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Interactive Supercomputing and Hewlett-Packard have teamed up to deliver Star-PTM interactive supercomputing software on HP ProLiant servers, HP BladeSystem solutions and HP Cluster Platform systems that are based on dual-core x86-64 processors—AMD's Opteron and Intel's Xeon.

Star-P on HP
Star-P is a software platform that allows existing desktop simulation tools to operate interactively and automatically on high-performance computers. The Star-P software acts as a bridge between popular scientific and engineering desktop computing tools, such as MATLAB®®, and the parallel computing capability of HPC servers

Accelerating Time-to-Insight
For engineers, scientists, and analysts, Star-P offers a quick learning curve, and the ability to work interactively while scaling to large datasets and multiple CPUs. For project leaders, Star-P eliminates re-programming in C, Fortran, MPI, helping dramatically reduce the time-to-solution, cut labor costs, and accelerate time-to-market. For HPC infrastructure leadership Star-P expands access for more users, increasing the return on HPC investment.

Star-P automatically connects desktop applications to ProLiant servers and blade systems and parallelizes the application code on the fly. This enables users to scale their applications across any multi-processor system or parallel HP ProLiant cluster in real time. Using Star-P users can tackle much larger problems on their desktops than ever before possible, while arriving at a solution in a fraction of the time.
Interactive Discovery on HP Servers

Star-P on HP delivers the "best of both worlds"—the interactive and familiar use of your desktop application, coupled with the computing power of HPCs. With Star-P, you can work interactively, work with the large data sets, live in memory. Prototype and scale in a tightly coupled process, in real time, with fine-grained control of both algorithms and data, transparently harnessing the HPC's computing resources.