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New Research Computing Cluster for Childhood Cancer Ready to Help Fast-Track Targeted Treatments
The childhood cancer research computing cluster created and donated by Dell for the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) is ready to support the world's first precision medicine clinical trial for pediatric cancer.
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Intel Rolls Out New Server CPUs
Intel Corp. has launched three new families of Xeon processors. A number of HPC server makers, including Dell, announced updated hardware based on the new silicon.
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OrangeFS Reference Architecture for Dell 710/MD Storage Stack
The OrangeFS Reference Architecture for the integration of Dell's R710 Servers and MD Storage Arrays (R710/MD Storage Stack) can be leveraged in a wide variety of high-perfomance, data-intensive computing environments.
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Dell HPC Scalable Storage Building Block-DPM
Described here are the architecture,performance and best practices for building solutions that are affordable, performance storage that is easily deployed and managed.
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Dell and Internet2 NET+ Services increase access to research computing and enable discovery with cloud services
Dell is working with Clemson University to provide more Internet2 institutions and organizations access to high performance research computing technology.
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Mellanox Interconnect Available on Dell Server
The new Dell PowerEdge blade server and Dell M1000e blade chassis have been designed to take full advantage of Mellanox's FDR 56Gb/s InfiniBand and 40GbE PCIe 3.0-compliant adapters, which can offer up to double the I/O throughput versus older generation technologies.
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The HPC Advisory Council Announces New GPU-Based Development and Application Benchmarking Center
A key step by the Council to provide world-leading resources for the HPC community to develop next generation HPC applications and environments.
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Servers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham provide 1,600-fold performance gains.
The computer forensics department at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) needed a server cluster with storage for billions of emails and server power to process that many messages. Prospective students who hear about the cluster servers decide to study there.
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NVIDIA and Dell Propel Trek to Racing Success
The universal challenges faced by Trek in creating a new generation racing bike apply to many companies today. Trek Bicycle Corporation applied the latest in NVIDIA technology to get the job done.
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Dell Spikes Xeon E5/R Servers with Nvidia GPUs
Today NVIDIA announced that, for the first time ever, the company's GPUs will be available in Dell PowerEdge rack and tower servers. Tailor-made for technical computing, the new servers combine 512-core Nvidia Tesla M2090 GPUs with the latest Intel Xeon E5/R CPUs based on the Sandy Bridge microarchitecture.
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NVIDIA GPUs Bring High Performance GPU Computing to New Dell PowerEdge Servers
New Dell Servers With NVIDIA Tesla GPUs to Accelerate Broad Range of Scientific and Industrial Workloads
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Clemson University aims at cloud with 32-fold faster server provisioning
Clemson University wanted to put its applications and hardware in the cloud to provide capacity-on-demand computing for its internal users and external customers who turn to Clemson for IT processing.
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Cloud Computing Helps Fight Pediatric Cancer
The industry has reached an inflection point where the advent of new high-performance computing technology and new genome sequencing tools means you can do something never before possible in clinical medicine.
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Dell's Enterprise Solutions Launch: Business Value Trumps Speeds and Feeds:
A "hybrid world" of business computing that is helping to drive the company's rapid, strategic transformation from its PC roots.
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Virginia Bioinformatics Institute finds cures for life threatening diseases with Dell and Intel technology
Companies like Dell and Intel are really our partners because of a unique interplay. We make certain that Dell and Intel are creating or at least thinking about creating the kinds of things that we're going to need in the future.
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Dell HPC NSS Tiered Storage Solution
This solution guide describes the Dell HPC Tiered Storage Solution (TSS), including its architecture, use case scenarios, performance, and best practices for such solutions.
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EHRs, Genomics Power Personalized Cancer Treatments
Dell cloud pulls together gene data to combat a deadly form of pediatric cancer.
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Adventures in mineral oil cooling
For the Student Cluster Competition at SC11 in Seattle, the Longhorns surprised everyone with a cluster that uses mineral oil immersion as its sole cooling mechanism.
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Cornell Receives IDC Innovation Award for MATLAB-Powered Research
The Cornell Center for Advanced Computing (CAC) received an HPC Innovation Excellence Award the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis.
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Dell Cooks Up New HPC Strategy
Dell's HPC strategy as documented by Dan Olds (The Register) at SC11.
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Dell and Other OEMs Embrace AMD's 'Interlagos' Chips
SEATTLE - Hewlett-Packard, Dell and other systems makers are quickly adopting new processors and other technologies as they look to meet demands in a high-performance computing market that is expanding beyond universities and research institutions into mainstream enterprises.
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Council for Scientific and Industrial Research in South Africa Increases Access to Research Computing Capabilities through Dell Solutions
Researchers leverage expertise and technology from Dell/Cambridge University HPC Solution Center to help solve some of the world's most challenging issues.
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Dell: Expanding Its Position as an HPC Market Leader
When IDC reviewed Dell's HPC status only a year ago ("Dell: An HPC Market Leader in the Cluster Era"), we noted that "with minimal fanfare, Dell has become one of the world's top HPC vendors - third overall and second in the large segment for departmental HPC systems." We added that "Dell has a substantial opportunity to benefit from the worldwide 'petaflop race' that is already underway." We didn't realize Dell would be able make this leap so soon.
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"Stampede's" Comprehensive Capabilities to Bolster U.S. Open Science Computational Resources
The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) announced that it will deploy and support a world-class supercomputer for the open science community, as part of the National Science Foundation's (NSF) "eXtreme Digital" (XD) program. The new system, called Stampede, will be built by TACC in partnership with Dell and Intel.
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University of Wisconsin-Madison IceCube Project Archives 60% higher computational productivity with Dell systems and Intel technology
After studying servers and processors from three vendors, the Madison task force selected Dell™ PowerEdge™ R710 and R610 servers with Intel® Xeon® processors.
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University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute Adds Dell | Terascala HPC Storage Solution to Itasca System
The Minnesota Supercomputing Institute (MSI) is happy to announce that it has added 550 TB of usable disk space for its flagship Itasca system with the addition of a Dell | Terascala HPC Storage Solution (HSS).
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Dell High-Performance Computing Storage: Flexible and Cost-Effective
HPC has quickly become the design and analysis tool for the new millennium. The question of how to store, process and manage the vast amounts of data these systems produce is more important than ever. Check out this white paper for examples that can help you develop storage solutions for your HPC solutions.
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Flexibility: The Dell Approach to HPC GPU Computing
This white paper discusses the evolution of HPC applications as they shift the computing work from CPUs to single and then multiple GPUs. It also looks at approaches to GPU system configuration design, focusing on the Dell approach.
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High Performance, Open Source, Dell Lustre™ Storage System Dell PowerVault™ MD3200 storage platform and QDR Mellanox Infiniband
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New Cornell Collaboration to Explore GPU Computing Using MATLAB July 19, 2011
The Cornell University Center for Advanced Computing (CAC) today announced that it is testing the performance of general-purpose GPUs with MATLAB applications in a new research collaboration with NVIDIA, Dell, and MathWorks.
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Dell | Terascala HPC Storage Solution (DT-HSS3)
The Dell | Terascala HPC Storage Solution (DT-HSS) is designed for researchers, universities, HPC users and enterprises who are looking to deploy a fully supported, easy to use, scale-out and cost-effective parallel file system storage solution.
