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An Intel Technology-Based Computing Infrastructure Helps a Leading Wireless Mobile Messaging Provider to Maintain Growth, Enhance Developer Productivity and Prepare for the Future | 0000-00-00 | Intel |
| AKN Messaging Technologies Bhd (AKN MTECH), a leading provider of wireless mobile messaging products was growing rapidly - expanding products and services, headcount, strategic alliances and branch offices. The desktop PCs it had used as servers in its startup phase could not keep pace with the company's growing transaction, storage, performance and reliability needs. The company implemented a computing infrastructure consisting of servers based on Intel Xeon processors and client workstations based on Intel Pentium 4 processors supporting Hyper-Threading Technology. The PCs came to AKN MTECH with operating systems installed by Wynet - 70 percent of the servers with Linux and 30 percent with Microsoft Windows Server 2003, and all of the clients running Microsoft Windows XP Professional.
Tags: Desktop Systems - PCs, Linux - Open Source |
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KISTI Increases Performance With Intel Xeon Processor-Based HPC Cluster | 0000-00-00 | Intel |
| The Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI) is a government-funded institute that plays a leading role in supporting innovative and cutting-edge research in a variety of disciplines; these range from manufacturing, engineering, and medicine to aerospace, astrophysics, chemistry and life sciences. KISTI's existing High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster was straining to cope with the increasing demand for more computing power for advanced research. The institute wanted to contain costs in an HPC solution that must meet KISTI's performance requirements within the research and development budget. With its new HPC cluster based on Intel architecture, KISTI is able to accelerate research at lower costs.
Tags: High Performance Computing |
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Chinese Research Center Boosts Parallel Database Performance With Intel Xeon Processor | 0000-00-00 | Intel |
| Businesses today generate data at an unprecedented rate. While the costs of processing such large volumes of data remain high, the technology to do so is already in place. Parallel computing is the next phase in computing that allows the complex management, retrieval and analysis of massive amounts of information. And the National Research Center of Parallel Computer Engineering & Technology in China is at the heart of this evolution with Intel Xeon processors.
Tags: Parallel Processing, High Performance Computing |
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NPO Saturn Gets Top Positions in the Field of Aircraft Construction Due to Intel-Based IT Solutions | 0000-00-00 | Intel |
| High-performance computing is critical throughout the aircraft design lifecycle. To meet its growing demands for high-performance computing, NPO Saturn, one of Russia's leading aerospace companies, has chosen a clustered solution powered by the Intel Xeon processor and Intel Itanium 2 processor. With peak performance of 922 Gflops and LINPACK performance of 769 Gflops, the system is one of the most powerful of its kind within Russian industrial companies and the fourth highest ranking computer in the Top 50 supercomputer listing at CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States, the Union of former soviet republics excluding Baltic countries). To further its cost savings and flexibility, NPO Saturn chose a cluster running the Linux operating system.
Tags: Linux - Open Source, Linux Server OS |
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Nanyang Technological University Enrolls Intel Solution Services to Set the Direction for e-Learning | 0000-00-00 | Intel |
| Growing use of e-Learning applications by the Nanyang Technological University's 3,000 faculty and staff members, 25,000 undergraduate and graduate students, and fast-rising number of alumni was pushing the university's RISC architecture - based IT infrastructure to its limits. Yet the school was planning to increase the use of e-Learning applications by expanding its alumni distance-learning program. The school wanted to test and validate the expected price/performance and scalability of an Intel architecture running e-Learning applications in a Linux environment. Facing an expensive IT upgrade to accommodate projected 15 percent annual growth in e-Learning activity, the IT team decided to evaluate an Intel architecture as an alternative.
Tags: Linux - Open Source, Linux Server OS |
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Plaza Hotel Revolutionizes Customer Relationships With Technology Advantages From Intel Processor-Based Computers | 0000-00-00 | Intel |
| Plaza Hotel, the largest hotel in the Brazilian Southern region, was faced with the challenge of centralizing their administration, enhancing customer relationship management (CRM) information, and increasing the quality of services. The challenge was to restructure its information technology (IT) environment across six facilities to allow centralized hotel administration and improved customer relationship management capabilities. To restructure their IT environment, the Plaza Hotel chose the Linux open source operating system (OS) and Intel Xeon and Intel Celeron processor-based platforms to achieve the required performance and reliability.
Tags: Linux - Open Source, Linux Server OS |
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Vanderbilt University's ACCRE Selects Capricorn Technologies and AMD64 for High Performance Storage Solution | 2007-04-16 | Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) |
| Vanderbilt University's Advanced Computing Center for Research & Education (ACCRE) mission is to enhance the research efforts of all the colleges and schools at Vanderbilt, and ensure that all those who need access to the Center's computational power to advance their particular academic discipline can take advantage of the resource. They needed a tunable approach to storage and set about solving these issues on the software side. ACCRE deployed AMD64 processor-based solution with which they now have the ability to meet a wide range of user storage requirements while, at the management level, achieving a credible option for maximizing the storage resources with fewer dollars. The AMD64 processor-based Capricorn solution delivered exactly what they wanted.
Tags: Storage Management, High Performance Computing |
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Edit 1 Media Completes Polished Videos On-Site in a Day Using Adobe Production Studio Software | 0000-00-00 | Adobe Systems |
| Imagine how exciting it would be to watch a video of your wedding at the reception, immediately following the big event. People who hire Chris and Laura Randall of Edit 1 Media to create their wedding videos can do exactly that. The Randalls and their team are pioneering same-day editing, shooting footage throughout the wedding day of events such as the bride getting ready as well as scenes from the ceremony. Edit 1 Media is taking videography to a new level of speed and efficiency-all using a Dell Precision M90 mobile workstation with an Intel Core Duo processor equipped with Adobe Production Studio software.
Tags: Workstations, Video Management Software |
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Gertex Weaves a New ERP Landscape Using SAP Software on IBM System p5 | 0000-00-00 | IBM |
| Gertex Textil GmbH is a medium-sized company operating in the textiles sector. The company wanted to replace sector-specific ERP system with industry-standard software; invest in 64-bit server technology to support at least three years of future business growth; ensure low cost of ownership for new solution. To solve this, the company worked with IT-Informatik GmbH, an IBM Premier Business Partner, to implement an SAP landscape under Linux on two IBM System p5 systems with IBM POWER5 microprocessors.
Tags: Linux - Open Source, UNIX |
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Novell Case Study: The Susquehanna International Group of Companies | 0000-00-00 | Novell |
| The Susquehanna International Group of companies (SIG) is a leading institutional sales, research and market making firm active in financial markets on five continents. SIG needed an operating system platform that would support rapid development and deployment. SIG recognized the benefits of moving its UNIX environment to Linux would include better performance on AMD-based hardware. SIG evaluated several distributions before selecting SUSE Linux Enterprise Server to run on its servers.
Tags: Linux - Open Source, Linux Server OS |
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