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, 2009Mad Dogs and Oil Men
Saturday, October 18th, 2008Oil exploration takes tremendous computing power. BP uses 185 teraflops of Intel® processor-based high performance computing power to better and more quickly assess potential drilling sites.
The following articles are also part of this issue of the Intel Premier IT Magazine:
- Intel Premier IT Magazine Winter 2009 Edition: Defining the Future of IT
- Crossing the Chasm Between Humans and Machines
- Making the Most of IT
- The Value Influence
- Intel’s New Approach to Strategic Planning
- The Future Will be Simulated
- Mad Dogs and Oil Men
- Virtualization Test
- Out With the New, In With the Newest
- The Fast and The Virtual
- It’s a Business Decision: Managing PCs in Small Business
- It Can be Easy Being Green
- Mashups for the Masses
- Intelpedia Grows Up