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The Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Texas in Austin Transforming Research with High Performance Computing
A common thread for HPC researchers is their need to solve bigger problems that can't fit on smaller computers and/or the need to solve these problems very rapidly. TACC's mission is to enable discoveries through the application of advanced computing technologies that advance science and society and then analyze the data produced by these systems to produce new discoveries.
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HPC Advisory Council Announces the 2010-2011 Awards Recognizing Members for Their Tremendous Support of the Council's HPC Outreach, Research, and Educational Activities
The HPC Advisory Council announced that it will honor seven of its members including Dell for their contribution and support during the June 2010 to June 2011 time frame.
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Managing Data Center Costs with Dell PowerEdge Energy Smart Containment Rack Enclosures
Selecting the right cooling and containment solution for a data center can be a daunting exercise in terms of balancing efficiency, utilization, and costs. This white paper provides research on the potential savings by implementing a PowerEdge Energy Smart Containment Rack Enclosure.
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High-Performance Computing Power and Cooling
Power and cooling are central issues in HPC with its stringent computing and high rack density requirements. Dell's power and cooling solutions are energy-efficient, save capital and operating costs and most importantly, maximize performance per watt.
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NCSA Deploys New High-Performance Cluster Dedicated to Industrial Use
National Center for Supercomputing Applications is deploying a new 22-teraflop high-performance computing cluster, dubbed iForge, dedicated exclusively to the center's private sector partners. iForge comprises a mix of 121 Dell servers.
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NASA Center for Climate Simulation Doubles Computational Power for Users
The NASA Center for Climate Simulation made available to users the newest unit of its "Discover" supercomputer. The 14,400-processor Dell PowerEdge C6100 server doubles Discover's computational power to more than 320 trillion floating-point operations per second (teraflops) peak.
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Dell HPC NFS Storage Solution, High Availability Configurations: A Dell Technical White Paper
This solution guide enhances Dell HPC storage solutions with an NFS offering that includes a High Availability feature. The Dell NFS Storage Solution is available with deployment services and full hardware and software support from Dell. This document provides complete information on architecting, deploying and tuning such a solution. The guidelines include hardware and software information along with detailed configuration steps and best practices make it easy to deploy and manage.
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Ivy League HPC research university realizes four-fold faster increase in capacity and 33% improvement in processing time
University of Pennsylvania School of Arts & Sciences (SAS) needed to increase its storage capacity and network throughput to support research computations, eliminate bottlenecks and meet publishing deadlines for research.
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A Shared-infrastructure Solution for Maximized HPC
The Dell PowerEdge C6145 server is designed specifically for the needs of today's cutting-edge HPC users running symmetric multiprocessing-based (SMB) applications.
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University of Florida speeds up memory intensive gene research with Dell HPC solution
The Interdisciplinary Center for Biotechnology Research (ICBR) needed to speed up its HPC processing power and increase memory to keep up with the pace of gene sequencing.
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Visualization for High-Performance Computing
Learn about where HPC visualization is useful as well as the details for architecting HPC visualization walls and clusters.
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Dell HPC NFS Storage Solutions (NSS)
A secondary storage repository to store users' home directories, application storage and longer term application data.
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David H. Murdock Research Institute supports worldwide researchers with HPC solution powered by Dell systems
David H. Murdock Research Institute needed to process large volumes of life sciences data rapidly to meet research deadlines and enable scientists to test, explore and advance scientific knowledge across a variety of disciplines related to human health and wellness.
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Platform Computing Launches Migration Program for Grid Engine Customers
Industry's Leading Workload Management Products Provide Complete, Fully Supported Alternative.
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University completes vital environmental research up to 40 percent faster with Dell HPC solution
Pablo de Olavide University needed an in-house high performance computing cluster to complete environmental research faster and support 400 simulations per week. With an HPC cluster based on Dell™ PowerEdge™ blade servers, the university has a green, flexible and powerful solution that will adapt to changing research needs.
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UK supercomputer probes dark matter and dark energy
What happened just after the Big Bang? How do stars evolve? Scientists are being helped in their quest to answer these questions by the University of Portsmouth's Sciama supercomputer powered by Dell.
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Bright Cluster Manager Added to Dell High Performance Computing Portfolio
Bright Computing, a leader in cluster management software, today announced that Bright Cluster Manager™ is now available through Dell, as an option for High Performance Computing Clusters (HPCC).
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Portsmouth uses Dell supercomputer to scan the cosmos
Researchers at the University's Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation (ICG) will use the supercomputer to simulate vast regions of the universe, investigate the properties of hundreds of millions of galaxies and solve complex cosmological problems.
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TACC provides researchers with data analysis capabilities that advance discoveries, thanks to partnership with Dell
The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) needed to enable scientists to quickly analyze large datasets to help them solve real-world problems such as forecasting hurricane landfalls and predicting the spread of viruses. Read how Dell's partnership with TACC played an important role.
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Dell Technology Helps CERN Expand High-Performance Computing Access to New Research Studies
To help scientists and researchers explore and understand new discoveries, Dell announced today the high-performance computing (HPC) program for CERN's ATLAS experiment is expanding to all Large Hadron Collider (LHC) research experiments.
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Optimizing DELL™ PowerVault™ MD1200 Storage Arrays for High Performance Computing (HPC) Deployments
This paper shows the analysis used to choose the correct RAID mode for using the MD-1200 in HPC and also the parameters to use when combining multiple LUNS to present a single name space.
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Dell/Cambridge HPC Solution Centre
The Dell/Cambridge HPC Solution Centre provides academic and private sector research organizations with practical resources and guidance.
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Enabling Research with MATLAB on the TeraGrid
Read about Cornell University's MATLAB on the TeraGrid experimental computing resource and how it helps researchers achieve fast results that are delivered to their desktop.
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Accelerating high-performance computing with hybrid platforms
Learn more about advancement in general purpose computing with GPUs can accelerate your HPC performance.
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Duke University anticipates $100,000 or more per year in energy savings
Duke University's Duke Shared Cluster Resource (DSCR) has maxed out the power and cooling resources of its data center. Learn how Dell helped save in energy costs while increasing power.
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University of California Irvine gets 150% more research done with Dell and Intel HPC cluster
University of California Irvine (UC Irvine) School of Physical Sciences needed its own high-performance computing (HPC) cluster to provide its 30+ research professors and their teams control over their own destiny. UC Irvine worked with Dell and Intel to help design and build an in-house HPC solution.
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Dell HPC NFS Storage Solutions!
A secondary storage repository to store users' home directories, application storage and longer term application data.
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Penn State accelerates research time to market tenfold with high-performance computing solution
Penn State needed a reliable, x86-based server platform for its shared high-performance computing (HPC) clusters that would deliver high uptime.
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The UCSF Institute for Human Genetics analyzes 7 petabytes of data with help from Dell and Intel
The IHG implemented 16 Dell™ PowerEdge™ blade servers with Intel® processors, 2 Dell EqualLogic™ storage arrays and Dell PowerConnect™ Ethernet switches. The resulting system handles the project's vast amount of data with aplomb and minimizes the risk of downtime, for a cost avoidance of almost $250,000 per incident.
