And speaking of servers.
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March 07, 2002 17:47
Review Lists Compaq as Top Vendor in High Performance Servers
By Eileen Kennedy, The Telegraph, Nashua, N.H.
Mar. 7--NASHUA, N.H.–Compaq Computer Corp. employees on Spit Brook Road probably weren't surprised to learn that for the second year in a row, Compaq has been named the top vendor in high performance servers.
The company has achieved that accomplishment with a 22.8 percent overall market share and $1.15 billion in sales revenue, according to a yearly review published by the International Data Corp., the global company that researches and writes about many high-tech companies and industries.
The report is called the "Technical Systems and Servers 2001 Year in Review Report," and was released last month.
A great deal of Compaq's Alpha computer technology was developed at the Spit Brook Road campus, and the company's high performance computer division is based there. The company has about 2,200 employees in Nashua.
Compaq led all vendors in the "departmental" segment of the IDC Report with 28 percent of the revenue, and Compaq's AlphaServer SC series running Tru64 UNIX has become the system of choice for many of the world's most demanding high-performance customers. The IDC report states that Compaq has doubled its market share growth in the "capability" segment.
It also shows Compaq is more than just a personal computing company, something its chief executive officer, Michael Capellas, has been saying nonstop for about two years now.
"Compaq's effort to maintain its strong position in the technical server market has been validated for the second consecutive year with it achieving industry-leading performance as the number one vendor in high-performance server revenue as reported in our 2001 technical systems and servers year in review report," said Debra Goldfarb, group vice president, Worldwide Enterprise Systems for IDC. "We have every expectation that Compaq will continue to be intensely focused on this segment through strong partnerships, innovation in important emerging technologies, such as grids and clusters, and by staying close to its customers."
Among the deals Compaq has secured in the past year are a supercomputer capable of performing 6 trillion operations per second (6 TeraOPS) called the Terascale Computing System, which is now up and running at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center in Pennsylvania. It is the world's largest unclassified supercomputer designed for open research.
In another project at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Compaq is collaborating with the center in a project called CASP5 that is intended to provide large-scale computational resources to accurately predict the three-dimensional structure of proteins.
It also sold selected Compaq supercomputing systems to New York state to power the Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics in Buffalo, which is being used to make new drug discoveries, innovative medical treatments, and specialized computer products.
Compaq has also built the most powerful supercomputer in Europe for the French Atomic Energy Commission to perform the digital simulation and testing of nuclear weapons. The system is capable of executing five trillion operations per second (5 TeraOPS), and, as a comparison, can do the work of 30,000 mathematicians working day and night for five years on hand-held calculators.
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