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- IIT Kanpur Sets Up Mission Critical, High Performance Computing Powerhouse on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Indian Institute of Technology IIT, Kanpur is one of the premier institutions established by the Government of India. The institute wanted to modernize and scale proprietary, SMP-UNIX infrastructure and setup a high performance computing environment that can handle cutting edge research projects. The institute also wanted to simplify management and...
- Tags: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Inc., High-performance Computing, High-performance, Institute, IIT Kanpur, Open Source, Linux, Operating Systems, Software
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- CSIRO's Study in the Field of Bioinformatics Has Been Propelled Forward With the Installation of a Dedicated High Performance Computing Cluster, Built Using Low Cost Dell Servers Clustered Together Running SuSe Linux
- With thousands of scientists and researchers spread around the country, the CSIRO found itself faced with the challenge of consolidating its research platform onto a secure, centralised computing facility that could be easily accessed without limitation. With space limitations and operational costs a consideration, the CSIRO followed Dell's advice to...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Bioinformatics, High-performance Computing, High-performance, SuSE Linux, SuSE, CSIRO, Linux, Servers, Blade Servers, Open Source, UNIX, Utility Computing, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware
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- NPO Saturn Gets Top Positions in the Field of Aircraft Construction Due to Intel-Based IT Solutions
- High-performance computing is critical throughout the aircraft design lifecycle. To meet its growing demands for high-performance computing, NPO Saturn, one of Russia's leading aerospace companies, has chosen a clustered solution powered by the Intel Xeon processor and Intel Itanium 2 processor. With peak performance of 922 Gflops and LINPACK performance...
- Tags: Information Technology, High-performance Computing, Intel Itanium 2, Aircraft, Intel Corp., NPO Saturn, Aerospace & Defense, Processors, Manufacturing, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
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- French Yacht Team Streamlines Design With Secure and Familiar Technology
- AREVA Challenge, the French entry for the 32nd America's Cup race, needed a powerful, flexible technology to create a vessel capable of challenging for victory. Although the AREVA Challenge team had already used some Microsoft technology, together with open source solutions, it realised it needed a more powerful platform if...
- Tags: Team, High-performance Computing, Microsoft Corp., French Yacht Team, Team Management, Management
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- Investment Bank Improves Competitive Edge With High Performance Computing
- UniCredit Group is a private bank with more than 142,000 employees, 7,200 branches, and over 35 million customers in 40 countries. Markets & Investment Banking (MIB's) Structured Derivatives Business deals with computationally intensive problems through the complex nature of its products. Hence flexible and cost efficient computing capacity turns out...
- Tags: Bank, Investment, High-performance Computing, High-performance, Risk Management, UniCredit Group, MIB, Financial Services, Financial Planning, Strategy, Security, Finance, Management
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- Sun Solution Enables PinkRoccade to Offer Flexible, Cost-Effective SAP Hosting Services
- PinkRoccade NV was formed in the Netherlands over 50 years ago, as a Dutch Government Data Centre, with responsibility for processing the Dutch Civil Service payroll. Today, the company is one of the largest IT solutions and Managed Services providers in Europe, with operating companies in the Netherlands and the...
- Tags: Managed Services, Netherlands, Environment, Sun Microsystems Inc., High-performance Computing, SAP AG, Shared Service, It Services, Leadership, Management
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- Hyundai Heavy Industries Increases Productivity Through high-performance computing on Intel Itanium 2 Platform
- Hyundai Heavy Industries HHI established in 1972 is the number one shipbuilding company in the world earning a good reputation for building large cargo carrying ships that transport Liquid Petroleum Gas LPG and Liquefied Natural Gas LNG, as well as container ships. By using a High-Performance Computing HPC platform based...
- Tags: Hyundai, Industry, Intel Itanium, High-performance Computing, Intel Itanium 2, High-performance, Intel Corp., Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
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- The Engineer Research and Development Center Leverages HP Supercomputer Systems to Help the Department of Defense Support Soldiers in Combat
- U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center ERDC) Major Shared Resource Center MSRC, managed as part of the Department of Defense-wide high performance computing capability provided by the DoD High Performance Computing Modernization Program HPCMP. They wanted to provide scientists and engineers with immediate access to the best high performance...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., R&D, Supercomputer, High-performance Computing, High-performance, U.S. Department Of Defense, Leadership, Management
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- Manufacturer Provides Engineers With Easy-to-Use, high-performance computing Solution
- BAE Systems products range from defense systems to tanks, aircraft carriers, and fighter jets. The computer tools needed to develop these highly sophisticated products were so complex that the company's design engineers needed a high degree of IT knowledge to use them effectively. BAE Systems wanted an integrated IT solution...
- Tags: BAE Systems Plc., High-performance Computing, High-performance, Leadership, Management
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- HP Enables Rice University to Support Shared Research Computing and Continue Its Contributions to high-performance computing
- Rice University is consistently ranked as one of America's best teaching and research schools, despite its small size relative to major universities with PhD programs in the U.S. The mission of the Computer and Information Technology Institute CITI at Rice is to foster and develop research relationships between faculty and...