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New Supercomputer Puts University of Kentucky in Top 10
A new high-performance supercomputer that will help power the University of Kentucky's research mission has already put the school in the top 10 public universities for computing power.
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New Supercomputer Installed at UK!
The University of Kentucky will see the time it takes to accomplish projects shaved to one-third of the time required by the technology it's replacing.
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Dell High Performance Computing (HPC) Solutions Enable Research from Leading Higher Education, Government and Industry Labs
Scientists and engineers are looking for innovative ways to accelerate applications and shorten computational cycles. Dell is helping them.
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Optimal BIOS Settings for High Performance Computing with PowerEdge 11G Servers
Dell's 11th generation dual-socket PowerEdge servers feature Intel Xeon 5500 series processors based on the latest Intel micro-architecture. In this paper, BIOS features and DBPM profiles are tested to provide the optimal settings for high performance computing (HPC) environments.
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Universities across the country deploy new Dell High Performance Computing Solutions
Higher education organizations across the country are deploying high-density Dell C6100 servers to power critical HPC research.
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UT lassos another Supercomputer!
University of Texas officials will unveil a new $9 million supercomputer at the J.J. Pickle Research Campus. The newest "Lonestar" system is expected to be operational by February.
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Scientific Computing: HPC Source Storage Supplement
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Stony Brook University team wins HPC competition with Dell servers, AMD processors and Mellanox InfiniBand
Competition is at the very heart of high-performance computing (HPC), and the team from Stony Brook University in Stony Brook, New York, came away with the honors.
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Personalized medicine, HPC & visualization
A behind the scenes peek of some of the innovative research being conducted at the University of Louisville.
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Empowering research at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications
To meet the needs of researchers working at bleeding edge of scientific investigations, NCSA needs computing clusters that are at the bleeding edge of HPC technology. These systems need to scale dramatically to meet the needs of researchers who need extreme amounts of computational and visualization resources.
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Dell and The University of Cambridge Deliver HPC Power to Researchers
Dell and The University of Cambridge announced the opening of the Dell | Cambridge High Performance Computing (HPC) Solution Centre. This significant new collaboration aims to form EMEA's leading HPC centre of excellence for all areas of the HPC community.
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NASA Center for Climate Simulation Expands Research Capabilities with Dell High-Performance Computing Technology
Dell selected to provide solution valued at up to $5.1M for the NASA Center for Climate Simulation, located at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The solution will include Dell's new PowerEdge C6100 servers customized for high-performance computing (HPC) environments.
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HPC Solutions Improve Computing Environments For Reservoir Simulation
Maximize your cluster's interconnect technologies for best HPC system efficiency.
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Managing Storage is a Big Challenge
Joseph Kremer, President, Public for Dell Asia Pacific Japan region, discuses the growth of the HPC market and Dell's key focus areas and challenges in the Indian market.
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Industry Insights: What you should know about Power and
Performance Efficiency!
This Q/A session features several industry experts' views into an area of HPC that is weighing on many people's minds as datacenter environments face increasing pressure to expand capabilities while controlling costs.
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New! Dell™ | Terascala HPC Storage Solution
New! Dell™ | Terascala HPC Storage Solution, a storage solution for Linux clusters designed to enable efficiencies in high-performance computing environments by scaling to support massive amounts of data.
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Dell™ | Terascala HPC Storage Solution
The Dell Terascala HPC Storage Solution (DT-HSS) is a unique new storage solution providing high throughput Lustre-based storage as an appliance. It delivers a great combination of performance, reliability and cost-effectiveness.
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Universidad Politécnica de Catalunya (UPC) - Barcelona TECH
UPC needed to boost computing power at two departments to help students and researchers continue their work. Working with Dell, UPC built two high performance computing (HPC) environments based on Dell servers.
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University of Louisville Case Study
The University of Louisville's J. B. Speed School of Engineering needed a visualization wall to display gene, protein, and metabolite sequences, and a high-performance computing (HPC) cluster to investigate energy usage in building interiors. After Dell's installation of a visualization wall and HPC cluster, the school was able to boost its compute power tenfold and do visualization on the fly.
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University of Calgary Case Study
The University of Calgary needed to optimize its computing power to research the phenomena involved in the transition between disordered and ordered states, such as the freezing of water into ice. By implementing a Dell and Intel high-performance computing cluster system, it gained 1.5 times the processing capacity than it would have from competitive solutions–and avoided a $50,000 power upgrade in the process.
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J. Craig Venter Institute Case Study
J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) is a world leader in genomic research. Studying genetic sequencing requires some serious number-crunching capabilities, along with a whole lot of storage. Dell PowerEdge™ blade servers helped reduce cost-per-gig while improving performance.
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Green Efficiency
To build more wind farms overseas, RES (Renewable Energy Systems) needed high performance computing. It wanted a power-efficient solution that was compact and easy to manage.
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Using Dell PowerVault MD1200 Storage Arrays as NFS Backend Storage in HPC Environments
This paper evaluates the performance of the Dell PowerVault MD1200 storage arrays when they are used as backend NFS storage over 10 Gigabit Ethernet in an HPC environment and discusses workloads that might benefit from such a solution.
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MATLAB on the TeraGrid
Cornell Center for Advanced Computing and its partners demonstrate seamless access to a software utility with the National Science Foundation-funded "MATLAB on the TeraGrid" project.
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New Medical Archiving and High Performance Computing Solutions Designed to Boost Healthcare, Rese
arch Efficiencies
Dell unveiled solutions to enable healthcare, higher-education and government organizations to better use technology to manage data, conduct research and fulfill their missions in a more efficient and secure manner.
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Breaking Down Barriers to Knowledge
Florida State University needed to replace its older shared-research computing platform that had become difficult to expand and not user-friendly and provide HPC research facilities for a wide range of researchers.
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Dell HPC Solutions for Healthcare and Life Sciences
Dell is powering breakthrough research computing for Life Sciences organizations that supports today's evolutionary, life-changing discoveries.
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Dell High-Performance Computing Storage: Flexible and Cost-Effective
HPC has quickly become the design and analysis tool for the new millennium. The question of how to store, process and manage the vast amounts of data these systems produce is more important than ever. Check out this white paper for examples that can help you develop storage solutions for your HPC solutions.
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Dell HPC Scalable Storage Building Block-DPM
Described here are the architecture,performance and best practices for building solutions that are affordable, performance storage that is easily deployed and managed.
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Dell HTSS + DX Object Storage
This solution supplement describes the Dell HPC Tiered Storage Solution (HTSS) with DX Object Storage Platform (DX) integration.
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Dell HPC NFS Storage Solution High Availability Configurations with Large Capacities
High availability NSS configurations for capacities greater than 100TB. The NSS-HA solutions described here are designed for high availability using a pair of NFS servers in active-passive configuration to provide storage service to the HPC compute cluster.
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Dell HPC NSS Tiered Storage Solution
This solution guide describes the Dell HPC Tiered Storage Solution (TSS), including its architecture, use case scenarios, performance, and best practices for such solutions.
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Dell | Terascala HPC Storage Solution (DT-HSS3)
The Dell | Terascala HPC Storage Solution (DT-HSS) is designed for researchers, universities, HPC users and enterprises who are looking to deploy a fully supported, easy to use, scale-out and cost-effective parallel file system storage solution.
