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Jun 28, 2007 09:31 GMT  ·  By
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It seems that whenever an IT giant such as HP cannot outperform one of its colleagues in terms of pure performance, it thinks of a way of compensating through quantity. Since you all know the fact that IBM rules when it comes to supercomputing, you will probably be surprised to find out that it is HP which actually produces the best servers.

It took them some time to gather the necessary information but when it comes to server quantity it seems that HP is the biggest supercomputer integrator. According to the official Top500 Supercomputers chart, over 40% of the list is dominated by HP servers. Nice one especially if you're planning to use the 40% as an icon for a new commercial.

Backing things up a bit, the supercomputers deployed by HP are based either on the Cluster Platform 3000BL or on the 4000BL. Both are developed from the original Blade System C-Class Servers. What's even more important is that the figure represents a 10 growth for HP when you compare it with the percentage obtained in November 2006.

However that does not make HP the creator of the fastest machine on earth. According to the Linpack benchmark, IBM and its Blue Gene/L machine still holds the No.1 spot and as it turns out they will manufacture an even faster Blue Gene/P in the future. IBM also claims that it will be the first supercomputer ever to produce a 1petaflop performance index.

AMD is also on high-horses since they have two Cray-based servers holding on to the 2nd and 3rd spot. INTEL trails behind a lot with only one Dell PowerEdge system (based on quad-core Clovertons) being able to enter the Top 10 (the 8th position). Future Penryn cores could change that but at the moment it seems that IBM and its Power PC series are winners in terms of supercomputing performance.

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