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high-performance computing for Web 2.0: At the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz talks about the company's new high-performance computing facility in Austin, Texas, and how Web 2.0 companies like Facebook and Google are benefiting from high-performance computing systems.; Tags: Web, High-performance Computing, Web 2.0, Leadership, Internet, Management, High Performance Computing; Videos 2008-04-25
High-performance servers up 15.5% in 2007: The market for high performance computing HPC servers grew 15.5% in 2007 to reach a record $11.6 bln, according to IDC. IDC reported that the HPC server market resumed strong double-digit growth in 2007 after dipping to 9.2% growth in 2006 – the first single-digit increase since 2002. Over the...; Tags: High-performance Computing, High-performance, High Performance Computing Server, Servers, Hardware, AM; Blog posts 2008-02-28
Canadian Computing Consortium Boosts Performance Fivefold With Sun Technology: Run by a consortium of seven Canadian universities and colleges, the High Performance Computing Virtual Laboratory, or HPCVL, is Canada's premier high-performance computing center. The company wanted to accommodate research needs up to seven years in the future; speed current research; and accommodate growing data volumes. Their challenge was to...; Tags: Performance, Sun Microsystems Inc., High-performance Computing, High-performance, Leadership, Roi/Tco, Management, Finance, Managerial Accounting; Case studies 2007-12-01
Service Provider Fuels Its Future With Sun Grid Compute Utility: Virtual Compute Corporation is a global provider of on-demand high-performance computing resources and IT infrastructure management for commercial and government entities. The company wanted scale infrastructure quickly to meet customer demands for high-performance computing power to avoid large capital outlays required to build out IT infrastructure to meet customer demands....; Tags: IT Infrastructure, Information Technology, Sun Microsystems Inc., High-performance Computing, High-performance, Grid, Leadership, Management; Case studies 2007-12-01
World-Renowned Genome Research Facility Relies on Sun to Provide Cost-Efficient High-Performance Compute Grid: The Institute for Genomic Research TIGR is a non-profit organization dedicated to deciphering and analyzing genomes - the complex molecular chains that constitute each organism's unique genetic heritage. The company's challenge was to improve performance of compute grid to accommodate compute-intensive research to reduce IT expenses to maintain internal cost...; Tags: Genome, Sun Microsystems Inc., High-performance Computing, Grid, Biotechnology, Leadership, Management; Case studies 2007-12-01

Analytics, Data and the Time for High Performance Computing in Financial Markets: This paper describes the current drivers behind the need for greater data analytical power within financial markets, the business and technical challenges these drivers imply and how the Microsoft High Performance Computing HPC platform can move financial institutions closer to goal of real-time pricing, trading and risk management across asset...; Tags: Financial, Analytics, Financial Market, High-performance Computing, High-performance, Microsoft Corp., Financial Accounting, Finance; White papers 2007-11-01
Technical Overview of Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008 Beta 1: Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008 brings the power of high-performance computing HPC to the commercial mainstream. The centralized management and deployment interface helps to simplify deployment for both large and small compute clusters and provide a simple and effective management experience in order to increase cluster administrator productivity. The Microsoft...; Tags: Job, ISV, High-performance Computing, Windows Communication Foundation, Microsoft Corp., Beta, Microsoft HPC Pack, Microsoft Windows, Recruitment & Selection, Leadership, Operating Systems, Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management; White papers 2007-11-01
MSDN Webcast: MSDN geekSpeak: Programming for high-performance computing Environments With Darius Parysz (Level 200): The presenter of this webcast shares his knowledge and experience around a particular developer technology. The attendee of this webcast will learn about industry trends, new technology, real-world experiences, and more. The presenter of this webcast enlightens about developing for High-Performance Computing HPC environments.; Tags: Microsoft Developer Network, Webcast, High-performance Computing, High-performance, Programming, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology; Webcasts 2007-10-24
IBM High Performance Computing for AIX Using InfiniBand: This paper provides an overview and describes the components and performance of an HPC solution for AIX on POWER using InfiniBand as the cluster interconnects. The paper contains performance results for several communication benchmarks running on IBM System p servers with the IBM Host Channel Adapter driving InfiniBand switches, and...; Tags: Performance, IBM AIX, High-performance Computing, IBM Corp., InfiniBand, Performance Management, Networking, Human Resources, Workforce Management; White papers 2007-10-01
The Sun Customer Ready Scalable Storage Cluster: High Performance Storage for High Performance Computing: Much of the focus of High Performance Computing HPC has traditionally centered on CPU performance. However, as the computing requirements have grown, HPC clusters are demanding increasingly higher rates of aggregate data throughput. Today's clusters feature larger numbers of nodes with increased compute speeds. The higher clock rates and operations...; Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Storage, High-performance Computing, High-performance, Node, InfiniBand, Networking; White papers 2007-07-01
