Wipro Infotech launches supercomputers in India in partnership with Z Research
12 Sep 2007
Bangalore:
Wipro Infotech, division of the $3.39-billion Wipro Limited, today announced the
launch of Wipro Supernova - a range of supercomputers and super storage systems
in India. Wipro is building Supernova "grounds up" in India in exclusive
partnership with Z Research, Inc, a California-based firm specialising in "commoditising"
supercomputers and superstorage.
Wipro says the Wipro Supernova promises to meet faster data crunching and storage needs of high-end scientific research labs in defence, geological surveys, biotechnology, animation and other high end design requirements.
Supernova
includes a complete range of supercomputers with an entry level configuration
delivering 1 trillion mathematical calculations per second going up to hundred
thousand trillions of calculations per second and super storage scaling to multiple
hundred Petabytes.
Z
Research, which opened a research and development center in Bangalore in September
2005, uses software technology based on Free Software and "Open Standards".
The company enables system integrators, with little or no experience in clustering,
to build clustered file storage, HPC clusters and supercomputers from commodity
off the shelf components (COTS) using clustered architecture and Z Research''s
software stack ''Gluster''