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Dell is not the first company that comes to mind when talking about supercomputers, but last week the company launched a new server-clustering program and a partnership with Cray to strengthen its position among vendors selling large groups of networked computers.
IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Silicon Graphics top the sales charts as the world's leading supercomputer companies, selling hunreds of servers to organizations that need to pore through large amounts of data and perform complex calculations. A number of industries from the telecom sector to aerospace pay millions to harness the power of these tightly linked computers.
The company plans to offer new precertified configurations of servers in an effort to beef up its share of the high-performance market. It has started selling groups of eight, 16,32 and 64...