An article from HPCwire by Dave French, assistant editor, HPCwire. The following is a transcription of that interview and Rabe's opening statements. On November 15, Compaq Computer Corporation will announce that it is entering, for the first time, into the supercomputing market. A recent IDC report indicates Compaq is tied for second with SGI in the HPC market despite the fact that neither Compaq nor Digital ever built systems that fell into the category of supercomputers.
Alpha systems are quite popular.
In fact, through the partnership we had with Cray Research, Alpha processors powered a great many of those. If you look at the Top 500 list dated to last Spring, Alpha-based Cray T3 systems represented five of the top ten and forty of the top 100 systems in terms of performance in technical computing. Alpha, as a technology, has been very well represented in the most powerful systems in the world. Now we are going to enter the supercomputing market directly. This is in part because we see a natural and logical way to improve our line upward in terms of performance.