HP BladeSystem Dominates List as Customer Demand for Energy-Efficient, Standards-Based Solutions Catapult It over Proprietary IBM Offerings
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For the second consecutive year, the powerful and energy-efficient HP BladeSystem c-Class server has dominated the TOP500 list of the world’s largest supercomputing installations by delivering a flexible architecture that provides customers with measurable cost, space and energy savings. [...]

Fusion-io, a leader in solid-state architecture and high-performance input/output (I/O) solutions, is working with HP to accelerate enterprise server application performance using its innovative I/O storage technology. The two companies are adapting Fusion-io’s ioMemory architecture, which transforms data centers by dramatically improving data access performance, physical space usage and energy efficiency, to HP’s enterprise-class servers [...]

Customers continue to recognize HP’s (NYSE:HPQ) worldwide server leadership by buying more servers from the company than any other vendor, as reported by Gartner in first quarter calendar year 2008 figures released Thursday.(1)
With a 30.1 percent total unit shipment share and 29.6 percent vendor revenue share, HP maintained the No. 1 volume position and [...]

ESI Group (ESIN FR0004110310), a pioneer and world-leading supplier of digital simulation software for prototyping and manufacturing processes, announced today that AUDI AG has implemented the auto industry’s fastest supercomputer to advance safety standards. Crucial in optimizing car safety, the new system is based on ESI Group’s PAM-CRASH 2G simulation software and an HP Cluster [...]