HP Extends Grid Leadership to ChinaGrid Project

HP Extends Grid Leadership to ChinaGrid Project

HP today announced details of its support for ChinaGrid, one of the world’s largest grid computing implementations. The grid initiative by the Chinese government is intended to extend information technology resources and services to thousands of researchers and the more than 290 million students in the country’s university system.

HP is the primary technology infrastructure provider for ChinaGrid, which has 15-teraflops of computing power, comprised mostly of industry-standard HP ProLiant and HP Integrity servers. ChinaGrid is a national effort that runs under the direction of the China Ministry of Education. It is intended to facilitate the secure sharing of loosely coupled infrastructure and services within and across geographic and organizational boundaries.

“The success of ChinaGrid is due to the collaborative efforts of technology leaders like HP,” said Hai Jin, chief scientist of ChinaGrid, professor and Dean of the School of Computer Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology. “HP Labs has been working closely with the ChinaGrid team to develop one of the world’s most advanced grid monitoring systems.”

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