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Set Up Procedure for Performance Characterization Results: Benchmark to Demonstrate Improvement in SIP Performance for IMS, Powered by Dual-Core Intel Xeon Processors 2006-12-27 01:00:55 Intel

This white paper provides the detailed technical information necessary to understand test parameters and results characterizing Single Board Computer (SBC) performance for IMS workload based on SIP transactions. SIP testing was performed to determine a relative comparison of SBC performance reflecting the performance of the microprocessor, memory architecture, and compiler of a computer system on compute-intensive, 32-bit applications.

AGCO Fendt Ploughs a New Furrow for SAP With IBM System x and DB2 2006-05-11 IBM

The AGCO Corporation is a major worldwide manufacturer and distributor of agricultural equipment. AGCO Fendt wanted to create a more cost-effective and flexible environment for its SAP systems. The aim was to simplify administration and open up new possibilities, while decreasing both hardware and software licensing costs. As the first phase of a long-term project, AGCO Fendt implemented two IBM System x 346 servers with Intel Xeon processors to run its SAP HR with IBM DB2 Universal DataBase v8.2.2 (DB2 UDB). The company will add further IBM System x hardware in the coming years to support the complete migration of its remaining SAP applications.

Tags: Application Servers, Database Applications

Optimizing Application Performance on Cray Systems With PGI Compilers and Tools 2006-05-08 Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)

PGI Fortran, C and C++ compilers and tools are available on most Cray XT3 and Cray XD1 systems. Optimizing performance of the AMD Opteron processors in these systems often depends on maximizing SSE vectorization, ensuring alignment of vectors, and minimizing the number of cycles the processors are stalled waiting on data from main memory. The PGI compilers support a number of directives and options that allow the programmer to control and guide optimizations including vectorization, parallelization, function inlining, memory prefetching, interprocedural optimization, and others. This paper provides detailed examples of the use of several of these features as a means for extracting maximum single-node performance from Cray systems using PGI compilers and tools.

Tags: Programming Languages

Intel vPro Technology - Helping Reduce the Cost of Desktop PC Management 2006-12-09 01:00:17 Intel

Enterprise desktop computing environments are increasingly complex - and managing the complexity of these PCs contributes to rising IT costs. Now Intel vPro technology helps businesses reduce IT costs and streamline PC management through a combination of PC hardware and software. PCs with Intel vPro technology are Microsoft Windows Vista capable and broadly supported by hardware manufacturers and software companies, giving IT managers the support and stability they need to meet the manageability and security demands of the next generation of business computing.

Intel Itanium 2 Processors: Powerful, Flexible, and Nonproprietary 2006-05-01 Intel

By delivering high-end computing power on an affordable and broadly supported architecture, Itanium processor-based solutions provide a fundamental resource for these efforts. Large organizations will be able to deploy more computing capacity at less cost and adapt their solutions more easily to stay at the forefront of innovation. Many smaller organizations will be able to afford high-end computing power for the first time, which will help them take advantage of emerging software tools to accelerate research, growth, and development.

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AMD64 Technology: Providing Processor-Level Value for Today's Varied Storage Needs 2006-05-01 Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)

Storage has become a multi-billion dollar business, growing in double digit values every year. Virtually every computer user, from scientists running complex models on High Performance Computing clusters to enterprises and small businesses to consumers in the home, finding adequate storage solutions for reams of data is a growing priority. Today's storage vendors are racing to address this opportunity and are increasingly looking at the processor level to differentiate their systems and provide the appropriate level of performance for their customers. Emerging needs include extreme performance and system longevity, more cost-effective solutions, and extensive and varied software and support.

Tags: Storage Management, High Performance Computing

Sun Fire X4600 Server Architecture 2006-05-01 Sun Microsystems

As the first of its kind, the Sun Fire X4600 server is the fastest, most scalable, and energy-efficient four-way to 16-way x64 (x86 64-bit) server. It scales quickly from four sockets to eight sockets simply by adding processor boards, all in a compact 4RU form factor. With its multiple operating system support, extensive ISV application offerings, time-saving manageability, and availability features, the Sun Fire X4600 server is the top midrange solution for server consolidation and virtualization, enterprise applications, and High Performance Computing (HPC).

