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, 2009Healthways: Nearing One Billion Claims a Month
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009Processing nearly one billion claims a month — about one-third of the nation’s health claims, Healthways needs robust infrastructure to analyze nearly 100 terabytes of data, and keep pace with double-digit corporate growth. Read this case study about how Intel® multi-core technologies help Healthways grow their business without having to keep scaling out physically. (more…)