The document announces version 2.0 of vSMP Foundation, which aggregates multiple physical servers into a single virtual server. Key enhancements in 2.0 include support for more than 2 processors, up to 3 times better performance, optimized intra-board memory placement, and dual InfiniBand switches with automatic failover. The product allows for hardware-level partitions, up to 32 Fibre Channel HBAs, and new profiling tools. It targets applications requiring large memory, multiple processors, or simplified cluster management.
Blade Servers & Virtualization State of the IndustryIMEX Research
This document discusses blade servers and virtualization from IMEX Research. It provides an overview of the state of the blade server industry and virtualization. Key topics covered include the benefits of blade servers over traditional rack servers, major vendors in the blade server market, and how virtualization can help address challenges in data center management by improving server utilization rates.
Blade Servers & Virtualization: State of the IndustryIMEX Research
This document from IMEX Research discusses the state of blade servers, virtualization, and data center infrastructure in 2007. It describes the chaos common in enterprises at the time with multiple server and database platforms from various vendors, complicated networking environments, and reliability/management issues. The document highlights challenges with utilization, scalability, management costs, and availability of existing infrastructure. It provides examples of metrics and targets to improve efficiency of servers, storage, applications and data centers through consolidation and new technologies.
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Next-Gen Data Center Virtualization: Studies in ImplementationIMEX Research
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The document discusses strategies for architecting next generation enterprise network storage. It covers managing strategic storage plans, data protection techniques like mirroring and replication, lowering total cost of ownership through tiered storage and standardization, and emerging technologies like continuous data protection and information classification. The overall goal is to provide resilient, cost-effective storage that aligns with business needs and data life cycles.
Desktopvirtualisatie met VMware View, de laatste ontwikkelingenUNIT4 IT Solutions
Desktopvirtualisatie met VMware View, de laatste ontwikkelingen
Auteur: Ton Hermes, VMware
14 april 2011
Relatiedag UNIT4 IT Solutions
Voor meer informatie:
itsolutions@unit4.com
Next generation data centers are moving towards more automated, dense, and efficient infrastructure using blade servers and IP-based networks. Blade servers provide significant cost savings over traditional rack-mounted servers through higher density, lower administration costs, and reduced power and space requirements. Management software is key to provisioning and monitoring resources in these highly virtualized environments. Standards around fabrics, management protocols, and form factors will drive further adoption of blade servers across applications ranging from web infrastructure to high performance computing.
Product Update for Unified CommunicationsCisco Canada
This presentation will give a product update on unified communications. It will discuss: the market definition of unified communications, and Cisco’s product portfolio and deployment models.
Blade Servers & Virtualization State of the IndustryIMEX Research
This document discusses blade servers and virtualization from IMEX Research. It provides an overview of the state of the blade server industry and virtualization. Key topics covered include the benefits of blade servers over traditional rack servers, major vendors in the blade server market, and how virtualization can help address challenges in data center management by improving server utilization rates.
Blade Servers & Virtualization: State of the IndustryIMEX Research
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Next-Gen Data Center: Improving TCO & ROI in Data Centers Through Virtualizat...IMEX Research
This document discusses improving data center efficiency and ROI through virtualization and blade servers. It notes that virtualization allows better utilization of servers and storage, improving scalability and manageability while lowering costs. Adopting blade servers allows for higher density and power/cooling efficiency. The document recommends these strategies to address challenges of rising IT costs, inefficient infrastructure utilization, and improving alignment between IT and business goals.
Next-Gen Data Center Virtualization: Studies in ImplementationIMEX Research
This document discusses next-generation data center virtualization through the implementation of virtualization at various levels including the operating system, server, network, and storage. It notes how virtualization can help address challenges with current enterprise IT infrastructures like scalability issues, difficult management, questionable reliability, and high management costs. The document also outlines a vision for next-generation highly virtualized and automated data centers that integrate grids, services, and autonomics in addition to virtualization.
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The document discusses strategies for architecting next generation enterprise network storage. It covers managing strategic storage plans, data protection techniques like mirroring and replication, lowering total cost of ownership through tiered storage and standardization, and emerging technologies like continuous data protection and information classification. The overall goal is to provide resilient, cost-effective storage that aligns with business needs and data life cycles.
