HP 9000 Superdome Server
what others are saying

"The Center for Advanced Computing Research is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the field of high-performance computing and communication emphasizing both numerically and data intensive applications. Our goal is to further the state of the art in scientific computing, in part, by working with HP's latest high-performance computers like the HP 9000 Superdome Server."

James C.T. Pool, Executive Director
Center for Advanced Computing Research, California Institute of Technology

"Its (Superdome's) installation and integration into our computing facility was achieved in less than a day. Our experience during the whole process, from site preparation through training to on-site support with hardware and software, has been very good. Within a few days after the system was delivered, we were able to complete performance measurements on leading scientific applications," said Dr. Vincent McKoy, Professor of Theoretical Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology. "We've already completed real-world calculations on the HP 9000 Superdome Server system and found that the same calculation with the same number of processors required less then half the time on the HP 9000 Superdome Server when compared to our existing HP V2500SCA systems. Performance improvements like these help us advance the sophistication of our simulations and maintain a rapid pace in our research."

Dr. Vincent McKoy, Professor of Theoretical Chemistry
Center for Advanced Computing Research, California Institute of Technology

Center for Computational Sciences (CCS) University of Kentucky
"We talked with all of the leading computer vendors, but ultimately choose HP because the HP 9000 Superdome server provided us with the best performance in benchmark tests and a clear upgrade path for the future. One of the University's goals is to be a top twenty public university by the year 2020. To meet this goal, we needed to expand our computing resources with powerful supercomputers like Superdome that also have a solid, yet aggressive growth plan."

John Connolly, Director
Center for Computational Sciences (CCS), University of Kentucky

Continental Airlines
Technology Division
"The most important reason continental airlines selected HP 9000 Superdome Servers is because they represented a strategic push for the Continental Airlines Technology Division to continue an enterprise-focused strategy. To do this, we needed an enterprise server that is highly available and reliable. Also important to Continental Airlines is the fact that HP's Superdome solution is highly expandable and ideal for server consolidation solutions. We took five individual systems and put them onto one highly available enterprise-class server: HP 9000 Superdome Server."

Daniel Morales, Managing Director
Revenue Accounting Systems
Continental Airlines Technology Division

debis IT Services
debis IT Services provides consulting services, software solutions, and systems integration, desktop services and the management of applications and data centers and networks throughout Europe.

"We are expanding every month and the data centre is starting to look very congested. In addition to the problem of space, we are also aware that we could make substantial cost savings by reducing the number of machines and cutting the costs associated with maintaining and upgrading them. However, the new servers also need to be more powerful than the ones they replace. . . . We have had very positive experiences with HP hardware in the past, and we have always been impressed by the competence and motivation of HP's people. We are therefore very optimistic about this project, and we hope that the HP 9000 Superdome server will become the platform of the future for our customers."

Roland Proebstel, Technical Support Manager for HP-UX
debis IT Services

First Union Corporation
First Union Corporation is the sixth largest bank in the US, and the first institution to deliver bills electronically to customers. First Union operates some 2,000 UNIX servers, and uses the HP 9000 Superdome Server in several mission-critical areas of the bank.

"With the HP 9000 Superdome Server solution, HP has tightly integrated products and services to give us a single source that addresses our multiple and complex needs. From the always-on infrastructure and services we require for offering financial services over the Internet, to cost-effectively managing our own internal mission-critical operations, we can bring everything onto the HP 9000 Superdome Server platform, dramatically reducing complexity and costs. Perhaps the biggest breakthrough is that we can host our customers' mission-critical banking applications for them something that's never been done before by any bank. Using the strong partitioning and cost-effective pay-as-you-go attributes of the HP 9000 Superdome Server solution, we believe we can improve customer satisfaction and reduce our own, as well as customers' costs."

Tim Lindler, Vice President, Unix Production Systems
First Union Corporation

General Mills
"Choosing the HP 9000 Superdome Servers allowed us to greatly simplify our technology environment resulting in a better focused it team. And, we were able to cut our growing third-party software costs by migrating our ERP and HP applications to the HP-UX environment. We literally had no learning curve in the move to HP-UX 11i because of our prior experience with hp-ux. Now we have the expertise and plenty of room for future business growth."

Michael Meinz, Director of Information Technology
General Mills

Liz Claiborne, Inc.
"Scalability, high availability and performance were critical to our platform decision, and with the HP 9000 Superdome Server we have it all. As our business system's capacity needs increase, we can easily scale by adding CPUs and PCI boards while on-line. And the 5nines:5minutes high availability feature was exactly what was demanded to maximize uptime. since implementing this platform we have experienced a 60 percent performance increase over the legacy environment, 40 percent of which can be attributed to Superdome and HP-UX 11i."

Joe Yankauskas, Manager of Technical Services
Liz Claiborne, Inc.

mobilkom austria AG
mobilkom is the #1 telecom operator in Austria with 2.5 million subscribers which accounts for more than half the total market in Austria.

"Naturally, the choice of hardware is extremely important for us. However, mobilkom is not just looking for a larger box but for a total solution to best fulfill our requirements. This goes beyond the system. It requires a comprehensive offering that includes technology, services and support, and an open trustful partnership to make the technology work," Dr. Harand concluded.

Dr. Sigurd Harand, Chief Information Officer
mobilkom austria AG

Telcordia Technologies, Inc.
Eighty percent of the U.S. telecommunications networks depend on software invented, developed, implemented or maintained by Telecordia, including key patents on broadband data communications technologies.

"Customers of Telcordia Technologies demand excellence when it comes to their mission-critical applications. In return, we demand the same type of performance from our hardware, software and alliance partners. When we asked HP for a 99.9% availability guarantee, HP was able to offer that and more. Now, with the HP 9000 Superdome Server high-availability platform, HP is providing a next-generation infrastructure that will support our customers' strategic business needs. With HP 9000 Superdome Server, HP is also delivering a platform that has partitioning capabilities that reverses the trend of proliferating UNIX servers for each application. This is extremely important to Telcordia in being able to pass along a lower total cost of ownership to our customers."

Jerry Roberto, VP and Group President of Operation Support and Systems
Telcordia Technologies, Inc.

Eric Plesner, IT Director
VELUX