High Performance Computing

Designing Intel microprocessors is extremely compute intensive. Tapeout is a final step in silicon design and its computation demand is growing exponentially for each generation of silicon process technology. Intel IT adopted high-performance computing (HPC) to address this very large…

R Systems worked with Intel and Dell to upgrade a 288-node HPC cluster by deploying new customized Dell servers equipped with the Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series to help a customer increase aggregate application performance by 200 percent.

The Q4 2009 Intelligence in Finance newsletter provides insights on the latest news and resources from Intel for the financial services industry. Learn about the latest Intel technology roadmaps and recent white papers from IT@Intel.

The SciNet consortium at the University of Toronto has installed a 4,000-server IBM System x* iDataPlex* supercomputer, powered by more than 7,500 Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series compute cores, that gives Canadian researchers a supercomputer that’s over 10 times more powerful than any other system in Canada and saves enough energy every year to run more than 700 homes.

ScaleMP, a leading provider of virtualization solutions for high-end computing, announced qualification and support of over ten server platforms based on the latest Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series (previously codenamed “Nehalem”) from major server vendors. See the press coverage on…

What do you get when you combine 3600 Intel® Xeon® processor Series 5500 cores and 60 TeraBytes of RAM? For SciNet, who priovides high performance computing resources for research across Canada, you get the planet’s largest iDataPlex* implementation with 300 TeraFlops of computing power in a data center that is among the greenest in the world.

To launch the new bank zweiplus for private affluent customers in a joint venture with AIG Private Bank, Bank Sarasin took the lead in benchmarking the performance of HP Integrity* rx8640 servers powered by Intel® Itanium® processor 9100 series to…

Mark Reece, Trading System Architect for the London Stock Exchange, offers a unique perspective of the importance of driving down latency and increasing through-put to the Exchange. See the video from the Intel fasterTRADING event of April 2009.

IBM’s Keith Saxton, Global Director Financial Markets, steps through the products, services and technologies that IBM offer as a solutions partner to the financial services market. View this video presentation from the April 2009 Intel fasterTRADING event.

How is collaboration with Intel and the Intel® Xeon® processor helping Thomson Reuters deal with, what Dan Solak, Head of Information Management Solutions for Europe/Middle East/Africa, describes as, ‘a tsunami of data’ that feeds the trading lifecycle? Get the details…