 HP has unveiled the fastest blade solution for high-performance computing at the 2006 International Supercomputing Conference. The HP BladeSystem c-Class enclosure features the world’s fastest midplane at 5Tbps of aggregate throughput, and the first midplane to support 4X DDR InfiniBand®, the industry’s fastest blade server interconnect delivering up to 20 Gbps bandwidth in each direction.
Increasingly complex high-performance computing workloads demand servers with high-performance interconnects. HP BladeSystem c-Class offerings are supported in HP’s Unified Cluster Portfolio, a comprehensive, modular package of hardware, software and services for high performance computing. The portfolio's HP Cluster Platform 3000BL and 4000BL will integrate the new HP BladeSystem c-Class into HPC-optimized configurations, with choice of factory-installed cluster software, enabling rapid and easy deployment.
The HP BladeSystem c-Class portfolio strengthens HP’s continuing leadership in the high-performance computing industry, as demonstrated by Q1 2006 figures released by research firm IDC. The company rated HP as the HPC revenue leader with just over 33 percent of overall market share.
HP also reaffirmed its support of Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003, released by Microsoft June 9, 2006. With the addition of Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 to its Unified Cluster Portfolio, HP will offer customers strong choices of HP-UX 11i, Windows and Linux to meet their HPC operating environment requirements. The HP Message Passing Interface (HP-MPI), a leading implementation of the MPI standard and critical for running and porting parallel applications, will be ported to Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003.
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