HP Expands HPC ‘Scale-Out’ Offerings

HP this week launched several new products for high performance computing at the SC09 conference, including servers, storage, software and network products.A new ProLiant BL2×220c G6 blade extends the HP Extreme Scale-out (ExSO) portfolio announced last June. 

“The ExSO portfolio was created to meet the demanding needs of scale-out as well as high-performance computing customers that require highly efficient and powerful computing infrastructures,” said Steve Cumings, director of Marketing for the Scalable Computing and Infrastructure organization at HP. 

The new BL2×200c includes two blades in the space of one and has 33% higher memory capacity.  The ProLiant SL165z G6 is the first AMD processor based HP ProLiant SL server and uses the “skinless” system architecture based on a lightweight rail and tray design.  The HP Cluster Platform 3000SL is a new HPC-optimized implementation of the new ProLiant SL series server. 

New integration products include the Moab Adaptive Computing Suite(ACS) integration for workload management, a new 40Gbps InfiniBand switch and host channel adapters, and a large port-count 10 Gigabit Ethernet switch via integration with Mellanox, Qlogic and Voltaire interconnect solutions.  HP will be at booth 1025 at the SC09supercomputing conference through November 20th.