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ALSO CALLED: HPC, High-Performance Clusters, High-Performance Computing, High Performance Clusters DEFINITION: High-performance computing (HPC) is the use of parallel processing for running advanced application programs efficiently, reliably and quickly. The term applies especially to systems that function above a teraflop or 1012 floating-point operations per second. The term HPC is occasionally used as a synonym for supercomputing, although technically a supercomputer is a system that performs at or near … Definition continues below.
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Supercomputers: A Computer Weekly guide sponsored by ComputerWeekly.com ESSENTIAL GUIDE: This special Computer Weekly report analyses the market for supercomputers, peripherals and applications, the supercomputer community, developments in technology, and offers a country by country comparison. Posted: 17 May 2012 \| Published: 17 May 2012 TOPICS: High Performance Computing \| Mainframe Computers \| Server Hardware \| Simulation and Analysis Software \| Supercomputers

Staying On Top of Algos sponsored by Sybase, an SAP company WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn about the real-time analytics capabilities of complex event processing (CEP) and discover how this technology can be leveraged for business agility, particularly for algorithm monitiring in hte trading industry. Posted: 04 May 2012 \| Published: 04 May 2012 TOPICS: Business Activity Monitoring \| Equity Processing \| High Performance Computing \| Real-time Analytical Software \| Real-time Analytics

Setting the Foundation for Exceptional Performance sponsored by Neustar® WEBCAST: Join Neustar’s performance expert as he discusses how to set the stage for performance. In this informative webcast you will learn about: foundations of web performance; getting to stability; building high performance systems; and high quality operations. Posted: 25 Apr 2012 \| Premiered: 25 Apr 2012 TOPICS: Application Life-Cycle Management \| Application Performance Management \| High Performance Computing \| Web Applications Management \| Web Applications Software \| Web Services \| Web Services Management \| Web Site Administration

E-Guide: Object-based File Systems Come of Age for HPC sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Intel EGUIDE: Object-based file systems offer performance improvements in HPC environments, but many companies are unsure which market options are worth evaluating. This expert e-guide examines several notable offerings and explains how they can eliminate I/O bottlenecks in HPC architectures. Posted: 20 Apr 2012 \| Published: 20 Apr 2012 TOPICS: High Availability \| High Performance Computing \| High Performance Parallel Interface \| Metadata \| Metadata Standards \| Parallel Processing \| Performance Testing

E-Guide: How to Tweak Data Backups in OneFS-based HPC Systems sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Intel EGUIDE: As data volumes grow, it becomes increasingly difficult to back up data in high performance computing (HPC) environments. This expert e-guide details how you can accelerate this critical process by implementing scale-out storage that runs on OneFS. Posted: 20 Apr 2012 \| Published: 20 Apr 2012 TOPICS: Backups \| Data Storage \| High Performance Computing \| Storage Appliances \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Devices \| Storage Optimization \| Storage Systems

Supercomputers: prestige objects or crucial tools for science and industry ? sponsored by ComputerWeekly.com PRESENTATION: Professor Hans Werner Meuer, co-founder of the Top500 supercomputer list, presents a critical assessment of high performance computing technology and applications. Posted: 20 Apr 2012 \| Published: 20 Apr 2012 TOPICS: High Performance Computing \| Research and Development \| Simulation and Analysis Software \| Supercomputers

E-Guide: Best Practices to Boost Read/Write Performance in MPFS File Systems sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Intel EGUIDE: Rapid data growth has made it difficult for storage systems to support high performance computing (HPC) environments. This expert e-guide explains how multi-path network file system technology can meet HPC requirements and provides best practices for proper deployment. Posted: 19 Apr 2012 \| Published: 19 Apr 2012 TOPICS: High Performance Computing \| iSCSI SAN \| Parallel Processing \| RAID \| Storage Appliances \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Infrastructure

Imagination to Insight: Accelerating Discovery with the Intel® Xeon® Processor E5 Family sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Intel WHITE PAPER: Under-performing processors can limit the potential of HPC applications and interfere with an organization's ability to run simulations and solve problems in a timely manner. This solution brief discusses the latest processor developments that optimize performance, strengthen security, and enable parallelism in business infrastructures. Posted: 17 Apr 2012 \| Published: 17 Apr 2012 TOPICS: Bandwidth Management \| Data Center Management \| Hardware \| High Performance Computing \| Performance Testing \| Processor Architectures \| Research and Development \| Security

High Performance Computing E-Zine - Issue 1 sponsored by SearchDataCenter.com EZINE: This issue of the high performance computing (HPC) e-zine takes a closer look at the latest advances in file systems and the impact they are having on the HPC community. Find out how HPC architectures have evolved over time and obtain best practices for properly implementing Multi Path File Systems (MPFS). Posted: 27 Mar 2012 \| Published: 27 Mar 2012 TOPICS: Backups \| Gigabit Ethernet \| High Performance Computing \| High Performance Parallel Interface \| iSCSI Protocol \| iSCSI SAN \| LAN \| RAID \| Storage Appliances

Architecting a Modern Approach to Data Management sponsored by VMware, Inc. WEBCAST: Modern applications are data-intensive; delivering data the old way using monolithic databases isn’t working. What’s needed is a modern approach to data that scales-out as needed and delivers predictable high performance without sacrificing data consistency or integrity. View this webcast to learn best practices for modern data management. Posted: 10 Feb 2012 \| Premiered: 10 Feb 2012 TOPICS: Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Management \| Data Management Software \| Database Architectures \| Database Management \| Database Performance Management \| High Availability \| High Performance Computing \| Relational Database Management Software

