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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]
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]
SAS Meets Big Iron: High Performance Computing in SAS Analytic Procedures
White Papers Version 9 targets the heavy-duty analytic procedures in SAS for high performance computing enhancements. Some general scalability issues are discussed and their practical implications in providing high performance scalable implementations in the...
[December 6, 2005, 0:01]
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 Cluster (HPCC) Benefits
White Papers High Performance Computing Clustering (HPCC) offers a solution that not only provides a powerful implementation of computing, but is also very cost effective when compared with the traditional method of using specialty computers designed for...
[December 9, 2003, 23:00]
CSIRO's Study in the Field of Bioinformatics Has Been Propelled Forward With the Installation of a Dedicated High Performance Computing Cluster, Built Using Low Cost Dell Servers Clustered Together
White Papers With space limitations and operational costs a consideration, the CSIRO followed Dell's advice to build a High Performance Computing Cluster (HPCC) built on industry standard, rack dense 'blade' servers.
[October 31, 2008, 0:21]
Symmetric Active/Active High Availability for High-Performance Computing System Services: Accomplishments and Limitations
White Papers This paper summarizes the efforts over the last 3-4 years in providing symmetric active/active high availability for High-Performance Computing (HPC) system services. This work paves the way for high-level reliability, availability and...
[July 10, 2008, 1:01]
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]
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]
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]
Maximizing NFS Scalability on Dell Servers and Storage in High-Performance Computing Environments
White Papers Popular because of its maturity and ease of use, the Network File System (NFS) can be used in high-performance computing cluster environments. This paper discusses how administrators can improve performance and obtain maximum scalability from a...
[December 19, 2004, 2:00]
AMD on AMD: Enabling High-Performance Computing
White Papers Customers can rely on AMD for mission-critical business applications or high performance computing (HPC) solutions such as Engineering Design Automation (EDA). AMD continues to produce leading-edge microprocessors that provide customers with...
[January 10, 2005, 3:07]
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]
Hyundai Heavy Industries Increases Productivity Through High-Performance Computing on Intel Itanium 2 Platform
White Papers By using a High-Performance Computing (HPC) platform based on the Itanium 2 processor, HHI achieved their goal of boosting their competitive power by increasing the speed of the overall shipbuilding production process through accelerating the time...
[June 7, 2009, 1:21]
Reflections on Building a High-Performance Computing Cluster Using FreeBSD
White Papers This paper looks back on the system architecture as documented in the BSDCon 2003 paper "Building a High-performance Computing Cluster Using FreeBSD" and the changes since that time. Off late this paper has developed and maintained a general...
[November 3, 2008, 0:01]
A Case for High Performance Computing With Virtual Machines
White Papers VMs offer many desirable features such as security, ease of management, OS customization, performance isolation, check-pointing, and migration, which can be very beneficial to the performance and the manageability of High Performance Computing...
[November 3, 2008, 0:01]
Managing and Monitoring High-Performance Computing Clusters With IPMI
White Papers This paper introduces the Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) specification in the context of high performance computing clusters - discussing example implementations and important IPMI features from a cluster-level management and...
[December 19, 2004, 2:00]
A Large-Scale Study of Failures in High-Performance-Computing Systems
White Papers This paper analyzes soon-to-be-public failure data covering systems at a large high-performance-computing site. Designing highly dependable systems requires a good understanding of failure characteristics.
[October 22, 2008, 1:01]
Motor: A Virtual Machine for High Performance Computing
White Papers Unfortunately, these existing virtual environments do not provide the necessary high performance computing abstractions required by e-Scientists. In general areas of computing, virtual environments such as Java and .Net have proved successful in...
[October 22, 2008, 1:01]
Applications of QKD Network for High Performance Distributed Computing
White Papers This paper presents a model for the exploitation of QKD security networks in high performance distributed computing applications, such as grid computing. Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) is a point to point secure key generation technology which...
[November 3, 2008, 0:01]
