Wipro Infotech launches supercomputers in India in partnership with Z Research

12 Sep 2007

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anand_babu_ashutosh_vaidya_maheBangalore: 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''

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