Wednesday, February 28, 2007

High-performance computing environments by IBM

IBM on Wednesday unveiled a technology, marketing, and sales initiative to widen adoption of networked x86-based computers in high-performance computing (HPC) environments.

Normally HPC is used in large organizations, but in new initiative, IBM going to make this techology available for smaller businesses and departments of larger enterprises.

HPC initiative based on IBM hardware; third-party applications pre-architected for the life sciences; computer-aided engineering software; and middleware for finance sectors. Initially they are going to make the product for Linux and Microsoft WindowsComputer Cluster Server 2003 operations systems, and would feature networking technology from Cisco Systems.


Source: http://www.informationweek.com

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