HPC adoption rising because of cloud: HPE India MD

BENGALURU: Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is seeing greater adoption of high-performance computing (HPC) in India, the country managing director Som Satsangi said. The growth, he said, is being driven partly by cloud-based offerings.

HPE in India is focussing on HPC solutions in defence, weather and climate, academic research, the semiconductor industry, automotive industry, and oil & gas.

Ashok Leyland has deployed HPC at its R&D centre for design activities, Boeing and Airbus have deployed it in their design centres in Bengaluru, and TVS Motor has deployed HPC in their R&D centre in Hosur.

HPC – or supercomputing as it used to be called – is the ability to process data and perform complex calculations at extremely high speeds, at least 1 teraflop (one trillion floating-point operations per second).