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Driving Cutting-Edge Research in the Heart of Oklahoma
A new University of Oklahoma HPC cluster built on IntelA? XeonA? processors and Dell PowerEdge R620 and R720 servers boosts performance for research while reducing power consumption.
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FSU Gives Researchers Capacity with a Scalable HPC Storage Solution
One of the nation's elite research universities, Florida State University (FSU) needed a high performance parallel cluster file system that could accommodate diverse and growing high performance computing (HPC) requirements while minimizing management complexity. Read this case study to learn about the scalable storage solution FSU chose, which increased their time to value by 40-fold (2 weeks vs. more than 1.5 years with an in-house solution), decreased the amount of staff time required to manage the system, and which allows for proactive troubleshooting to resolve bottlenecks before users even notice them.
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TGen achieves 12-fold performance improvement in processing of genomic data with Dell and Intel®-based HPC cluster
At the Fleet Numerical Meteorology & Oceanography Center, the U.S. Navy produces some of the world's best maritime weather forecasts. Fleet Numerical's most powerful supercomputer is a Dell Linux cluster system known as A2 Emerald with 27.3 peak teraflops.
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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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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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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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Scientific research centre in the Netherlands reduces costs for HPC environment by around 20 per cent
To meet a growing demand for data processing, Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging looked to create a high performance computing (HPC) environment.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Universidad Politecnica 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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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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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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Surfing Science's Data Tsunami
The IT staff of the Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy at Duke University faces a perpetual challenge in meeting scientific researchers' skyrocketing needs for computational power.
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RISING SEAS IN CYBERSPACE
Geoscientists at the University of Ottawa Department of Earth Sciences needed a high-performance computing (HPC) cluster to study the complex effects of melting ice sheets on our planet
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Coming in First with Dell
Monash University Health Sciences gets research results in a week instead of months using a Dell-based high-performance computing cluster
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Brain Power
The IT team optimized brain scanner output with the implementation of a cost-efficient eight-node Dell server cluster mounted in a compact rack and supported by a modular disk storage array
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Rock Solid IT
The Rock Fracture Dynamics Lab wanted to build a one-of-a-kind rock dynamics lab that could record large amounts of experimental data, create detailed and accurate computer models, and provide access to information for numerous students and researchers.
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UK's Fastest Academic Supercomputer
The Cambridge University implemented Dell PowerEdge™ servers in a high performance computing cluster that has become the fastest academic supercomputer in the UK.
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