Evergrid -- High Performance Computing in the Enterprise: Recently I had the opportunity to speak with representatives of Evergrid, a company that focuses on how to apply high performance/grid computing techniques in enterprise computing environments. Since I've spoken to many companies attempting to deploy open source tools, such as Beowulf or Grid Engine, in commercial data centers, I...; Tags: virtual processing software, Managing virtualized environments, high performance computing, clustering software; Blog posts 2007-06-06
The Sun Blade 6000 Modular System: Open Modular Architecture With a Choice of Sun SPARC , Intel Xeon , and AMD Opteron Platforms: The Participation Age is driving new demands that are focused squarely on capabilities of the datacenter. Web services and rapidly escalating Internet use are driving competitive organizations to lead with innovative new services and scalable, dynamic infrastructure. High Performance Computing HPC is constantly finding new application in both science and...; Tags: Data Center, Sun Microsystems Inc., High-performance Computing, AMD Opteron, Sun Blade, Sun Sparc, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Xeon, Intel Corp., Agility, Participation Age, Data Centers, Storage, Blade Servers, Processors, Servers, Hardware, Data Management, Semiconductors, Components; White papers 2007-06-01
Configurable Virtualized System Environments for High Performance Computing: Existing challenges for current terascale High Performance Computing HPC systems are increasingly hampering the development and deployment efforts of system software and scientific applications for next-generation petascale systems. The expected rapid system upgrade interval toward petascale scientific computing demands an incremental strategy for the development and deployment of legacy and...; Tags: Environment, High-performance Computing, High-performance, System Software, University Of Reading; White papers 2007-04-27
Configuring HP ProLiant Essentials Rapid Deployment Pack for Blade Deployments of Microsoft Compute Cluster Server 2003: Microsoft Windows Compute Cluster Server CSS 2003 is Microsoft's recent entry into the High Performance Computing HPC market. The goal of this product is to provide a simpler way to deploy HPC solutions while still providing more advanced customers with the capability of running powerful compute clusters. Many in the...; Tags: Microsoft Cluster Server, Hewlett-Packard Co., Blade, High-performance Computing, Microsoft Corp., HP Compaq ProLiant; White papers 2007-04-01
HP for Computer-Aided Engineering - Delivering Reliable Performance: Computer-Aided Engineering CAE analysis is growing more complex and strategic every year. In addition to an exponential growth in the volume of data, engineers are trying to gain deeper insights with more resolution and more sophisticated physics, which drives up demand for high-performance computing resources. CAE analysts are also feeling...; Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Performance, High-performance Computing, Hardware, Computer, Leadership, Management; White papers 2007-03-01
Performance and Reliability for Excel Spreadsheets Through High Performance Computing: This paper describes how to increase the computational power and reliability of Excel 2007 spreadsheets through the use of the Microsoft High Performance Computing platform composed of Microsoft Office Excel 2007, Microsoft Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003, and Excel Services, part of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Specifically, the paper...; Tags: Excel Spreadsheet, Performance, High-performance Computing, High-performance, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Productivity, Office Suites, Software; White papers 2007-03-01
Disk Failures in the Real World: What Does an MTTF of 1,000,000 Hours Mean to You?: Component failure in large-scale IT installations is becoming an ever larger problem as the number of components in a single cluster approaches a million. This paper presents and analyzes field-gathered disk replacement data from a number of large production systems, including high-performance computing sites and internet services sites. About 100,000...; Tags: Disk, Carnegie-Mellon University, High-performance Computing, Internet; White papers 2007-02-16
Accelerators for High Performance Computing Investigation: For many years microprocessor single thread performance has increased at rates consistent with Moore's Law for transistors. In the 1970s-1990s the improvement was mostly obtained by increasing clock frequencies. Clock speeds are now improving slowly and microprocessor vendors are increasing the number of cores per chip to obtain improved performance....; Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Performance, High-performance Computing, High-performance, Microprocessor, Semiconductors, Performance Management, Processors, Hardware, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Components; White papers 2007-01-24
System x3755 Technical Introduction: Delivering an industry-leading, 64-bit framework for high performance computing and business computing, the IBM System x3755 is built for speed. The x3755 eliminates system architecture bottlenecks through the use of separate, high-speed links between the processors, main memory, and I/O. The AMD Direct Connect Architecture and HyperTransport technology combined with...; Tags: System Architecture, High-performance Computing, High-performance, IBM Corp., X3755, Leadership, Management; White papers 2007-01-03
Using InfiniBand for High Performance Computing: With business models constantly changing to keep pace with nowadays Internet-based, global economy, IT organizations are continually challenged to provide customers with high performance platforms while controlling their cost. With broader adoption of High Performance Computing HPC in various industry segments, more enterprise businesses are implementing parallel compute cluster architectures...; Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., High-performance Computing, High-performance, InfiniBand, Networking; White papers 2007-01-01