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November 02, 2007
HP Launches "Catalysts for HPC Innovation" Initiative
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Driven by research and development, new High Performance Computing (HPC) technologies are continually evolving, enabling scientists and researchers to solve larger and more complicated problems. HP, an industry leader in HPC, is well known for its extensive history of innovation and promoting initiatives that pursue emerging technologies.
To leverage its customers' insights and BT challenges, HP recently launched a new emerging technology initiative called, "Catalysts for HPC Innovation." Scott Misage, director of advanced development programs and strategic customer management for HP's High Performance Computing Division, shares some of the details:
Question: What exactly is the Catalysts for HPC Innovation initiative?
Scott Misage: It's a program designed to increase HPC innovation in a customer focused way. The 'Catalyst' initiative includes a set of advanced development projects and customer collaborations that provides HP the opportunity to evaluate and drive adoption for the next wave of emerging high performance technologies.
Our goal is to closely collaborate with our customers to incubate new technologies in real-life situations, covering a range of technical areas. The program provides early insight into future industry needs and shortens the innovation cycle, so that our new business technology solutions anticipate and solve real customer problems quickly.
Question: HPC vendors have always put a tremendous amount of time, money, and effort into research and development. What makes this initiative different from what has been done in the past and what other companies are currently doing?
SM: It's the upfront customer involvement that makes all the difference. We are not taking an ivory tower approach to these projects. HP's program is unique in that we collaborate with our customers to identify new opportunities, to drive the requirements and to provide us with advice during the design phase. Without the customer interaction, we would be missing the opportunity to better conceptualize and integrate features that solve their real problems.
Question: What are some emerging technologies that fall under the initiative?
SM: We have projects that encompass computation, data management and visualization. In the computation area we are investigating multi-core optimization, accelerator and dense computing technologies. Data management projects include converged fabrics, remote caching and grid-enabled shared file systems. In the visualization area, we are exploring things like parallel compositing. Of course, we are also working to extend our leadership technology in areas that address environmental concerns, such as power and cooling, in other words, addressing customer concerns for "green" buildings and work systems.
Question: Tell us about the Multi-core optimization project.
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