High performance technical computing (HPTC) has long been associated with supercomputers. Although supercomputers are no longer all the rage, these are exciting times for high performance computing (HPC). Supercomputing performance is now accessible and affordable to more research teams in more applications areas, and is fostering more, better and faster scientific discovery around the globe. Amdex brings HPTC platforms based on HP technology to these teams. This technology is at the forefront of the expansion -- advancing the power of computing with scalable solutions for high performance computation, data management, and visualization.

Today, the largest and fastest-growing areas of the HPTC market are the low end departmental and workgroup segments which include systems priced at less than $250,000. These make up more than half of the overall market, and according to IDC's initial estimates, are expected to grow at roughly 35 percent in the near future, while the classic supercomputer "capability systems" market has reached a mature stage and is expected to see flat growth over the same period.

This shift hasn't happened overnight. For decades the industry has been moving away from monolithic multimillion-dollar proprietary supercomputers toward lower-cost configurations of VAX clusters in the mid-80s, then RISC/UNIX, and most recently, Linux and Windows on industry-standard processors from Intel and AMD. With the lines of business and scientific computing becoming blurred, industry-standard open source environments are making technical computing affordable for people who could never afford to buy these kinds of systems before.

This is all great news for customers who require HPTC. Whether you require significant high-performance technical computing resources for scientific research to probe the mysteries of the universe, defense and security to simulate weapons testing and analyze surveillance data, or life and material sciences to enable researchers to achieve remarkable breakthroughs that are improving and saving lives around the world, HPTC clusters are leading the way.

Together with HP technology, Amdex is 'Making IT Easy' for organizations like these to put the power of these systems to work.