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| HP Unveils World's Fastest Blade Solution HP has introduced the fastest blade system solution for high-performance computing, which will be on display at International Supercomputing Conference. The HP BladeSystem c-Class enclosure features the world's fastest midplane at 5 terabytes per second of aggregate throughput and the first midplane to support 4X DDR InfiniBand, the industry's fastest blade server interconnect, which delivers up to 20 gigabytes per second bandwidth in each direction. Two members of the HP BladeSystem Solution Builder program, Mellanox and Voltaire, collaborated with HP to produce the interconnect solution. The HPC BladeSystem c-Class also offers increased processor and node support, more efficient energy usage and increased cooling capabilities. The c-Class offerings, introduced by HP on June 14, are supported in the HP Unified Cluster Portfolio, a comprehensive, modular package of hardware, software and services for high-performance computing (HPC). The portfolio's HP Cluster Platform 3000BL and 4000BL will integrate the HP BladeSystem c-Class into HPC-optimized configurations, with a choice of factory-installed cluster software to enable rapid and easy deployment. HP's fully supported and highly scalable XC Cluster Software will be available for the HP BladeSystem c-Class server blades, as will a choice of cluster management products available through the open source community and HP partners. XC is a Linux-based production environment for HPC clusters that efficiently manages the most complex and critical high-performance computing workloads. For the first quarter of 2006, research firm IDC reported that HP was the worldwide HPC revenue leader with more than 33 percent of overall market share. HP holds the lead in revenue share for technical computer systems priced at less than $250.000 with a 29 percent share, as well as the top position in the divisional market with 35 percent. HP also maintains a 57 percent revenue share for enterprise systems. Support for Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 for cluster platforms HP reaffirmed its support of Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003, released by Microsoft earlier this month. With the addition of Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 to HP's Unified Cluster Portfolio, HP will offer customers HP-UX 11i, Windows and Linux to meet their HPC operating environment requirements. The HP Message Passing Interface, a leading implementation of the MPI standard and critical for running and porting parallel applications, will be ported to Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003. In addition, HP and Microsoft are working with software vendors to port and optimize x86 processor-based, 64-bit applications to Windows Computer Cluster Server 2003. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Networking News :: home page |