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OrangeFS Reference Architecture for Dell 710/MD Storage Stack
The OrangeFS Reference Architecture for the integration of Dell's R710 Servers and MD Storage Arrays (R710/MD Storage Stack) can be leveraged in a wide variety of high-perfomance, data-intensive computing environments.
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High Performance, Open Source, Dell Lustre™ Storage System Dell PowerVault™ MD3200 storage platform and QDR Mellanox Infiniband
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Dell HPC NFS Storage Solution, High Availability Configurations: A Dell Technical White Paper
This solution guide enhances Dell HPC storage solutions with an NFS offering that includes a High Availability feature. The Dell NFS Storage Solution is available with deployment services and full hardware and software support from Dell. This document provides complete information on architecting, deploying and tuning such a solution. The guidelines include hardware and software information along with detailed configuration steps and best practices make it easy to deploy and manage.
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Dell | Terascala HPC Storage Solution
A storage solution for Linux clusters designed to enable efficiencies in high-performance cPetaFLOPS computing environments by scaling to support massive amounts of data.
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Dell HPC NFS Storage Solutions (NSS)
A secondary storage repository to store users' home directories, application storage and longer term application data.
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Dell HPC NFS Storage Solutions (NSS)
Additional details about the Dell HPC Storage solutions using NFS can be found here.
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Dell PowerVault MD1200 Performance as a Network File System (NFS) Backend Storage Solution
While numerous parallel file systems gradually gain popularity on cluster computing platforms, network file system (NFS) is still the most popular shared file system used in high-performance clusters. This white paper illustrates how the PowerVault™ MD1200 can be architected and tuned for performance using a 10GigE interface for HPC systems that use NFS.
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Flexibility: The Dell Approach to HPC GPU Computing
This white paper discusses the evolution of HPC applications as they shift the computing work from CPUs to single and then multiple GPUs. It also looks at approaches to GPU system configuration design, focusing on the Dell approach.
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Accelerating high-performance computing with hybrid platforms
Learn more about advancement in general purpose computing with GPUs can accelerate your HPC performance.
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Go ahead. Break the speed limit
Finish fast with the 16.4 teraFLOPS in the PowerEdge C410x PCIe expansion
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PowerEdge C6220
Get >80% more performance with up to four 2-socket Intel Xeon E5-2600 processor-based servers in a smart 2U shared infrastructure chassis that saves more than 100 watts.
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A Shared-infrastructure Solution for Maximized HPC
The Dell PowerEdge C6145 server is designed specifically for the needs of today's cutting-edge HPC users running symmetric multiprocessing-based (SMB) applications.
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PowerEdge C6100
Purpose built for HPC! This new ultra-dense 2U shared infrastructure PowerEdge server supports up to 4 independent server nodes, providing capacity, performance and flexibility in a very dense eco-friendly package.
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High-Performance Computing Power and Cooling
Power and cooling are central issues in HPC with its stringent computing and high rack density requirements. Dell's power and cooling solutions are energy-efficient, save capital and operating costs and most importantly, maximize performance per watt.
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Managing Data Center Costs with Dell PowerEdge Energy Smart Containment Rack Enclosures
Selecting the right cooling and containment solution for a data center can be a daunting exercise in terms of balancing efficiency, utilization, and costs. This white paper provides research on the potential savings by implementing a PowerEdge Energy Smart Containment Rack Enclosure.
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Visualization for High-Performance Computing
Learn about where HPC visualization is useful as well as the details for architecting HPC visualization walls and clusters.
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Remote Visualisation using Open Source Software & Commodity Hardware
It is commonplace today that HPC users produce large scale multi-gigabyte data sets on a daily basis and that these data sets may require interactive post processing with some form of real time 3D or 2D visualisation in order to help gain insight from the data. The remote visualisation procedures described in this white paper removes the need to transfer data out of the HPC data centre.
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Insights from 26th Annual HPCC Conference
This blog includes some of the observations on the 26th annual HPCC Conference which had the theme "Supercomputing: A Global Perspective," that was held at Newport, RI.
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HPC I/O performance using PCI-E Gen3 slots on the 12th Generation (12G) PowerEdge Servers
Overview The new generations Intel Sandy Bridge Servers have PCIe Generation 3 bus slots available that offer many benefits in terms of bandwidth and latency which is useful for inter-node communication...
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12G HPC Solution with ROCKS+ from StackIQ
ROCKs+ 6.0.1 is based on the open source project ROCKS and is supported by StackIQ. The solution stack is tested, verified and validated on the latest Dell hardware based on Intel Sandy Bridge and AMD Interlagos. The...
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HPC performance on the 12th Generation (12G) PowerEdge Servers
What can you expect from the latest servers from Dell? What kind of performance and energy efficiency do all those speeds and feeds translate to? We spent the last several weeks in the HPC lab at Dell putting the 12G servers...
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Dissecting Problems of Today's Linux File Systems with fsck Performance Testing
Over the past several months I've been a part of an interesting article series published at Enterprise Storage Forum that discusses, and tests some of the limitations with the Linux File System. The idea was conceived over a dinner discussion I...
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HTSS + DX Object Storage
In my previous blog, I wrote about the availability and highlights of the Dell HPC NSS Tiered Storage Solution (HTSS) . In the blog, I discussed using a tape based Long-Term Storage (LTS) device such as the PowerVault ML6000 Tape Library in a Hierarchical...
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GPUDirect Improves Communication Bandwidth Between GPUs on the C410X
NVIDIA has supported GPUDirect v2.0 technology since CUDA 4.0. GPUDirect enables peer-to-peer communication among GPUs. Peer-to-peer communication directives in CUDA allow GPUs to exchange messages directly with...
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Dell HPC NSS Tiered Storage Solution
Clusters have become one of the most popular architectures for High Performance Computing (HPC) today. Along with the increasing popularity in HPC architectures, the HPC storage market has witnessed an explosion in data growth, presenting an increasing...
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Another Possible Tool for Handling the Data Deluge in HPC on a Budget. Part 6
In the last installment of this blog, we discussed the Hierarchical Storage Management system or HSM, and the differences between Backup and Archive by way of use-examples. Here we will go further into the differences, specifically by way of value-adds...
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Congratulations to the Scientific Computing HPC Innovator Award Winners!
Congratulations to Dr. Kelly Gaither from the Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Texas in Austin and the other recipients of Scientific Computing's HPC Innovation All Star's award. They are a very prestigious group!
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Formula One Supercomputing
Traditionally, High Performance Computing (HPC) has been found in quiet academic institutions where engineers use supercomputers to research and help find new discoveries. But over the past few years, the hot and noisy world of Formula One has also recognized the benefits of HPC.
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Dell Teams with NMTRC in the Fight to Defeat Cancer in Children
It's hard to argue there is a better cause to get behind than to defeat cancer in children! Dell recently unveiled a major initiative to support pediatric cancer research with Neuroblastoma and Medulloblastoma Translational Research Consortium.
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Most Powerful African Supercomputer to Research Climate Change, HIV and Alternative Fuels
There was some exciting news announced today about how the most powerful supercomputer in Africa will be used in research related to drought and climate change, HIV, as well as alternative fuels.
