ACADEMIA

Customers choose HP for high performance computing: For the second consecutive year, the HP BladeSystem c-Class server has dominated the TOP500 list of the world’s largest supercomputing installations by providing customers with strong cost, space and energy savings.

HP’s leadership position on the TOP500 list continues to grow, claiming 212 (42 percent) of the 500 systems on the list. HP BladeSystem technology is ideal for HPC because it delivers extremely strong compute performance at an affordable cost. These servers also utilize less physical data center space than the proprietary systems that historically dominated the list. Customers have made HP BladeSystem c-Class the fastest growing server architecture ever to enter the TOP500 list.

IBM maintains its second place ranking with 37 percent of the systems on the TOP500 list, while Dell slips to fifth with just 14 qualifying installations.

“Customers continue to drive higher performance and increased energy efficiency with blade servers, gaining more value from every IT dollar spent,” said Christine Martino, vice president and general manager, Scalable Computing and Infrastructure organization, HP. “The continued growth of HP customers on the TOP500 list demonstrates a market shift to industry-standard architectures. Standards-based platforms address a broader set of high performance computing challenges more efficiently and at a far lower cost than legacy systems and mainframes.”