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, 2009World-class Data Center Tour
Friday, September 11th, 2009Take a tour of an Intel greenfield data center with a unique two-story construction and hot/cold aisles design. This world-class data center contains a number of data center power delivery and air cooling innovations.
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Increasing Data Center Efficiency through Metering and Monitoring Power Usage
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009To increase data center energy efficiency at one of our older data centers in India, Intel IT’s Data Center Services group collaborated on a technology study with the IT compute organization and Intel Facilities Management to develop a comprehensive approach to metering power usage. Read Increasing Data Center Efficiency through Metering and Monitoring Power Usage to learn about the methods we developed to identify and measure efficiency improvements, and the instrumentation we used to continuously track power usage effectiveness.
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…)
High-powered Business Results with Lower Power Costs
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009This technical white paper from Intel and Microsoft describes how Windows Server* 2008 running on the Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series is the first platform to deliver automated power management that scales energy usage in real time to fit workload performance needs and system and data center power and thermal policies. (more…)
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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Increasing Energy Efficiency with x86 Servers
Thursday, May 21st, 2009According to this IT Executive Advisory from the Robert Francis Group, IT executives are going to get the best chance of optimizing power, cost, and performance by selecting computing solutions that are designed to synergistically enhance capabilities in these three areas. The report further explains how IBM Corporation has teamed with Intel Corporation to integrate the benefits of energy-efficient computing. (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…)
Arizona Public Service: Powerful Savings at the Power Company
Friday, April 24th, 2009Arizona Public Service (APS) is continually looking for new technologies that can contribute to the bottom line and to energy sustainability. The company’s IT group is no exception and is working to reduce power use and costs both in the data center and at the desktop. To reduce power usage, the IT team decided to acquire new desktops and laptops with energy-saving Intel® processor technology as part of the company’s hardware refresh program. In the data center, the APS IT team decided to save energy by consolidating its servers onto fewer, more powerful machines. Read about their ROI and the other ways APS IT measures success. (more…)
The Green Grid
Friday, April 17th, 2009In the video, Jon Haas of Intel’s EcoTechnology Program Office explains how The Green Grid, a global consortium dedicated to developing and promoting energy efficiency for data centers and information service delivery, is tackling the energy issues. Data center managers around the world are running into limits related to power, cooling, and space – and the rise in demand for the important work of data centers has created a noticeable impact on the world’s power grids. In response, the members of The Green Grid have taken up the challenge of developing metrics to measure data center efficiency and the tools to improve it. (more…)