
Workstation are the still the widespread answer to departmental and SME high performance computing needs,” said Giovanbattista Mattiussi, head of HPC marketing at Eurotech. “But, although they are much more powerful now than few years ago, in many cases they are not enough. I recently visited an automotive customer and even though they had the most powerful workstations in the market networked together with Gb Ethernet, their simulations take from days to weeks to complete.”