High Performance Computing

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Maximize your IT resources with HPC
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2.  High-performance computing (HPC) enables IT
departments to harness massive computing power by
distributing the workload across many computers
 Instead of investing in a “supercomputer”, you combine
the power of multiple PC-based “commodity servers”
 For more on Dell HPC solutions visit here.
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3. Schematic of a basic HPC cluster
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4.  Genetic and molecular modeling
 Forecasting sales trends
 Educational research
 Multi-organizational projects
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5.  The Master Node (or central coordinator) distributes the
workload to the computers working on the HPC network
 The Compute Nodes are the individual computers
processing the data from the master node
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6.  Microsoft Windows Server
 Red Hat Enterprise Linux
 Organizations can customize the system to correspond
with their current OS investment
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7.  Rack servers – maximizes data center efficiency into a
small space
 Blade servers – high processor density with central
power management
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8.  A flop is floating point operations per second – a
computing performance measurement
 Gigaflop = 109 operations per second
Once you have an estimate of how many FLOPS your HPC
system must support, you can choose your system
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9.  Total Capacity (measured in terabytes)
 Raw Throughput ( measured in gigabytes per second)
 Storage solutions are designed to be paired with
Storage Area Networks (SANs), built over fiber-optic
networks to keep data moving quickly
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