Desktopvirtualisatie met VMware View, de laatste ontwikkelingenUNIT4 IT Solutions
Desktopvirtualisatie met VMware View, de laatste ontwikkelingen
Auteur: Ton Hermes, VMware
14 april 2011
Relatiedag UNIT4 IT Solutions
Voor meer informatie:
itsolutions@unit4.com
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This presentation will give a product update on unified communications. It will discuss: the market definition of unified communications, and Cisco’s product portfolio and deployment models.
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The New Data Center: Consolidated, Converged, Virtualized & AutomatedIMEX Research
The document discusses the evolution of data centers towards consolidation, convergence, virtualization and automation. It notes that traditional data centers are difficult and costly to manage due to issues like poor scalability, utilization rates, and reliability. Emerging technologies allow data centers to become more consolidated, virtualized and automated, improving manageability and reducing costs.
Thousands of organizations are discovering that the IBM®XIV®Storage System series, with a virtualized storage architecture, is a perfect fit with VMware environments. In fact, the lion's share of customers deploy XIV together with VMware, benefiting from consistently high performance, game-changing ease of use, low TCO
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1) IBM's cloud capabilities are built on a common platform committed to open standards, including Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, and Software as a Service.
2) IBM SmartCloud Foundation provides flexibility in delivering, integrating and consuming cloud capabilities through private clouds, hybrid clouds, and public clouds.
3) The document discusses IBM's cloud offerings and reference architecture, and provides strategies for prioritizing workloads and understanding a client's current capabilities and goals to develop a cloud roadmap.
The document discusses the value of using NetApp storage solutions for virtualized environments running VMware. It addresses challenges customers often face around backup, disaster recovery, storage efficiency, and data management tasks. It then summarizes how NetApp products like Snapshot copies, SnapMirror, and deduplication can help solve these issues by reducing storage needs by up to 50%, improving backup and restore times, enabling cost-effective disaster recovery, and automating data management tasks. The document promotes a 50% storage savings guarantee when using NetApp solutions for virtualization.
The document discusses Hewlett-Packard's (HP) new innovations in converged infrastructure for cloud computing. It introduces HP's new ProLiant Gen 7 servers, including scale-up servers, FlexFabric networking solutions, and intelligent power supplies. The document also discusses how HP's converged infrastructure solutions help customers transition to cloud computing models in a more evolutionary manner.
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This document provides an overview of the Advanced ACE Tutorial presented by Douglas C. Schmidt. It discusses key object-oriented (OO) concepts like patterns, frameworks, and components that help address the inherent and accidental complexities of developing concurrent and distributed applications. The Adaptive Communication Environment (ACE) is presented as an example of an OO framework that incorporates many patterns to provide reusable middleware services for building networked and multithreaded applications.
This document provides an accessories guide for Cambium Networks' point-to-multipoint wireless network solutions. It describes accessories for access points like the Cluster Management Module (CMM) for network synchronization and management, as well as power supplies. Mounting kits and antennas are also covered to help operators design networks to meet their needs.
EMC SAN provides benefits such as high availability and manageability, improved application performance through dedicated storage networks, fast scalability through centralized storage, and better data replication and recovery options. Case studies show that EMC SAN solutions can help businesses reduce costs through storage consolidation, improve business continuity through centralized data management, and increase business flexibility to support growth. EMC SAN migration services help ensure business impact through detailed planning and elimination of downtime during implementation.
1) ASPIDER M2M provides a global 1-SIM solution for M2M connectivity using GSM and UMTS networks in over 60 countries.
2) Their solution is operator independent as they operate their own core mobile network, allowing connectivity to multiple networks per country.
3) Advanced billing solutions are provided, including prepaid SIMs, automated provisioning based on usage, and third party service billing capabilities.
This presentation provides an overview of engineering simulation and cloud computing. It discusses how the cloud can help address obstacles to wider adoption of engineering simulation by reducing costs and allowing on-demand access. The presentation defines key cloud concepts and models. It outlines the current status of engineering simulation software vendors in the cloud, noting a variety of cloud strategies. The presentation aims to help engineering end users navigate cloud opportunities from their perspective.
Target environments for this software include applications that require large memory footprints, multiple processors and shared memory. Typical end-user applications are in the areas of energy, manufacturing, life sciences, computational structural mechanics, computational fluid dynamics, and finance. The software aims to simplify cluster complexities for applications that use significant computing resources.
