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- AMD gains, Intel fights back on supercomputer list
- Link to the SC06 supercomputing showhttp://sc06.supercomputing.org/
- Tags: sc06 supercomputing show, news, networking, Sonja Thompson, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., supercomputer
- Discussion threads 2006-11-14
- 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
- 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
- University of Southampton Plugs Into the Grid With Intel Architecture-Based Linux Cluster
- University of Southampton is one of the United Kingdom's top universities. The challenge was to support a growing research community and develop next-generation technologies for grid computing, one of the United Kingdom's leading research institutions needed a highly flexible, scalable supercomputing system that wouldn't break the bank. The University of...
- Tags: Linux Cluster, Intel Corp., Intel Architecture, University Of Southampton, Linux, Processors, Open Source, It Management, Operating Systems, Software, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, It service Management
- Case studies
- Cluster Resources and IBM: A Super Combination for Supercomputing
- With more than 10 years of industry experience and more than 2,500 clients worldwide, Cluster Resources is in the business of enabling organizations to understand, control, and fully optimize their computing resources with the workload and resource management software products and services they provide for cluster, grid and utility-based computing...
- Tags: IBM Corp., Supercomputing, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software
- Case studies
- DB2 9 pureXML Scalability on Intel Xeon MP Platforms Using IBM N Series Storage
- With the recent launch of the next-generation Intel Xeon processor MP, IBM DB2 9, and IBM N Series storage, businesses can now enjoy the rich processing power and performance benefits these products have to offer. This paper unveils the combined performance of Dual-Core Intel Xeon processor 7100? Series, DB2 9...
- Tags: Performance, Intel Xeon MP, Scalability, Intel Xeon, IBM DB2, Intel Corp., IBM Corp., Performance Management, Processors, Servers, Storage, Databases, Enterprise Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2006-11-15
- IBM I520 Server VS. Intel Servers
- Has anyone had to switch from an AS/400 server to an Intel based one recently?..and if so what were the factors that helped make such a determination?I have to make some upgrades soon and we have been an IBM 400 shop for many years.We have looked at th
- Tags: hardware, software, Counselor, server, IBM Corp., Intel server
- Discussion threads 2006-11-24
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Benefits of Dual-Core Computing on IBM System x Servers Using Intel Processors
- This paper examines the real-world advantages of dual-core processors, using the new IBM System x servers as real-world examples. This paper discusses the benefits to industry-standard server platform users, and demonstrates scalable performance and superior performance-per-watt for high-performance HPC and business computing applications. This paper examines the potential advantages of...
- Tags: Dual-core, Benefit, Business Computing, Computing, Intel Corp., IBM Corp., Processors, Servers, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- White papers 2006-06-01
- 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
- 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
- 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
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