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- University of Stuttgart SAN Solution: Cisco Supercomputing Storage Networking Solution
- The University of Stuttgart is a national supercomputing center providing German researchers access to high-end supercomputing facilities.
- Tags: Storage Networking, Network, Cisco Systems Inc., Supercomputing, University Of Stuttgart
- Webcasts 2006-07-11
- Supercomputers & Storage: Strategies for Optimized Supercomputing Storage Systems
- Supercomputing architectures require different approaches to storage selection, configuration and tuning to meet the stringent performance, scalability, availability, and manageability requirements of supercomputing applications, users, workloads and data sets. Well-tuned storage has an integral impact on how well supercomputers perform. Within the storage configurations, critical elements including storage hardware, the...
- Tags: Strategy, Supercomputing, LNXI, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2006-04-09
- Photos: SC07 supercomputing
- IBM, Intel Sun Microsystems, and Super Micro have their wares on display at the SC07 supercomputing conference. by George Ou
- Tags: Photograph, Supercomputing, George Ou, tech action, SC07 supercomputing Intel IBM, TechRepublic Inc.
- Image galleries 2007-11-13
- The Need for Acceleration Technologies to Achieve Cost-Effective Supercomputing Performance for Advanced Applications
- Supercomputing has become an essential tool for many users, including those working in the scientific, engineering, biomedical, and financial disciplines. Although processing capabilities continue to advance, in many cases demand is increasing at an even faster rate. Simulation and analysis problems - once intractable due to computational limitations - have...
- Tags: Supercomputing, Supercomputing Technology
- White papers 2007-03-16
- High-Performance Computing Goes Mainstream in E&P
- The oil and gas industry has used the unique capabilities provided by supercomputing for over three decades, when it took buildings to house the hardware and months to completely iterate through a project's dataset. The focus on emerging technologies, burgeoning data volumes and advanced analytical processes place unprecedented demands on...
- Tags: High-performance Computing, High-performance, Supercomputing, Leadership, Management
- White papers 2006-09-25
- NEC claims it built the world's fastest vector supercomputer
- NEC claims to have developed that fastest vector supercomputer in the world. The SX-9 is capable of calculating 839 teraflops, as against IBM Blue Gene/L's 280.6 Teraflops performance. Here's a quote from Computerworld: NEC also noted that the SX-9 features what it calls the world's first...
- Tags: Supercomputer, NEC Corp., Supercomputing, SX-9, Arun Radhakrishnan
- Blog posts 2007-10-28
- Audi's Challenge: Building Safer and More Reliable Cars
- When Audi started investigating new computing architectures, the highest priority was given to the reliability of the system, which had to be proven by benchmarking procedures and documentation of other successful installations. The second priority for Audi was the price/performance ratio. Audi needed a computing solution that was powerful, yet...
- Tags: Linux NetworX, Audi AG, Linux, Operating Systems, Software
- Case studies
- Supercomputing Cluster Boosts Boeing's Delta IV Rockets
- In 2001, a team of engineers at Boeing Space and Communications in Huntington Beach, California, acquired a new AMD Athlon MP- based Linux Supercomputing cluster from Linux Networx to perform aerodynamic analyses for a new family of rockets, named Delta IV. The Linux Networx Supersystem is used to perform computational...
- Tags: Supercomputing Cluster, Linux NetworX, Rocket, Boeing Co., Linux Networx Supersystem, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- Case studies
- University of Hong Kong HPC Cluster Speeds Up Research and Makes TOP500 Supercomputer List With Intel Xeon Processors
- As more research projects ranging from nano-technology to large scale statistical simulations come to rely on supercomputing simulations and calculations for answers, the University of Hong Kong HKU needed to build a supercomputing cluster that could support its growing user base and demand for higher computing capabilities to handle more...
