IT PRO goes to HP’s supercomputer centre
We went inside HP's HPC centre in Grenoble to see why businesses might want to invest in supercomputing.
 
 
High performance computing (HPC) is becoming increasingly relevant to a wider range of businesses.
This was the message HP and Intel gave us this week in Grenoble at the former's HPC EMEA Competency Centre.
We got to take a look around the facility to see what an HPC deployment might look like inside a business' premises.
As you'll see, perhaps unsurprisingly, there is some serious kit inside the HP clusters on-site.
Here's what was hanging out the back of some of them:
  
  
  
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Tom Brewster is currently an associate editor at Forbes and an award-winning journalist who covers cyber security, surveillance, and privacy. Starting his career at ITPro as a staff writer and working up to a senior staff writer role, Tom has been covering the tech industry for more than ten years and is considered one of the leading journalists in his specialism.
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