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RSS hpcHPC Express - PCI Express Enabled High Performance Computing Cluster
White Paper Proprietary systems with thousands of special processors that come at a high price are no longer the only choice to build HPC solutions. HPC Express? Powerful supercomputers need robust interconnects,... [30 May 2004]
HPC Distributed Storage Cluster - IBRIX Architecture and Installation
White Paper The HP HPC team would like to thank IBRIX for their contributions to this industry that HP serves. This paper provides guidance for a customer that is considering the deployment of an HP/IBRIX cluster solution. [23 Aug 2007]
Switch From Linux to Windows Increases Value of HPC for Golf Equipment Manufacturer
White Paper When the Linux-based High-Performance Computing (HPC) cluster in use at Callaway Golf reached the end of its useful life, the company began looking for a replacement solution. The company's new HPC... [03 Jul 2008]
IBM eServer pSeries 690 HPC SPECweb99 Performance
White Paper A 16-way p690 HPC running AIX 5L V5.1 and Zeus 4.0 achieved an astonishing 21,000 simultaneous connections. The p690 HPC beats its nearest competitor (the HP server rp8400 running HP-UX 11i (64-bit) and... [01 Oct 2004]
Sun Global Education & Research Grid, Portal, and HPC solutions
White Paper Further on it describes HPC software and why it is needed to run these services. This white paper describes what is a Grid and what are its benefits. It then discusses how servers are used in the frid architecture. [25 Feb 2004]
Network Installation of IA-64 Nodes in an HPC Cluster
White Paper Remote network booting and installation reduce administrative overhead for high-performance computing (HPC) clusters. Network installations are based on the Preboot Execution Environment (PXE) protocol. [07 May 2005]
Building an HPC Cluster With Linux, pSeries, Myrinet, and Various Open Source Software
White Paper Linux/pSeries clusters for HPC (High Performance Computing) is a new offering that is attracting more and more clients. This paper explains how to bring a collection of pSeries nodes and a Myrinet interconnect to a state... [21 Sep 2004]
Managing Systems and Resources in HPC Environments
White Paper This article highlights the most important tools and features available on the Sun platform for system administration of HPC sites. It provides a brief description of the Sun Management Center software and the Solaris... [23 Jun 2004]
Sun Customer Ready HPC Cluster: Reference Configurations With Sun Fire X2200 M2 and X2100 M2 Servers
White Paper The Sun Customer Ready HPC Cluster includes servers, networking, interconnects, and software installed in a Sun Rack cabinet. The Sun Customer Ready HPC Cluster with Sun Fire X2100 M2 and X2200 M2... [11 May 2007]
Industry Standards for Managing the HPC Cluster Life Cycle
White Paper For organizations deploying high-performance computing (HPC) clusters, reducing total cost of ownership, maximizing cluster uptime, and expanding remote manageability are among the baseline IT requirements. [06 Aug 2004]
Highly Reliable Linux HPC Clusters: Self-Awareness Approach
White Paper Current solutions for fault-tolerance in HPC systems focus on dealing with the result of a failure. However, most are unable to handle runtime system configuration changes caused by transient failures and require a... [30 Jun 2008]
TechNet Webcast: Windows HPC Server 2008: High Availability and Diagnostics for High-Performance Computing (Level 100)
White Paper The Windows Server 2008 operating system is the next generation of the Windows Server that is designed to help High-Performance Computing (HPC) administrators maximize control over their infrastructure, while providing... [30 Jun 2008]
Helping HPC Applications Unravel the Universe's Origins
White Paper The Centre needed a Linux-capable Fortran compiler that could optimize their applications to boost performance beyond the capabilities of their HPC hardware alone. Swinburne University's Centre for Astrophysics and... [03 Jul 2008]
Understanding the Performance of Molecular Dynamics and Quantum Mechanics Applications on Dell HPC Clusters
White Paper Over the last several years, the focus in high-performance computing (HPC) has shifted from massively parallel processors to symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) systems, and most recently, to loosely coupled, standards-based... [07 May 2005]
Overcoming Disaster Recovery Obstacles for HPC Sites
White Paper Providing a disaster recovery plan for home, small office, large office, or even large multi-national corporation is generally different than doing so for a large High Performance Computing (HPC) site, given that HPCs... [18 Aug 2006]
