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- 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
- 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
- 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
Additional Resources
- 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
- Step-by-Step Guide to Installing, Configuring, and Tuning a High-Performance Compute Cluster
- This paper is a step-by-step guide based on the highly successful cluster deployment at National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. The cluster was built as a joint effort between NCSA and Microsoft, using commonly available hardware and Microsoft software. The cluster was composed...
- Tags: High-performance, Microsoft Corp., Leadership, Management
- White papers 2007-06-01
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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- 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
- Dell Cluster at ac3 Becomes a Major Supercomputer in Australia
- Owned by the state government of New South Wales and a consortium of eight universities, Advanced Computing and Communications (ac3) is a for-profit organization that manages complex computing environments for the government, university researchers, and other clients. In late 2002, ac3 had a critical decision to make. One of its...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Supercomputer, Productivity, Government
- Case studies
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Cluster Issues
- On a 2 node cluster , one of the node is down & failing to start the cluster service. after all the troublshooting to bring up the cluster service fails, if the registry is corrupted, can we take a systemstate restore on the failed node...
- Tags: k4k
- Q&A 2006-06-26
- Cluster Interconnect Analysis and Comparison White Paper
- TruCluster Server Version 5.1A and higher supports Memory Channel or local area network (LAN) as the cluster interconnect. A cluster must have a dedicated cluster interconnect to which all cluster members are connected. This interconnect serves as a private communication channel between cluster members. This white paper provides guidelines to...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Analysis, LANs, Networking, Network Technology
- White papers 2004-04-01
- ac3: Triumph in Teraflops - ac3 Breaks Australia's Teraflops Barrier
- Owned by the government of New South Wales (NSW), ac3 is creating a world-class, High-Performance Computing (HPC) center that will help promote economic and employment growth in Australia by providing computing resources and services to industry, commerce, government and academia. ac3 built an Intel architecture - based supercomputing cluster with...
- Tags: Barrier, Teraflop, Australia, Intel Corp., Government, Performance Management, Vertical Industries, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software
- 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
- How to demote a cluster
- I have a 2003 enterprise server. I configured it into a cluster. However, this is one machine and after making it a cluster server, I realized you need other servers with same OS to join a cluster. I want to now UNCLUSTERIZE this. How do I do that? There is...
- Tags: Servers, mujtba@..., cluster
- Discussion threads 2007-09-04
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