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http://www.channelweb.co.uk/crn/news/2220782/hpc-riding-wake-credit-crunch-4101977

The economic downturn has sparked a boom in demand for high-performance computing (HPC) among private sector firms, according to resellers working in the sector.

Julian Fielden, managing director of IBM reseller OCF, claimed the HPC market is expanding four times faster than the general server market as firms turn to supercomputers to avoid costly manufacturing errors.
“HPC is popular in Formula 1 racing, as the car designers can build a prototype on a PC instead of physically building it,” he said.

y can put it in a virtual wind tunnel and alter the design to make it more aerodynamic companies want to simulate their mistakes instead of replicating them.”

Check out this article talking about the demand for HPC continuing despite the trading conditions for many. There have been many articles illustrating how HPC or grid solutions have been used as an enabler to business, whether it’s the animation grids used to reduce the time needed to complete that animation; as a means to reduce liability or in planning and design.

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