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March 14, 2008
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., and CANTON, Miss., March 10 -- Wipro Technologies, the global R&D and IT services business of Wipro Limited and Scalable Informatics LLC, a privately owned, independent high performance computing solutions company, today announced they will partner to deliver high performance computing solutions to customers worldwide.
Increasingly, businesses are dependent on thorough outcome modeling, large scale simulations and quantitative business analytics. They are processing ever increasing mountains of data to stay competitive. Industry segments such as Gaming and Animation, Financial Services, Drug Research, Discovery and Life Sciences, Manufacturing, Energy, Retail, etc are rapidly adopting high performance computing solutions to address these needs. Similarly, the emergence of multi-core CPUs, proliferation of grids, compute clusters and the ubiquity of compute and storage clouds is driving the need to transform legacy applications.
According to IDC, a leading provider of market intelligence for the information technology, telecommunications, and consumer technology markets, the high performance computing server market is growing at more than 15 percent CAGR per year, and has grown more than 134 percent from 2002 to 2007.
By partnering with Scalable Informatics, Wipro will be able to provide its customers with expanded research and development services in the growing high performance computing solutions market.
"Wipro and Scalable complement each other very well. Together we are capable of delivering sophisticated and effective performance enhancing solutions addressing our customers architectural, porting and migration challenges. Wipro is a leader in providing cutting edge product engineering solutions to its customers. The High Performance Solutions Group is another such example." Said Ayan Mukerji, senior vice president, Telecom and Product Engineering Solutions, Wipro Technologies.
"Wipro brings to the table a highly trained pool of research and development engineers," said Joseph Landman, CEO, Scalable Informatics. "There is a growing demand for high performance computing applications, services and support. As the high performance computing infrastructure proliferates, business users are seeking application transformation help and support services to leverage such infrastructure and to reduce time to solution."
About Wipro
Wipro Technologies, a division of Wipro Limited (NYSE:WIT) is the first PCMM Level 5 and SEI CMM Level 5 certified global R&D and IT services organization. Wipro Technologies was recently assessed at Level 5 for CMMI V 1.2 across offshore and onsite development centers. Wipro is one of the largest product engineering and support service providers worldwide. Wipro provides comprehensive research and development services, IT solutions and services, including systems integration, information systems outsourcing, package implementation, software application development, and maintenance services to corporations globally.
About Scalable Informatics
Scalable Informatics LLC is a privately held provider of high performance computing solutions to customers in engineering, life and chemical sciences, and scientific research. Scalable Informatics focuses upon making usage of high performance systems as simple and fast as possible, so end users can focus upon their work and not upon computer science. Scalable Informatics develops several products to further this vision. JackRabbit storage systems providing high performance, highly reliable, and low cost storage; DragonFly software providing web-based access to and control of high performance computing resources. Scalable Informatics products and services enable organizations to operate more simply, and faster than they have in the past. For more information, call +1 734 786 8423, or visit http://www.scalableinformatics.com.
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Source: Scalable Informatics LLC
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