- Tags: Intel Xeon, Intel Corp., Processors, Servers, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- Case studies
- 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
- Case studies
- The School of Computing at the National University of Singapore Gains Supercomputing Performance by Building a Cluster of Linux-Based Dell Servers Running Intel Processors
- The National University of Singapore is a leading global university with 10 departments offering undergraduate and graduate programs. The school wanted to break the vicious cycle of buying and upgrading expensive proprietary platforms, so it decided to deploy an open platform that ran open source software powered by industry-standard processors....
- Tags: Processor, Dell Computer Corp., Server, Computing, Dell Server, Intel Corp., Supercomputing, Linux, Operating Systems, Software
- Case studies
- Dell Servers, Storage, and Services Supercharge the National Center for Supercomputing Applications
- Developed in the 1990s by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications NCSA is located at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The Center needed to build massive computing clusters to provide computing cycles to the academic research community - on budget and in record time. The solution deployed includes Dell...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Dell Server, InfiniBand, Servers, Storage, Processors, Networking, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components
- Case studies
- Yahoo! and Carnegie Mellon University to work together on supercomputing cluster
- Better channeling of resourcesWould such initiatives be better served if tech firms jointly channeled their resources?
- Tags: pr.arun@..., supercomputing cluster, Carnegie-Mellon University, Yahoo! Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-11-13
- Yahoo and Carnegie Mellon University to work together on supercomputing cluster
- Carnegie Mellon University and Yahoo have announced a collaborative project to advance distributed computing and software research. An excerpt from ZDNet: "We are excited about collaborating with Yahoo on systems software research... and jointly contributing back to the open-source community," Randall E Bryant, dean of the...
- Tags: Supercomputing Cluster, Carnegie-Mellon University, Yahoo! Inc., Distributed Computing, Network Technology, Networking, Arun Radhakrishnan
- Blog posts 2007-11-13
- Supercomputer architectures set to scale new heights
- At the International Supercomputing Conference held in Dresden, Germany, IBM announced its next-generation Blue Gene/P, which can scale more than 1 petaflop computing capacity, and Sun Microsystems unveiled plans to make it to the top list with its "Constellation" architecture. Also, Microsoft seeks to garner more market share in the supercomputing...
- Tags: Supercomputer, Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., Chip, Supercomputing, Blue Gene/P, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Arun Radhakrishnan
- Blog posts 2007-07-01
- IBM supercomputing goes retro
- Never is a Long Time...Perhaps "soon to Famous" Last Words, from Cray engineer: Steve Scott, an X1 chief architect. "Trying to hook multiple scalar processors into a vector processor is never going to be as effective as a real vector processor."This remark may sound like Bill Gates' remark in the...
- Tags: Dilbert-Tom, IBM Corp., IBM supercomputing, processor, retro, supercomputing
- Discussion threads 2004-10-26
- D-wave demonstrates quantum computing, but skeptics galore
- At the Supercomputing Conference '07 in Nevada, D-Wave demonstrated at 28 qubits commercial quantum computer and hoped to scale that to 1024 qubits by the end of 2008. An excerpt from Guardian: Monday's demo, at the SC07 supercomputing show in Reno, Nevada, used an algorithm from...
- Tags: Computing, Quantum Corp., D-wave, Quantum Computing, Quantum Computer, D-Wave Systems, Productivity, Engineering, Arun Radhakrishnan
- Blog posts 2007-11-15
- Army supercomputing drafts Intel, AMD
- Stay on top of the latest tech news with our free IT News Digest e-newsletter, delivered each weekday. Automatically sign up today!By ...
- Tags: Network technology, Processors, Semiconductors, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, chip, AMD Opteron, 64-bit, Intel Corp., Nocona, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., supercomputing
- Technical articles 2004-08-03
- Gates touts Microsoft's supercomputing move
- there goes security.I sure hope they fix their security issues first or that's the start of headaches for the industry, if they go with Microsoft.Loss of securityJust perhaps they might build up an OS that does not rely on backwards compatiblity? E.G their Data Server OS which apparantly is...
- Tags: Gates Touts Microsoft, hectorjleslie@..., Microsoft Corp., operating system, programming, security, security and cluster servers, supercomputing
- Discussion threads 2005-11-21
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