Wipro has formed a relationship with Microsoft to address the high performance computing (HPC) and parallel computing segment. The relationship includes joint investments in engineering and technology assets.
Wipro said that it will enable HPC customers to migrate to windows HPC Server 2008 and parallelism on the windows platform offering services for application porting, optimisation, application development and cluster deployment and management.
Under the agreement, Wipro will offer services including HPC assessment and consulting, HPC application reengineering, and HPC infrastructure deployment and management. Through the relationship with Microsoft, Wipro will now enable migration of HPC applications from Linux to Windows HPC Server 2008.
The relationship will also facilitate development and deployment of new class of applications which exploit the parallel computing features in Windows HPC Server 2008. The services offered through the relationship also include HPC application performance acceleration through benchmarking, system tuning, optimisation and parallelisation on grid, multi-core and GPU platforms, the company said.
Vince mendillo, senior director of high performance computing at Microsoft, said: “Wipro has tremendous experience in accelerated, cost effective application development and infrastructure optimization. With the extension of our relationship to high performance computing, Windows HPC Server 2008 customers can benefit from new, innovative parallel applications and optimal performance.”
