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 computational scale and realized significant improvements in computing performance, reliability, and cost. Learn more about High-Performance Computing For Silicon Design (931KB, PDF).
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High-Performance Computing For Silicon Design
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009Intelligent and Expandable High-End Intel® Server Platform, Codenamed Nehalem-EX
Wednesday, November 11th, 2009Intelligent and Expandable High-End Intel® Server Platform
Codenamed Nehalem-EX
Stephen Pawlowski
Intel Senior Fellow, Intel Corporation
The next generation expandable segment server processor, codenamed Nehalem-EX, is critical to today’s enterprise computing. For server consolidation, virtualization, cloud computing, data demanding applications, and other technical computing environments, Nehalem-EX greatly improves scalable performance, memory bandwidth and capacity, flexibility, and provides advanced Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability (RAS) features. At this Technology Insight, Steve Pawlowski provides an in-depth analysis of these technical advancements.
ScaleMP Announces Wide Availability of Qualified Intel® Xeon® Processor 5500 Series Based Server Platforms
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009ScaleMP, 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 reuters.com.
SciNet: 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.
Intel 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…)
Tabor Communications: High Performance Computing and Bio Sciences
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009Addison Snell, vice president and general manager of Tabor Research, provides views of high performance computing in the bio sciences area at an Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series launch event for the pharmaceutical industry.
Tabor Communications: High performance computing and bio sciences
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The Power Efficiency of the Intel® Xeon® Processor 5500 Series
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009What power efficiency does the new Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series offer for the energy industry? These slides set the stage for a roundtable discussion on that topic plus the ROI of a high performance computing refresh.
Power Efficiency of the Intel Xeon 5500
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GigaSpaces: A Scalable, Cost-Effective Stack for Highly Concurrent Financial Services Applications
Thursday, March 26th, 2009Intel, Sun and GigaSpaces have partnered to offer an optimized hardware and middleware stack, targeted at the unique needs of banks, capital market firms, insurance companies and other financial institutions. The platform was tested with highly concurrent risk management, real-time analytics and online applications, typical with financial services companies. This case study describes how this very scalable solution provides both low latency and high throughput in both HPC and online application environments. (more…)
Purdue: The Silicon Beneath Steele
Sunday, December 14th, 2008By creating community clusters, Purdue University’s Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) changed the way high-performance computing was done on campus to enable faculty and research labs to access greater resources than any one group could acquire and maintain on its own. “Steele” is a new community cluster based upon the Intel® Xeon® processor 5400 series, which delivers the performance required by researchers to produce tomorrow’s breakthroughs in a wide range of fields. (more…)