The Enterprise Engineering Center Blog : HPC

Windows HPC @ SC09

EEC — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:36:00 GMT

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)

EEC at SuperComputing 09

EEC — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:51:00 GMT

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)

Latest Lizard results on Rhiannon – 90%+ on 512 cores and 5.15 TFlops!

EEC — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:15:00 GMT

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)

Rhiannon has landed!! – The new IBM iDataPlex based Windows HPC benchmarking cluster is operational

EEC — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:27:00 GMT

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)

Nehalem HPC Cluster Installation Close to Finished

EEC — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:05:00 GMT

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)

Nehalem HPC Cluster Ready to be Racked

EEC — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:48:00 GMT

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)

A New Nehalem HPC Cluster Arrives at the EEC

EEC — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 22:21:00 GMT

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)