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Dell Delivers More Options for Deskside High Performance Computing
At Dell, we aim to help our workstation customers design and deliver high-quality projects at the speed of thought. That's why I'm happy to announce availability of new NVIDIA Maximus GPU technology in our Dell Precision T5500 and T7500 tower workstations.
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University of Sussex HPC - Shedding Light on Dark Matter
We may have flown to the moon, but we're still in the dark about dark matter. Trail-blazing studies are being conducted that aim to turn the standard model of physics on its head. Which super-powered technology will it help unlock the secrets of the universe?
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HPC Scalability and Performance in the DT-HSS3 solution
When scalability and performance of storage are part of your system needs, the Dell | Terascala High-performance Storage Solution (DT-HSS) is the key to fast performance and large scale storage requirements. This blog discusses the third generation of the DT-HSS.
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Fast and furious - developing an enterprise class environment for Team Lotus
When the newly formed Team Lotus asked us to help them build a trackside environment, and an HPC solution for their headquarters, it was a great chance for us to start from the ground up and create something really tailored to the needs of modern racing.
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University of Sussex HPC - Shedding Light on Dark Matter
We may have flown to the moon, but we're still in the dark about dark matter. Trail-blazing studies are being conducted that aim to turn the standard model of physics on its head. Which super-powered technology will it help unlock the secrets of the universe?
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Dell NFS Storage Solution with High Availability - an overview
The Dell NFS Storage Solution (NSS) now comes in two flavors - with and without High Availability. This blog discusses the High Availability Solution introduced in April 2011.
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SC: HPC GPU Computing & Storage Presentation
Dell's Dr. Jeff Layton delivers a presentation to a technical audience at the ISC (International Supercomputing) Conference 2011 in Hamburg, Germany.
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HPC Power & Cooling: Getting IT Contained
Dell Product Manager Joyce Ruff reviews Room-, Row-, and Rack-level containment categories and the differences in each option.
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BLOG & VIDEO: Unlocking the mysteries of the brain
Out of The Netherlands, this blog includes an embedded video that discusses researcher at the Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging is using HPC to research the human brain.
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HPC GPU Flexibility: The Evolution of GPU Applications and Systems Part 5 - Benchmarks
A real-world comparative look at different approaches to designing a GPU system; by Dell's Dr. Jeff Layton.
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Dell Shoots for the Stars
An overview of how the University of Portsmouth's scientists will be able to analyze the very large volumes of data needed for their research much faster than with existing systems, using its new HPC system called SCIAMA.
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SlideCast: TACC Lonestar Cluster Upgrade to 300 Teraflops
With TACC's recent upgrade of its Longhorn system to 300 TeraFLOPS, a historical overview of the various computing systems in production is provided, including Discovery, Stallion, Colt, Longhorn and Lonestar.
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HPC Power and Cooling: BTUs/hr - Part 5
What role do BTUs play in the sizing of a cooling solution in HPC? Dell's John Fragalla overviews the formula that can help in the design of a data center.
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Another Possible Tool for Handling the Data Deluge in HPC on a Budget. Part 3
HSM is NOT a Backup System and should not be confused with one. The next blog installment on Hierarchical Storage Management by Dell's Dr. Mark Fernandez.
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Calling All Mathematicians: Re-Inventing Deterministic Solutions
Intriguing blog post by Dell's Dr. Mark Fernandez that poses the question: Can you improve the solution to a problem that has already been solved?
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HPC GPU Flexibility: The Evolution of GPU Applications and Systems Part 3 – Dell's Approach
In this third in a series of blog posts, Dell's Dr. Jeff Layton talks about what Dell is doing to make GPU Computing more flexible and the building blocks Dell has created for building GPU systems.
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Another Possible Tool for Handling the Data Deluge in HPC on a Budget
In this segment, we will cover details of an Hierarchical Storage Management, its roles and responsibilities.
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HPC Power and Cooling: CFMs
CFMs, cubic feet per minute, for a data center is the amount of air being delivered to the cold aisles.
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Modeling North Carolina Meteorology and Storm Surge at The Renaissance Computing Institute - RENCI
The RENCI Disaster group runs a set of environmental models including WRF and ADCIRC. It has run these models over several years on several generations of Dell hardware.
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Visualizing Science at Scale with Longhorn - Kelly Gaither, Texas Advanced Computing Center
In partnership with Dell, TACC has deployed Longhorn, the largest remote, interactive visualization and data analysis system in the world providing a comprehensive suite of large-scale visualization and data analysis services to the national open science community.
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Video: HPC Visualization, a conversation with TACC's Kelly Gaither
A one-on-one interview with Kelly Gaither from the University of Texas and Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) discussing the impact of high performance computing (HPC) visualization.
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Why the work matters: How Computer Simulations were used to predict the reach of the tsunami
With only six nodes, the NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) cluster was able to accurately predict the tsunami's wave height and direction.
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HPC GPU Flexibility: Multiple GPUs + MPI, CUDA, OpenCL & Compilers
Part 2 of the HPC GPU Flexibility blog series that addresses important trends and insights regarding GPUs in HPC, including multiple GPUs + MPI.
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Video: Interviews of Leading of HPC Visualization Sites
This video explores how top institutions across the U.S. are using high performance computing (HPC) Visualization to further scientific research through simulations translated into a common language of visual output.
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HPC GPU Flexibility: The Evolution of GPU Applications and Systems
One can even safely argue that the "Era of GPU Computing in HPC" is here and we are just starting to reap the benefits of it.
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Video: Panel Discussion: Futures of HPC storage solutions
Recorded at the HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Workshop 2011 in Lugano. Panelist discuss The Futures of HPC Storage Solutions.
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HPC Community for Student
The future of the high performance computing (HPC) industry lies in our students. With that thought in mind, we've created this section to post information that is relevant to students such as internships and other opportunities.
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Optimizing the Dell MD1200 storage arrays for HPC deployment
In this study, we investigate the effects of different configuration settings on the performance of Dell™ PowerVault™ storage arrays, and you can learn the results as best practices for setting up similar storage architectures in HPC environments.
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How to use power consumption during Linpack to Size Power Distribution Units (PDUs)
Amps is a critical measurement needed for a HPC system because it helps size the appropriate rack Power Distributions Units (PDUs) that is compatible with a customer's data center.
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HPC Power and Cooling: Power Consumption - Part 2
Power and cooling is a critical aspect when architecting a HPC system. One method in measuring component power consumption of a system is running LINPACK.
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Dell | Terascala HPC Storage Solution - Refresh!
This third article in the DT-HSS storage series discusses the refreshed product line and updated the backend storage, the IB HCA's and Lustre.
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TACC's Longhorn Visualization Cluster Enables Scientific Insight with Dell Hardware
A quick interview with Kelly Gaither, Director of Data & Information Analysis, Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC). She discusses the Longhorn, the largest hardware-accelerated, interactive visualization cluster in the world.
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Memory Bandwidth and Performance Part 2
In our last installment, we introduced the concept that performance was not all about clock rate and core count, and how in particular access speed to main memory often dominated performance.
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Accelerating the core to drive discovery
Dell's Donnie Bell overviews some of the recent efforts and investments made by the HPC at Dell team to advance its capabilities & expertise within the industry.
