For the second consecutive year, the powerful and energy-efficient HP BladeSystem c-Class server has dominated the TOP500 list of the world’s largest supercomputing installations by delivering a flexible architecture that provides customers with measurable cost, space and energy savings, reveals HP here in Dhaka on Janury 1, 2009.



Including systems built on HP ProLiant architectures, HP now commands a total of 41.8 per cent of systems on the TOP500 list, while IBM slipped to 37.6 percent. HP BladeSystem powers 40.2 per cent of the systems on the most recently announced list; this represents more blade installations than all other vendors combined. Versatile, energy-efficient and affordable, HP blade servers provide customers with the maximum density required for high-performance and scale-out computing.

With 201 placements, the number of HP BladeSystem servers on the TOP500 list has increased by 5 percentage points compared to the June 2008 ranking and by 10 percentage points compared to June 2007. The number of high-performance computing (HPC) installations using blade servers on the TOP500 list has increased more than any other single computing architecture. In fact, blade-powered systems are increasingly replacing proprietary systems in the HPC area and legacy mainframe architectures in commercial environments.

“Customers can maximize their high-performance computing investments while increasing energy efficiency with blades, clearly improving their bottom line,”