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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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Novell Case Study: Swinburne University of Technology
- Melbourne-based Swinburne University of Technology has more than 45,000 students and 2,000 staff located across six campuses. The university's previous supercomputer cluster, based on a combination of legacy and proprietary technology, lacked compatibility with newer Linux-based systems and was costly to maintain. By introducing SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, the university...
- Tags: Novell Inc., University, Swinburne University, Open Source, Performance Management, Servers, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Hardware
- 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
- Novell Case Study: Tokyo Institute of Technology
- Tokyo Institute of Technology is one of the world's leading science and technology universities. TITech wanted to build its supercomputing capabilities by integrating disparate computing models and provide access to a broader group of users. The main challenge the university faced in creating its system was less in developing a...
- Tags: Novell Inc., University, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server, Supercomputing, Open Source, Servers, Hardware
- Case studies
- 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
- 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
- New technology predicts severe weather
- New technologies currently being tested by the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Association NOAA could lead to models that have the potential to predict severe weather up to a week in advance. The new computing models, supported by the University of Oklahoma, the University of Illinois, and the Pittsburgh Supercomputing...
- Tags: Weather, Technology, Aerospace & Defense, Sales Force Management, Manufacturing, Sales, Andy Moon
- Blog posts 2007-06-11
- Photos: Supercomputing at Oak Ridge
- Just outside Knoxsville, Tenn., lies one of the world's great supercomputer labs. CNET News' Daniel Terdiman takes a tour. by CNET News.com
- Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Supercomputer, Photograph, CNET News, CNET News.com, news, supercomputing
- Image galleries 2008-07-09
- 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
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