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Aerospace Firm Attracts Customers With High-Performance Computing

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Overview Washington-based Andrews Space is an affordable integrator of aerospace systems and a developer of advanced space technologies. Andrews Space needed a new parallel-processing computing environment with the high-performance that complex contracts demand, and the cost-effectiveness to meet its budget requirements. After researching processors and interconnect technology, Andrews Space elected to create its new parallel-processing computing cluster by linking Dell servers through a Cisco SFS 7000P InfiniBand Server Switch.

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Publisher	Cisco Systems	File Format	PDF
Date Published	November 2007
Format	Case Studies
Topics	Switching, Application Servers, Parallel Processing

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