HP has announced a High Performance Computing (HPC) alliance with Intel Corporation at the International Supercomputing Conference, which was created to advance customer innovation and help expand accessibility of HPC to enterprises of all sizes. To increase accessibility of HPC, both companies will launch a new Center of Excellence (CoE) to bring a community of experts from both HP and Intel to support customers in planning, developing, deploying and managing HPC solutions.
HP has announced a High Performance Computing (HPC) alliance with Intel Corporation at the International Supercomputing Conference, which was created to advance customer innovation and help expand accessibility of HPC to enterprises of all sizes. To increase accessibility of HPC, both companies will launch a new Center of Excellence (CoE) to bring a community of experts from both HP and Intel to support customers in planning, developing, deploying and managing HPC solutions.
With this new alliance, HP is offering its HPC Solutions Framework based on HP Apollo servers, which are specialized for HPC. In addition, they are now optimized to support industry-specific software applications from an ecosystem of independent software vendors. HP indicates that these solutions will drastically simplify the deployment of HPC for customers in industries such as oil and gas, life sciences and financial services. The HP Apollo product line also integrates Intel’s technology from its HPC scalable system framework, helping to extend the resilience, reliability, power efficiency and price/performance of the HP Apollo solutions.
In order to provide efficient and well-balanced systems that focus on unique customer workloads and application performance, HP says that the systems will take full advantage of next-generation Intel Xeon processors, the Intel Xeon Phi product family, Intel Omni-Path interconnect technology, and the Intel Enterprise Edition of Lustre.
These purpose-built HP Apollo Compute platforms will be customized for an array of workload-optimized solutions all the while enhancing data center efficiency and enabling the foundational infrastructure to process, analyze and manage data. In addition, the platforms can be tailored to address unique customer requirements as well as to address HPC and issues of big data.
HP and Intel are collaborating to enhance its capabilities at the HPC CoE in Grenoble, France, such as giving customers the opportunity to work with ISVs and HP/Intel engineers to modernize code. The HP/Intel CoE in Grenoble also enables customers, developers, and ISVs to carry out proof of concept, benchmarks, and characterizations to optimize the infrastructure for HPC-related workloads. HP and Intel have also announced that they will be opening a new CoE in Houston, Texas to help improve support in the North American market.
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