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SC10 UPDATE: Dell Powers Student Cluster Competition at SC10
For the student challenge at SC10, Dell is sponsoring a power-efficient HPC system to the University of Texas at Austin.
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Chinese Blog: Explore Origins of the Universe with Dell High-Performance Computing Platform
Dell National Account Manager for Dell China Jason Gou overviews efforts to explore our universe through the CERN ATLAS particle physics experiment and some of the collaborative efforts that are taking place with the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC).
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Personalized medicine, HPC & visualization
A behind the scenes peek of some of the innovative research being conducted at the University of Louisville.
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ChinaGrid2010 Event Summary, held in Guangzhou, China July 16, 2010
Summary blog post of the July ChinaGrid2010 event from Dell's Jason Guo, HPC Manager for Dell China.
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Cluster Performance: It's not just about clock rate anymore
TACC's Dan Stanzione & Tommy Minyard uncover real life application performance gains achieved through Intel's boost in memory bandwidth with its Nehalem arch.
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Dell Partners with the University of Cambridge to Deliver Power of HPC to Researchers
This significant new collaboration aims to form EMEA's leading HPC centre of excellence for all areas of the HPC community. The Centre will combine large-scale, commodity-based HPC infrastructure with experienced and specialized research know-how, to overcome the traditional barriers of entry to HPC.
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Enabling Discovery Events Translate into Community Forums
Dell's HPC solutions team has been touring cities across the U.S. inviting local researchers from each tour leg to partake. The result has been rare and valuable discussions about the research being accomplished at a variety of institutions.
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Dell | Terascala HPC Storage Solution Part I
In the world of HPC (High-Performance Computing), storage I/O is the bottleneck for many applications. Dell has partnered with Terascala in an attempt to alleviate this bottleneck.
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Architecting HPC Systems for Fault Tolerance and Reliability: Part 8 - Compute Nodes
The real work of an HPC cluster happens on the compute nodes. Most of the other subsystems in a cluster are there to support the computational needs of the compute nodes.
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Real-World Examples of HPC Working To Improve Human Health
Life scientists are increasingly using advanced computing to improve human health. Over the past three years, the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) has broadened its computational biology programming adding software, support, and expertise to increase the impact of HPC systems on cutting-edge research projects in this field.
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Keeping Your Cluster Consistent
Part of administering a cluster is making sure everything is at the same version -- and that can be difficult without the right tools. Learn about the tools that Scott Collier, an HPCC engineering expert, uses at Dell.
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Visualization in HPC - Seeing is Understanding
Dr. Paul Navratil from the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) overviews some of the exciting scientific imagery performed on the world's highest resolution title display called Stallion. The blog features an overview of some of the projects from Stallion, and Dell's Dr. Jeff Layton poses some simple questions about how other research and development center are, or could be using visualization.
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Overcoming the Fear, Costs & Support Commitment of
PetaFLOPS Systems
In general, increased compute power at affordable prices is continuing to arrive each day. Along that path to increased compute power, there are a few bumps that need addressing. One is storage and the required I/O rates.
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The Next Decade Will Intertwine Most Science & Engineering Research With Supercomputing
My associate Dr. Otero commented on his blog "Like it or not, life science researchers at large need to recognize that their research is intertwined with supercomputing resources in one way or another." I'd take that one step further than just life sciences and say that most science and engineering research is or is going to be intertwined with supercomputing.
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New Research Computing Cluster for Childhood Cancer Ready to Help Fast-Track Targeted Treatments
The childhood cancer research computing cluster created and donated by Dell for the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) is ready to support the world's first precision medicine clinical trial for pediatric cancer.
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Intel Rolls Out New Server CPUs
Intel Corp. has launched three new families of Xeon processors. A number of HPC server makers, including Dell, announced updated hardware based on the new silicon.
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Dell and Internet2 NET+ Services increase access to research computing and enable discovery with cloud services
Dell is working with Clemson University to provide more Internet2 institutions and organizations access to high performance research computing technology.
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Mellanox Interconnect Available on Dell Server
The new Dell PowerEdge blade server and Dell M1000e blade chassis have been designed to take full advantage of Mellanox's FDR 56Gb/s InfiniBand and 40GbE PCIe 3.0-compliant adapters, which can offer up to double the I/O throughput versus older generation technologies.
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The HPC Advisory Council Announces New GPU-Based Development and Application Benchmarking Center
A key step by the Council to provide world-leading resources for the HPC community to develop next generation HPC applications and environments.
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NVIDIA and Dell Propel Trek to Racing Success
The universal challenges faced by Trek in creating a new generation racing bike apply to many companies today. Trek Bicycle Corporation applied the latest in NVIDIA technology to get the job done.
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Dell Spikes Xeon E5/R Servers with Nvidia GPUs
Today NVIDIA announced that, for the first time ever, the company's GPUs will be available in Dell PowerEdge rack and tower servers. Tailor-made for technical computing, the new servers combine 512-core Nvidia Tesla M2090 GPUs with the latest Intel Xeon E5/R CPUs based on the Sandy Bridge microarchitecture.
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NVIDIA GPUs Bring High Performance GPU Computing to New Dell PowerEdge Servers
New Dell Servers With NVIDIA Tesla GPUs to Accelerate Broad Range of Scientific and Industrial Workloads
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Cloud Computing Helps Fight Pediatric Cancer
The industry has reached an inflection point where the advent of new high-performance computing technology and new genome sequencing tools means you can do something never before possible in clinical medicine.
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Dell's Enterprise Solutions Launch: Business Value Trumps Speeds and Feeds:
A "hybrid world" of business computing that is helping to drive the company's rapid, strategic transformation from its PC roots.
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EHRs, Genomics Power Personalized Cancer Treatments
Dell cloud pulls together gene data to combat a deadly form of pediatric cancer.
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Adventures in mineral oil cooling
For the Student Cluster Competition at SC11 in Seattle, the Longhorns surprised everyone with a cluster that uses mineral oil immersion as its sole cooling mechanism.
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Cornell Receives IDC Innovation Award for MATLAB-Powered Research
The Cornell Center for Advanced Computing (CAC) received an HPC Innovation Excellence Award the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis.
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Dell Cooks Up New HPC Strategy
Dell's HPC strategy as documented by Dan Olds (The Register) at SC11.
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Dell and Other OEMs Embrace AMD's 'Interlagos' Chips
SEATTLE - Hewlett-Packard, Dell and other systems makers are quickly adopting new processors and other technologies as they look to meet demands in a high-performance computing market that is expanding beyond universities and research institutions into mainstream enterprises.
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Council for Scientific and Industrial Research in South Africa Increases Access to Research Computing Capabilities through Dell Solutions
Researchers leverage expertise and technology from Dell/Cambridge University HPC Solution Center to help solve some of the world's most challenging issues.
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Dell: Expanding Its Position as an HPC Market Leader
When IDC reviewed Dell's HPC status only a year ago ("Dell: An HPC Market Leader in the Cluster Era"), we noted that "with minimal fanfare, Dell has become one of the world's top HPC vendors - third overall and second in the large segment for departmental HPC systems." We added that "Dell has a substantial opportunity to benefit from the worldwide 'petaflop race' that is already underway." We didn't realize Dell would be able make this leap so soon.
