http://insidehpc.com/2007/02/28/ibm-builds-marketing-to-push-hpc-in-the-mid-range/ HPC News Without the Noise for Supercomputing Professionals | insideHPC Sun, 09 Jun 2013 01:54:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 http://insidehpc.com/2007/02/28/ibm-builds-marketing-to-push-hpc-in-the-mid-range/#comment-2961 HP and Microsoft tighten partnership | insideHPC Tue, 26 Jun 2007 18:59:51 +0000 http://insidehpc.com/2007/02/28/ibm-builds-marketing-to-push-hpc-in-the-mid-range/#comment-2961 [...] You’ll recall that we mentioned back in February that IBM was pushing hard down into the bottom of the market in partnership with CCS, HP was already offering CCS via its HPC web configurator, and even Fujitsu has done some marketing around CCS. Industry insiders in the traditional HPC community say even more deals are in the works that will push CCS even further into HPC. [...] [...] You’ll recall that we mentioned back in February that IBM was pushing hard down into the bottom of the market in partnership with CCS, HP was already offering CCS via its HPC web configurator, and even Fujitsu has done some marketing around CCS. Industry insiders in the traditional HPC community say even more deals are in the works that will push CCS even further into HPC. [...]

]]> http://insidehpc.com/2007/02/28/ibm-builds-marketing-to-push-hpc-in-the-mid-range/#comment-47 Christopher C. Aycock Wed, 28 Feb 2007 19:08:38 +0000 http://insidehpc.com/2007/02/28/ibm-builds-marketing-to-push-hpc-in-the-mid-range/#comment-47 Just as Windows pushed desktop computing to the mainstream, CCS may actually push small-scale cluster computing to the mainstream. I really like the concept of a "personal supercomputer" and it seems that Microsoft is embracing this too. Of course, it might be possible for a Linux vendor to attack this market as well since there is no established player here at the moment. So maybe something bigger than Ubuntu but smaller than RedHat or SUSE. Just as Windows pushed desktop computing to the mainstream, CCS may actually push small-scale cluster computing to the mainstream. I really like the concept of a “personal supercomputer” and it seems that Microsoft is embracing this too. Of course, it might be possible for a Linux vendor to attack this market as well since there is no established player here at the moment. So maybe something bigger than Ubuntu but smaller than RedHat or SUSE.

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