HP and Microsoft eye supercomputer market
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Tech giants want to give high-performance computers more "mass market" appeal by making them easier to deploy, support and manage.
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For U.S. companies concerned about manufacturing work heading offshore, high-performance computing could offer a competitive edge.
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A supercomputer that could help answer  some of science's biggest questions will be unveiled on Monday.
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(InfoWorld) - IBM still operates the fastest supercomputer in the industry, but rival Hewlett-PackardÂ has more of them in operation, according to a closely watched global survey released Wednesday. HP has passed IBM in the number of supercomputers in operation and enjoys the largest market share, according to a list of the Top 500 supercomputers that was compiled by university computer researchers in the U.S. and Germany. ButÂ IBM's Blue Gene/L supercomputer, installed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California,Â ranked first on the listÂ and IBM claims it is the market share leader when vendors are ranked by combined computing performance. The biannual list is being released Wednesday to coincide with the International Supercomputing Conference in Dresden, Germany. HP grew its market share to 40.4 percent with 202 systems, while IBM's share fell to 38.4 percent with 192 systems. In the previous report in November 2006, IBM's share was 47.2 percent with 236 systems, to HP's 31.6 percent with 158 systems. IBM said it holds a 42 percent share of the supercomputer market when it's based on the combined processing power of each vendor's equipment. Its Blue Gene/L took the No. 1 spot with a "sustained performance" of 280.6 trillion operations per second, or teraflops. Flops is an acronym for "floating point operations per second," a measure of computing performance. On Tuesday IBM announced a new supercomputer, Blue Gene/P, which will have three times the processing power of the Blue Gene/L. A two-rack test model of the P made it into the top 30 on the list, achieving 20.86 teraflops (T flops), although IBM said that properly configured, the P may be able to hit 3 petaflops (P flops), or 1,000 trillion calculations per second. Sun Microsystems, which held only a 1.4 percent share with only seven systems deployed, is making a concerted effort to pursue the supercomputer market. Sun announced Tuesday it is building a supercomputer, codenamed "Constellation," which is designed to reach 1P flops. It is building Constellation at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at the University of Texas at Austin. Sun received $29.6 million of a total $59 million National Science Foundation grant to build Constellation, while the balance of $29.4 million will go towards operational costs, said Faith Singer, a TACC spokeswoman. The Top Five Supercomputer systems in the latest survey, their manufacturer, the number of processors and the user are as follows: 1. IBM, 131,072, US. Department of Energy-Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. 2. IBM, 40,960, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center. 3. IBM, 12,208 , DOE/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. 4. Silicon Graphics Inc., 10,160, NASA Ames Research Center. 5. Bull S.A., 8,704, Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique (CEA) in France
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Vector supercomputers, the original giant machines for massive computing tasks, have largely been replaced in recent years by cheaper cluster models. But the vector's maker and many researchers want a comeback.  By Nancy Gohring.
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The Pentagon awarded almost $500 million in contracts to I.B.M. and Cray Inc. to design a supercomputer several times as fast as todayÂs most powerful systems.
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Parallel computing pitches at the mainstream The more things stay the same, the more things are likely to change, and clear evidence of that could be seen today at the announcement of the latest Top500 Supercomputers league tables at the International Supercomputer Conference in Dresden.â¦
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Once fierce competitors, the computing companies say they'll cooperate in the area of server technologies, putting a lot of heat on Hewlett-Packard.
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Lower electrical power consumption, not just greater data processing oomph, will help a new class of desktop supercomputers unveiled on Monday turn conventional industry logic on its head, its designers say.
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Two dual-processor models flesh out HP's Itanium-based Integrity line, and new HP-UX boosts software performance.
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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- The latest results on the server market from research firm Gartner show IBM and Hewlett-Packard dueling for the top spots in terms of revenue and shipments.
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Hewlett-Packard has begun selling a Pavilion PC that runs on processors from Advanced Micro Devices and a FreeDOS operating system.
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Silicon Graphics Inc and Nasa can claim to have created the world&#39;s most powerful supercomputer with the installation of the new Linux and Intel Corp Itanium 2-based &#39;Columbia&#39; supercomputer.
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For three years running, the fastest supercomputer had been NEC&#39;s Earth Simulator in Japan. That was seen as a big challenge for the US computer industry.
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IBM Corp. still operates the fastest supercomputer in the industry, but rival Hewlett-Packard Co. has more of them in operation, according to a closely-watched global survey released Wednesday.
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International Business Machines Corp (IBM) said it created the world&#39;s fastest supercomputer and is using it as the model for smaller, less costly systems due next year that can handle trillions of calculations a second.
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A co-founder of Sun Microsystems plans to introduce a supercomputer that will compete for the title as worldâs fastest.