Case Studies

Helping HPC Applications Unravel the Universe's Origins
Swinburne University Center for Astrophysics in Australia wanted to substantially improve the data analysis performance of applications running on their HPC super-clusters.

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Accelerating One of the World's Fastest Databases
The MySQL AB open-source relational database management system (RDBMS) engineers used the Intel® C++ Compiler to improve the performance of the MySQL* code between 27 to 42 percent for Intel® Pentium® 4 and Itanium® 2-based servers.

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Enhancing Open Source Performance on Linux*
Persistent Systems used the Intel® C++ Compiler for Linux to optimize the performance of the open-source Linux enterprise database MySQL to take advantage of the latest features of the Itanium 2 and Pentium 4 processors.

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A Shortcut to Success
ImageCom, Inc. needed the ability to transcode digital video content for H.263 output at a faster rate than it came in from the source - or face the high risk of dropping content. Intel® Integrated Performance Primitives (Intel® IPP) and the Intel C++ Compiler provided the solution.

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Boosting Performance of Oracle Database
Oracle9i* database customers expect unbreakable software that won't "go down," is secure, and provides integrated business information available anytime, anywhere. Oracle used the Intel C++ Compiler for Linux and the Intel® C++ Compiler for Windows* to ensure that Oracle9i database software delivered the best performance possible on Intel® processor-based platforms.

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Faster Dynamic Modeling on Linux
Fluent used the Intel C++ Compiler for Linux on their Computational Fluid Dynamics application, and generated up to 37 percent faster performance on Linux than with the GNU Linux C Compiler.

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Making MP3s "Rip" Faster
Musicmatch Inc. used the Intel® VTune^TM Performance Analyzer and the Intel C++ Compiler to improve speed of the company's flagship product, Musicmatch Jukebox*, by 37 percent speed improvement and took a multi-day application profiling task and turned it into a sub-day task.

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Revving Up Image and Video Rendering
A painless switch to the Intel C++ Compiler made NewTek LightWave 3D* the best optimized and fastest rendering 3D package on the market for Pentium 4 processor-based systems.

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