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On June 11, according to foreign media reports, HP is high-end super computers and IBM battle, latest data show that HP's investment in technology hardware doubled, while IBM began to retreat from the market.

Local time on June 9, HP has released two new computer server products, brand name took for Apollo. One HP Apollo6000 160 low-end servers. HP said it advanced a lot than the existing system, need only spend about half the energy to high-performance computing power. Foreign market research firm IDC said the system costs less than $ 100,000, however, may produce high performance comparable with $ 500,000 servers on the market today.

HP servers and network Director Antonio (Antonio Neri), another for the HP Apollo8000, will become the world's first completely liquid cooled supercomputer, IBM and HP have the ability at the top end of the market for the first time, and Cary high. Typically, the low end of the device sells for $ 500,000, but can easily reach millions of dollars, or more servers on the market today is high performance.

Neri said the supercomputers needed energy, less wind-cooling system of the 28%, he said: "we are redefining data center energy, this is a big opportunity for us. ”

IDC analyst Steve Conway (Steve Conway) pointed out that, in recent years the overall server market revenue growth is not high, but HP is smart, know that increased investment in high performance computing area, because it is the fastest-growing segment of the entire industry. IDC predicted that between 2014-2017, the market overall compounded annual growth rate of 7% per cent.

IDC said the high performance computing market as a whole last year valued at $ 10.3 billion, HP is one of the leaders, their share of the super computer shipments reached 32.3%, 2012 the share of 31%. IBM market share in 2013 to 2012 in 27.7%.