HP announced that Belkin Corporation, a leading manufacturer of connectivity solutions and enterprise options, has migrated to the HP 9000 Superdome server and HP-UX operating system to run its critical business applications. The high-end UNIX® HP Superdome server is providing a stable, reliable environment for manufacturing, payroll and other core business functions at Belkin, one of the fastest growing private companies in the United States. After selecting HP to replace the Sun Solaris system for IT consolidation in its main corporate data center, Belkin realized a performance increase averaging 250 percent, allowing the company to speed its business processes, position itself for future growth and realize the benefits of the HP Adaptive Enterprise strategy by tightening the linkage between business and IT.

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Enhancements to HP cluster systems for high-performance technical computing (HPTC) broaden the price and performance options for these powerful clusters, providing customers with more choices as they move to standards-based cluster computing. New benchmark and market-share results underscore HP's continued leadership in HPTC technology and products. New enhancements, benchmarks, and market data include:

• Newly expanded line of HP Integrity rx2600 and rx1600 server options available in scalable Linux-based HP XC6000 clusters, doubling the number of XC6000 server options
• InfiniBand 4x for Integrity clusters, which triples the Integrity Clusters interconnect bandwidth while substantially reducing interconnect latency
• High Performance Cluster LC Series is expanding with the LC1000 Series, based on the Intel Xeon™ dual processor based HP ProLiant DL140 performance server designed for "scale-out" deployment and superior price per gigaFlop
• HP's leadership on the Lustre-based scalable, shareable, open file system for HPTC Linux clusters
• Record benchmark results for HP Integrity servers on several important high-performance computing benchmarks, including: SPEC HPC2002, SPEC OMP, and the new Purdue TAP benchmark ratings
• Worldwide HPTC market share leadership, with 36 percent revenue share, a lead of more than seven percentage points over IBM, according to market research firm IDC in their "Q3 2003 High Performance Technical Computer Qverview" report

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Ushering in a new era of standardization in enterprise computing, HP recently announced numerous new systems, software and services that help enterprise customers achieve greater competitive advantage. The offerings enable companies to better leverage standardization - through industry-standard architectures, reusable components and consistent implementation - to reduce costs and simplify change. As a result, HP and its strategic partners help customers simplify their IT environments and create more business value.

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Providing readers, consumers, educators and historians the opportunity to access the events and perspectives that have shaped the world, HP announced it is partnering with TIME to create a complete digital archive containing every issue of the publication since its inception.

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Broadening its support of the U.S. Space exploration and science program, HP large-format printers are being used by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena to view high-resolution, color photos with vivid detail using HP color printing technology. Using these jumbo-sized print-outs, world-renowned scientists and engineers are able to see many of the highest-resolution images ever taken on the surface of another planet faster than ever before.

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HP announced that NorthEast Medical Center of North Carolina has deployed a new digitized Cardiac and Imaging Information System using the HP iPAQ Pocket PC h5450 to more quickly diagnose heart attack patients.

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HP announced that it has signed definitive agreements to acquire two management software companies: Novadigm Inc. headquartered in Mahwah, N.J., and Consera Software, based in Bellevue, Wash. Upon close, each will add powerful automation capabilities to the HP OpenView software portfolio for unified management of the complete enterprise IT environment.

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