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Building a Fountain of Knowledge

Texas Tech needed to build a new high performance computing HPC cluster to attract top-name researchers, accelerate research efforts with the fastest technology, and help fulfill its mission to be in the top tier of Texas research universities. The university deployed an HPC solution with Dell PowerEdge servers running Rocks...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Knowledge, High-performance Computing, InfiniBand, Cloud Computing, Servers, Networking, Hardware

Case studies 2009-10-01

Pliant talks up lower energy consumption, cost savings of its new enterprise flash technology

Start-up storage vendor Pliant Technology has begun shipping a new class of enterprise flash drives to OEMs for evaluation and qualification that should become available in commercial format by the end of September 2009. The technology, called Lightning, is a cache-less enterprise flash format that is designed...

Tags: High-performance Computing, Cost Savings, Watt, Cloud Computing, Storage, Leadership, Hardware, Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-09-15

Supercomputing Improves Research and Raises University's Profile

Glasgow Caledonian University has provided high performance computing HPC to researchers for more than 15 years. During this time, interest in computer simulation has expanded into disciplines that did not previously use HPC. To make these services more accessible and easier for everyone to use, the university hired HPC specialist...

Tags: High-performance Computing, Supercomputing, Glasgow Caledonian University, Cloud Computing

Case studies 2009-08-01

The quest for the ultimate desktop experience

If you had the money, would you have six or seven screens? Would you go to high performance computing? If you could set this up in your own home, how far would you go? Article by Zack Whittaker

Tags: Desktop, High-performance Computing, Cloud Computing, Leadership, Management, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-07-20

Spanish University Reduces Processing Time From One Week to Approximately 60 Minutes With High-Performance Computing Environment

An increasing number of researchers are using High-Performance Computing HPC environments to support their programmes. Apart from significant processing power, the institutions deploying these infrastructures want solutions that simplify management, deliver high-density computing and maximise performance. Researchers needed a week to process many data-intensive tasks. The university wanted to reduce...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., High-performance Computing, High-performance, Spanish University, Cloud Computing, Leadership, Management

Case studies 2009-07-01

Cornell Uses High-Performance Computing to Speed Research, Extend Software Access

As one of the world's leading research institutions, Cornell University has been engaged in high-performance computing since that term referred to mainframe computing. More than 10 years ago, Cornell helped to pioneer the use of PC clusters. To give researchers - both at Cornell and at other institutions around the...

Tags: Software, Researcher, Microsoft Access, High-performance Computing, High-performance, Cornell University, Cloud Computing, Leadership, Mainframes, Management, Servers, Hardware

Case studies 2009-06-25

Animators Save $200,000 in Production Costs With High-Performance Computing System

Moscow, Russia - based Glukoza Production develops computer animation for television and movies. The company is working on its first full-length animated feature film. Glukoza Production needed a more powerful environment to handle computer animation for a high-definition, full-length film. The company upgraded to a Windows - based high-performance computing...

Tags: High-performance Computing, High-performance, Animation, Cloud Computing, Leadership, Management

Case studies 2009-06-01

Research Institute Speeds Cancer Research With High-Performance Computing System

Nationwide Children's Hospital, based in Columbus, Ohio, is one of the largest children's hospitals in the United States. The Research Informatics Core at Nationwide Children's Hospital wanted to increase the speed at which it could digitize pathology slides and support researchers through faster computation of data. The organization worked with...

Tags: Hospital, Researcher, High-performance Computing, High-performance, Healthcare

Case studies 2009-06-01

Monash University Health Sciences Gets Research Results in a Week Instead of Months Using a Dell-Based High-Performance Computing Cluster

Monash University needed to construct a High-Performance Computing HPC cluster to support its biomedical research efforts. The cluster needed to be easily expandable, and CPU power per dollar spent was a major consideration. The IT group within the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences at Monash University assembled a...

Tags: Monash University, Dell Computer Corp., High-performance Computing, High-performance, Health Care, Monash University Health Science, Healthcare, Cloud Computing, Leadership, Servers, Management, Hardware

Case studies 2009-05-01

Software Developer Migrates IT Environment to High-Performance Computing Solution

Software developer In Silicio, which develops simulation solutions for the microelectronics industry, wanted to offer its solutions to a wider market and be able to create faster, more complex simulations. Therefore, the company switched its open-source operating system to Windows HPC Server 2008. With the new High-Performance Computing HPC environment,...

Tags: Software, IT Environment, Developer, Solution, Information Technology, High-performance Computing, High-performance, Software Developer, Cloud Computing, Leadership, Tools & Techniques, Management

Case studies 2009-04-01

Researchers Increase IT Flexibility With New High-Performance Computing Offering

The French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control INRIA and one of its spin-off businesses, ActiveEon, worked together to establish a new version of ProActive Parallel Suite simulation solution for the Windows HPC Server 2008 operating system. The organizations did so to provide an environment that would...

