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Hewlett-Packard has teamed up with software and hardware vendors to deliver new high-performance computing accelerators that speed the analysis of large amounts of data and perform complex simulations.

The HPC Accelerator and enhanced Multi-Core Optimization Programs are the first in a set of initiatives HP plans to address critical challenges facing users with intensive computing requirements.

Accelerators are alternative technologies — such as general-purpose graphical processing units, field-programmable gate arrays and custom application-specific integrated circuits — that help applications run faster. The technology is well suited for users in the areas of oil and gas, financial services, government and defense, life and material science and digital content creation, HP officials said.

“As individual processor cores are reaching their physical limits of complexity and speed, we can no longer rely on processor technology alone to meet users’ constant demand for performance growth,” said Winston Prather, vice president and general manager of high performance computing at HP.

The accelerator cards which you can buy for your pc/server to offload some of the workload from the pc to a dedicated processor can be very effective. The barrier to entry seems to be more regarding the application compatibility. It’s not the cost of the cards, the accelerators that’s the issue, it’s the perceived cost of changing/adapting the application code.

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