Who's who in HPC - The Sponsors: an objective analysis
An objective analysis of ISC2004 sponsors? You may question how this is possible since they are our sponsors and have made the event possible!
You would be right, we simply cannot be objective. This is why we are fortunate that Ad Emmen, editor-in-chief of
Primeur magazine and Managing Director of Genias Benelux,
has accepted our invitation to create an objective analysis of what we consider the 'who's who in HPC'.
Ad provides us with an excellent analysis of each company, their products, their customers and their place in the market.
It is an excellent source of vital information about the market players...even if we do say so ourselves!
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AMD
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is a supplier of processors. There are many large cluster computers, including in the TOP500, that use AMD
chips. The company has a special MP processor, the AMD Athlon MP processor, developed for these type of systems.
Apart from the 32-bit Athlon MP, AMD also offers the Opteron processor, the only CPU both 32bit and 64bit capable.
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Angstrom Microsystems
Angstrom Microsystems is a manufacturer of AMD based blade servers. Angstrom is focusing with these machines on the supercomputing segments of the scientific computing, bio-informatics, financial modeling, graphics rendering, and oil & gas industries. Angstrom enhances clustering technology for these markets with remote management software and LinuxBIOS expertise.
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Cray Inc.
Cray adresses the high-end supercomputer market with the Cray X1 supercomputers. It plans to deliver sustained petaflop system within this decade. Other Cray initiatives include the Red Storm contract and the Cascade programme with the USA governement.
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Dell Computer Corporation
Although most people know Dell from PC and small servers, Dell's offerings also include cluster compute servers. Dell, through its direct business model, designs, manufactures and customizes products and services to customer requirements, and offers an extensive selection of software and peripherals. Dell markets high-performance cluster solutions and services worldwide using Dell PowerEdge servers.
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Dolphin Interconnect Solutions
Dolphin Interconnect develops, manufactures and markets high-speed, high-bandwidth interconnect products based on the Scalable Coherent Interface (SCI). Dolphin Interconnect products and technologies enable customers to build highly scaleable, enterprise-class clustering solutions with standards-based hardware and software on Windows, Linux, UNIX and other platforms.
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Hewlett-Packard
Hewlett-Packard Company is resulted from the merger between Hewlett-Packard and Compaq in 2002. Both companies were strong in high-performance computing. Hewlett-Packard has the most machines in the TOP500 and has several classes of HPC machines.
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Hitachi Europe supercomputer
Hitachi markets the vector and massively parallel processing (MPP) architectures, based SR8000 supercomputer. The largest vector supercomputer in Europe is an Hitachi machine at Leibniz Rechencentrum in Munich.
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IBM
IBM has a wide range of supercomputers, IBMC software and Grid computing offerings. It is developing ASCII Purple: a 100 Tflop/s machine that should bring the company on the first place in the TOP500. In the company's new "computing on demand" philosophy Grid computing has an important part.
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Intel
Intel offers a framework to enable High-Performance Computing solutions for scientific research and for industry applications. The Intel High-Performance Computing solution includes processor, platform and interconnect/networking technology, software tools and middleware. About 40% of the TOP500 machines are based on Intel's processor architecture.
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Megware Computer
The German company Megware Computer develops and installs cluster computers. Although the company is not well-known ouside the country, some Megware delivered systems are TOP500 class supercomputers. Megware developed its own cluster management software.
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Microsoft
Microsoft is positioning its Windows Server 2003 as a platform for high-performance computing. It has collaborations with, for instance, Cornell Theory Center to develop applications. Several hardware companies are providing clusters with Windows server software.
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Myricom - Creators of Myrinet
Myricom is the supplier of the Myrinet high-performance, high-availability, cluster interconnect, and a pioneer in the development of cluster computing.
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NEC High Performance Computing Europe
NEC High Performance Computing Europe is the European subsidiary of NEC Corporation targeted on the supercomputing market. The product portfolio consists of the SX-series vector supercomputers, shared memory Itanium systems called TX7 and PC clusters.
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Platform Computing Inc.
For over ten years, Platform Computing Corporation is active in Distributed Resource Management. Platform's core product is the Load Sharing Facility (LSF) distributed resource management software. With multi-cluster LSF, Platform did enter the Grid market. The company was one of the first to offer a commercial version of the Globus Grid Toolkits.
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SGI
SGI is active in high-performance computing technology. The company's systems, range from desktop workstations and servers to supercomputers in the world. The company is also very strong in 3D visualisation. The products are marketed into scientific, engineering, and creative professionals and large enterprises.
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Sun Microsystems
Sun Microsystems is active in HPC computing systems and software. Sun has traditonally been very strong in science and engineering. With the Starfire, which was very successful in commercial applications, it had one of the first machine massively present in the TOP500 with a large percentage of indsutrial applications.
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T-Systems
T-systems is participating in the joint venture hww (Höchstleistungsrechner für Wissenschaft und
Wirtschaft GmbH) together with Porsche AG and the Federal state of Baden-Württemberg.
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