high performance technical computing at the new hp

the undisputed market leader

HP is the undisputed market leader in High Performance Technical Computing (HPTC). HP offers the broadest spectrum of high performance computing solutions, spanning workgroup computing, enterprise computing to supercomputing. From blades and departmental servers, to systems designed for the engineering enterprise and supercomputing centers, the HP portfolio provides leading performance, solutions support and investment protection.

committed to hptc

HP's mission is to exercise our technology leadership and market strength to satisfy our customers' most demanding compute and data-intensive requirements. We are committed to HPTC as a growth business and recognize that innovations developed for HPTC customers today will be used by mainstream customers tomorrow.

Our strategy focuses on achieving excellence in four areas:

• leadership performance and scalability with systems that feature the latest microprocessor technologies in scalable configurations
  
  
• leadership in key HPTC technologies, including cluster interconnects & software, high-performance I/O, and computational grids, with HP Labs and collaborations with partners and customers
  
  
• complete solutions across a choice of operating systems, through an extensive portfolio of market-leading applications software from ISVs
  
  
• lasting value and investment protection through leveraging the benefits of COTS technologies, HP's certified configurations, and worldwide services and support capabilities

systems

With Alpha, PA-RISC^TM, Intel^TM Itanium^TM 2-based systems, and Intel Pentium^TM and Xeon^TM-based systems, HP leads in scalable 32-bit systems and highly scalable 64-bit systems supporting very large memory applications. Today's HP systems feature the latest microprocessor technologies in scalable configurations from low-cost, single-CPU systems to high-end, switched SMP clusters comprising hundreds of nodes and thousands of processors.

HP offers a wide choice of operating environments, including HP-UX^TM, Tru64^TM UNIX®, Linux®, OpenVMS^TM and Microsoft® Windows®. HP will continue to offer the industry's best UNIX operating system, integrating the TruCluster® and Advanced File System capabilities of Tru64 UNIX into HP-UX. HP intends to offer the highest-quality UNIX on the industry's highest-performance processors, converging both PA-RISC- based HP-UX systems and Tru64 UNIX AlphaServer^TM systems onto Itanium-based systems running the enhanced version of HP-UX software.

long-term roadmap

HP's long-term roadmap for delivering sustained performance for HPTC is based on the Itanium product family, which promises to deliver industry-leading performance at a much lower price than traditional RISC technologies. At the system level, HP will balance peak processor performance (FLOPS) with high-speed memory and storage subsystems and interconnects to maximize overall application performance.

solution segments

HP's target solution segments in HPTC include:

• computer-aided engineering
  
  
• defense, security & research
  
  
• electronic design automation
  
  
• geo-sciences
  
  
• life and material sciences
  
  
• product lifecycle management

customer base

Supported by an extensive portfolio of market-leading ISVs and application software, HP serves a large and growing HPTC customer base that includes Los Alamos, Pacific Northwest and Sandia National Laboratories, French Atomic Energy Commission, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, GeneProt, Blue Sky Studios, Nissan Motors and many more.

For more information go to www.hp.com/go/hptc.