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Supercomputing Firm Offers World-Class Resources With Operating System Flexibility

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Overview R Systems provides flexible High-Performance Computing (HPC) resources for academic researchers and commercial organizations. The company offers traditional Linux clusters as well as clusters that run on the Windows HPC Server 2008 operating system. By making Windows HPC Server available, R Systems increases productivity for its customers by using the best operating system for their particular research applications.

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Publisher	Microsoft	File Format	WORD
Date Published	July 2009
Format	Case Studies
Topics	Application Servers, Windows Server 2008, High Performance Computing

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Citizants: Bringing IT In-House

Citizant enhances IT flexibility and scalability by creating a virtualized Dell infrastructure that will pay for itself in 18 months.

Publisher:
Dell EqualLogic

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application servers

Staying a step ahead of the hackers: the importance of identifying critical Web application vulnerabilities.

Security managers worldwide working for midsize or large organizations share a common goal: to better manage the risks associated with their business infrastructure. Web application security plays a significant role...

Publisher:
IBM

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application servers

Webcast: Smart Techniques for application security: whitebox + blackbox testing.

Whitebox & blackbox application security testing are two approaches for detecting vulnerabilities in Web-based and network applications. Both have strengths and weaknesses, but a combination of the two provides the...

Publisher:
IBM

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application servers

Business Productivity Online Suite - Highly Secure and Reliable Cloud Services

Learn about fully hosted productivity tools in the cloud with Microsoft® Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS). With real time communication and collaboration tools, including, instant messaging, email, video conferencing, shared...

Publisher:
Microsoft

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infrastructure management

Increase Reliability with IBM WebSphere File Transfer Edition (FTE)

"Does your organization still use FTP software? Did you know these links require 3 to 4 times more time and effort to build and maintain versus SOA-based Application Integration projects?...

Publisher:
IBM

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application servers

Dummies out, Linux in at Chrysler

DaimlerChrysler has been using computers to simulate crashes since the early 1990s, first with single supercomputers, then with clusters of systems running Unix. Increasingly, Linux clusters - also known as Beowulf clusters - are moving into the...

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Desktops

Itanium gets revamped Linux supercomputer software

Researchers at the National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure have built full Itanium support into software that can be used to assemble supercomputers out of clusters of Linux computers.

Microsoft takes on Linux in supercomputing

The Windows Server 2003 HPC Edition will include features for running windows on clusters of machines interconnected by a high-speed network to form a single computing resource, Microsoft said in a statement yesterday.

Windows for clusters due in autumn

Theimer said this market became interesting to Microsoft as the use of clusters moved beyond government and academic settings into businesses. The first version will reproduce many basic features of Linux clusters, Theimer said.

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Gates to bang supercomputing drum

Kyril Faenov, director of Microsoft's HPC unit, said: "HPC [high performance computing] is starting to broaden out. Academic institutions and some industrial customers have been combining clusters of standard AMD- and Intel-based servers for some...

Torvalds issues new Linux kernel

This software governs how a single pool of data is shared by a group of servers, a crucial element of Oracle efforts to make clusters of low-end computers a viable database alternative to expensive multiprocessor servers.

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