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Top University Builds World-Leading Supercomputer

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Overview University of Cambridge's existing supercomputer was struggling to keep up with the demands being placed on it. The needed to move on from so-called 'shared memory' proprietary machines into the world of 'Commodity clusters', having been at the forefront of cluster computing technologies for eight years before moving to Cambridge. The University went out to tender for a new supercomputer, based on an EU procurement framework. The University deployed Nortel for its solution, a high performance data network based on stacks of Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch 5500 series connected to a high-availability Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch 8600 core.

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Publisher	Nortel Networks	File Format	PDF
Date Published	July 2007
Format	Case Studies
Topics	Ethernet, Switching

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