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Announcing the New Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2600 Product Family
Technical High Performance Computing got a huge boost with the launch of the new Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2600 product family (codenamed Sandy Bridge-EP). High-performance computing with the Intel Xeon processor E5 family delivers the performance to move concept to production faster than planned.
To help our Intel Cluster Ready partners take full advantage of the latest Intel Xeon processor, a toolkit of content has been developed to provide partners with the latest Intel Xeon processor E5 family information, technical tools, and reference designs for Intel Cluster Ready E5 systems.
The Latest Release: Intel® Cluster Checker 1.8
Are you running the latest Intel Cluster Checker? If not, you're missing out on many new and improved features.
In addition to the long list of enhancements in version 1.7, Intel Cluster Checker 1.8 adds support for second generation Intel® Core™ (Sandy Bridge) processors, includes rebuilt HPC benchmarks using the latest Intel® Cluster Tools, provides improved documentation and more.
A Simpler Path to Accelerating Research and Design
Bringing the power of HPC to your research and design efforts no longer has to be a complex undertaking. Intel Cluster Ready simplifies cluster computing, and the HPC Advisory Council makes it even easier by providing best practice recommendations, step-by-step application installation guides, expert advice, online access to Intel Cluster Ready clusters, and more.
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Bringing the power of HPC to your research and design efforts no longer has to be a complex undertaking. Intel Cluster Ready simplifies cluster computing, and the HPC Advisory Council makes it even easier by providing best practice recommendations, step-by-step application installation guides, expert advice, online access to Intel Cluster Ready clusters, and more.
5X Computing Boost at University of Erlangen-Nurnberg
Intel announced that an Intel Cluster Ready certified 500-node cluster by NEC has helped speed application performance by about five times at the University of Erlangen-Nurnberg. NEC used Intel® Xeon® 5650 processors to create the largest Intel Cluster Ready certified system to date.
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Intel announced that an Intel Cluster Ready certified 500-node cluster by NEC has helped speed application performance by about five times at the University of Erlangen-Nurnberg. NEC used Intel® Xeon® 5650 processors to create the largest Intel Cluster Ready certified system to date.
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Mellanox, Dell, Intel and LSTC Run Crash Simulation Benchmark
96-core HPC cluster delivers higher performance than a 512-core proprietary supercomputer according to TopCrunch performance tracking website.
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96-core HPC cluster delivers higher performance than a 512-core proprietary supercomputer according to TopCrunch performance tracking website.
SIMULIA Offers Abaqus FEA Benchmarks on Certified Personal Clusters
Get simulation results in a fraction of the time. Take the virtual test drive for Abaqus customers, offered by SIMULIA and Intel Cluster Ready. See your actual performance gain results on a certified personal cluster from Appro, Cray, SGI, or Silicon Mechanics. Go to SimulationClusters.com to get started.
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Get simulation results in a fraction of the time. Take the virtual test drive for Abaqus customers, offered by SIMULIA and Intel Cluster Ready. See your actual performance gain results on a certified personal cluster from Appro, Cray, SGI, or Silicon Mechanics. Go to SimulationClusters.com to get started.
Accelerate small to mid-sized ANSYS HPC deployments
Appro Ready-to-Go clusters are Intel Cluster Ready certified, optimized to run ANSYS applications, and pre-tested with the Intel Cluster Checker software to help ensure applicaton and component interoperability. Power up with the Appro Ready-to-Go Cluster Series.
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Appro Ready-to-Go clusters are Intel Cluster Ready certified, optimized to run ANSYS applications, and pre-tested with the Intel Cluster Checker software to help ensure applicaton and component interoperability. Power up with the Appro Ready-to-Go Cluster Series.
INDEED, It’s Intel Cluster Ready!
GNS mbH, a new Intel Cluster Ready partner, has registered INDEED, its sheet metal forming simulation package. The INDEED software system offers a unique range of innovative high-precision calculation models for the simulation of forming processes.
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With a long history of simulation and software development for automotive and aerospace companies worldwide, GNS mbH offers engineering services and software products tailored to meet the needs of its most demanding clients and industry's toughest engineering problems.
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GNS mbH, a new Intel Cluster Ready partner, has registered INDEED, its sheet metal forming simulation package. The INDEED software system offers a unique range of innovative high-precision calculation models for the simulation of forming processes.
