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A Dell/Stanford Case Study Utilizing Rocks+

Challenge - Build a highly available, standards-based high-performance computing (HPC) cluster that supports researchers conducting groundbreaking work in mathematical simulation for engineering design and flow control analysis.

Solution - The Dell Advanced System Group designed and installed a 212-node, 1,696-processor cluster based on Dell PowerEdge servers, knitted together with Cisco Infiniband, Dell PowerConnect switches and running the Clustercorp Rocks+ operating system. more..


Stanford Wins 'Best Practices in Storage' Award
Stanford University has been awarded with Storage Networking World's "Best Practices in Storage" Award for their successful design, implementation and management of a high performance computing (HPC) infrastructure using Panasas ActiveStor Parallel Storage Clusters. The award was determined by IDG's Computerworld Magazine's advisory group and alumni panel. more..
 

 

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