Appro HyperBlade vs 1U Servers: TCO Analysis
This is a three-year life cycle TCO (including Acquisition and Operation Costs) of a 512 node cluster in HPC environment using APPRO HyperBlade Servers based on AMD Opteron™ processors versus 1U servers from Dell, Hewlett Packard, IBM and Sun.
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Appro`s Xtreme-X Supercomputer Blade Solution: High Value, Attractive Price and Performance
This IDC white paper reviews the growing technical computing (HPC) market for bladed servers and evaluates Appro’s Xtreme-X blade architecture and management system in relation to the needs of this market. The paper also assesses the challenges and opportunities Appro faces in the technical computing market for bladed servers.
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Building High-Performance Linux Clusters
Overview as well as detailed information on the engineering approaches and challenges of building a high-performance computing cluster. In addition, it presents comprehensive information focusing on Linux running on the AMD Opteron™ processor family and a real example of building and provisioning an Appro HyperBlade 80-node cluster with a total of 160 AMD Opteron processors at the AMD Developer Center.
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Optimized HPC Performance: MPI Strategies for Next Generation Quad-Core Intel Xeon Processors
The evolution to multi-core processors provides a unique set of challenges and opportunities for the High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster sector. On the one hand, multiple cores means more computing power within the same space and power signatures. On the other, fundamental changes in processor architecture makes efficient use of these processors a bit more challenging than previous designs.
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