Monday, 23 June 2008

TOP500 List of World’s Most Powerful Supercomputers shows HP BladeSystem Servers Lead with 35 %

Hewlett Packard (HP) Friday said the company continues to strengthen its position on the TOP500 list, a ranking of the world’s 500 most powerful supercomputers, with HP BladeSystem c-Class servers dominating as the most prominent computing architecture on the list.

HP BladeSystem c-Class servers power 176 entries, or 35 percent of the total entries on the TOP500 list.

According to HP, this is more than any other single computing architecture and more blade installations than all other vendors combined.

Blade systems have experienced strong momentum in high-performance computing, with 66 percent of the supercomputers on the TOP500 list, 329 total entries, now configured with blade servers.

With a total of 183 entries on the exclusive list, HP has increased the number of servers cataloged by 11 percent compared to its November 2007 ranking.

“Through innovation and a unique understanding of high-performance computing needs, HP can help customers maximize application performance without increasing power usage,” said Tony Parkinson, vice president and general manager, Industry Standard Servers, HP Asia Pacific and Japan.

“The rapid adoption of HP BladeSystem technology…on the TOP500 supercomputer list, clearly reflects HP’s ability to deliver customers computing technology optimized for large scale-out and emerging cloud computing environments.”

The TOP500 ranking of supercomputers is released twice a year by researchers at the Universities of Tennessee and Mannheim, Germany, and at NERSC Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The list ranks supercomputers worldwide based on the Linpack N*N Benchmark, a yardstick of performance that is a reflection of processor speed and scalability.