When HP recently launched its HP Apollo family, someone asked, “Isn’t that something just for people in lab coats?” I laughed and
pointed out that while scientists have been skillfully
taking advantage of high performance computing to
make some of the most profound discoveries of our
time, HPC is spreading like wildfire into the enterprise.
More than one-quarter ( 26 percent) of manufacturing
companies cite concerns about
falling behind competitors as a main
driver for innovation in 2014, up
from 19 percent in 2013, according
to the EEF/Natwest Innovation
Monitor 2014/15.1
To win in today’s competitive
market, enterprises need to
accelerate innovation to avoid
the risk of falling behind their
competitors.
High performance computing
can increase competitiveness and ability to thrive
by delivering innovative products to market faster,
analyzing growing amounts of data quicker and easier,
and completing simulations faster (e.g. simulating
weather patterns for better crop production and
modeling car and airplane tire wear patterns).
Unfortunately, enterprises sometimes struggle with the
upfront capital, ongoing expenses, time and expertise
necessary to build and support HPC clusters for these
types of uses.
With HP Innovation Hubs and HPC as a Service, you
can access the right compute for the right workloads at
the right economics, every time.
To be on the forefront of innovation, leading
visionaries require leading edge technology. High
performance computing (HPC) has the ability to change
the world as we know it today and to accelerate the
success of business. Don’t get left behind. Get the
competitive edge of HPC.
1. www.hrmagazine.co.uk/hro/news/1145768/
increased-competition-drives-innovation-manufacturing
Suzanne Tracy
Editor in Chief
editor@
ScientificComputing.com
Ed Turkel
Group Manager, HPC
Product Management
Hewlett-Packard
Welcome to HPC Source — an interactive publication devoted exclusively to coverage of high performance computing. In this issue,
“A New Dawn: Bringing HPC to the Enterprise,” we
look at how small- to-medium-sized manufacturers
can realize major benefits from adoption of high
performance computing in areas such as modeling,
simulation and analysis.
In our cover story, “A New
Dawn: Bringing HPC to Smaller
Manufacturers,” John Kirkley a
writer and editor specializing in
HPC, takes a close look at bringing
HPC to “backbone” manufacturers
and at some of the challenges these
organizations need to address to
profit from adoption of HPC.
Zeroing in on this vibrant group
that experts credit as the principal
growth engine in many economies,
Steve Conway, Research Vice President, HPC at IDC,
talks about how — across the globe — HPC can boost
competitiveness, and about how small and medium
enterprises (SMEs) can play a strong part in his feature
“Small and Medium Enterprises Enter the Limelight.”
Meanwhile, Gilad Shainer, Chairman of the HPC
Advisory Council, examines how, for a small business,
HPC can be a game changer. In “High Performance
Computing for All (Yes, You Too…),” he shares some
keys for a successful HPC infrastructure.
And finally, Rob Farber, an independent HPC
expert, explores “Today’s Enterprising GPUs,” and
explains how, as we follow the trickle-down through
the enterprise, the number of options is continuing
to grow, and how around the world, GPUs are now
busily churning away making money for their owners.
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