High-Performance Technical Computing at the New HP

Hewlett-Packard Company is the undisputed market leader in High Performance Technical Computing. Now combining the complementary strengths of HP's and Compaq's HPTC programs, the new HP offers the broadest spectrum of high performance computing solutions and, in fact, is the only vendor that excels in each of the three principal practices of HPTC: workgroup computing, enterprise computing and 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.

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:

• Highest performance and scalability
• Multi-OS support
• Lasting value
• Maximum resource utilization

With its Alpha, PA-RISC^TM and Intel® Itanium^TM 2-based systems, HP leads in 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 Tru46 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.

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.

HP's target solution segments in HPTC include:

• Simulation and Virtual Prototyping (MCAE, EDA, weather and climate modeling)
• Life and Material Sciences (bioinformatics, computational chemistry)
• Signal and Image Processing (geographic information systems, high-end film and video, navigational and defense system imaging)
• Science and Research (high-energy physics, medical and broad-based academic research, earthquake simulation)

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 about Hewlett-Packard's HPTC solutions, visit www.hp.com/solutions/hptc and www.hp.com/techservers.