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. View the video of Providing High-Peformance Computing for Canadian Researchers (4:08, WMV) to learn more.
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SciNet: Providing High-Performance Computing for Canadian Researchers
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009Intel Inside Nearly Eighty Percent of the World’s Fastest Supercomputers
Wednesday, June 24th, 2009More supercomputers than ever are using Intel® processors according to the latest TOP500 list. The report shows that 339 of the top 500 systems in the world, including two in the top 10, now have Intel inside. Of special significance is the fact that 33 of the top systems are using the Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series launched only three months ago to drive their research and analytical capabilities. Get the rest of the story at TOP500.org.
Intelligent Innovation
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009Utilizing the new Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series with its dynamic performance capabilities, energy-efficiency features, and greater memory bandwidth, high-performance computing solutions can increase application performance by up to three times without requiring further investment in software development or increased power and cooling support for your data center. This product brief has the details. (more…)
Mad Dogs and Oil Men
Saturday, October 18th, 2008Oil exploration takes tremendous computing power. BP uses 185 teraflops of Intel® processor-based high performance computing power to better and more quickly assess potential drilling sites.
The following articles are also part of this issue of the Intel Premier IT Magazine:
- Intel Premier IT Magazine Winter 2009 Edition: Defining the Future of IT
- Crossing the Chasm Between Humans and Machines
- Making the Most of IT
- The Value Influence
- Intel’s New Approach to Strategic Planning
- The Future Will be Simulated
- Mad Dogs and Oil Men
- Virtualization Test
- Out With the New, In With the Newest
- The Fast and The Virtual
- It’s a Business Decision: Managing PCs in Small Business
- It Can be Easy Being Green
- Mashups for the Masses
- Intelpedia Grows Up
Making the Most of IT
Wednesday, October 15th, 2008The Innovation Value Institute (IVI) is developing an industry-wide model to assess and improve the business value of IT. Martin Curley, Intel’s global director of IT research and innovation and co-director of IVI says the institute wants to provide the tools like the IT Capability Maturity Framework to help CIOs be more successful. (more…)
The following articles are also part of this issue of the Intel Premier IT Magazine:
- Intel Premier IT Magazine Winter 2009 Edition: Defining the Future of IT
- Crossing the Chasm Between Humans and Machines
- Making the Most of IT
- The Value Influence
- Intel’s New Approach to Strategic Planning
- The Future Will be Simulated
- Mad Dogs and Oil Men
- Virtualization Test
- Out With the New, In With the Newest
- The Fast and The Virtual
- It’s a Business Decision: Managing PCs in Small Business
- It Can be Easy Being Green
- Mashups for the Masses
- Intelpedia Grows Up
Hybrid Computing: Fitting the Solution to the Workflow
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008Balancing capability and capacity can be a real challenge when data centers are provisioned in a piecemeal fashion. SGI took a different approach, as this Intel Premier IT article documents, by tailoring a hybrid solution to fit a wide range of workflows. (more…)
The following articles are also part of this issue of the Intel Premier IT Magazine:
- Intel Premier IT Magazine – Summer 2008 Edition: What’s Your IT Utopia?
- Wargaming: How Intel Creates a Company-Wide Security Force
- The Consumerization of IT
- Increasing Call Center Productivity
- Best Practices for Deploying Macs for the Enterprise
- At Intel, IT = Information + Technology
- Bottoms Up or Tops Down? Intel Roadmap Delivers Increasing Capabilities for IT
- Containers Everywhere
- Investment, Innovation and Integration Support Intel Capital’s Open Source Strategy
- Virtualization, Service Orientation, and Grid Computing: The Next Big Things
- Top Enterprise Technologies
- Streaming: Performance Gain or Server Drain?
- Improving IT Efficiency, Maximizing Taxpayer Dollars
- Hybrid Computing: Fitting the Solution to the Workflow
- Intel® Multi-Core Performance Enhances Creativity at Sony Pictures Imageworks