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whitepaper Essent Consolidates IT Infrastructure to Reduce Total Cost of Ownership by 50%2009-11-01 Oracle
  Essent wanted to increase computing capacity to better service the processes and reduce costs by standardizing and consolidating IT infrastructure. The challenge was to ensure high availability and performance for business-critical systems such as customer registration and energy consumption forecasting, which is performed every five minutes. Essent worked with Oracle Partner IBM Nederland B.V. to implement an Oracle Database grid with Oracle Real Application Clusters on a SUSE Linux Enterprise Server consisting of 28 Intel Xeon servers, each with eight cores and 32 gigabytes of RAM.

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whitepaper University Technology Centre Uses High-Performance Solution for Aerodynamic Design2009-11-01 Microsoft
  The University of Southampton in the U.K. houses the Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre (UTC) for Computational Engineering. The centre undertakes aerodynamic research and design using a range of advanced Rolls-Royce structural and fluid flow prediction methods. To operate the increasingly complex computational needs of this work - currently the Spitfire cluster has around 650 Central Processing Unit (CPU) cores - the centre adopted Windows HPC Server 2008.

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whitepaper University Physicists Reach New Research Horizons With High-Performance Computing2009-11-01 Microsoft
  The Department of Physics at the University of Bologna needed to increase its computation speed for complex tomographic analysis of large works of art. After successful testing, it now conducts its calculations on a cluster that runs the Windows HPC Server 2008 operating system. Doing so made it possible for university researchers to avoid rewriting code, reduce calculation times from 20 days to 6 hours, and expand into new areas of research.

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whitepaper University Develops Non-Invasive Treatment for Cancer With High-Performance Computing2009-11-01 Microsoft
  Swansea Metropolitan University (SMU) has gained international fame for excellence in research into cancer by its Applied Design and Engineering Faculty. Scientists needed a fast High-Performance Computing (HPC) tool to support clinicians treating patients with oesophageal cancer. They upgraded to Windows Server 2008 with the Microsoft Message Passing Interface (MS MPI) for parallel testing on a single workstation to support the non-invasive treatment.

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whitepaper Researchers Choose Windows HPC Server for Real-World Computing Questions2009-11-01 Microsoft
  When researchers at Rutgers wanted to explore massive computing scenarios with real-world significance for fields such as financial services and pharmaceuticals, they turned to Windows HPC Server 2008. In one research project, the software proved at least 30 percent faster than Linux. The Windows HPC Server cluster was deployed in one day and works like the Windows operating system with which users and administrators are already familiar.

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whitepaper Computer Center Improves Energy Efficiency With New Diskless Cluster2009-11-01 Microsoft
  The High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS) provides computing resources to internal and external research and industry partners. The institute uses diskless boot technology for all of its 700 compute nodes to implement a compute cluster with Windows HPC Server 2008. HLRS has found that using diskless boot technology in combination with the latest cluster technology leads to significant savings, thanks to the high energy efficiency.

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whitepaper Industrial Simulation Firm Boosts Compute Speeds by 20 Percent With Cluster Upgrade2009-11-01 Microsoft
  EURO/CFD, which provides digital simulation of fluid mechanics and heat transfer, recently expanded its computing infrastructure and upgraded to the Windows HPC Server 2008 operating system for its 37-node cluster. EURO/CFD can now launch simulations on 20 server computers simultaneously. With the resulting 20-percent increase in computation speed, EURO/CFD has gained a competitive edge by delivering detailed, accurate information for customers.

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whitepaper Manufacturer Expands Research Capabilities With Switch to Windows HPC Server 20082009-11-01 Microsoft
  Stork Thermeq, a provider of products and services for industrial water-steam systems, used a Red Hat Linux High-Performance Computing (HPC) system to support its research. But the company found that the system took considerable expertise to run and maintain, pulling researchers away from their work, and would have required outside consultants to expand and maintain the system's structure. The company migrated to the Windows HPC Server 2008 operating system because it provided greater scalability and easier management. Stork Thermeq also found that the system delivers greater cluster efficiency and flexibility because of the integrated Job Scheduler and because it performs 30 percent faster per node than the company's previous Linux system.

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whitepaper Bank Decreases Processing Time by 75 Percent With High-Performance Computing Solution2009-11-01 Microsoft
  Banca IFIS wanted to speed up its batch processing to meet an increase in customer demand for services. The bank worked with its partner Teamlab to migrate its existing Electronic Credit Line Management application to the Windows HPC Server 2008 operating system. Doing so helped the bank reduce its batch-processing times by 75 percent, ensure high availability, and avoid purchasing additional hardware to accommodate the heightened demand.

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whitepaper Firm Uses Internet Service Bus to Enable Smart Grid for Dynamic Energy Savings2009-11-01 Microsoft
  Invensys Operations Management is out to make it easier and less expensive for small electric utilities in the United States to participate in smart grid, an energy modernization program supported by the U.S. government. Utilities need a high-performance, low-cost way to distribute real-time pricing data to customers so that they can make smarter consumption decisions. Invensys responded by creating a smart grid communications platform using The Service Bus and Access Control Service, both part of the Windows Azure platform. The resulting platform enables utilities to immediately embrace smart grid services at affordable prices. Such services will help utility customers save money by using energy more wisely.

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