Tags: Application Servers, x86-standard Servers

Extending OpenMP to Clusters 2006-05-01 Intel

OpenMP is a well-known parallel programming paradigm for shared-memory multiprocessors. In the past, OpenMP has been confined to Symmetric Multi-Processing (SMP) machines and teamed with Message Passing Interface (MPI) technology to make use of multiple SMP systems. A new system, Cluster OpenMP, is an implementation of OpenMP that can make use of multiple SMP machines without resorting to MPI. This advance has the advantage of eliminating the need to write explicit messaging code, as well as not mixing programming paradigms. The shared memory in Cluster OpenMP is maintained across all machines through a distributed shared-memory subsystem. Cluster OpenMP is based on the relaxed memory consistency of OpenMP, allowing shared variables to be made consistent only when absolutely necessary.

Tags: Parallel Processing, Software Engineering

FAST Quickly Turns to Dell PowerEdge 2950 Servers as a Way to Meet the Computationally-Intense Needs of Its Enterprise Search Infrastructure 2006-05-01 Dell

FAST offers a full range of search-driven solutions, from applications solving specific vertical business challenges, such as online merchandizing. FAST seeks the latest high-performance servers for its hosting center to help sustain its edge in providing the fastest possible indexing for its worldwide customers. As part of the Dell evaluation program, FAST was provided with PowerEdge 2950 servers ahead of the general release in order to take them for a test ride. FAST predicts that the new high-performance PowerEdge 2950 servers offer the potential to consolidate the installed server infrastructure by as much as 20 percent, high-capacity servers with eight internal drives help reduce external storage requirements.

Tags: Application Servers, Storage Management

A Parallel Processing Hardware Architecture for Elliptic Curve Cryptosystems 2006-04-19 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

This paper proposes a parallel processing crypto-processor for Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) to speed up EC point multiplication. The processor consists of a controller that dynamically checks Instruction-Level Parallelism (ILP) and multiple sets of modular arithmetic logic units accelerating modular operations. A case study of HW design with the proposed architecture shows that EC point multiplication over GF(p) and GF(2m) can be improved by a factor of 1.6 compared to the case of using single processing element.

