HP HyperFabric manual Technical Computing Work Stations

Planning the Fabric

Hyper Messaging Protocol (HMP)

Technical Computing (Work Stations)

This configuration is typically used to run technical computing applications with HP-MPI. A large number of small nodes are interconnected to achieve high throughput (see Figure 2-9). High availability is not usually a requirement in technical computing environments.

HMP provides the high performance, low latency path necessary for these technical computing applications. As many as 56 nodes can be interconnected using HP’s 16 port switches. Not more than four 16 port switches can be linked in a single cluster (see Figure 2-10).

HP’s “J”, “B” and “C” class workstations provide excellent performance and return on investment in technical computing configurations.

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