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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]
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 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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
University Uses Solution to Simplify High Performance Computing
White Papers Because of its focus on advanced technology, it has a strong demand for High Performance Computing (HPC) solutions. Now students can train to use and maintain high-performance clusters, making complex calculations through a simple Windows interface.
[July 27, 2009, 1:20]
Middleware in Modern High Performance Computing System Architectures
White Papers A recent trend in modern High Performance Computing (HPC) system architectures employs "Lean" compute nodes running a lightweight Operating System (OS). Certain parts of the OS as well as other system software services are moved to service nodes in...
[January 16, 2009, 0:00]
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]
Insurer Cuts Modeling Time by Up to 99 Percent With High-Performance Computing
White Papers Ultimately, the company chose an actuarial solution from Milliman that runs on Microsoft High-Performance Computing (HPC) technology. Western & Southern Financial Group faced the challenge of running ever larger and more complex actuarial models as...
[February 27, 2009, 0:23]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Engineering Firm Promotes Management and Analytics With High-Performance Computing
White Papers So NEWJEC deployed a Windows-based high-performance computing solution. NEWJEC is one of the foremost multidisciplinary consulting firms in Japan, with capabilities in electrical, civil, geotechnical, architectural, structural, mechanical, and...
[July 27, 2009, 1:20]
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]
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]
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]
