HP has announced enhancements to its Unified Cluster Portfolio for high-performance computing (HPC) at Supercomputing 2006.

Product updates include support for new HP servers and workstations powered by Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® 5300 series processors. The HP Cluster Platform 3000 system now runs new Quad-Core processor-based HP ProLiant servers that offer customers greater energy efficiency and can improve system performance by nearly 50 per cent.

Further product updates include new server graphics and parallel compositing features for the HP SVA and enhancements to HP XC System Software and the HP StorageWorks Scalable File Share.

These HPC systems and software are part of the HP Unified Cluster Portfolio.

HP Scalable Visualisation Array V2.0

Enhancements to the HP SVA include support for HP ProLiant DL140 G3 graphics servers as visualisation nodes and the addition of the ground-breaking HP Parallel Compositing library and open parallel compositing application programming interface (API), co-developed with Computational Engineering International.

New releases of HP XC System Software and HP StorageWorks Scalable File Share

HP XC System Software Version 3.1 enhances cluster and job management and supports the latest processor and interconnect technologies featured in HP Cluster Platforms, including the HP BladeSystem c-Class portfolio.

HP StorageWorks Scalable File Share Version 2.2 now provides double-speed interconnects and boosts performance for Linux, Windows and UNIX file system access while improving security and control.

More information about the enhancements to the Unified Cluster Portfolio is available at www.hp.com/go/clusterportfolio5pr.com.