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. Find out more in Breakthrough Performance for HPC (423KB, PDF).
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R Systems: Breakthrough Performance for HPC
Thursday, November 5th, 2009Data Center 360 Tour
Thursday, October 1st, 2009This new interactive data center experience provided by Intel and Dell gives you the opportunity to explore various server strategy, new techology, power and cooling, and mangement options. There’s a handy ROI calculator that allows you to select from hundreds of servers and use your specific information on server quantities, power costs and data center efficiency, virtualization goals and more to produce a printable summary. Take the Data Center 360 Tour.
7-Eleven: Six Billion Slurpees and Counting
Thursday, September 10th, 2009When 7-Eleven’s 800 field consultants and 2000 remote employees were due for a laptop/desktop refresh, the company decided to purchase laptops for all of them. View Six Billion Slurpees and Counting to get the details on how they improved employee and IT staff productivity and lowered both management and deskside incident costs.
Correctional Health Services Corporation: Technology Investments Drive Transformation of Puerto Rico’s Prison Health System
Monday, June 29th, 2009Correctional Health Services Corporation (CHSC) invested in Intel end-to-end technologies to deliver the performance and reliability its mission-critical applications demand. The combination of software, MCAs, and Dell PowerEdge* servers with Intel Intel® Xeon® processor 7300 series and 5400 series provides nurses with real-time access to patient data at the point of care and helps CHSC deliver great care while increasing productivity. Nurses spend 27 percent less time on medication administration and IT has cut the number of servers by 50 percent. Get the details in Technology Investments Drive Transformation of Puerto Rico’s Prison Health System (181KB, PDF).
UC Irvine: Reaching New Frontiers in Physics
Monday, March 30th, 2009Several hundred feet beneath the French-Swiss border lies the world’s largest, most powerful particle accelerator—the Large Hadron Collider. More than 2,200 researchers from around the globe work at the CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) laboratory on ATLAS, a large-scale particle physics experiment that studies the forces that have shaped the universe. To create the high-performance computing clusters that capture and analyze the massive amount of experimental data generated, researchers from the University of California, Irvine, and collaborating institutions selected Dell PowerEdge* servers equipped with Intel® Xeon® processors. Read their story. (more…)
Station Casinos: A Safe Bet
Tuesday, March 17th, 2009To help control IT costs and ensure a robust customer experience, the Station Casinos IT group virtualized its infrastructure by running VMware* virtualization software on Dell PowerEdge* servers equipped with the Intel® Xeon® processor 5100 and 5400 series. So far, the company has eliminated almost 100 physical servers, avoided $190,000 in hardware acquisition costs, and accelerated the deployment of new services from weeks to hours. Virtualization enables Station Casinos to continue to deliver fun and relaxation while keeping the company successful even in tough economic times. (more…)
NHS Mobile Working with RiO* Electronic Care Records – Trial Findings
Saturday, February 28th, 2009While the deployment of electronic care record systems offers great benefits for patients, clinicians and PCTs, they simultaneously create new challenges, especially for community healthcare. Recent studies conducted by Ignetica Limited and sponsored by Dell and Intel have demonstrated that the introduction of mobile working can play a significant role in addressing these challenges.
NHS Mobile Working with RiO* Electronic Care Records – Trial Findings
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TurboSquid: Has 3D’s Time Come?
Saturday, February 28th, 2009TurboSquid’s 1.5 million registered members have access to the largest library of 3D products for sale in the world with more than 250,000 3D items. To show what’s possible in 3D, the company “tortures” a Dell Precision mobile workstation with Intel® Core™ 2 Duo processors by rendering a project while performing multiple other applications simultaneously. Get the rest of the story by perusing Has 3D’s Time Come? (727KB, PDF)
R Systems: Delivering High Performance on a Large Scale
Sunday, October 5th, 2008R Systems, which offers high-end computing services to government agencies, academic researchers, and commercial enterprises, worked with Intel and Dell to design customized servers, including a 576-node cluster server, that use multi-core Intel® Xeon® processors and an Intel® Server Board. This case study details how this HPC solution delivered a 40% increase in application performance. (more…)
Sun Extends Xeon® Server Family For HPC, Web 2.0
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008Sun Microsystems has extended its family of Intel® Xeon® processor-based Sun Fire servers with two new offerings for High Performance Computing (HPC), Cloud/Web 2.0 and back office computing workloads, including a 1U server for HPC workloads and an expandable 2U enterprise-class system. The Sun Fire X2250 and Sun Fire X4250 servers, powered by one or two dual- or quad-core Intel Xeon processors 5200 or 5400 series, run a variety of operating systems, including Solaris* 10, Linux* and Windows*.
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