Thursday, 15 November 2007

HP Places Two Systems in Top 5 of Supercomputer List

HP said Tuesday that it has placed two systems in the top five of the TOP500 Supercomputer list, which catalogs the world’s 500 most powerful installed technical and commercial computer systems.

In addition, HP has also secured one-third of the implementations on the list to maintain its ranking as a leading provider of supercomputing systems.

The HP-based Computational Research Laboratories system was the largest Asia Pacific-based system on the TOP500 and No. 4 worldwide. An HP-based system for a Swedish government agency was the fifth largest worldwide.

“Placing two systems in the top five while maintaining a prominent position across the TOP500 demonstrates that HP’s high-performance computing strategy is addressing customer needs with the right balance of solutions and price/performance,” said Winston Prather, vice president and general manager, High Performance Computing, HP.

“Our focus is to provide innovative high-performance technology to help engineers, scientists and researchers accelerate research and discovery.”

The TOP500 ranking of supercomputers is released twice a year by researchers at the Universities of Tennessee and Mannheim, Germany, and at NERSC Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The list ranks supercomputers worldwide based on the Linpack N*N Benchmark, a yardstick of performance that is a reflection of processor speed and scalability.