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whitepaper As one of the HPC users commented, "Moving from dual core to quad core is a no-brainer. This in-depth study shows how Intel has created a market-leading processor family built on quad-core technology with a first-to-market advantage.
[15 May 2008]
whitepaper Technologies such as Digital Signal Processors (DSPs) or custom ASICs have been deployed in several HPC application areas. For example, SGI Origin 2000 and 3000 systems tightly integrated MIPS processors along with the SGI Tensor Processing Unit...
[03 Mar 2008]
whitepaper The p690 with the HPC feature is offered as an 8-way or 16-way SMP, and has all the benefits of the p690 including fast 1.3 GHz POWER4TM processors, Logical Partitioning Capability (LPAR), self-managing features, and AIX 5.1 support.
[29 Feb 2008]
whitepaper Typically, a High-Performance Computing (HPC) cluster loosely couples multiple Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP) platforms into a single processing complex. Each SMP server uses shared memory for its processors to communicate, whereas communication...
[06 Nov 2007]
whitepaper This paper examines the real-world advantages of dual-core processors; specifically how the new dual-core AMD Opteron processors benefit users in a High-Performance Computing (HPC) environment. The next step in advanced processor technology...
[29 May 2007]
whitepaper With the help of the High Performance Computing (HPC) group at Microsoft, the team deployed Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 on 25 IBM server computers. However, with only six personal computers and 10 processors, the research team struggled to...
[22 May 2007]
whitepaper The PCI-Express slot also performs well under most loads, but high-bandwidth bidirectional traffic suffers somewhat with dual-core processors because of the single-threaded nature of device drivers and the lower clock speeds supported by dual-core...
[26 Apr 2007]
whitepaper Erlangen University needs a powerful HPC platform with the availability and flexibility to respond effectively to scientists' demanding priorities. The university added significant computing and storage capacity to its existing HPC platform to...
[25 Apr 2007]
whitepaper This paper discusses the benefits to industry-standard server platform users, and demonstrates scalable performance and superior performance-per-watt for high-performance HPC and business computing applications.
[21 Apr 2007]
whitepaper Nowadays, grid computing is helping individual High Performance Computing (HPC) applications improve agility and lower costs through the virtualization of IT resources such as processors, memory, storage and network.
[01 Apr 2007]
whitepaper Intel has delivered on "Moore's Law" using dual-core processing to build a 128-node High-Performance Computing (HPC) cluster that delivers theoretical peak performance of 3.2 teraflops and sustained performance of over 2.1 teraflops.
[02 Jun 2006]
whitepaper They used 64-bit Intel Xeon processors as the basis for the HPC cluster. Shandong Province changed existing IT platform used for computing weather forecasts to a High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster and deployed Intel architecture.
[04 May 2006]
whitepaper That's why the University of Kentucky's (UK's) Center for Computational Sciences (the Center) replaced the PA-RISC processors in its two-year old, 220-node HP Superdome computer with the fastest Intel Itanium 2 processors available.
[04 May 2006]
whitepaper The HP ProLiant DL145 G2 server is optimized for the High Performance Computing (HPC) market. The industry-leading performance features of this server include AMD Opteron processors, up to 16 GB of two-way interleaved PC3200 DDR memory, an embedded...
[30 Nov 2005]
whitepaper Weighing its requirements, the NCSA decided on a Linux-based commodity server cluster, with the latest Intel-based processors available. The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) has earned and maintains an international reputation...
[08 Nov 2005]
whitepaper Working with Singapore Computer Systems (SCS), Dell built a Linux-based HPC cluster. The school wanted to break the vicious cycle of buying and upgrading expensive proprietary platforms, so it decided to deploy an open platform that ran open source...
[27 Sep 2005]
whitepaper Dell provided the computing power as the corporate relationship in this equation with a high-performance computing (HPC) cluster. The newly formed Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics at the University at Buffalo (UB), a campus of The State...
[27 Sep 2005]
whitepaper Dual-core AMD Opteron processors represent the latest significant development in microprocessor technology. This paper, using the IBM eServer 326, examines the performance of dual-core Opteron processors.
[15 Sep 2005]
whitepaper Its reputation as a research centre is also growing with three researchers, one from physics and two from chemistry; all three depended on the university's High Performance Computing (HPC) resources. The university bought 49 HP Integrity rx4640...
[21 Jun 2005]
whitepaper The University of Hong Kong (HKU) installed an Intel Xeon processor-based HPC cluster and fine-tuned its software to yield maximum performance. As more research projects ranging from nano-technology to large scale statistical simulations come to...
[17 Jun 2005]
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