Processors

MSDN Webcast: Lock Contention, Using Intel Parallel Studio to Improve Performance (Level 300)

Discover how easy it is to use the power of Microsoft Visual Studio and Intel Parallel Studio to find performance issues due to lock contention in threaded applications. This ensures that shipped applications can take better advantage of multicore processors. The presenter of this webcast provides live demonstrations that show how to identify lock contentions issues with Visual Studio and Intel Parallel Studio, an add-in to Visual Studio that helps developers create fast, reliable code on multicore processors.

SunGard Supports 1,024-Core Computing Grid for Modeling With SQL Server 2008

SunGard creates solutions for 41 of the world's top 50 banks, so it wants the best platform on the planet to support its massively scalable Asset and Liability Management (ALM) solution - Ambit ALM. The company recently completed testing of Ambit ALM that found that Microsoft SQL Server 2008 database software hosted on a server computer with four Intel 6-Core Xeon 7460 processor cores could support a 1,024-core computing grid created using 128 computers, each with two Intel Xeon quad-core E5462 processors. Testing complex simulations with up to 60,000 variables found near-linear scalability in moving from a 512-core grid to the 1,024-core grid. This scalability benefits SunGard customers by enabling more complex simulation models to be processed, which helps enhance predictive accuracy.

Web Hosting Provider the Planet Moves to Dell 11th-Generation Servers, Doubling Customers' Application Performance and Reducing Power Consumption by 30 Percent

Stay ahead of competitors in the Web hosting marketplace by giving customers access to cutting-edge technology as soon as it is released; enhance operational efficiencies by maximizing the performance-per-watt ratio of new servers. The Planet deployed 11th-generation Dell PowerEdge servers equipped with the high-performing, energy-efficient Intel Xeon processor 5500 series.

Using Dell Netbooks, Dubiski Career High School Gains Up to 40 Extra Minutes of Learning Per Teacher Per Day

Administrators at a new career and technology high school wanted to make laptops available to all of their students. The laptops had to support their innovative curricula and learning environment and integrate well with other academic software. After comparing netbook offerings from four vendors, the district chose Dell Latitude 2100 netbooks with Intel Atom processors.

New Math of Virtual Desktops

Beacon City School District needed a way to upgrade its aging data center while improving its delivery of applications. The goal was to create a virtualized data center, including new user services, storage and disaster recovery capabilities as well as additional laptops in classrooms. The district deployed about 300 Dell Latitude Netbooks with Intel Atom processors running Stoneware Web-based learning applications to its Beacon High School students.

Raymond James Delivers Core Brokerage System on HP NonStop Platform Helps Financial Services Leader Continue to Provide Outstanding Service to Global Client Base

Raymond James is a leading financial services. Companies objective was to ensure the highest system reliability to support 24x7 trading activities, with scalability to handle 20 to 30 percent annual growth. Raymond James deployed HP Integrity NonStop NS16016 Servers for production and disaster recovery, complemented by an Integrity NonStop NS1008 Server for test and development, achieving excellent performance, effective mixed workload processing, and superior availability and scalability.

MSDN Webcast: SQL Server 2008 R2 Support for Up to 256 Logical Processors (Level 200)

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 introduces support for greater than 64 logical processors, supporting up to 256 logical processors on the Windows Server 2008 R2 operating system. The presenter of this webcast discusses the importance of being able to scale to 256 logical processors, examine the methodology Microsoft employed to validate performance and scalability of SQL Server 2008 R2, and provide details on SQL Server scalability tests and the hardware platforms the tests ran on. The presenter also discusses architectural innovations that made it possible for SQL Server 2008 R2 to scale beyond 64 logical processors and share SQL Server best practices.

Mobiltel Maximizes Business Agility and Competitiveness With HP Integrity Superdome Servers

As Bulgaria's leading telecommunications operator, Sofia-based Mobiltel possesses more than 50% market share. Mobiltel wanted to introduce new products to market quickly to stay ahead of the competition and maintain exceptional uptime for mission-critical CRM and billing applications. The challenge was to reduce software licensing costs and maximize hardware utilization. Mobiltel operated CRM and billing using three HP Integrity Superdome Servers with Intel Itanium 2 processors and leveraged HP hardware partitions (nPARs). The challenge was to use HP Mission Critical Partnership support services to avoid downtime.

BIDS Trading Cuts Latency and Costs With IBM System x

BIDS Trading, L.P. is a registered broker-dealer and the operator of the BIDS Alternative Trading System (ATS), designed to bring counterparties together to anonymously trade large blocks of shares. To handle a projected quadrupling of business volumes, BIDS Trading needed to move to a more scalable and manageable infrastructure. The aim was to shrink the physical size and complexity of the infrastructure, while simultaneously lowering trading latency and reducing the operational cost base. BIDS Trading selected IBM System x3650 M2 servers with Intel Xeon 5500 Series quad-core processors running Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

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