Tags: Information Technology, High-performance Computing, High-performance, Microsoft Corp., Flexibility, Cloud Computing, Leadership, Microsoft Windows, Management, Operating Systems, Software

Case studies 2009-04-01

Engineering Firm Promotes Management and Analytics With High-Performance Computing

NEWJEC is one of the foremost multidisciplinary consulting firms in Japan, with capabilities in electrical, civil, geotechnical, architectural, structural, mechanical, and informative engineering. NEWJEC, a leading Japanese engineering firm, needed to respond to a growing demand for analytics capabilities, but it did not want to increase the management burden by...

Tags: Analytics, High-performance Computing, High-performance, NEWJEC, Financial Planning, Cloud Computing, Finance

Case studies 2009-04-01

Dell PowerEdge Servers Provide the National Institute of Genetics With a Scalable High Performance Computing Cluster

The National Institute of Genetics needed a high performance computing solution for the analysis and study of protein structures for a national research program. A high performance computing cluster powered by Dell PowerEdge servers was deployed for the research program. Dell high performance computing cluster solution is optimized for rapid...

Tags: Dell PowerEdge Server, Dell Computer Corp., High-performance Computing, High-performance, Dell PowerEdge, Cloud Computing, Leadership, Servers, Management, Hardware

Case studies 2009-03-01

Technology Institute Expands Research Initiatives With High-Performance Computing

Tokyo Institute of Technology uses High-Performance Computing HPC to accelerate its research. It deployed a 32-node Windows HPC Server 2008 GPU-accelerated cluster to take advantage of enhanced tools to configure graphics processing units, which are critical to its research. The institute has found that the HPC solution provides intuitive, integrated...

Tags: High-performance Computing, High-performance, GPU, Cloud Computing, Leadership, Productivity, Management

Case studies 2009-02-17

University Uses High Performance Computing to Support Research and Development

The Technische Universitat TU Dresden has used High Performance Computing HPC for many years to support research and development. As users started relying more on Windows desktops to develop applications, administrators realised that to provide complete HPC services, it would be a good idea to implement Windows HPC Server 2008....

Tags: R&D, High-performance Computing, High-performance, Technische Universitat Dresden, Research & Development, Cloud Computing, Business Operations

Case studies 2009-02-01

Another reason to love Linux: SiCortex offers high-performance computing in an astonishingly energy-efficient format

Another reason to love Linux: SiCortex offers high-performance computing in an astonishingly energy-efficient formatThis sounds to good to be true!And when something sounds to good to be true... it usually is.Yes technology is ever increasing and always expanding and improving, but if it is true that it can replace huge...

Tags: Leadership, cloud computing, Amazon.com Inc., SiCortex, Linux, high-performance, high-performance computing

Discussion threads 2008-12-29

Another reason to love Linux: SiCortex offers high-performance computing in an astonishingly energy-efficient format

If you're looking to supplement your trading floor applications, business analytics infrastructure or Internet site capacity, SiCortex has a proposition for you: a 72-processor high-performance Linux platform with CPUs that use just 0.6 watts of electricity each. In other words, this is a high-performance computer that is designed to use...

Tags: High-performance Computing, High-performance, SiCortex Web Site, Linux, Leadership, Data Centers, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-12-29

Infrastructure Architecture Essentials, Part 7: High-Performance Computing Off the Shelf

Continuing the Infrastructure architecture essentials series, this paper provides an overview of methods for building HPC systems with OTS components and open source software. Architectures that employ clusters and hybrid nodes composed of traditional multi-core Symmetrical MultiProcessing SMP/Non-Uniform Memory Access NUMA architectures integrated with Single-Instruction Multiple Data SIMD Cell-based or...

Tags: High-performance Computing, High-performance, Cell, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components

White papers 2008-12-09

Windows HPC Server 2008 and System Center Server Management Suite Enterprise Better Together

A large number of commercial industries, federal, and academic institutions are harnessing the power of High Performance Computing HPC through the use of dedicated compute clusters. HPC adds strategic capabilities to the IT infrastructure, accelerates innovation, and improves operational performance of an organization. HPC clusters tend to be large and...

Tags: Server Management, High-performance Computing, Server, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft System Center Server Management Suite Enterprise, Cloud Computing

White papers 2008-12-08

University Researchers and Students Use Solution to Simplify High Performance Computing

The Technical University of Berlin used a range of predominantly UNIX-based HPC solutions. But, in keeping with the university's policy of adopting the latest innovative technology, executives were keen to test a Windows-based HPC environment for staff and students. In April 2008, Microsoft and Dell took the chance to offer...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., University, High-performance Computing, High-performance, Microsoft Windows, Leadership, Operating Systems, Software, Management

Case studies 2008-12-01