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Changing the Face of High-Performance Computing through Greater Performance, Collaboration, and Affordability

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Overview With the ever-increasing demand for cost-effective compute power, High Performance Computing (HPC) clusters, based on commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) applications versus proprietary systems, have rapidly advanced to the forefront of computational science and engineering. Choosing the right computing architecture for HPC solutions can be a daunting task as organizations balance pure performance and availability requirements with budgetary and resource considerations to deliver a maximum return-on-investment. This paper specifically addresses how HPC solutions powered by Intel and Dell offer the best choice for science and engineering communities and businesses with computationally-intensive requirements.

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Publisher	Dell Computer	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	August 2003	Downloads	1410
Format	White Papers
Topics	Astronomy, Biology, Biomedical, Botany, Genetic Engineering, Geology, Global Warming, Human Genome Project, Metallurgy, Nanotechnology, Physics, Seismology / Earthquakes, Solar Emissions, Weather / Climate, Data Mining / Analysis, Parallel Processing, High Performance Computing

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Changing the Face of High-Performance Computing through Greater Performance, Collaboration, and Affordability

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