HP takes lead from IBM on TOP500 supercomputing list

Writer APPLICATIONS March 3, 2009, 3:24 am

With 201 placements, the number of HP BladeSystem servers on the TOP500 list has increased by 5 percent compared to the June 2008 ranking and by10 percent compared with June 2007.
The HP ProLiant BL2x220c G5, with 14 placements on the TOP500, positions the HP BL2x220c as the leading server blade for customers that need maximum application performance without the additional infrastructure costs.
Having recently doubled the size of its supercomputing cluster configuration, New Zealand-based, Academy Award-winning animation company WETA Digital Ltd. is now ranked 101-104 on the TOP500 list. The new system consists of four supercomputing clusters and is powered by1280 HP BL2x220c server blades, which provide 205 teraflops per second at peak performance. As a result of the increased application performance and improvements in energy efficiency, WETA Digital has the processing density to produce cutting-edge digital animation faster, while still lowering operations overhead.
India’s Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) “PARAM Cluster” is ranked 69 on the list, with a system powered by 288 HP ProLiant DL580 G5 servers that offer a peak performance of 54 teraflops per second.

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