Case Studies
Boosting Performance in Life-Enhancing Designs
Abaqus Inc., a leading maker of mechanical simulation software, needs to simulate the physical response of structures and solid bodies to load, temperature, contact, impact, and other environmental conditions. Intel® Math Kernel Library (Intel® MKL) and Intel® VTune™ Performance Analyzer offered Abaqus engineers a path to a compelling solution on Intel architecture for these simulation requirements.
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Optimized Number Crunching
Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG) authors high-quality numerical software libraries in order to deliver high performance linear algebra solutions to its customers. For the best solutions running on Intel’s Itanium® processor-based, Intel® Xeon® processor-based, and Intel® Pentium® 4 processor-based computer systems, NAG libraries use the Intel® Math Kernal Library.
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ClearSpeed Advance™: A Hardware Accelerator for the Intel® Math Kernel Library
Intel MKL performs many compute-intensive routines. The ClearSpeed Advance board is a PCI-X hardware accelerator designed for 64-bit compute intensive kernels. Does the greater arithmetic speed of the hardware accelerator justify the time to move data to the board and back?
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