HP is a leading provider of products, technologies, solutions, and services to consumers and business. The company's offerings span IT infrastructure, personal computing and access devices, global services, and imaging and printing.

HP has been a pioneer in what is now called Grid Computing since the late 1980's when Joel Birnbaum, then director of HP Laboratories, envisioned the notion of "utility computing". The basic concept has remained unchanged since then - to harness computing power from distributed resources for use on demand. Today, HP can deliver to customers:

• Grid-enabled systems running the Globus Toolkit on HP-UX, Linux, and Tru64 UNIX operating systems
• Consulting services for grids
• HP Utility Data Center, a scalable solution to meet dynamically varying demand and an important step toward the vision of utility computing over a grid
• HP OpenView software, a suite of industry-leading management solutions for the e-services age
• Grid software solutions from HP software partners such as Platform Computing and Avaki

HP believes that Grid Computing will take distributed computing to the next level and enable us to do things that we have not yet imagined.