These materials for a roundtable discussion examine the performance of the new Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series for reservoir simulation and other energy applications, and also look at platform readiness for future 32nm products.
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Posts Tagged ‘performance’
Scaling Performance Forward
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009Optimizing the Performance of IBM System x and BladeCenter Servers
Thursday, May 21st, 2009Intel® Xeon® processors 5500 series are next-generation quad-core processors targeted at the two-socket server space and will be the common building block across a number of IBM platforms according to this white paper from IBM. This brief details how memory configuration can affect the performance of these systems. (more…)
Extending Innovation in Virtual Product Development with the IBM Cluster Solution
Thursday, May 21st, 2009This brief from the Cabot Partners Group looks at the growing use of computer aided engineering by generalist engineers, designers, and smaller suppliers energized by the availability of flexible and cost-effective cluster computing solutions compatible with desktop computer aided design environment. (more…)
Productive High Performance Computing for Upstream Petroleum with the IBM Cluster Solution
Thursday, May 21st, 2009Driven by an increasing dependence on sophisticated multidimensional seismic imaging and very accurate multi-component, multi-scale, reservoir models to further increase the probability of finding and recovering oil, there is a continuing investment to develop new algorithms and enhance applications for parallel computing environments. This brief from the Cabot Partners Group proposes that these investments will be protected as newer and more powerful cluster systems become available and that the payoff will far outweigh the investment as energy costs continue to escalate. (more…)
Energy-Efficient Computing
Tuesday, May 19th, 2009This keynote presentation examines the performance and power advantages of the Nehalem architecture and looks at what it will take to get to exascale performance.
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SunGard: Performance with Intel® Xeon® Processor 5500 Series Servers
Tuesday, May 12th, 2009At the recent Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series launch event, Don Tyson, Chief Technology Officer with SunGard, describes his company’s experience with new servers based on this processor. Tyson documents the performance gains for the various SunGard mission critical banking solutions. (more…)
Kx Doubles Database Speed with Latest Intel® Xeon® Processor
Monday, April 27th, 2009Kx Systems has worked closely with Intel to run a series of performance tests on the new Intel® Xeon® Processor 5500 Series based upon the next-generation Intel® Microarchitecture, codenamed Nehalem, and has confirmed major improvements in speed. Read the details in Wall Street & Technology.
Intel Security Use Cases
Friday, April 10th, 2009Intel IT security specialists discuss new enterprise security use cases that we can implement using Intel® vPro™ technology. We focused on three high-priority, high-value categories — e-Discovery and investigations, data protection and loss prevention, and system health and updates — and successfully performed lab tests to validate each use case. (more…)
Solid-State Drives in the Enterprise: A Proof of Concept
Friday, April 3rd, 2009Intel IT conducted a proof of concept to determine the potential of solid-state drives (SSDs) to replace hard disk drives (HDDs) in the enterprise that included performance tests, measurement of power consumption, and total-cost-of-ownership (TCO) analysis. We found that using SSDs to replace data HDDs in disk arrays could increase I/O performance up to 8x for comparable TCO, and that using them as internal server OS disks reduced the time required for common support tasks such as installs and reboots by up to 73 percent. (more…)
Better Together: Rich Client PCs and Cloud Computing
Thursday, April 2nd, 2009With more and more services delivered from the cloud, new questions arise about the optimal enterprise client computing strategy. Which combination of client platforms and service delivery models best meets the needs of users and IT organizations? This new white paper looks at the Intel IT environment, which contains a mixture of conventional and cloud computing services, and concludes that the ability to perform local computing on the client offers the best user experience and the flexibility to run different types of applications. (more…)