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"Stampede's" Comprehensive Capabilities to Bolster U.S. Open Science Computational Resources
The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) announced that it will deploy and support a world-class supercomputer for the open science community, as part of the National Science Foundation's (NSF) "eXtreme Digital" (XD) program. The new system, called Stampede, will be built by TACC in partnership with Dell and Intel.
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University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute Adds Dell | Terascala HPC Storage Solution to Itasca System
The Minnesota Supercomputing Institute (MSI) is happy to announce that it has added 550 TB of usable disk space for its flagship Itasca system with the addition of a Dell | Terascala HPC Storage Solution (HSS).
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New Cornell Collaboration to Explore GPU Computing Using MATLAB July 19, 2011
The Cornell University Center for Advanced Computing (CAC) today announced that it is testing the performance of general-purpose GPUs with MATLAB applications in a new research collaboration with NVIDIA, Dell, and MathWorks.
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HPC Advisory Council Announces the 2010-2011 Awards Recognizing Members for Their Tremendous Support of the Council's HPC Outreach, Research, and Educational Activities
The HPC Advisory Council announced that it will honor seven of its members including Dell for their contribution and support during the June 2010 to June 2011 time frame.
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NCSA Deploys New High-Performance Cluster Dedicated to Industrial Use
National Center for Supercomputing Applications is deploying a new 22-teraflop high-performance computing cluster, dubbed iForge, dedicated exclusively to the center's private sector partners. iForge comprises a mix of 121 Dell servers.
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NASA Center for Climate Simulation Doubles Computational Power for Users
The NASA Center for Climate Simulation made available to users the newest unit of its "Discover" supercomputer. The 14,400-processor Dell PowerEdge C6100 server doubles Discover's computational power to more than 320 trillion floating-point operations per second (teraflops) peak.
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TeraGrid: Paying it forward in the wake of disaster
The National Science Foundation's TeraGrid is the world's most comprehensive cyberinfrastructure in support of open scientific research. Following are a few ways the TeraGrid community has begun to help in the wake of this global tragedy.
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Platform Computing Launches Migration Program for Grid Engine Customers
Industry's Leading Workload Management Products Provide Complete, Fully Supported Alternative.
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UK supercomputer probes dark matter and dark energy
What happened just after the Big Bang? How do stars evolve? Scientists are being helped in their quest to answer these questions by the University of Portsmouth's Sciama supercomputer powered by Dell.
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Bright Cluster Manager Added to Dell High Performance Computing Portfolio
Bright Computing, a leader in cluster management software, today announced that Bright Cluster Manager™ is now available through Dell, as an option for High Performance Computing Clusters (HPCC).
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Portsmouth uses Dell supercomputer to scan the cosmos
Researchers at the University's Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation (ICG) will use the supercomputer to simulate vast regions of the universe, investigate the properties of hundreds of millions of galaxies and solve complex cosmological problems.
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Dell Technology Helps CERN Expand High-Performance Computing Access to New Research Studies
To help scientists and researchers explore and understand new discoveries, Dell announced today the high-performance computing (HPC) program for CERN's ATLAS experiment is expanding to all Large Hadron Collider (LHC) research experiments.
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Enabling Research with MATLAB on the TeraGrid
Read about Cornell University's MATLAB on the TeraGrid experimental computing resource and how it helps researchers achieve fast results that are delivered to their desktop.
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New Supercomputer Puts University of Kentucky in Top 10
A new high-performance supercomputer that will help power the University of Kentucky's research mission has already put the school in the top 10 public universities for computing power.
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New Supercomputer Installed at UK!
The University of Kentucky will see the time it takes to accomplish projects shaved to one-third of the time required by the technology it's replacing.
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Dell High Performance Computing (HPC) Solutions Enable Research from Leading Higher Education, Government and Industry Labs
Scientists and engineers are looking for innovative ways to accelerate applications and shorten computational cycles. Dell is helping them.
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Universities across the country deploy new Dell High Performance Computing Solutions
Higher education organizations across the country are deploying high-density Dell C6100 servers to power critical HPC research.
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UT lassos another Supercomputer!
University of Texas officials will unveil a new $9 million supercomputer at the J.J. Pickle Research Campus. The newest "Lonestar" system is expected to be operational by February.
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Dell, Mellanox InfiniBand Enable CU Boulder to Broaden Research for Life Science
Mellanox Technologies 40Gb/s InfiniBand connectivity products provide the high-performance server and storage networking for the new University of Colorado at Boulder Dell-based 1,368-node cluster.
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Dell and The University of Cambridge Deliver HPC Power to Researchers
Dell and The University of Cambridge announced the opening of the Dell | Cambridge High Performance Computing (HPC) Solution Centre. This significant new collaboration aims to form EMEA's leading HPC centre of excellence for all areas of the HPC community.
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NASA Center for Climate Simulation Expands Research Capabilities with Dell High-Performance Computing Technology
Dell selected to provide solution valued at up to $5.1M for the NASA Center for Climate Simulation, located at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The solution will include Dell's new PowerEdge C6100 servers customized for high-performance computing (HPC) environments.
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Hpc Solutions Improve Computing Environments For Reservoir Simulation
Maximize your cluster's interconnect technologies for best HPC system efficiency.
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Managing Storage is a Big Challenge
Joseph Kremer, President, Public for Dell Asia Pacific Japan region, discuses the growth of the HPC market and Dell's key focus areas and challenges in the Indian market.
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Industry Insights: What you should know about Power and
Performance Efficiency!
This Q/A session features several industry experts' views into an area of HPC that is weighing on many people's minds as datacenter environments face increasing pressure to expand capabilities while controlling costs.
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New! Dell™ | Terascala HPC Storage Solution
New! Dell™ | Terascala HPC Storage Solution, a storage solution for Linux clusters designed to enable efficiencies in high-performance computing environments by scaling to support massive amounts of data.
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Scientists Leverage Experimental MATLAB Resource
The number of users of the NSF-funded "MATLAB on the TeraGrid" experimental computing resource has been steadily increasing since it went into production at SC09.
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New Medical Archiving and High Performance Computing Solutions Designed to Boost Healthcare, Research Efficiencies
Dell unveiled solutions to enable healthcare, higher-education and government organizations to better use technology to manage data, conduct research and fulfill their missions in a more efficient and secure manner.
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Mellanox InfiniBand Helps Smash SC09 Cluster Challenge for StonyBrook
Each year, the The Supercomputing (SC) Conference features a Student Cluster Competition where undergraduate student teams compete against each other to perform scientific application benchmark runs on clusters.
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Dell Top500
Dell has 16 systems listed on the November 2009 TOP500, which features the 500 most powerful computer systems being used today.
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Dell wins the HPCwire Editors' and Readers Awards for 2009
Dell Inc. has been recognized in the annual HPCwire Readers' and Editors' Choice Awards, presented at the 2009 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis.
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OrangeFS Reference Architecture for Dell 710/MD Storage Stack
The OrangeFS Reference Architecture for the integration of Dell's R710 Servers and MD Storage Arrays (R710/MD Storage Stack) can be leveraged in a wide variety of high-perfomance, data-intensive computing environments.
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Dell HPC NSS Tiered Storage Solution
This solution guide describes the Dell HPC Tiered Storage Solution (TSS), including its architecture, use case scenarios, performance, and best practices for such solutions.
