July 2009 - Posts

UC Releases OCS R2 Site Resiliency White paper
28 July 09 11:51 AM | EEC | 3 Comments   

Earlier this year the Office Communications Group (OCG) approached the EEC and our Partners ( HP , F5 and Shunra ) to help them build an environment where they could perform the necessary testing to create this much needed white paper. This was a challenging Read More...

Filed under: Partners, Documentation, OCS, Virtualization

Latest Lizard results on Rhiannon – 90%+ on 512 cores and 5.15 TFlops!
21 July 09 02:15 PM | EEC | 0 Comments   

The latest Lizard results on Rhiannon came in over the weekend. On 64 nodes of 2.66 GHz Dual socket Nehalems (Turbo mode on), we achieved 5.15TFlops out of peak performance 5.72 TFlops (2.8*4*8*64), still north of 90%. Needless to say, we feel pretty Read More...

Filed under: Partners, Windows Server, HPC

Sun releases Virtualizing Windows on Sun Ray Thin Client White Paper
16 July 09 03:24 PM | EEC | 0 Comments   

As part of the expansion of the EEC, our team looked at a way to improve the customers’ experience of accessing their virtualized environments to perform their testing while at the EEC or from a remote location. We have accomplished this with our VDI Read More...

Filed under: Partners, Documentation, Windows Server, Virtualization

Rhiannon has landed!! – The new IBM iDataPlex based Windows HPC benchmarking cluster is operational
15 July 09 08:27 AM | EEC | 0 Comments   

We are excited to unveil the name for our new Windows HPC benchmarking cluster – Rhiannon: “ Rhiannon. This stunning name has never cracked the U.S. top 500, despite the Fleetwood Mac song of this name that hit the charts in the 1970s. In Welsh mythology, Read More...

Filed under: Partners, Windows Server, HPC

Nehalem HPC Cluster Installation Close to Finished
02 July 09 01:05 PM | EEC | 0 Comments   

The servers are in the racks and the final configuration of them is being completed and will be ready for use once the EEC comes back online July 20 th . The IBM folks have been great to work with and we appreciate their support. If your company is interested Read More...

Filed under: Partners, Windows Server, HPC