For the second consecutive year, the
HP BladeSystem c-Class server has dominated the TOP500 list of the world’s largest supercomputing installations by providing customers with strong cost, space and energy savings.
HP’s lead on the TOP500 list grew, with the company claiming 212 (42 percent) of the 500 systems on the list. HP BladeSystem technology is ideal for high-performance computing because it delivers extremely strong compute performance at an affordable cost. These servers also use less physical data center space than the proprietary systems that historically dominated the list. Customers have made HP BladeSystem c-Class the fastest growing server architecture ever to enter the TOP500 list.
“The growing presence of HP customers on the TOP500 list demonstrates a market shift to industry-standard architectures,” said Christine Martino, vice president and general manager, Scalable Computing and Infrastructure organization, HP. “Standards-based platforms such as HP BladeSystem address a broader set of high-performance computing challenges more efficiently and at a far lower cost than legacy systems and mainframes.”
About the rankings
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.
More information about HP High Performance Computing offerings is available at
www.hp.com/go/hpc.
Visit HP in booth 210 at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC ‘09) tradeshow in Hamburg, Germany, June 23-25, for demonstrations of the company’s offerings.
About HP
HP, the world’s largest technology company, simplifies the technology experience for consumers and businesses with a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure. More information about HP (NYSE: HPQ) is available at http://www.hp.com/.
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