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Performance Characterization of BLAST on 32-Bit and 64-Bit Dell PowerEdge Servers

Overview The Dell high-performance computing team recently explored the effect of Intel Extended Memory 64 Technology (EM64T) on the performance of the basic local alignment search tool (BLAST), comparing BLAST performance on 32-bit and 64-bit architectures. This paper discusses the performance results obtained when the team tested Dell PowerEdge servers using three Intel processor technologies: a PowerEdge 1750 server with 32-bit Intel Xeon processors; a PowerEdge 1850 server with Intel EM64T architecture; and a PowerEdge 3250 server with 64-bit Intel Itanium 2 processors.

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Publisher	Dell	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	February 2005	Downloads	384
Format	White Papers
Topics	High Performance Computing, Application Servers, Microprocessors

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