Primeur Magazine: At ISC2002 in Heidelberg, we talked to HP's HPC-Technology Programme Manager from Richardson, Texas, Frank Baetke, on the experience with the HP/Compaq merger of the high-performance units, the supercomputer and Grid strategies. Frank Baetke pointed out that supercomputing is present at a high level in the organisation of HP. HPTC (High Performance Technical Computing) became a divison of HP, part of "Enterprise systems Group", one of the 4 big columns of HP. The other three columns are: access devices, services, and imaging and printing.

It is not the strategy of HP to build specialised supercomputers. HP high-end computers use a highly competitive node infrastructure and software, have high bandwidth and low latency. This makes them suitable for HPC.

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