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Met Office forecasts blue skies for green IT

News The processors within the NEC supercomputer work in parallel, allowing it to simultaneously link and process climate data from 4km parcels of the UK, giving it the ability to forecast weather at a county level.

Tags: met office, energy, green it

[09 May 2008]

FailSafe Server Consolidation

whitepaper With virtualization, an application software program calls system resources such as storage, peripherals or special processors, as if the application has exclusive access to them. The application can be low-level, such as network software or...

Tags: server consolidation

[28 Mar 2008]

Nonprofit MADD Embraces New Server Virtualization and Boosts Remote Access

whitepaper After considering Linux, UNIX, and Sun Microsystem solutions, NetVision chose Windows Server 2008 to test on a Hewlett-Packard (HP) ProLiant DL380 server featuring multi-core Intel Xeon processors. MADD had remote access issues and needed a...

Tags: network security, hewlett packard, intel xeon, ssl vpn

[23 Mar 2008]

Bank Improves Network Management and Security With New Solution

whitepaper The bank runs Novell NetWare 6.5 on 13 HP ProLiant server computers with Intel processors. Founded in 1920, Banque de Luxembourg is a private institution. Banque de Luxembourg wants to replace its Novell infrastructure with a solution that offers...

Tags: infrastructure management

[23 Mar 2008]

Mesh-of-Trees and Alternative Interconnection Networks for Single-Chip Parallel Processing

whitepaper The paper shows that on-chip interconnection networks can facilitate higher bandwidth between processors and shared first-level cache than previously considered possible. In such machines, it is crucial to implement a high-throughput low-latency...

Tags: parallel processing

[19 Mar 2008]

Make the Leap to Converged Communications

whitepaper Service providers can address all of these challenges by upgrading their network with servers based on Intel multi-core processors and the converged Internet Communications application suite known as CommuniGate Pro.

Tags: voice - data integration

[04 Mar 2008]

MSDN Support WebCast: Network Infrastructure Consolidation With Microsoft Host Integration Server 2004

whitepaper IP-DLC Link Service lets branch-deployed and centrally deployed HIS computers connect directly to z900 mainframes over high-speed IP networks so that the user may no longer have to remotely administer branch cluster controllers, use expensive Data...

Tags: infrastructure management

[27 Feb 2008]

Dell High Performance Visualization Cluster

whitepaper Dell's visualization system, the Dell High Performance Visualization Cluster, is a clustering system of high performance workstations, utilizing the aggregate performance of data processors, graphics accelerators, and network technologies.

Tags: data visualization

[19 Feb 2008]

AMD64 Multi-Core Computing Platforms and SolidDB Enable Consolidated Approach to Subscriber Databases and Related Applications

whitepaper With solidDB and AMD64 Multi-Core Processors, system architects can consider a new, consolidated approach to subscriber databases and related applications. In the consolidated approach, applications communicate with the dataset via the high...

Tags: processors

[14 Feb 2008]

Enabling Development of a Network Processor-Based Content Service Gateway

whitepaper Fast ramp up on the customer's CSG solution, based on obsolete Network Processors. The company wanted to provide the customer Aricent expertise in developing solutions for the IXP series of Network Processors and TCP/IP.

Tags: tcp - ip

[14 Jan 2008]

Geography lessons for online retailers

Comment For instance, online retailers and payment processors use geolocation to detect possible credit card fraud by comparing the user's location with the billing address on the account or the shipping address provided, or identifying known IP addresses...

Tags: geolocation, sales, customer loyalty, online retail

[09 Jan 2008]

Layout-Accurate Design and Implementation of a High-Throughput Interconnection Network for Single-Chip Parallel Processing

whitepaper A Mesh of Trees (MoT) on-chip interconnection network has been proposed recently to provide high throughput between memory units and processors for single-chip parallel processing. Simulation based on full network layout demonstrates that...

Tags: parallel processing

[08 Jan 2008]

Speeding Up TCP/IP Faster Process Are Not Enough

whitepaper In this attempt to understand the magnitude and reasons for this gap between processor performance and inter-process communication performance the paper study the execution of TCP/IP on several processors and operating systems that span a time...

Tags: tcp - ip

[08 Jan 2008]

An FPGA-Based Network Processor for IP Packet Compression

whitepaper In the demonstration application, FPGA technology is used in conjunction with traditional RISC micro-processors to perform IP packet compression in hard-ware, using a CAM-based hardware implementation of the Lempel-Ziv (LZ) compression algorithm.

Tags: tcp - ip

[26 Dec 2007]

A TCP/IP Network Emulator

whitepaper The framework was tested on two Linux processors over an IEEE 802.11b wireless network. Firstly, the maintenance of large numbers of processors is unnecessary. In this paper, a Linux based framework of TCP/IP network emulator is introduced.

Tags: tcp - ip

[19 Dec 2007]

SpliceNP: A TCP Splicer Using a Network Processor

whitepaper In order to reduce the processing latency further, this paper proposes to offload the protocol processing onto network processors (NPs). TCP Splicing can be used in content-aware switches to tremendously reduce overall request latency.

Tags: tcp - ip

[19 Dec 2007]

Tips and Tricks for Optimizing Microsoft Windows Server 2003 on Proliant Servers

whitepaper Tips and tricks are presented for the general Windows Server 2003 operating system information, commands for drivers, utilities, software applications, server installation/configuration, memory, processors, networking, management, and storage.

Tags: windows nt - 2000 - 2003, operating system, microsoft windows, drivers

[12 Dec 2007]

TCP Servers: Offloading TCP Processing in Internet Servers - Design, Implementation, and Performance

whitepaper This paper presents and evaluates two implementations of the TCP Server architecture: using dedicated network processors on a Symmetric Multiprocessor (SMP) server and using dedicated nodes on a cluster-based server built around a memory-mapped...

Tags: tcp - ip

[05 Dec 2007]

Applying an Ethernet LAN in a Substation

whitepaper The heart of the system revolves around several communications processors. This paper is a discussion of an NSTAR Electric & Gas Corp.project using current Ethernet technology to build a Local Area Network (LAN) in a single substation application.

Tags: ethernet

[05 Dec 2007]

Optimizing TCP/IP Communication for Networked Machines as a Parallel System

whitepaper A Parallel system is collection of tightly coupled processors typically of the same type. Though, networked machines are having different types of processors with varying clock speed yet computing on the networked machines are becoming very popular...

Tags: tcp - ip

[05 Dec 2007]

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