HP Showcases High-performance Solutions that Deliver Innovative Design and Performance at SC99

Oxford Molecular, a leading provider of discovery and software solutions for the life-sciences market, is providing a demo at HP's booth, No. 201, of its Diamond Properties chemical software running on the HP 9000 N-Class Enterprise Server. Diamond Properties assesses the likely physical properties of a compound based on its structure. This solution enables researchers in drug development to identify compounds with undesirable properties, such as toxicity and poor metabolic profiles, using computer models rather than expensive and time-consuming laboratory animal testing and human trials. The results are made available to researchers through Oxford Molecular's Diamond Discovery decision-support system.

Implementing Diamond Properties software in the HP-UX 11 mission-critical operating environment allows users to run the application across multiple high-performance, HP 9000 Technical Servers within an enterprise. Because Diamond Properties software can run on multiple HP systems simultaneously, pharmaceutical companies can get products to market faster than their competitors.

HP and Etnus are working together to port Etnus' TotalView, the industry-leading parallel and multiprocess debugger, to HP-UX 11. TotalView will be optimized for the parallel execution capabilities of HP's PA-RISC microprocessors, which power HP 9000 Technical Servers. It is the only software debugger available utilizing parallel methodology for technical applications, such as electronic and mechanical design and scientific research. By running TotalView on HP platforms, users of high-performance computers can develop more robust large-scale, multiprocess and multithreaded applications and improve time to market by shortening development-cycle times. TotalView also provides the benefit of a common user interface across multiple vendors' systems, making it easy for users to work in a heterogeneous computing environment. This simplicity further reduces application development time.

As a member of the OpenMP Architecture Board standards committee, HP is also announcing its compiler support of OpenMP in HP's Fortran 90 compiler. With OpenMP, developers can increase productivity and save money by using a standard set of compiler directives for leveraging shared-memory parallelism without requiring extensive application rewrites. With HP's endorsement, ISVs and developers can now maximize OpenMP's portability across the powerful HP 9000 Technical Servers and HP VISUALIZE workstations running the mission-critical HP-UX operating environment.

The industry-leading ILOG CPLEX optimization software is also taking advantage of the fast performance of HP 9000 Technical Servers. CPLEX software, now available on HP-UX 11, takes the guesswork out of and quickly solves the most demanding mission-critical resource-allocation problems. Examples include raw-material blending, airline routing, manufacturing scheduling and transportation logistics. As part of its alliance with ILOG, HP is announcing a free benchmarking offer to customers wishing to run their models on one of the industry's most powerful computers, the HP 9000 N-Class server.