Supercomputer's overhaul in Taiwan

TAIPEI, TAIWAN: Acer has been awarded the contract for Taiwan’s National Center of High-performance Computing’s (NCHC) overhaul of its major supercomputer in Taichung, central Taiwan. Scheduled for completion at the end of March 2011, the supercomputer will offer High-Performance Computing (HPC) services to a wide range of research and industrial customers in Taiwan. The installation is expected to place in the top 501 of the TOP500 fastest supercomputers around the world.

Winning this important tender marks a major milestone in the maturity of the business and demonstrates the level of expertise Acer Group acquired in the past year.

Acer Group, using its Multi-Brand strategy, with a particular attention to the High Performance Computing market has developed a strong portfolio of High Performance and Technical Computing solutions offering.

For this contract Acer, in conjunction with Acer e-Enabling Data Center (eDC), who run one of the largest data center of its kind in the Asia-Pacific region, will provide entire system integration encompassing Servers, storage, switches, software, and construction of NCHC’s high-density data center with over 600 Acer servers.

The NCHC tender offer was contested among a total of 10 applicants, and Acer was announced the winner after six months of intense competition.

“This win against strong competition demonstrates clearly that we have invested in the correct strategy for our customers. A comprehensive portfolio integrated with best in market partners has delivered exactly what NCHC needed,” said Gianluca Degliesposti, Acer Vice President of Global Server Business Development.

“Acer provided a flexible solution to meet NCHC’s needs and will offer direct support as system integrator,” said Simon Chang, Vice President of Acer eEnabling Services Business Group. “Going forward this partnership will help both parties advance our knowledge and experience in HPC capabilities.”

Acer is working closely with leading HPC solution providers to provide the pinnacle in clustered computing performance for NCHC.

Jacques Philouze, WW Vice President Sales & Marketing Allinea Software, comments: “We’re delighted to be working with Acer in Taiwan to provide parallel debugging software which can debug across thousands of cores. Following on from our recent success in Europe and in USA, we are delighted that our market leadership is now more recognised, and we look forward to expanding our presence in Asia and globally.”