High Performance Computing
OCF designs, integrates and supports innovative High Performance Computing solutions. HPC is not solely about clustering technologies; it involves the conjunction of advanced server/cluster technology, SMP technology, storage and, increasingly, visualisation. Given its dynamic nature, success in HPC requires the ability to work collaboratively with best of breed system component vendors. OCF has developed an unrivalled ‘ecosystem’ of vendor partners with whom it collaborates to provide its customers with efficient, well balanced productive systems to enable maximum benefits to be obtained from their investment.
The availability of commodity high performance processors, fast and reliable commodity interconnection networks, modular system building blocks, and open system software has made high performance computer systems more affordable, easier to build, and levelled the playing field in HPC. Once an exclusive domain of powerful players such as national labs and large corporations, in recent times HPC has been making steady inroads on to the computing radars of medium and small companies across the globe.
The need for HPC has pervaded all walks of life, from manufacturing to medicine, science and technology, and from defence to education, entertainment and national security. The emergence of commodity HPC platforms such as clusters of blades, clusters of desk top/rack mount servers, clusters of PlayStations and PC's makes the expectations from, and the interest in, the promise of HPC more intense.
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