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Free eBook: Introducing Windows Server 2008 R2
30 October 09 09:31 AM | EEC | 0 Comments   
A great new book on the new features and refinements in Windows Server 2008 R2 is available in the Microsoft download center. It’s called Introducing Windows Server 2008 R2 and is targeted primarily at Windows server administrators who are responsible Read More...
Samba's Great DRS Success
07 October 09 10:49 AM | EEC | 0 Comments   
Last week 5 Samba developers once again came to the EEC for to do some interop work. This time around they were going to be working with the Directory Replication Service (DRS) with the aim of moving from 'Samba4 to Samba4' replication to 'Samba4 and Read More...
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Scale testing the world's largest PKI, all on WS08/R2 and Hyper-V
25 September 09 12:31 PM | EEC | 0 Comments   
This week, we’ve been in the EEC doing our scale testing on the world’s largest PKI, issuing 100s of millions of certificates from 100s of CAs to devices around the world. The entire design is built on WS08R2 Hyper-V and WS08/WS08R2 CAs. To simulate one Read More...
Hyper-V Support, Performance and Load Tools
22 September 09 12:05 PM | EEC | 0 Comments   
During one of our engagements with Tuev Nord , (one of the world’s largest technical service providers of the Mobility, Industrial Services, International, Natural Resources and Training and Human Resources fields), the Windows Server Hyper-V feature Read More...
Microsoft’s “Redmond Ridge 1” Now Open
09 September 09 04:08 PM | EEC | 0 Comments   
For those folks that like facility news, yesterday Microsoft’s Managed Lab Services team gave a small group of reporters and bloggers the first external tour of the their new data center in Redmond, aka Redmond Ridge 1. Artist’s rendering of Redmond Ridge Read More...
Customers testing on 256 Processor Superdome
18 August 09 03:19 PM | EEC | 0 Comments   
Recently I was able to work with BWIN, the world’s largest online sports-betting and gaming provider, at the EEC while they tested the scaling of their workload on the world’s largest Windows Server, a HP Superdome with 128 cores and 256 threads, and Read More...
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More HP ProLiant DL380 G6’s Arriving
10 August 09 02:31 PM | EEC | 0 Comments   
While I was on vacation a couple weeks ago we received 10 new HP ProLiant® DL380 G6's equipped with dual Intel® Xeon® X5570 CPU’s, , 24GB memory, dual port 8Gbps fiber channel adapter, 2 146GB 15K SAS drives and dual power supplies. These were the 1 st Read More...
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...
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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...
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...
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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...
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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...
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Dell™ Case Study on Reducing Spending on Power, Hardware & Software
06 May 09 11:10 AM | EEC | 1 Comments   
Dell Global Infrastructure Consulting, led by Terry Storey, Senior Global Architect for the Dell Microsoft Practice, has been collaborating with the Windows Server and Client product groups since April 2008 on validating the release of Windows Server® Read More...

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