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Dell High-Performance Computing Storage: Flexible and Cost-Effective
HPC has quickly become the design and analysis tool for the new millennium. The question of how to store, process and manage the vast amounts of data these systems produce is more important than ever. Check out this white paper for examples that can help you develop storage solutions for your HPC solutions.
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High Performance, Open Source, Dell Lustre™ Storage System Dell PowerVault™ MD3200 storage platform and QDR Mellanox Infiniband
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Dell PowerVault MD1200 Performance as a Network File System (NFS) Backend Storage Solution
While numerous parallel file systems gradually gain popularity on cluster computing platforms, network file system (NFS) is still the most popular shared file system used in high-performance clusters. This white paper illustrates how the PowerVault™ MD1200 can be architected and tuned for performance using a 10GigE interface for HPC systems that use NFS.
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Flexibility: The Dell Approach to HPC GPU Computing
This white paper discusses the evolution of HPC applications as they shift the computing work from CPUs to single and then multiple GPUs. It also looks at approaches to GPU system configuration design, focusing on the Dell approach.
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Managing Data Center Costs with Dell PowerEdge Energy Smart Containment Rack Enclosures
Selecting the right cooling and containment solution for a data center can be a daunting exercise in terms of balancing efficiency, utilization, and costs. This white paper provides research on the potential savings by implementing a PowerEdge Energy Smart Containment Rack Enclosure.
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High-Performance Computing Power and Cooling
Power and cooling are central issues in HPC with its stringent computing and high rack density requirements. Dell's power and cooling solutions are energy-efficient, save capital and operating costs and most importantly, maximize performance per watt.
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Dell HPC NFS Storage Solution, High Availability Configurations: A Dell Technical White Paper
This solution guide enhances Dell HPC storage solutions with an NFS offering that includes a High Availability feature. The Dell NFS Storage Solution is available with deployment services and full hardware and software support from Dell. This document provides complete information on architecting, deploying and tuning such a solution. The guidelines include hardware and software information along with detailed configuration steps and best practices make it easy to deploy and manage.
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A Shared-infrastructure Solution for Maximized HPC
The Dell PowerEdge C6145 server is designed specifically for the needs of today's cutting-edge HPC users running symmetric multiprocessing-based (SMB) applications.
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Visualization for High-Performance Computing
Learn about where HPC visualization is useful as well as the details for architecting HPC visualization walls and clusters.
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Remote Visualisation using Open Source Software & Commodity Hardware
It is commonplace today that HPC users produce large scale multi-gigabyte data sets on a daily basis and that these data sets may require interactive post processing with some form of real time 3D or 2D visualisation in order to help gain insight from the data. The remote visualisation procedures described in this white paper removes the need to transfer data out of the HPC data centre.
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Optimizing DELL™ PowerVault™ MD1200 Storage Arrays for High Performance Computing (HPC) Deployments
This paper shows the analysis used to choose the correct RAID mode for using the MD-1200 in HPC and also the parameters to use when combining multiple LUNS to present a single name space.
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Dell/Cambridge HPC Solution Centre
The Dell/Cambridge HPC Solution Centre provides academic and private sector research organizations with practical resources and guidance.
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Accelerating high-performance computing with hybrid platforms
Learn more about advancement in general purpose computing with GPUs can accelerate your HPC performance.
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Dell HPC NFS Storage Solutions!
A secondary storage repository to store users' home directories, application storage and longer term application data.
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Optimal BIOS Settings for High Performance Computing with PowerEdge 11G Servers
Dell's 11th generation dual-socket PowerEdge servers feature Intel Xeon 5500 series processors based on the latest Intel micro-architecture. In this paper, BIOS features and DBPM profiles are tested to provide the optimal settings for high performance computing (HPC) environments.
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Dell™ | Terascala HPC Storage Solution
The Dell Terascala HPC Storage Solution (DT-HSS) is a unique new storage solution providing high throughput Lustre-based storage as an appliance. It delivers a great combination of performance, reliability and cost-effectiveness.
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Using Dell PowerVault MD1200 Storage Arrays as NFS Backend Storage in HPC Environments
This paper evaluates the performance of the Dell PowerVault MD1200 storage arrays when they are used as backend NFS storage over 10 Gigabit Ethernet in an HPC environment and discusses workloads that might benefit from such a solution.
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Dell HPC Solutions for Healthcare and Life Sciences
Dell is powering breakthrough research computing for Life Sciences organizations that supports today's evolutionary, life-changing discoveries.
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Single Virtual Systems for Life & Material Sciences
Let Dell and ScaleMP show you how to aggregate the processing power of an x86 cluster and transform it to a virtual SMP-class supercomputer. You can run SMP-class applications on industry standard (non-proprietary) Intel servers at a much lower cost point.
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Visualization Clusters using Commodity Hardware
Learn about the various types of visualization clusters and how to use of commodity hardware to build cost effective solutions in this white paper. It also details a selection of commercial and open source applications by field or specialty.
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HPC Scheduling and Resource Management
Read a quick overview and benefits of scheduling and resource management considerations in implementing a High Performance Compute cluster from Dell.
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Dell Enabling Discovery Brochure
Technology helps us with things that are too difficult,too costly, or too implausible to be attempted without it. It helps us achieve important results. It helps us discover.
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The Red Hat HPC Solution
High performance computing (HPC) cluster deployments can be complicated, time- consuming and costly. The Red Hat® HPC Solution enables organizations to deploy enhanced systems quickly and run them efficiently. This helps organizations to reduce the cost and complexity of their Linux® cluster deployments.
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Intel Cluster Ready Specification and Intel Cluster
Checker Tool
Developed in conjunction with Dell and other leading high performance computing (HPC) vendors, the Intel® Cluster Ready program helps simplify buying, building, deploying and managing an HPC cluster (HPCC). Intel Cluster Ready helps to ensure application and component interoperability from the moment you power up the cluster through the lifetime of the system.
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Introduction to HPCC
This free web-based course will give an overview of the history, benefits, equipment, and setup in the HPCC market. Participants will study the benefits of HPCC including architectural solutions from Dell, high-performance potential, price-to-performance ratio, scalability, and savings in terms of setup time, environmental impact and
operating costs.
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Thought Leadership: Transforming our Understanding of the World
Dell is helping the scientists, engineers and member organizations working on the ATLAS particle physics experiment to transform our understanding of the world. Dell is helping the scientists, engineers and member organizations working on the ATLAS particle physics experiment to transform our understanding of the world.
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Dell HPC Advisor Tool
Scientific research centre in the Netherlands reduces costs for HPC environment by around 20 per cent
David H. Murdock Research Institute supports worldwide researchers with HPC solution powered by Dell systems
TACC provides researchers with data analysis capabilities that advance discoveries, thanks to partnership with Dell
Duke University anticipates $100,000 or more per year in energy savings
University of California Irvine gets 150% more research done with Dell and Intel HPC cluster
Penn State accelerates research time to market tenfold with high-performance computing solution
The UCSF Institute for Human Genetics analyzes 7 petabytes of data with help from Dell and Intel
Stony Brook University team wins HPC competition with Dell servers, AMD processors and Mellanox InfiniBand
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