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. Read about Canada’s Fastest Supercomputer.
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Canada’s Fastest Supercomputer
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009SciNet: Providing High-Performance Computing for Canadian Researchers
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009What 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. View the video of Providing High-Peformance Computing for Canadian Researchers (4:08, WMV) to learn more.
Georgian College of Canada Achieves 1,350% ROI Over Four Years Across Seven Campuses
Friday, February 27th, 2009In late 2008, Georgian College of Canada began refreshing systems with desktop PCs with Intel® Core™2 processor with vPro™ technology and notebooks with Intel® Centrino® with vPro™ technology. The college then studied the return on investment (ROI) realized by deploying the PCs across their nine sites. Based on the results of their investigation, Georgian College expects to save approximately $104,000 Canadian just in help desk and travel costs for technicians. In addition, the college projects a conservative ROI of 1,353% over four years. Find out more about this progressive institution’s experience. (more…)
EDS: Increasing Call Center Productivity
Friday, February 27th, 2009EDS and Intel have worked together to successfully prove that when deployed, Intel® vPro™ Technology can save an enterprise three times their investment costs over three years while extending remote management capabilities. One example of production deployment includes an EDS-managed call center located in Canada. As call centers frequently have a high employee turnover rate, company policy requires a terminated call center agent’s workstation to be “wiped clean,” deleting all files on the disk drive. With vPro Technology, the task can be performed remotely resulting in productivity that equates to answering 370 calls a year—an efficiency improvement. (more…)