High Performance Computing looks to the future

The Network is the Computer - it is an old saying made famous by Sun boss Scott McNealy. But there is now an argument that it has never been more true: so much so that it raises interesting new prospects for infrastructure architectures.

By Martin Banks, 4 Oct 2007 at 16:02

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McHugh goes to considerable lengths to highlight the difference he sees between data and information One of the changes he sees coming is future networks being able to receive data and be the first element in filtering and managing that data as it progresses through the infrastructure and business processes. Architectures will need to become flexible enough to enable that process of turning data into information.

"HP is in a classic position because it has not been technology zealots," he suggested. "It has been prepared to be in all sectors/technologies and to wait to see what technologies users congeal round as the preferred options."

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