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Top University Builds World-Leading Supercomputer

Tags: supercomputer, ethernet, eu, tender, computing, network, data

Overview University of Cambridge's existing supercomputer was struggling to keep up with the demands being placed on it. The needed to move on from so-called 'shared memory' proprietary machines into the world of 'Commodity clusters', having been at the forefront of cluster computing technologies for eight years before moving to Cambridge. The University went out to tender for a new supercomputer, based on an EU procurement framework. The University deployed Nortel for its solution, a high performance data network based on stacks of Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch 5500 series connected to a high-availability Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch 8600 core.

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Publisher: Nortel Networks
File Format: PDF
Date Published: Jun 25, 2008
Format: Case Studies
Topics: Switching, Ethernet

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