Company report:Inspur server a national breakthrough

Wang Endong, a chief scientist with China's Inspur Group Ltd, compared the development of Inspur Tiansuo K1 with climbing the world's second highest mountain, Mount K2.

"When we started to develop the high-end fault-tolerant server, we named it K2 to remind every researcher of the extreme difficulties we could encounter," said Wang. He added that the name was changed to K1 after the team succeeded.

After four years of work, Inspur, a leading supplier of cloud-computing solutions and outsourcing services in China, created the 32-way high-end fault-tolerant server.