Dell Revs Up HPC Strategy with New Products and Market Focus
Despite the evolution in strategy, Dell still relies on partnerships with vendors like Platform Computing and Terascala to fill in the cluster management and HPC storage pieces of their solution, respectively. And even though the cluster maker is now designing purpose-built HPC systems, it is doing so to fulfill established market demand, rather than for the sake of invention. Contrast that with former HPC maker Sun Microsystems, and its enthusiasm for building exotic hardware, like 3,456-port InfiniBand switches and proximity communication chips.