Tags: Parallel Processing

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Title	Date Added	Company
Set Up Procedure for Performance Characterization Results: Benchmark to Demonstrate Improvement in SIP Performance for IMS, Powered by Dual-Core Intel Xeon Processors	2006-12-27 01:00:55	Intel
This white paper provides the detailed technical information necessary to understand test parameters and results characterizing Single Board Computer (SBC) performance for IMS workload based on SIP transactions. SIP testing was performed to determine a relative comparison of SBC performance reflecting the performance of the microprocessor, memory architecture, and compiler of a computer system on compute-intensive, 32-bit applications.
AGCO Fendt Ploughs a New Furrow for SAP With IBM System x and DB2	2006-05-11	IBM
The AGCO Corporation is a major worldwide manufacturer and distributor of agricultural equipment. AGCO Fendt wanted to create a more cost-effective and flexible environment for its SAP systems. The aim was to simplify administration and open up new possibilities, while decreasing both hardware and software licensing costs. As the first phase of a long-term project, AGCO Fendt implemented two IBM System x 346 servers with Intel Xeon processors to run its SAP HR with IBM DB2 Universal DataBase v8.2.2 (DB2 UDB). The company will add further IBM System x hardware in the coming years to support the complete migration of its remaining SAP applications. Tags: Application Servers, Database Applications
Optimizing Application Performance on Cray Systems With PGI Compilers and Tools	2006-05-08	Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)
PGI Fortran, C and C++ compilers and tools are available on most Cray XT3 and Cray XD1 systems. Optimizing performance of the AMD Opteron processors in these systems often depends on maximizing SSE vectorization, ensuring alignment of vectors, and minimizing the number of cycles the processors are stalled waiting on data from main memory. The PGI compilers support a number of directives and options that allow the programmer to control and guide optimizations including vectorization, parallelization, function inlining, memory prefetching, interprocedural optimization, and others. This paper provides detailed examples of the use of several of these features as a means for extracting maximum single-node performance from Cray systems using PGI compilers and tools. Tags: Programming Languages
Intel vPro Technology - Helping Reduce the Cost of Desktop PC Management	2006-12-09 01:00:17	Intel
Enterprise desktop computing environments are increasingly complex - and managing the complexity of these PCs contributes to rising IT costs. Now Intel vPro technology helps businesses reduce IT costs and streamline PC management through a combination of PC hardware and software. PCs with Intel vPro technology are Microsoft Windows Vista capable and broadly supported by hardware manufacturers and software companies, giving IT managers the support and stability they need to meet the manageability and security demands of the next generation of business computing.
Intel Itanium 2 Processors: Powerful, Flexible, and Nonproprietary	2006-05-01	Intel
By delivering high-end computing power on an affordable and broadly supported architecture, Itanium processor-based solutions provide a fundamental resource for these efforts. Large organizations will be able to deploy more computing capacity at less cost and adapt their solutions more easily to stay at the forefront of innovation. Many smaller organizations will be able to afford high-end computing power for the first time, which will help them take advantage of emerging software tools to accelerate research, growth, and development. Tags:
AMD64 Technology: Providing Processor-Level Value for Today's Varied Storage Needs	2006-05-01	Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)
Storage has become a multi-billion dollar business, growing in double digit values every year. Virtually every computer user, from scientists running complex models on High Performance Computing clusters to enterprises and small businesses to consumers in the home, finding adequate storage solutions for reams of data is a growing priority. Today's storage vendors are racing to address this opportunity and are increasingly looking at the processor level to differentiate their systems and provide the appropriate level of performance for their customers. Emerging needs include extreme performance and system longevity, more cost-effective solutions, and extensive and varied software and support. Tags: Storage Management, High Performance Computing
Sun Fire X4600 Server Architecture	2006-05-01	Sun Microsystems
As the first of its kind, the Sun Fire X4600 server is the fastest, most scalable, and energy-efficient four-way to 16-way x64 (x86 64-bit) server. It scales quickly from four sockets to eight sockets simply by adding processor boards, all in a compact 4RU form factor. With its multiple operating system support, extensive ISV application offerings, time-saving manageability, and availability features, the Sun Fire X4600 server is the top midrange solution for server consolidation and virtualization, enterprise applications, and High Performance Computing (HPC). Tags: Application Servers, x86-standard Servers
Extending OpenMP to Clusters	2006-05-01	Intel
OpenMP is a well-known parallel programming paradigm for shared-memory multiprocessors. In the past, OpenMP has been confined to Symmetric Multi-Processing (SMP) machines and teamed with Message Passing Interface (MPI) technology to make use of multiple SMP systems. A new system, Cluster OpenMP, is an implementation of OpenMP that can make use of multiple SMP machines without resorting to MPI. This advance has the advantage of eliminating the need to write explicit messaging code, as well as not mixing programming paradigms. The shared memory in Cluster OpenMP is maintained across all machines through a distributed shared-memory subsystem. Cluster OpenMP is based on the relaxed memory consistency of OpenMP, allowing shared variables to be made consistent only when absolutely necessary. Tags: Parallel Processing, Software Engineering
FAST Quickly Turns to Dell PowerEdge 2950 Servers as a Way to Meet the Computationally-Intense Needs of Its Enterprise Search Infrastructure	2006-05-01	Dell
FAST offers a full range of search-driven solutions, from applications solving specific vertical business challenges, such as online merchandizing. FAST seeks the latest high-performance servers for its hosting center to help sustain its edge in providing the fastest possible indexing for its worldwide customers. As part of the Dell evaluation program, FAST was provided with PowerEdge 2950 servers ahead of the general release in order to take them for a test ride. FAST predicts that the new high-performance PowerEdge 2950 servers offer the potential to consolidate the installed server infrastructure by as much as 20 percent, high-capacity servers with eight internal drives help reduce external storage requirements. Tags: Application Servers, Storage Management
A Parallel Processing Hardware Architecture for Elliptic Curve Cryptosystems	2006-04-19	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
This paper proposes a parallel processing crypto-processor for Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) to speed up EC point multiplication. The processor consists of a controller that dynamically checks Instruction-Level Parallelism (ILP) and multiple sets of modular arithmetic logic units accelerating modular operations. A case study of HW design with the proposed architecture shows that EC point multiplication over GF(p) and GF(2m) can be improved by a factor of 1.6 compared to the case of using single processing element. Tags: Parallel Processing