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, 2009Cloud Computing: The ‘Next Big Thing’ in IT
Monday, July 6th, 2009Research firm IDC predicts that the worldwide cloud services market segment will be worth about US$43 billion by 2012. Respected Fortune 500 companies are already taking advantage of this compelling trend. Eye-popping cost savings are a driving force, but not the only issue IT execs need to consider. Read this white paper to better understand the benefits and drawbacks, and what you can do to assess your situation and determine a strategy for your organization. (more…)
Keeping Notebooks Past Their Prime: A Study of Failures and Costs
Monday, June 1st, 2009J. Gold Associates, an independent analyst firm, has published this new hard hitting report providing more data on why businesses should maintain a three year refresh cycle. This report concludes that if a business keeps a notebook in service past the recommended three year lifecycle they may incur hardware related costs nearly equal to the cost of purchasing a new notebook. This research report analyzes the failure rates and associated costs for enterprise-class notebook computers deployed in businesses. This report also compliments the recent report from Wipro (2.57MB, PDF) which looks at overall TCO and operational costs. (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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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…)
Replacing Micro-Management with Macro-Leadership
Monday, March 30th, 2009
By Niel Nickolaisen provided by the CIO Leadership Network.
Last week, I had a fascinating conversation with the vice president of software development for a large technology company. The focus of our discussion was good and bad leadership styles.
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Thomson Reuters: Powering the Law
Monday, February 16th, 2009Thomson Reuters has been providing research tools and information to legal professionals for over 130 years and their services are used by nearly 95 percent of major U.S. law firms to research legal issues. Other Thomson Reuters databases provide vital information for science, healthcare, business, and other fields. With customer usage of its online research services growing rapidly, Thomson Reuters faced the challenge of expanding its IT infrastructure to support an increased demand while also containing costs to maintain profitability. Read how they expect to achieve a 25:1 server consolidation ratio, reducing power requirements and freeing up space. (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…)
Can I Ever Co-Exist With Generation Next? (Part Two)
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008From The Practical CIO by Niel Nickolaisen provided by the CIO Leadership Network.
In my last column, I explained how I put together three focus groups of “Gen Next” employees. My goal was to better understand what they expected from their jobs, as well as what they expected from their leaders. The responses they gave were insightful and, at times, surprising. They also tended to fall into three general categories:
• What I need from my leaders.
• How I expect to interact.
• What I want from my employer. (more…)