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Power Efficiency in High Performance Computing
White Papers This paper demonstrates clearly that, contrary to conventional wisdom, the power consumed while running the High Performance Linpack (HPL) benchmark is very close to the power consumed by any subset of a typical compute-intensive scientific workload.
[October 22, 2008, 1:01]
Opportunities and Challenges of III-V Nanoelectronics for Future High-Speed, Low-Power Logic Applications
White Papers This paper highlights the opportunities and challenges of III-V nanoelectronics for future high-speed, low-power digital logic applications. III-V materials in general have significantly higher electron mobility than Si and can potentially play a...
[July 19, 2007, 1:00]
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 They wanted to increase the processing power of the supercomputing facility by 1000 percent. Swinburne implemented a high performance computing cluster technology solution with 90 rack-mounted Dell PowerEdge 2650 Dual Xeon servers, 30 Dell Dual...
[August 4, 2008, 19:08]
A System Solution for High-Performance, Low Power SDR
White Papers One central challenge in the realization of Software Defined Radio (SDR) is to provide a programmable solution that meets the challenging high-performance, low-power requirements, while providing an efficient software development interface.
[November 10, 2006, 0:00]
Intel's high-powered engineers create low-power chips
News So far, this technique has been one of the key differentiators between Intel's high power chips such as the Pentium 4 and its portable devices typified by the Pentium M. One of Intel's boldest commitments at this year's autumn Intel Developer Forum...
[August 26, 2005, 12:55]
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]
Power Solutions Article: High-Availability Virtualization with Dell EqualLogic Arrays and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V
White Papers The Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 Release 2 (R2) Hyper-V™ platform introduces capabilities designed to deliver high availability for virtualized data centers. Integrating a Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS Series storage area network into Hyper-V...
[November 6, 2009, 0:20]
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 Power of Currency: Achieving High Performance With Right-Time Information
White Papers In an industry whose stock in trade is information, there is perhaps no greater need than quick and easy access to high-quality data. Whether it's a trader, investment manager, risk or compliance officer or back-office staff, each job depends on...
[July 19, 2007, 1:00]
A High Average-Efficiency SiGe HBT Power Amplifier for WCDMA Handset Applications
White Papers The linearity of a Silicon-Germanium (SiGe) HBT Power Amplifier (PA) is analyzed with the help of a power-dependent coefficient Volterra technique. A dynamic current biasing technique is developed to improve the average power efficiency for Wide...
[February 15, 2006, 0:01]
Micro generators pick up power
News A tiny generator a centimetre across and three millimetres high has produced more than a watt of electricity, enough to power a cellphone. High power is achieved by high speeds -- in the prototype the magnet revolves at 100,000 revolutions a minute...
[November 25, 2004, 14:55]
NICE Systems Case Study: Georgia Power
White Papers A top priority of Georgia Power, a unit of the Southern Company, is taking good care of its customers, keeping reliability high and power rates low. Georgia Power, and other Southern Company subsidiaries in Alabama, Florida and Mississippi, began...
[August 27, 2009, 1:24]
Apple Power Mac G5 (dual 2.7GHz) review
Reviews The Apple Power Mac G5's graceful yet industrial 'cheese grater' design hasn't changed with this go-round; it has the same sleek but solid shape and hefty size at 206cm wide by 47.5cm deep by 51.1cm high As before, you can pull a latch on the back...
[June 10, 2005, 12:35]
Firms urged to cut IT power consumption
News The hit caused by high-power data-centre equipment is twofold — not only does it consume more power to run, but also more power to cool. The power needed for a rack of high-density server blades can be between 10 and 15 times higher than the power...
[September 28, 2006, 16:00]
Schools panic over WiFi
Blog Comment You are correct that wireless access points do not use as high power levels as you would find from a typical mobile phone base station, but then you also don't normally have base stations within the room you are spending your time working.
[November 22, 2006, 11:19]
A Low Complexity Tree Algorithm for PTS-Based PAPR Reduction in Wireless OFDM
White Papers However, its high Peak-to-Average-Power Ratio (PAPR) causes nonlinear distortion thus limiting the efficiency of the transmitter's High Power Amplifier. Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) has several attributes which make it a...
[August 25, 2009, 10:14]
IBM readies Power6 blades for next year
News Beginning with its Power6 dual-core chip, IBM will build its high-end Power processors into blade servers for the first time in 2007, marking a significant expansion of blade abilities. Today's PowerPC-based blades are used chiefly for high...
[December 7, 2006, 11:17]
An Analysis of OFDM Peak Power Reduction Techniques for WiMAX Systems
White Papers The main drawback of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) systems is the high Peak-to-Average Power Ratio (PAPR), which significantly reduces the efficiency of the transmit High Power Amplifier (HPA).
[March 2, 2009, 2:04]
Cisco should lead the march towards interoperability rather than away
Talkback It is interesting and saddening that Cisco has chosen to go proprietary for powering its "high" power devices, especially at a time, when many PoE vendors who had gone proprietary in their quest for higher power, are now returning back to the IEEE...
[February 12, 2008, 12:14]
A Novel Low-Power FPGA Routing Switch
White Papers This paper proposes a new programmable FPGA routing switch that can operate in three different modes: high-speed, low-power or sleep. High-speed mode offers similar power and performance to a traditional routing switch.
[July 11, 2008, 1:02]
