At the International Supercomputing Conference, held this year in Frankfurt, we have the opportunity to meet HP’s high-performance computing and large data newly established general manager Bill Mannel, the department attributed to under server business unit.
HP’s high-performance computing and large data contains the blade server hardware revenue with some of supercomputing equipment, the two categories, but HP’s concerns focus primarily on its Apollo HPC server line with the large body of data processing capabilities.
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In October last year, HP has released its Apollo 8000 and 6000 servers, which is a professional server after HP’s acquisition of the manufacturer Convex Computer in 1995 launched the first super computer products. And in May this year, Hewlett-Packard and persistent efforts to launch Apollo 4000 and 2000 product lines to seize the low-end market.
Bill Mannel is a once in a 25-year veteran of the effectiveness of SGI, he joined Hewlett-Packard in the 10 months before and Hewlett-Packard, Texas Houston, Apollo systems engineering team. The launch of the new design height for the so-called “efficient supercomputer,” he said, which is equipped with a cooling system can be further improved server density and reduce energy consumption.
We do not know that was established in March this year, the number of business units under the jurisdiction of employees, HP has not made this has been clearly stated. But from the point of view of revenue, Mannel responsible management is under the high performance computing department of the largest server hardware business, since September 2014 IBM x86 server business will be sold to Lenovo, the king of the throne of the supercomputer market is also thus attributed to HP all.
According to the latest market survey released by IDC, Hewlett-Packard Company in the first quarter of 2015 the global high-performance computing server hardware revenues accounted for 36% share in the field, while HP and Lenovo respectively 17% and 15% share, followed.
At the same time, IBM company in the field of high performance computing server sales in the first quarter was only 4.7 per cent ratio (the ratio of the current overall IBM / Lenovo parties market share of 20%), the figure of 30% compared with 2014 results Compared to a serious shrinkage.
In the major high-performance computing hardware vendor among HP has been trying to take advantage of IBM out of the market after the uncertainty caused to the customer sentiment further expand its market share. Mannel that HP is the most considerable scale manufacturers, and his staff are under the jurisdiction of the server market with the most favorable position to win. According to IDC’s forecast, this part of the profits of hardware products in 2014 increased by $ 10.2 billion in 2018 of $ 15 billion.
Traditional supercomputer users (including the research labs and high efficiency, etc.) still continue to buy these products, but business users is relatively faster growth rate, which is due to high-performance computing and big data analysis are combined to help them build a new products and services categories.
And corporate customers is the primary aim in mind, Hewlett-Packard, Mannel said HP is “one of the few have the technical expertise, one of the world’s financial strength and distribution capabilities, and vendors.”
“When you plan worth up to 300 million to 400 million US dollars of transactions, corporate customers need confidence in their suppliers,” he said, adding that HP’s financial services team can consider the contract when the customer to provide a great help.
But HP’s weaknesses still exist, for example, compared with rival Hewlett-Packard sold high-performance computing hardware in storage capacity is still relatively weak.
But this should be relatively easy to solve the problem: Hewlett-Packard company’s main technical team “to calculate the thrust”, Mannel pointed out, this way, we can ensure that HP has in actual sales were introduced more storage professionals.
The bigger challenge is how to enter the top supercomputing field, where an order can bring tens of millions or even billions of dollars in revenue.
Although Hewlett-Packard to 178 devices on the list of achievements in the latest list of the world’s five hundred supercomputing glory without the two, but it can burst into the top 100 seating only six sets of equipment, the top twenty is completely not seen trail.
Exchange their roadmap
To support the proposed Mannel “hundred concern” target, HP announced this week supercomputing technology alliance with Intel, in its establishment, the past few years, HP has been keeping a similar partnership with Craig.
First, HP has begun to high-performance computing Intel announced in April a scalable system to provide development assistance framework. According to the prevailing view, HP will most cutting-edge technology solutions from chip giant’s inclusion among Apollo’s own server, including the upcoming Xeon Phi processor, Omni-Path Interconnect network technology and Intel’s Lustre parallel file system, Enterprise Edition.
In addition, the two sides will carry out more cooperation in the background, including weekly dialogue and exchanges of Engineers show Hewlett-Packard and Intel.
The two companies will jointly calculate Grenoble within HP Performance Center of Excellence cooperation and establish a new computing center in Houston, to help customers more smoothly planning a high-performance computing solutions, when rewriting the code Getting help and independent software developers have more options. We hope that through the cooperation, we can usher in a more industry-specific practical workload customized software solutions.