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ALO ALTO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–HP (NYSE:HPQ) today announced two agreements with Cisco that target the fast-growing market of high-performance computing with HP hardware and Cisco’s InfiniBand solutions.

First, HP will offer Cisco double data rate (DDR) InfiniBand-based Server Fabric Switches (SFS) as part of HP’s Unified Cluster Portfolio. Additionally, HP BladeSystem c-Class servers are now supported with Cisco’s standards-based InfiniBand host driver software.

The combined offerings accelerate business growth for high-performance computing (HPC) environments by providing high bandwidth, low latency, fabric stability and scalability.

HPC configurations are used for projects requiring millions of calculations running simultaneously, such as financial data analysis, data mining, market data analysis, computational chemistry, database tiers, and computational fluid dynamics. Cluster computing is one of the drivers of the HPC market because of its flexibility and price-performance advantages.

HP is to offer Infiniband functionality for its C-Class blades, very cool, this will bring new functionality to the platform as well as new opportunities for their use either in a grid or high performance computing solution. Check it out.

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