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- Ethernet in the World's Top 500 Supercomputers
- The world's most powerful supercomputers continue to get faster. According to top500.org, which maintains the list of the 500 supercomputers with the highest Linpack performance, the aggregate performance of the listed computers has grown 21% in the last seven months and 65% in the last year. This growth rate is...
- Tags: Force10 Networks Inc., Ethernet, Supercomputer
- White papers 2006-06-01
- 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
- 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
- Server Rooms
- 65536 processors into Blue Gene/Lthe power of calculations is 280,6 teraflops. One question is, how many specialist to service this room? look at the photo: http://lukcad.russia.webmatrixhosting.net/commercesql/default.aspx?zoom=SuperComputers/ibmbluegene3010.jpg&width=500&gal=SuperComputers&pg=1&container=containers/c_gallery/c_gallery.ascx&backUrl=containers/c_gallery/c_gallery.ascx&tabs=0That's not realNo holes in to the floor void with unidentified cables growing out them which are only connected at this end.Someone seems to have...
- Tags: LukCAD
- Discussion threads 2005-10-30
- Streamlining Beowulf Cluster Deployment With NPACI Rocks
- For high-performance parallel-processing applications, Beowulf clusters that comprise industry-standard, two-processor and four processor servers can be a cost-effective alternative to symmetric multiprocessing computer systems and supercomputers. This paper discusses NPACI Rocks, an open source cluster computing software stack that can be used to improve the deployment, management, and maintenance of...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Open Source, Cluster Computing
- White papers 2005-02-01
- Linux gains in 2007
- Writer Roy Schestowitz has posted a thorough round-up of gains made by Gnu Linux in 2007 in the areas of supercomputers, desktops, mobile phones, laptops and tablets, consoles, and media players. One needs to look for evidence of growth not only in desktops. Judgment must be based on multiple...
- Tags: Desktop, Writer Roy Schestowitz, Linux, UNIX, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Selena Frye
- Blog posts 2008-01-02
- HPC Networking: The Foundation for Networked Supercomputers
- The term "cluster" is used to describe computer systems where two or more computers collaborate to increase application performance or availability. High-Performance Computing HPC is a relatively new class of cluster that is used to support a wide variety of performance-intensive parallel applications that are widely recognized as having the...
- Tags: Performance, Network, Cisco Systems Inc., Performance Management, Productivity, Networking, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- White papers 2006-03-01
- Grid Computing: Extending the Boundaries of Distributed IT
- This white paper discusses HP's leadership in developing open grid standards and grid computing technologies. It explains why the company is committed to using industry standards to grid-enable all HP products—from the smallest handhelds, printers, and PCs to powerful storage arrays and supercomputers. Read the paper to learn more about...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, Grid Computing, Utility Computing, It Management, Network Technology, It service Management, Networking
- White papers 2006-10-01
- A Practical Application for Grid Computing
- Grids today appear mostly in High Performance Computing HPC environments, where hundreds of inexpensive compute nodes link together to solve parallel processing problems that previously could only have been addressed by using supercomputers. Storage grids were developed to supply the enormous amounts of data that such processing power was capable...
- Tags: Enterprise Management Associates Inc., Storage, Parallel Processing, Grid Computing, Computing
- White papers 2007-06-01
- A Multi-Level WEB Based Parallel Processing System: A Hierarchical Volunteer Computing Approach
- Over the past few years, a number of efforts have been exerted to build parallel processing systems that utilize the idle power of LAN's and PC's available in many homes and corporations. The main advantage of these approaches is that they provide cheap parallel processing environments for those who cannot...
- Tags: Parallel Processing, Computing
- White papers 2006-05-01
- Tips and Tricks for Tuning CFD Codes Part 2 - Advanced Tuning
- CFD Computational Fluid Dynamics is one of the most used codes in supercomputing. It is used for a variety of things such as modeling external aerodynamics, internal aerodynamics, heat transfers, weather and air flows, ocean currents, multi-phase flows, blood flow in the human body, and many other scientific and industrial...
