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HPC Express - PCI Express Enabled High Performance Computing Cluster
White Papers Proprietary systems with thousands of special processors that come at a high price are no longer the only choice to build HPC solutions. HPC Express? Powerful supercomputers need robust interconnects, reliable drivers, and the capability to do more...
[May 30, 2004, 1:03]
HPC Networking: The Foundation For Networked Supercomputers
White Papers High-Performance Computing (HPC) is a relatively new class of cluster that is used to support a wide variety of performance-intensive parallel applications that are widely recognized as having the most demanding performance characteristics.
[May 5, 2006, 1:00]
HPC Clusters For Academic And Scientific Research: Getting The Most Value For Your Investment
White Papers When choosing an HPC cluster solution, in addition to pure performance and cost considerations, researchers must consider a number of other crucial criteria. This paper will provide some guidance in navigating these important and often complex...
[November 8, 2004, 2:00]
Managing High Performance Compute (HPC) Clusters In RLX Server Blade Environments
White Papers The adoption of scale-out architectures to build High Performance Compute (HPC) Clusters is growing at an increasing rate. Within the span of just two years, many customers have recognized the benefits of blade architecture as the ideal building...
[March 2, 2004, 11:20]
HPC Distributed Storage Cluster - IBRIX Architecture And Installation
White Papers The HP HPC team would like to thank IBRIX for their contributions to this industry that HP serves. This paper provides guidance for a customer that is considering the deployment of an HP/IBRIX cluster solution.
[August 23, 2007, 1:00]
Industry Standards For Managing The HPC Cluster Life Cycle
White Papers For organizations deploying high-performance computing (HPC) clusters, reducing total cost of ownership, maximizing cluster uptime, and expanding remote manageability are among the baseline IT requirements.
[August 6, 2004, 3:00]
Using Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008 Job Scheduler
White Papers Windows HPC Server 2008, the successor to Windows Compute Cluster Server (WCCS), includes a new Job Scheduler that provides greater scalability and supports advanced policies. The new Job Scheduler supports a new Service Oriented Architecture mode...
[March 29, 2008, 0:01]
TechNet Webcast: Windows HPC Server 2008: High Availability And Diagnostics For High-Performance Computing (Level 100)
White Papers The Windows Server 2008 operating system is the next generation of the Windows Server that is designed to help High-Performance Computing (HPC) administrators maximize control over their infrastructure, while providing enhanced availability and...
[June 30, 2008, 1:01]
TechNet Webcast: Windows HPC Server 2008: Management And Diagnostics In High-Performance Computing (Level 200)
White Papers This webcast provides an inside look at the new management, monitoring, and deployment features of Window HPC Server 2008 by way of demos and screencasts rather than just a Microsoft Office PowerPoint presentation.
[May 30, 2008, 1:01]
Maximizing HPC Cluster Remote Management
White Papers They are essential characteristics of well-designed, high-performance computing clusters (HPC). This article discusses the last factor, management, by carefully examining how LM sensor management, Wired for Management (WfM), Intelligent Platform...
[October 5, 2004, 3:00]
IBM EServer PSeries 690 HPC SPECweb99 Performance
White Papers A 16-way p690 HPC running AIX 5L V5.1 and Zeus 4.0 achieved an astonishing 21,000 simultaneous connections. The p690 HPC beats its nearest competitor (the HP server rp8400 running HP-UX 11i (64-bit) and Zeus 3.4r3 64-bit) by 40 percent.
[October 1, 2004, 3:03]
Intel Dual-Core HPC Cluster: A High-Performance Computing Testbed Of Next-Generation Intel Xeon Processors
White Papers Intel has delivered on "Moore's Law" using dual-core processing to build a 128-node High-Performance Computing (HPC) cluster that delivers theoretical peak performance of 3.2 teraflops and sustained performance of over 2.1 teraflops.
[June 2, 2006, 1:00]
Helping HPC Applications Unravel The Universe's Origins
White Papers The Centre needed a Linux-capable Fortran compiler that could optimize their applications to boost performance beyond the capabilities of their HPC hardware alone. Swinburne University's Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, in Melbourne...
[December 15, 2004, 2:00]
Understanding The Scalability Of NWChem In HPC Environments
White Papers NWChem, compute-intensive computational chemistry package, is one such application that can benefit from the performance and computational power provided by high-performance computing (HPC) clusters. This paper introduces NWChem and explains the...
[May 7, 2005, 3:00]
Overcoming Disaster Recovery Obstacles For HPC Sites
White Papers Providing a disaster recovery plan for home, small office, large office, or even large multi-national corporation is generally different than doing so for a large High Performance Computing (HPC) site, given that HPCs cannot use mirrored RAID as a...
[August 18, 2006, 1:00]
A Framework For Analyzing Linux System Overheads On HPC Applications
White Papers Linux currently plays an important role in high-end computing systems, but recent work has shown that Linux-related processing costs and variability in network processing times can limit the scalability of HPC applications.
[April 1, 2007, 1:00]
Sun Global Education & Research Grid, Portal, And HPC Solutions
White Papers Further on it describes HPC software and why it is needed to run these services. This white paper describes what is a Grid and what are its benefits. It then discusses how servers are used in the frid architecture.
[August 14, 2003, 16:19]
A New Open Resource Management Architecture In The Sun HPC ClusterTools Environment
White Papers We present a new architecture for the integration of the Sun HPC Cluster-Tools ƒnparallel computing environment with distributed resource management systems such as the Sun ƒnGrid Engine system. The architecture enables a tight integration to be...
[May 13, 2004, 1:03]
Data Storage For HPC: An InfiniBand Perspective
White Papers Technologies such as RDMA, DDR and QDR, and open driver software initiatives such as OpenFabrics will be previewed along with the impact on InfiniBand's future in HPC. This presentation explores several methods of attaching fast and large storage...
[November 4, 2006, 0:00]
IBM EServer PSeries 690 With The HPC Feature
White Papers This paper describes a feature of the IBM eServer pSeries 690 targeted for the High Performance Computing (HPC) customer whose application workload requires high memory bandwidth for better performance and throughput.
[August 14, 2003, 16:19]
