The Enterprise Engineering Center Blog : Partners

Benchmarking Exchange 2010 on Fusion IO solid state drives

EEC — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:50:00 GMT

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)

Dell Increases Footprint at the EEC

EEC — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:17:00 GMT

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

EEC — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:19:00 GMT

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)

More HP ProLiant DL380 G6’s Arriving

EEC — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:31:00 GMT

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

EEC — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 22:44:00 GMT

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

EEC — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 21:51:00 GMT

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!

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)

Sun releases Virtualizing Windows on Sun Ray Thin Client White Paper

EEC — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 01:24:00 GMT

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

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)

Memory Primer for Nehalem Servers from EEC OEM Partners

EEC — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:52:00 GMT

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)

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)

Raritran Selected for IT Infrastructure and Power Management Provider

EEC — Thu, 14 May 2009 23:12:00 GMT

There was some good news about the EEC and our current remodel the other day. One of the projects during the remodel was to upgrade to our infrastructure so we could provide more performance and environmental data to our product teams, customers and partners....(read more)

Dell™ Case Study on Reducing Spending on Power, Hardware & Software

EEC — Wed, 06 May 2009 21:10:00 GMT

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)