- Tags: Linux NetworX, Performance, Performance Management, Research & Development, Linux, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Business Operations, Operating Systems, Software
- White papers 2006-04-05
- Tips and Tricks for Tuning CFD Codes Part 3 - Tuning Commercial Code
- CFD Computational Fluid Dynamics is one of the most used codes in supercomputing. It is used for a variety of things such as modeling external aerodynamics, internal aerodynamics, heat transfers, weather and air flows, ocean currents, multi-phase flows, blood flow in the human body, and many other scientific and industrial...
- Tags: Linux NetworX, Performance, Performance Management, Research & Development, Linux, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Business Operations, Operating Systems, Software
- White papers 2006-04-05
- Can a File System Virtualize Processors?
- Supercomputers comprise more and more processors and these processors are increasingly heterogeneous, with differing performance characteristics. The conventional programming models assume that all nodes run in lockstep. Thus, applications run at the speed of the least powerful processor. This paper introduces DesyncFS, a new programming model based on the block...
- Tags: File System, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- White papers 2007-03-20
- Tips and Tricks for Tuning CFD Codes Part 1 - Basic Tips and Tricks
- CFD Computational Fluid Dynamics is one of the most used codes in supercomputing. It is used for a variety of things such as modeling external aerodynamics, internal aerodynamics, heat transfers, weather and air flows, ocean currents, multi-phase flows, blood flow in the human body, and many other scientific and industrial...
- Tags: Linux NetworX, Performance, Performance Management, Research & Development, Linux, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Business Operations, Operating Systems, Software
- White papers 2006-04-06
- University of Kentucky Accelerates Research Progress With Intel Processor-Based HPC Clusters
- Underpowered supercomputers are a distinct liability if your goals are to speed up scientific research and move up the ranks of computational science leaders. That's why the University of Kentucky's (UK's) Center for Computational Sciences the Center replaced the PA-RISC processors in its two-year old, 220-node HP Superdome computer with...
- Tags: University Of Kentucky, Intel Corp., Processors, Servers, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- Case studies
- Leading University Creates UK's Fastest Academic Supercomputer Through Collaborative Partnership
- Cambridge University has had supercomputers for use in complex research since 1992. Undertaking ground breaking research, users require cutting edge technology that provides optimum performance. At the end of a three-year system cycle, the university looked to implement a new system that would improve upon previous levels of high performance....
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., University Of Cambridge, Partnership, Supercomputer, High-performance, Leadership, Management
- Case studies 2008-04-30
- Tips and Tricks for Tuning CFD Codes
- CFD Computational Fluid Dynamics is one of the most used codes in aerospace. It is used for a variety of things such as external aerodynamics, internal aerodynamics, time dependent aerodynamics, aerodynamic noise, heat transfer, multi-phase flows (such as those in high-speed engines and rockets), and aerodynamic-optic analysis. There are also...
- Tags: Flight, Linux NetworX, Aerospace, Aerospace & Defense, Manufacturing
- White papers 2006-04-05
- Breaking New Ground: The Evolution of Linux Clustering
- Linux High Performance Computing HPC clusters are an example of innovation achieved through novel ways of thinking about proven technology. This combination allows both exceptional performance and superior reliability. Clusters, derived from the pioneering Beowulf concept, provide a cost-effective alternative to proprietary supercomputers and Symmetric MultiProcessing SMP systems. Scyld Software...
- Tags: Clustering, Linux Cluster, Scyld Software, Scyld, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software
- White papers 2005-02-11
- Novell Case Study: Seoul National University
- Seoul National University SNU is South Korea's premier and largest national university, as well as a leading research center, with more than 30,000 students and 1,700 full-time faculty and 1,400 staff members. SNU is striving to become South Korea's hub for grid computing, taking advantage of networked computers to handle...
- Tags: Novell Inc., Seoul National University, Grid Computing, Utility Computing, It Management, Network Technology, Open Source, Servers, It service Management, Networking, Hardware
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