High-performance clusters bring many advantages to the end user, including flexibility and efficiency. With the increasing number of applications being served by high-performance systems, new systems need to serve multiple users and applications. Traditional high-performance systems typically served a single application at a given time, but to maintain maximum flexibility a new concept of “HPC [...]
The industry has been talking about it for a long time, but on March 30th, it was officially announced. The new Xeon 5500 “Nehalem” platform from Intel has introduced a totally new concept of server architecture for Intel-based platforms. The memory has moved from being connected to the chipset to be connected directly to the CPU, [...]
