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TechNet Webcast: High-Performance Computing With Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 (Level 200)
White Papers High-Performance Computing (HPC) and Beowulf-style clusters are evolving from their roots in academia and government computing into new areas of computing such as genomics and finance. The listener of this webcast will hear how Microsoft Windows...
[December 31, 2008, 0:00]
High-Performance Computing Goes Mainstream in E&P
White Papers This paper, which provides a market snapshot and introduction to high-performance computing use at the workgroup and desktop levels as well as at the supercomputing level, is the first of two that outlines a transformational change in the way...
[April 3, 2008, 1:02]
IIT Kanpur Sets Up Mission Critical, High Performance Computing Powerhouse on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
White Papers The institute wanted to modernize and scale proprietary, SMP-UNIX infrastructure and setup a high performance computing environment that can handle cutting edge research projects. Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur is one of the premier...
[April 18, 2007, 1:00]
High Performance Computing: Compatible Acceleration Using Fine Grain, Parallel Processing
White Papers In many cases, organizations are not realizing expected performance increases when running large, complex applications on High Performance Computing (HPC) computers. Multi-processor in Memory (MNM) technology, combined with CPU Tech's System-on-a...
[March 4, 2008, 0:02]
High-Performance Computing Power of 64-Bit Intel Itanium 2 Processors Helps Reduce Financial Trading Risks
White Papers However, risks modeling and calculations in the busy financial markets require high-performance computing platforms in order to deliver the accuracy and timeliness that is needed to effectively carry out profitable trading.
[May 17, 2007, 1:00]
The Benefits of Dual-Core Processors in High-Performance Computing
White Papers This paper examines the real-world advantages of dual-core processors; specifically how the new dual-core AMD Opteron processors benefit users in a High-Performance Computing (HPC) environment. The next step in advanced processor technology...
[May 29, 2007, 5:20]
Technology Institute Expands Research Initiatives With High-Performance Computing
White Papers Tokyo Institute of Technology uses High-Performance Computing (HPC) to accelerate its research. It deployed a 32-node Windows HPC Server 2008 GPU-accelerated cluster to take advantage of enhanced tools to configure graphics processing units, which...
[February 27, 2009, 0:23]
A Security Architecture for High Performance Computing Facilities
White Papers High Performance Computing facilities that use cluster computing to provide computational services to scientists and engineers have become widespread, with such facilities available at most major research universities worldwide, as well as in...
[November 3, 2008, 0:01]
IBM High Performance Computing for Linux on POWER Using InfiniBand
White Papers This paper provides an overview and describes the components and performance of a High Performance Computing (HPC) solution for Linux on POWER using InfiniBand as the cluster interconnects. The paper contains performance results for several...
[February 19, 2007, 0:00]
Swinburne Centre for Astrophysics Boosts Supercomputing Power With Dell High-Performance Computing Cluster Based on PowerEdge Servers, Dell Precision Workstations and Linux SuSe
White Papers Swinburne implemented a high performance computing cluster technology solution with 90 rack-mounted Dell PowerEdge 2650 Dual Xeon servers, 30 Dell Dual Xeon Precision 530s. The Swinburne Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing (SCAS), is host to...
[August 4, 2008, 19:08]
Procter & Gamble Tests Windows-Based High-Performance Computing to Boost Productivity
White Papers However, the company needed to first make its High-Performance Computing (HPC) clusters easier to use. To reduce costs and speed time-to-market, Procter & Gamble wanted to expand its use of computer simulation in research, design, and testing.
[November 7, 2008, 0:01]
Using InfiniBand for High Performance Computing
White Papers With broader adoption of High Performance Computing (HPC) in various industry segments, more enterprise businesses are implementing parallel compute cluster architectures to provide a cost-effective approach for scalable, HPC platforms.
[May 1, 2007, 1:00]
A Component Architecture for High-Performance Scientific Computing
White Papers The Common Component Architecture (CCA) provides a means for software developers to manage the complexity of large-scale scientific simulations and to move toward a plug-and-play environment for high-performance computing.
[October 22, 2008, 1:01]
Configurable Virtualized System Environments for High Performance Computing
White Papers 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.
[March 1, 2008, 0:02]
Symmetric Active/Active High Availability for High-Performance Computing System Services
White Papers This paper aims to pave the way for high availability in High-Performance Computing (HPC) by focusing on efficient redundancy strategies for head and service nodes. The presented approach introduces two distinct replication methods, internal and...
[October 22, 2008, 1:01]
Aerospace Firm Attracts Customers With High-Performance Computing
White Papers Andrews Space needed a new parallel-processing computing environment with the high-performance that complex contracts demand, and the cost-effectiveness to meet its budget requirements. After researching processors and interconnect technology...
[June 18, 2008, 1:01]
Virtualization for High-Performance Computing
White Papers The specific demands of High-Performance Computing (HPC) often mismatch the assumptions and algorithms provided by legacy Operating Systems (OS) for common workload mixes. While feature- and application-rich OSes allow for flexible and low-cost...
[April 1, 2007, 1:00]
Linux and High Performance Computing
White Papers The excellent scalability features of Linux along with robust security and performance makes it an excellent choice for server systems, especially in the clustering and high performance computing areas.
[March 25, 2008, 7:43]
Sun touts high-performance computing for Web 2.0
News At the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, Sun chief executive Jonathan Schwartz talks about the company's new high-performance computing facility in Austin, Texas, and how Web 2.0 companies such as Facebook and Google are benefiting from high...
[April 28, 2008, 13:47]
Performance and Reliability for Excel Spreadsheets Through High Performance Computing
White Papers This paper describes how to increase the computational power and reliability of Excel 2007 spreadsheets through the use of the Microsoft High Performance Computing platform composed of Microsoft Office Excel 2007, Microsoft Windows Compute Cluster...
[March 29, 2008, 0:01]
