Grid Computing

For High Performance Computing or HPC as it is commonly called and technical computing, Compton offers the fastest, most reliable, and energy efficient HP Servers in ML/ DL/ Integrity and Blade Servers in the industry. Customers choose HP servers, HP Storage Works, and HP Grid Computing to solve their toughest computational challenges, from desktops to teraflops.

Organizations are building grid environments, and Compton has many resources -- our expert services capabilities, our broad portfolio of industry-standard building blocks, innovative HP Open View managemen solutions, certified and supported open-source software, and grid software solutions from our partners.


Compton Grid Consulting Services is an ideal starting point for exploring grid. You get expert help in designing, deploying and managing a grid implementation that meets your business requirements.
When you work with Compton to invest in HP products, you’re already taking the first step toward grid computing. Compton and HP is committed to grid-enabling all of our products and services that connect to the network, from handhelds, printers, desktops and HP ProLiant blades to powerful storage arrays and enterprise-class systems. All our devices will be able connect with and serve as resources on a grid.

Grid-enabling means implementing grid middleware on HP products and making sure it works. We have ported, tested, and tuned the Globus Toolkit -- the open-source grid implementation standard – on all our servers running HP-UX, Linux and Tru64 UNIX. Through the HP-founded Globus Consortium, we will continue to advance the Globus standard.

HP has also developed Storage Works Grid, a virtualized, standards-based architecture for making data a shared resource on the network.

Since a long time as a pioneer in enterprise management, Compton is offering world renowned HP gridenhancing management software for all of our hardware platforms. HP SOA Manager, a tool for managing Web services through the lifecycle, is one of the technologies that helps virtualized and manage distributed resources.