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- 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
- Linux Kernel Specialization for Scientific Application Performance: UCSB Technical Report CS2005-29
- Linux has emerged as the system-of-choice in academic and production scientific computing settings. Much of the functionality in the Linux kernel, however, has been designed to arbitrate between competing applications thus ensuring safety and fairness. In this paper, the authors investigate the performance effects of specializing the Linux kernel for...
- Tags: Performance, Linux Kernel, Specialization, Linux, Performance Management, Research & Development, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Business Operations
- White papers 2005-11-30
- A Service-Oriented, Scalable Approach to Grid-Enabling of Legacy Scientific Applications
- This paper describes a scalable approach to the enabling of legacy scientific applications on computing Grids using a service-oriented architecture. In the context of this paper Grid-enabling means turning an existing application, installed on a Grid resource, into a service and generating the application-specific user interfaces to use that application...
- Tags: Application, Portlet Technology, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Portals, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet
- White papers 2005-08-08
- Memory Bandwidth and the Performance of Scientific Applications: A Study of the AMD Opteron Processor
- The goal of this paper is to evaluate the memory subsystem performance of the AMD Reference Design Kit RDK, "Quartet", a four-CPU system based on the AMD Opteron processor. This paper begins by discussing the unique features of the AMD Opteron processor's memory subsystem and the system architecture of the...
- Tags: Performance, Memory Bandwidth, AMD Opteron, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- White papers
- Challenges in Parallel Graph Processing
- Graph algorithms are becoming increasingly important for solving many problems in scientific computing, data mining and other domains. As these problems grow in scale, parallel computing resources are required to meet their computational and memory requirements. Unfortunately, the algorithms, software, and hardware that have worked well for developing mainstream parallel...
- Tags: Software, Problem, World Scientific Publishing, Engineering, Leadership, Tools & Techniques, Management
- White papers 2007-01-01
- Towards a Quality Model for Effective Data Selection in Collaboratories
- Data-driven scientific applications utilize workflow frameworks to execute complex dataflows, resulting in derived data products of unknown quality. The authors discuss the on going research on a quality model that provides users with an integrated estimate of the data quality that is tuned to their application needs and is available...
- Tags: Quality, Indiana University, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2006-01-19
- Base One Grid Computing - Executive Overview
- This paper describes grid computing solutions for business and scientific applications using Base One's technology and its unique "shrink wrap" products. Besides "grid computing", this technology is also known by a variety of terms such as "cluster computing", "distributed computing", "distributed processing", "distributed storage", "parallel processing", etc. This paper summarizes...
- Tags: Grid Computing, Utility Computing, It Management, Network Technology, It service Management, Networking
- White papers 2004-09-24
- A Minimal Linux Environment for High Performance Computing Systems
- This paper describes the use of standard Linux R and Open Source software to produce an environment to support parallel scientific applications on High Performance Computers HPC. The goals of this approach are to maximize the HPC resources delivered to the application, to improve system stability and predictability, and to...
- Tags: High-performance Computing, High-performance, Sandia National Laboratories, Linux, Tools & Techniques, Leadership, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Management
- White papers 2006-03-16
- HP Integrity Servers Running Linux: Providing Flexible Capacity, Secured Availability, and Simplified Management to Address Today's IT Imperatives
- Linux has become the operating system of choice in a broad spectrum of industry, government, and scientific applications. As the demands on Linux continue to grow, the underlying computing platform must offer advanced capabilities that enable organizations to address their most pressing IT imperatives and business challenges. HP Integrity servers...
- Tags: HP Integrity, Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, Server, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software
- White papers 2006-05-01
- Siena Biotech Improves Information Accessibility and Accelerates Research
- Siena Biotech wanted to centralize, optimize, and share the work of scientists and their assistants inside and outside the company and permit diversified access to information shared over the intranet, based on individual roles within the company. The challenge was to achieve a high degree of integration between different information...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Integration, Siena Biotech, Strategy, Management
- Case studies 2007-12-01
- Load Balancing of the Direct Linear Multisplitting Method in a Grid Computing Environment
- Many scientific applications need to solve very large sparse linear systems in order to simulate phenomena close to reality. Grid computing is an answer to the growing demand of computational power but communication times are significant and the bandwidth is variable, therefore frequent synchronizations slow down performances. The use of...
- Tags: Parallel, Load Balancing, Grid Computing, Network Technology, Cloud Computing, Utility Computing, It Management, Networking, It service Management
- White papers 2008-02-08
- An FPGA-Based Dynamic Load-Balancing Processor Architecture for Solving N-Body Problems
- Reconfigurable computing has emerged as a key technology in the field of high performance and embedded computing. This research focuses on the use of reconfigurable processors for solving computationally intensive scientific applications, with an added twist. An architecture is designing that can retarget its resources dynamically based on run-time and...
- Tags: Utah State University, Load Balancing, High-performance, Computing, FPGA, Architecture, Leadership, Management
- White papers 2006-12-13
- HP's First Latin American Itanium-Based High Performance Cluster Comes to Universidad De Chile
- During 2005, the Center for Mathematical Modeling CMM research center of the university's College of Mathematical and Physical Sciences acquired an HP Cluster Platform 6000 supercomputer, with the goal of increasing available computing power to the CMM in order to meet research project deadlines. The new platform would provide a...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Supercomputer, Intel Itanium, High-performance, Capability Maturity Model (CMM), Software Development, Software/Web Development
- Case studies
- Abykus (exe)
- Abykus is an easy to use spreadsheet program designed for both business and scientific applications. The program includes a statistics wizard, as well as over 190 built-in math, trig, matrix, financial, date, time, string, coordinate geometry, and 3D graphic display functions. Up to 32 separate, 65534 row by 255 column,...
- Tags: built-In, C, Cell, Abykus, C/C++, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- Software downloads 2007-11-20
- Need help buying powerful pcs for large data analysis
- Lots of reviews around the web on desktops in general but I can't find much to help me with High-end Desktops (and I mean Desktops designed to handle really large dataset analysis - think scientific applications.) Specifically, in this case, people working on analyzing the human genome. Lots...
- Tags: 64-bit, data analysis, desktop, hardware, memory, PC, Peter Spande, Peter Spande - TechRepublic, RAM, SAS Institute, scientific workstations
- Discussion threads 2005-08-12
- Distributed computing goes corporate
- Everyone knows what distributed computing is, but few realize how some enterprises are reharnessing this resource to power critical projects and applications, and why tech leaders should be paying attention.Distributed computing, with its recent high-profile successes in the scientific community, is enjoying a revival of corporate interest as businesses and...
- Tags: Network technology, Salvatore Salamone, distributed computing, processing power, computer
- Technical articles 2002-04-09
- Save money and boost power with Linux clusters
- If you aren't clustering, you could be wasting a lot of money. If you aren't Linux clustering, you could be wasting even more money and missing out on versatility--and power. Here are the basics on Linux clustering, from why you should to how it works.Clustering is hardly a novel concept;...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, Scott Lowe MCSE, clustering, cluster, Linux, Linux cluster
- Technical articles 2002-03-15
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