue at Celera Genomics, the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, GeneProt, the Whitehead Institute/MIT Center for Genome Research, Sandia National Laboratory Cplant project, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Department of Energy, and Blue Sky Studios, to name just a few.
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