Customer: Leading Rubber-related Manufacturing Corp.
Current Platform: High-core count Itanium based system
Challenges: Need to run thread-based applications, such as Gaussian, as well as MPI-based Computational Chemistry applications
Solution: 4 dual processor Xeon system providing 8-socket (32-core), 128 GB RAM single virtual system running Linux with vSMP Foundation. Provides capability to scale OpenMP/threaded applications, as well as cluster-comparable performance for MPI applications, with improved ease-of use. |
Customer: Engineering Services Company
Current Platform: Multiple 2-socket workstations
Challenges: Existing models (Abaqus) grow fast and no longer fit engineers' workstations
Interested in running apps in batch at night
No in-house skills to run x86 Infiniband cluster. Cannot afford RISC systems
Solution: 4 Intel dual-processor Xeon system providing 128 GB RAM , 8 sockets ( 16 cores) single virtual system running Linux with vSMP Foundation
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Customer: Formula 1 Team
Current Platform: Large Memory Itanium based system
Challenges: Need to generate large meshes as part of pre-processing of whole car simulation (FLUENT TGrid)
Mesh requirements are 200+ GB in size
Wants to standardize on x86 architecture due to lower costs
Solution: 12 Intel dual-processor Xeon systems to provide 384 GB RAM single virtual system running Linux with vSMP Foundation
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Benefit : Performance:
Solution significantly faster than existing IA64 SMP . Performance is comparable to cluster performance with similar-hardware
Low OPEX:
No IT resources required for day-to-day operation
Low CAPE:
Significant savings compared to upgrade/replacement of existing system with IA64 |
Benefits:
Performance: Solution significantly faster than existing workstations. Performance is comparable to cluster performance
Low OPEX: No IT required for day-to-day operation
Versatility: Batch mode at night. Day time jobs are executed on the system while using the workstation for display only. Multiuser environment with perfect scaling- and sharing without performance degradation
Investment protection: Expected to expand the system by adding additional 4 nodes
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Benefits: Performance: Solution evaluated and proven to be faster than alternative systems (x86 and non-x86)
Low CAPEX: Significant savings compared to alternative system
Versatility: Primarily used for large memory jobs (T-grid), but also used to run regular FLUENT (MPI) as part of large cluster
Investment protection: Solution can grow |
