High performance computing (HPC), a strategic focus for HP, is a broader concept than the term High Performance Technical Computing (HPTC) implies. The introduction of industry standard platforms into this market by HP, IBM, and others heralds the increasingly commercial use of these systems that were previously used almost exclusively for technical applications. Today, RISC/Unix symmetric multiprocessor (SMP) servers and proprietary cluster platforms dominate HPTC, but there is a rapid movement toward Linux industry standard servers and clusters that is underway.