With a long history of simulation and software development for automotive and aerospace companies worldwide, GNS mbH offers engineering services and software products tailored to meet the needs of its most demanding clients and industry's toughest engineering problems.
Parallel Performance Soars
The new Intel® Xeon® processor 5600 series automatically regulates power consumption to combine industry-leading energy efficiency with intelligent performance that adapts to your HPC workloads.
Learn more about the Intel Xeon processor 5600 series
The new Intel® Xeon® processor 5600 series automatically regulates power consumption to combine industry-leading energy efficiency with intelligent performance that adapts to your HPC workloads.
Partners: Manufacturing Requirements Update
Check out the latest addition to the Intel Cluster Ready specification for cluster-provisioning providers, platform integrators, and OEMs.
View the Intel Cluster Ready Cluster Manufacturing Requirements, Version V1.4
Check out the latest addition to the Intel Cluster Ready specification for cluster-provisioning providers, platform integrators, and OEMs.
Helping make HPC simpler and more accessible
Intel Cluster Ready works with industry groups like the HPC Advisory Council, an organization for high-performance computing research, outreach, and education. The HPC Advisory Council added the Intel Cluster Ready Certified Janus Cluster to their High Performance Cluster Center. This 16-node cluster features the Dell PowerEdge* with Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processor X5570, Mellanox ConnectX*, and more. The cluster will be used for applications best practices, high performance computing research activities, and for end-user support. See all the Janus Cluster details.
Intel Cluster Ready works with industry groups like the HPC Advisory Council, an organization for high-performance computing research, outreach, and education. The HPC Advisory Council added the Intel Cluster Ready Certified Janus Cluster to their High Performance Cluster Center. This 16-node cluster features the Dell PowerEdge* with Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processor X5570, Mellanox ConnectX*, and more. The cluster will be used for applications best practices, high performance computing research activities, and for end-user support. See all the Janus Cluster details.
Simulation Clusters Virtual Test Drive
Make fast work of multiple simulations with a high-performance computing cluster that's cost-effective and surprisingly simple to use. Test drive your Abaqus FEA workload on an Intel® Xeon® processor-based system - Cray CX1, Silicon Mechanics Hyperform HPCi, and other featured cluster system providers - all certified Intel Cluster Ready! To find out more, go to SimulationClusters.com
Make fast work of multiple simulations with a high-performance computing cluster that's cost-effective and surprisingly simple to use. Test drive your Abaqus FEA workload on an Intel® Xeon® processor-based system - Cray CX1, Silicon Mechanics Hyperform HPCi, and other featured cluster system providers - all certified Intel Cluster Ready! To find out more, go to SimulationClusters.com
News to Go
Read the IDC Solution Brief that explains how the Intel Cluster Ready program and the Intel Xeon Processor 5500 Series are extending HPC adoption and use - Intel Cluster Ready and the Intel Xeon Processor 5500 Series: A Dynamic Duo for Broadening HPC Cluster Adoption.
Partner News
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When the Center for Computing and Communication at RWTH Aachen University decided to upgrade its high-performance computing (HPC) system, Bull, science+computing delivered an Intel Cluster Ready certified HPC system that ranks as one of the 30 largest research supercomputers in the world.
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Find out how ClusterVision helped Ceres Power streamline their path to success with an Intel Cluster Ready certified system that was deployed in less than a day and is now enabling order of magnitude gains in design speed.
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Innovation for Science and Supercomputing – Italian research institutions team with Eurotech on a dense, green cluster that's certified Intel Cluster Ready. The Eurotech Aurora* AU-5600 is installed at the Bruno Kessler Foundation in Trento, Italy.
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UC Irvine standardized its GreenPlanet research cluster on Intel Cluster Ready architecture, increasing productivity and performance, giving scientists quicker access to results.
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To improve the researchers’ productivity, NEC worked with the University of Erlangen-Nurnberg to replace their existing HPC platform. The solution: A 500-node NEC LX-2400 cluster, the largest Intel Cluster Ready certified system to date.
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Viglen provides a turnkey Intel Cluster Ready certified system to help researchers at the UK's University of Plymouth run simulations 10 times faster than with a previous cluster, and make key findings in marine renewable energy and particle physics. » Read the case study
Simpson Strong-Tie: Speeding Time-to-Market with Intel Cluster Ready - see how Silicon Mechanics, SIMULIA, and a certified Intel Cluster Ready solution are helping a leading global manufacturer accelerate development of its structural building products.
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