For the second consecutive year, the HP BladeSystem c-Class server has dominated the TOP500 list of the world’s largest supercomputing installations by providing customers with strong cost, space and energy savings.
HP’s leadership position on the TOP500 list continues to grow, claiming 212 (42 percent) of the 500 systems on the list. HP BladeSystem technology is ideal for HPC because it delivers extremely strong compute performance at an affordable cost. These servers also utilize less physical data center space than the proprietary systems that historically dominated the list. Customers have made HP BladeSystem c-Class the fastest growing server architecture ever to enter the TOP500 list.
The TOP 500 features four HP supercomputers of the six systems installed in India . The supercomputers from India featured include the Computational Research Laboratories, TATA SONS and Center for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC).
In the Green500 list that tracks the most energy-efficient supercomputers across the world, HP again leads the list with 212 installations out of the top 500. In India , HP continued its lead powering four out of the top six energy-efficient supercomputer installations in the country.
“Customers continue to drive higher performance and increased energy efficiency with blade servers, gaining more value from every IT dollar spent. The continued growth of HP customers on the TOP500 list demonstrates a market shift to industry-standard architectures.” said Faisal Paul, Head ESS Marketing and Growth Initiatives, Enterprise Storage and Servers, Technology Solutions Group, HP India. “Our leadership in the Green500’s ranking is a testimony to our efforts in building superior IT infrastructure that is energy efficient and drives business growth for customers”, he added.
About TOP 500 list
The TOP500 ranking of supercomputers is released twice a year by researchers at the Universities of Tennessee and Mannheim , Germany , and at NERSC Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The list ranks supercomputers worldwide based on the Linpack N*N Benchmark, a yardstick of performance that is a reflection of processor speed and scalability.
More information about HP HPC is available at www.hp.com/go/hpc.
