HP to Fund High-End Computing Lab in Singapore

Hewlett-Packard and Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A-STAR) will set up a high-end computing lab in the Southeast Asian city-state under an agreement announced Tuesday.

The HP Shared Services Platform (SSP) Laboratory will develop software tools for data centers and grid computing applications, the two partners said. One of the lab’s primary goals is to develop software that allows users to manage computing grids and data centers that run continuously with a minimum number of management staff, they said.

IHPC researchers have developed software that allows users to draw on and share computing power as needed, A-STAR said. This work will form the basis for further development by the SSP lab. The software tools that result from this work are intended for a range of applications, including physical sciences, engineering, digital media and corporations, it said.

The SSP lab will be housed at A-STAR’s Institute of High Performance Computing in Singapore and employ a staff of 30 researchers. Funding for the lab was not disclosed.

-Sumner Lemon, IDG News Service (Beijing Bureau)

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