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HP POD's enable Airbus to complete data centre transformationSep 28, 2011 (M2 EQUITYBITES via COMTEX) -- Technology solutions provider HP (NYSE:HPQ) announced yesterday that aircraft manufacturer Airbus has doubled its usable supercomputing power with containerised HP Performance Optimized Datacenters (PODs). HP said that in the final phase of a four-year high-performance computing (HPC) deployment, Airbus has taken delivery of two HP PODs, making this the world's largest industrial HPC system and one of the first confirmed commercial HPC container contracts. Financial details of the deployment were not available. This deployment is reportedly the 29th biggest computer in the world according to the official TOP500 Supercomputer list published on June 20. Manufactured and tested by HP, the modular HP PODs were delivered to Airbus sites in Toulouse, France, and Hamburg, Germany. Each POD contains all the elements of an HP Converged Infrastructure, including servers, storage, networking, software, management and integrated power and cooling. HP said. The HP PODs have reportedly enabled Airbus to quickly expand data centre capacity, boosting computing performance for aircraft development while saving space and energy. HP Enterprise Services provides data centre services for Airbus, while HP Technology Services managed the transportation, deployment and commissioning at the customer site. For this project, HP managed the preparation of the new infrastructure, the technology decisions and the technical elements of the transition. Comments on this story may be sent to [email protected] |