The 411: HPC Platform

HPC Platform, headquartered in Paris (France), develops HPC and low-latency solutions for Market data processing and complex financial products valuations. Its HPCP appliances leverage the performance of FPGA-based hardware systems with the use of Domain Specific Language (DSL) compilers and optimized core libraries. The HPCP appliances have a very modular …

The 411: PSSC Labs

PSSC Labs (Professional Service, Super Computers) delivers high performance computing clusters, workstations, servers and storage systems. PSSC Labs solutions aim to allow customers to focus on their work and not managing their computers. Here’s the 4-1-1.

Who: Founded in 1989, PSSC Labs has shipped over 600 industry recognized PowerWulf Clusters. Each

The 411: Terascala

Terascala develops high throughput, high capacity storage solutions for performance-based computing. Its RTS 1000 Lustre-based storage appliance leverages the performance and robustness of the Lustre file system while masking some of Lustre’s complexity and associated costs. Here’s the 4-1-1.

Who: Terascala was founded in 2005, focused on applying the

The 411: Cluster Resources

Cluster Resources develops workload and resource management software including the Moab Cluster Suite, Moab Grid Suite, and Maui Scheduler. Here’s the 4-1-1.

Who: Incorporated in 2001, Cluster Resources, Inc. began initial development in the mid-1990s by the founders of the company under the name Supercluster Development Group. Before it became Cluster Resources, The Supercluster Development Group

The 411: Interactive Supercomputing

Interactive Supercomputing Corporation develops Star-P, a software platform that is delivering interactive parallel computing power to the desktop. Here’s the 4-1-1.

Who: Interactive Supercomputing (ISC) launched in 2004 to commercialize Star-P, an interactive parallel computing platform. With automatic parallelization and interactive execution of existing desktop simulation applications, Star-P merges two previously distinct environments

The 411: NICE

NICE has a big presence in the European HPC market, particularly on the industrial side. Here’s the 4-1-1.

Who:10 year old NICE is an Italian software company with offerings in HPC and grid management. Their software is aimed at company-wide management, optimization of computing resources, increased usability, reduced complexity for grid solutions. NICE

The 411: Supermicro

Super Micro Computer, Inc. is a motherboard manufacturer that’s expanded into systems and support infrastructure for servers. Here’s the 4-1-1.

Who: Established in 1993, Super Micro Computer, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMCI) emphasizes motherboards based on Intel’s x86 architecture, plus complete server systems utilizing Intel’s Itanium, Pentium, and Xeon microprocessors, as well as AMD’s Opteron processors.

The 411: Digipede Technologies

Digipede Technologies is one of the companies making supercomputing on Windows a reality for enterprise customers with big requirements but without all the specialize knowledge and resources HPC has historically demanded. Here’s the 4-1-1.

Who: Digipede launched its flagship product at DEMO@15 in 2005. Digipede Technologies delivers grid

The 411: Woven Systems

Networking startup Woven Systems has been getting increasing attention over the past several months in our community. HPCwire included them in their half-year retrospective on HPC, and their adaptive routing experiment with Sandia and Chelsio has also gotten a lot of attention.

I spent some time …