Dell unveils High Performance Computing solutions in India

Bangalore: Dell announced today the launch of it's High Performance Computing (HPC) solution for the Indian scientific community. With this offering Dell aims to lower TCO, simplify procurement, reduce time to deploy, simplify manageability and ensure assured support to the scientific users.

"Dell solutions are based on existing, validated architectures employing best practices that allow us to greatly reduce consultancy and implementation time," the company said in a release. More than 20 among the world's fastest super-computers are powered by Dell.

It's HPCC solutions use standards-based technology building blocks to maximize computational power while simplifying deployment, management and scalability.

HPCC is now becoming more pervasive, productive and easier to access with lower barriers and cost to entry. Approximately 25 per cent of all CPU sales go into HPCC environments. "On average Dell ships one HPCC cluster per day across multiple industries," said Neeraj Gupta, GM for Public, Dell India.

He said that this solution is targeted at higher education institutes, scientists and academicians who are into high end research work.

"Our vision of empowering the education sector is to make higher education more relevant and purposeful and also to see that higher educational institutions impart skills and knowledge which are relevant to the emerging job market with a strong emphasis on technical and professional courses," Neeraj Gupta stated.

According to IDC, the current High Performance Computing and Communication (HPCC) market alone is worth approximately US$10 billion, approximately 20 per cent of the total server market, and it is predicting to grow to US$15.6 billion by 2012