Compaq's New Roadmap for HPTC 2001
Sustaining Leadership in High Performance Computing
COMPAQ'S ONGOING LEADERSHIP AND COMMITMENT TO HPTC
"Compaq established leadership in HPTC last year by winning the largest
supercomputing projects around the world. Our agreement with IntelTM
will enable us to expand the high performance solutions available
to our customers.A key element of this agreement is joint engineering
development focused on advanced parallelism for high end computing.
Alpha technology will enhance the Intel ItaniumTM processor family
while Compaq adds value at the system and supercomputer level. We are
more committed than ever to being the partner of choice in the HPTC market." -- Michael Capellas, Chairman & CEO
ELEMENTS OF THE AGREEMENT
Compaq will implement new enterprise servers, including SC family,
standardizing on Intel'sTM flagship 64-bit ItaniumTM
Processor Family microprocessor architecture
- Alpha-based systems continue through EV7 lifetime
- Itanium processor family-based servers running Compaq operating systems available in 2003
Compaq will transfer Alpha technology, tools, and resources to Intel to enhance Itanium development
- Includes technology, microprocessor engineers, select compilers, infrastructure tools and support
- Compaq's resource and technology will ramp the Itanium processor family capabilities
Compaq and Intel will establish the Parallelism Technology Program
to further advance Compaq's technology leadership in High
Performance Technical Computing
Intel and Compaq will jointly work to bring the complete Compaq
operating systems and applications portfolios to Itanium processor
family-based enterprise servers.
PITTSBURGH SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER
Future Site of the World's Most Powerful Civilian Research Supercomputer
"This collaboration between Compaq and Intel provides a tremendous
opportunity for them to advance HPTC technologies. It will allow Compaq
to intensify their focus on the advanced system and software issues crucial
for very large-scale supercomputing. And the injection of Compaq's Alpha
technology and expertise into the Intel ItaniumTM family will create a
64-bit microprocessor ideally suited to power Compaq's supercomputing
systems for the long term. We expect Compaq's added value at the syetem
level to grow, and that they will continue to dominate the market
for new supercomputer purchases." -- Michael J. Levine, Scientific Director, PSC
"When Cray Research introduced their highly-successful T3D/T3E line,
no one questioned their choice of Alpha processors, because Cray were
adding significant value at the system level, and Alphas were clearly the
best available processing element for the job. Compaq is now making a very
similar decision. And we expect a very similar result -- major supercomputing
centers like PSC will continue to rely on Compaq for their systems." -- James R. Kasdorf, Director, Special Projects, PSC
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