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Windows HPC @ SC09
19 November 09 10:36 AM | EEC | 0 Comments   
SC09 is going well and the work by the ASU students is very impressive. To learn more about it, please check our Wenming Ye's post on the Windows HPC Survival Guide blog. http://blogs.msdn.com/hpctrekker/archive/2009/11/14/super-computing-2009-next-week.aspx Read More...
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EEC at SuperComputing 09
17 November 09 08:51 AM | EEC | 0 Comments   
This week we are attending SC09 http://sc09.supercomputing.org/ educating folks about the EEC and supporting the HPC team. They will be demoing Excel Runner, which is tested at the EEC. We are also excited for the Arizona State University's work here Read More...
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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...
Benchmarking Exchange 2010 on Fusion IO solid state drives
13 October 09 09:50 AM | EEC | 0 Comments   
During a recent engagement with Siemens SWAT team we were able to benchmark Fusion IO cards in their exchange environment and used JetStress 2010. The server used was an HP 385 G5 running Windows 2008 R2. Below are the storage performance results from Read More...
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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...
Dell Increases Footprint at the EEC
26 August 09 09:17 AM | EEC | 0 Comments   
Last week 20 new Dell™ PowerEdge™ R710 servers arrived and are quickly being brought online for a customer engagement occurring in the next couple weeks. These servers contain Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® X5550 CPU’s, 24GB memory, eight 300GB SAS HDDs, and Read More...
Customers testing on 256 Processor Superdome
18 August 09 03:19 PM | EEC | 1 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...
New IBM Storage Comes to the EEC
06 August 09 12:44 PM | EEC | 4 Comments   
This week we just completed installing a new IBM XIV® Storage System: Model 2810 in san-alley. Ours is configured with 180 1TB SATA drives, and 15 modules; a data module consists of one Intel® Xeon® Quad-core 64-bit CPU, 8 GB fully buffered DIMM RAM. Read More...
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...
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...
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