- Tags: Rice University, Hewlett-Packard Co., High-performance Computing, High-performance, Computing, Leadership, Management
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- High Performance Computing Competence Center Baden-Wurttemberg
- The Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts of the State of Baden-Württemberg, the University of Karlsruhe and the University of Stuttgart have agreed to bundle the personnel and financial resources in the field of high performance computing so that an international competitive offering of high performance computing power can...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., High-performance Computing, High-performance, Leadership, Management
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- Penn State Builds a 128-Node Dell Cluster Configured With Intel Processors and Running Linux to Extend high-performance computing Services
- The Pennsylvania State University Penn State is harnessing the power of hundreds of off-the-shelf Intel processors inside Dell PowerEdge servers to provide the power of supercomputers at a fraction of the cost. Penn State built its first evaluation cluster using Dell Precision workstations during the summer of 1998. With scalability...
- Tags: Processor, Linux, Dell Computer Corp., Penn State, High-performance Computing, High-performance, Intel Corp., Servers, Research & Development, Hardware, Business Operations
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- MSDN Webcast: High Performance Computing (Level 200)
- The attendee of this webcast will learn about the Microsoft product offering in the world of high-performance computing: Windows Compute Cluster Server. The attendee of this webcast will find out what Compute Cluster Server is, why one should care about it, and how it can use it to build highly-scalable...
- Tags: Microsoft Developer Network, Webcast, High-performance Computing, High-performance, Microsoft Corp., Digital Media, Leadership, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Management
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- Cisco HPC Case Study: National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) Builds Oil and Gas Seismic Exploration Cluster
- The National Center for Supercomputing Applications NCSA has earned and maintains an international reputation in high-performance computing, networking, storage, data mining, and scientific visualization. To build a flexible and powerful high-performance computing platform that empowers scientists and engineers in many different scientific disciplines and industries was a challenge for NCSA....
- Tags: High-performance Computing, High-performance, Cisco Systems Inc., Server Cluster, NCSA, Leadership, Servers, Management, Hardware
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- Visible Breakthrough: The Cornell Theory Center Gains Real-Time Advantage in Scientific Computing
- The Cornell Theory Center has been at the forefront of high-performance computing for a number of years. Like many advanced computing organizations, CTC had based much of its work on expensive proprietary UNIX implementations. Amid declining budgets, increasing reliance of researchers on a high-performance computing infrastructure and increasing commoditization of...
- Tags: Cornell Theory Center, Unisys Corp., High-performance Computing, High-performance, Computing, Leadership, Management
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- Achieving Order Through CHAOS: The LLNL HPC Linux Cluster Experience
- Livermore Computing Linux clusters run a common software environment that is developed and maintained in-house while drawing components and additional support from the open source community and industrial partnerships. The environment is based on Red Hat Linux and adds kernel modifications, cluster system management, monitoring and failure detection, resource management,...
- Tags: Strategy, Environment, High-performance Computing, High-performance, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Open Source
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- KISTI Increases Performance With Intel Xeon Processor-Based HPC Cluster
- The Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information KISTI is a government-funded institute that plays a leading role in supporting innovative and cutting-edge research in a variety of disciplines; these range from manufacturing, engineering, and medicine to aerospace, astrophysics, chemistry and life sciences. KISTI's existing High Performance Computing HPC cluster...
- Tags: Performance, High-performance Computing, Intel Xeon, Institute, Intel Corp., KISTI, Performance Management, Processors, Servers, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
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- Virtualization for high-performance computing
- The specific demands of High-Performance Computing HPC often mismatch the assumptions and algorithms provided by legacy Operating Systems OS for common workload mixes. While feature- and application-rich OSes allow for flexible and low-cost hardware configurations, rapid development, and flexible testing and debugging, the mismatch comes at the cost of -...
- Tags: Operating System, High-performance Computing, High-performance, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage
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- high-performance computing Power of 64-Bit Intel Itanium 2 Processors Helps Reduce Financial Trading Risks
- Financial institutions need to accurately measure and manage financial risks in order to efficiently, and effectively trade with counterparties. However, risks modeling and calculations in the busy financial markets require high-performance computing platforms in order to deliver the accuracy and timeliness that is needed to effectively carry out profitable trading....
- Tags: 64-bit, Financial, Intel Itanium, High-performance Computing, Intel Itanium 2, High-performance, Intel Corp., Financial Accounting, Processors, Finance, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
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- Refining the Weather Report With Itanium 2-Based Servers
- The Finnish Meteorological Institute FMI is relied on to provide accurate forecasts for national news channels and industry groups including civic authorities and agricultural bodies. To develop truly accurate predictions, the FMI has always relied on High Performance Computing HPC but traditionally shared the only platform in Finland, located at...
- Tags: Intel Itanium, High-performance Computing, Intel Itanium 2, Server, Intel Corp., Finnish Meteorological Institute, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
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