Storage Decisions University: SSD Deployment Options sponsored by SearchStorage.com VIRTUAL SEMINAR: In this Storage Decisions University classroom, get a complete overview on the current SSD landscape and the SSD options available for today’s storage managers. Posted: 31 Jan 2012 \| Premiered: 31 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Disk Backups \| Disk Drives \| Hard Disk Drives \| High Performance Computing \| Solid State Disks \| Storage Appliances \| Storage Efficiency \| Storage Management

The Main Components of a Unified Fabric sponsored by Global Knowledge WHITE PAPER: A Unified Fabric is the merging of the SAN / LAN and infiniband capabilities into one wire and switch. Though this change will save businesses money, it's important to get all the administrators on the same page. In this exclusive resource, learn how a Unified Fabric works and who should manage it. Posted: 05 Jan 2012 \| Published: 05 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Data Center Management \| Fibre Channel \| High Performance Computing \| LAN \| Network Management \| Networking \| SAN \| Storage Management

Enhance Customer Loyalty through Higher Responsiveness sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: The user experience associated with web applications relies in large part on the availability and management of their session data, its persistence, and its management. This white paper focuses on the topic of data availability and management for mission-critical web applications. Posted: 03 Jun 2011 \| Published: 03 Jun 2011 TOPICS: Application Development \| Application Performance Management \| Customer Loyalty \| Customer Retention \| eCommerce \| High Availability \| High Performance Computing \| Oracle (Product) \| SOA \| Web Applications Management

CBS E-Book: Converged Hardware Management sponsored by Oracle Corporation EBOOK: View this interactive E-Book to learn how Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center can dramatically improve your converged datacenter operations and productivity. Posted: 14 Apr 2011 \| Published: 14 Apr 2011 TOPICS: Data Center Consolidation \| Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Center Management \| High Performance Computing \| IT Infrastructure \| Server Virtualization \| Systems Management

Virtualization Defined: 8 Best Practices to Reap Proven Virtualization Rewards sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company WHITE PAPER: Many organizations are eager to enjoy all the benefits virtualization offers, such as high availability and cost-savings, but transitioning is no easy task. Read this white paper to learn how to manage the various aspects of successfully implementing virtualization and review tools that can help you get the most from your project. Posted: 15 Dec 2010 \| Published: 15 Dec 2010 TOPICS: Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| High Availability \| High Performance Computing \| Server Virtualization \| Server Virtualization Software

E-Book: Planning your SAP BW strategy sponsored by Dolphin EBOOK: As SAP customers plan their BI strategies in the face of support deadlines for BEx tools that are inching closer, many customers are contemplating their next steps with BW. In this e-book, readers will learn the keys to planning a successful SAP data warehousing strategy, and get help deciding what role BW should play in it. Posted: 26 Oct 2010 \| Published: 26 Oct 2010 TOPICS: Analytic Applications Software \| Business Intelligence Software \| Data Management Software \| Data Warehouse Software \| Data Warehouses \| High Performance Computing \| ILM \| Information Management Software \| NetWeaver \| Query Tools \| SAP (Product)

Get More Storage Efficiency with Oracle's Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: Exponential data growth is challenging today’s IT managers to scale their storage capacity while delivering high performance and staying within tight budgets. Read this paper to find out so much more. Posted: 01 Oct 2010 \| Published: 01 Oct 2010 TOPICS: High Performance Computing \| IT Management \| IT Managers \| Open Source Software \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management \| Storage Security

Fibre Channel Essentials sponsored by Global Knowledge WHITE PAPER: The protocol utilized to transport data between servers and storage for High Performance Computing (HPC) and to define a Storage Area Network (SAN) is Fibre Channel(FC). Fibre Channel is an "invisible" protocol, because it is only known to the technicians that implement it and keep it working. This paper will provide an overview of this technology. Posted: 25 Jan 2010 \| Published: 25 Jan 2010 TOPICS: Data Centers \| Fibre Channel \| Fibre Channel SAN \| Fibre Channel Switches \| High Performance Computing \| Network Management \| Network Management Protocols

Enhance Customer Loyalty through Higher Responsiveness sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: The user experience associated with web applications relies in large part on the availability and management of their session data, its persistence, and its management. This white paper focuses on the topic of data availability and management for mission-critical web applications. Posted: 18 Sep 2009 \| Published: 18 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Application Development \| Application Performance Management \| Customer Loyalty \| Customer Retention \| High Availability \| High Performance Computing \| Oracle (Product) \| SOA \| Web Applications Management

Quantum's StorNext 3.0 - High Performance Data Sharing with Built-in Data De-duplication sponsored by Quantum Corporation WHITE PAPER: Acting quickly since its acquisition of ADIC last August, Quantum recently announced a major update to its StorNext software solution. Posted: 13 Jun 2007 \| Published: 13 Jun 2007 TOPICS: Content Archiving \| Data Management Software \| Data Replication \| File Server Software \| High Performance Computing \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management Software

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HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING DEFINITION (continued): … the currently highest operational rate for computers. Some supercomputers work at more than a petaflop or 1015 floating-point operations per second.The most common users of HPC systems are scientific researchers, engineers and academic institutions. Some government agencies, particularly the military, also rely on HPC for complex applications. High-performance systems often use custom-made components in addition to so-called commodity components. As demand for processing power and speed grows, HPC will likely interest businesses of all sizes, particularly for transaction processing and data warehouses. …
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