June 2009 - Posts

Nehalem HPC Cluster Ready to be Racked
23 June 09 11:48 AM | EEC | 0 Comments   

Our friends from IBM are getting ready to rack the new Nehalem servers in Enterprise Customer Lab (ECL) #7, which is our HPC focused lab. We are excited to have them come online so they can start being used by the HPC team, their customers and ISV partners Read More...

Filed under: Partners, HPC

Virtualized Exchange Saves Power
16 June 09 09:25 AM | EEC | 1 Comments   

Earlier this year, Rob Simpson, Exchange Program Manager completed some testing while at the EEC to document the power savings that are possible when you virtualize your Exchange environment. What he found was that you can have a 50% power savings with Read More...

Filed under: Documentation, Exchange, Virtualization

Memory Primer for Nehalem Servers from EEC OEM Partners
09 June 09 08:52 AM | EEC | 0 Comments   

With the new Intel Nehalem based processors coming out some questions that our EEC OEM Partners get are around the memory configurations based on the new architecture. I have gone out and found some articles for you to review if you are interested. Dell Read More...

Filed under: Partners, Documentation

A New Nehalem HPC Cluster Arrives at the EEC
02 June 09 12:21 PM | EEC | 0 Comments   

The HPC team has been utilizing the EEC for the past 6 months or so to perform benchmarking tests. These tests have enabled them to provide quality data to customers interested in utilizing the Windows HPC Server solution to handle their computing needs. Read More...

Filed under: Partners, Windows Server, HPC