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

18.06.08 - 11:30 ... source : HP

... DRESDEN, Germany, June 18, 2008 Related Links » BladeSystem HP today announced that 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. 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. Additionally, for the second consecutive year, the HP BladeSystem installation at Computational Research Laboratories (CRL), a wholly owned company of the Tat ...» Next (HTML)