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What happens when the digital tools and platforms we make and use for communication and entertainment are hijacked for terrorism, violence against the vulnerable and nefarious transactions? What role do designers and developers play? Are we complicit as creators of these technologies and products? Should we police them or fight back? As Portfolio Lead for Northern Lab, Northern Trust's internal innovation startup focused on client and partner experience, Antonio will share a mix of provocative scenarios torn from today's headlines and compelling stories where activism and technology facilitated peace—and war.
As a call-to-action for designers and developers to engage in projects capable of transformational change, he'll explore the question: How might technology foster new experiences to better accelerate social activism and make the world a smarter, safer place?
Shoppers are expected to spend more on back-to-school shopping this year, with an average of $488 anticipated to be spent. Most shoppers will do the majority of their shopping in physical stores, though technology purchases are more likely to be made online. Research is done digitally before purchases are made in stores. Spending is heaviest on traditional items like clothing, shoes, and school supplies, though those buying computers or gadgets will spend the most overall. Early shopping and following school-recommended lists influences higher spending.
This document provides information about QBit Systems India Ltd., an ISO 9001:2000 certified company that offers offshore outsourcing and custom application development services. It lists the types of solutions and applications they develop, including enterprise portals, mobile applications, and ecommerce websites. Examples are provided of projects developed for clients in oil, shipping, and other industries. QBit Systems aims to enable businesses worldwide through cutting-edge technology solutions.
This document describes XRM, an event-based resource management framework for XCP. XRM uses a feedback control loop model to automatically allocate resources across VMs and physical machines to meet application goals while maximizing utilization and performance. It addresses challenges in coordinating resource management across multiple layers and efficiently combining scaling primitives. XRM is implemented in Python on XCP and allows pluggable algorithms to handle different events and take actions like migrating VMs or powering off machines. Preliminary results show XRM using different allocation algorithms on a testbed with 5 hosts and random workload requests.
Fy09 Sask Tel Learn It System Centre Garth Jonessim100
Garth Jones presented on Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) and System Center products. Some key capabilities of MDOP include application virtualization, system management, data protection, and lowering desktop TCO. System Center includes capabilities for virtual machine management, configuration management, operations management, and capacity planning. Garth discussed how Enhansoft develops products and services to extend System Center capabilities.
The document discusses integrating SAP with OTM. It provides background on SAP and OTM history, highlights key design considerations, and common challenges. The real challenge is to fully understand the end-to-end supply chain business process and requirements to define necessary system support. Clarifying ownership of supply chain segments, business pressures on the IT landscape, and whether the TMS can optimize loads is important.
The New Data Center: Consolidated, Converged, Virtualized & AutomatedIMEX Research
The document discusses the evolution of data centers towards consolidation, convergence, virtualization and automation. It notes that traditional data centers are difficult and costly to manage due to issues like poor scalability, utilization rates, and reliability. Emerging technologies allow data centers to become more consolidated, virtualized and automated, improving manageability and reducing costs.
Thousands of organizations are discovering that the IBM®XIV®Storage System series, with a virtualized storage architecture, is a perfect fit with VMware environments. In fact, the lion's share of customers deploy XIV together with VMware, benefiting from consistently high performance, game-changing ease of use, low TCO
Comprendre l’offre IBM SmartCloud Foundation, Zoom sur PureSystems Claude Riousset
1) IBM's cloud capabilities are built on a common platform committed to open standards, including Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, and Software as a Service.
2) IBM SmartCloud Foundation provides flexibility in delivering, integrating and consuming cloud capabilities through private clouds, hybrid clouds, and public clouds.
3) The document discusses IBM's cloud offerings and reference architecture, and provides strategies for prioritizing workloads and understanding a client's current capabilities and goals to develop a cloud roadmap.
The document discusses the value of using NetApp storage solutions for virtualized environments running VMware. It addresses challenges customers often face around backup, disaster recovery, storage efficiency, and data management tasks. It then summarizes how NetApp products like Snapshot copies, SnapMirror, and deduplication can help solve these issues by reducing storage needs by up to 50%, improving backup and restore times, enabling cost-effective disaster recovery, and automating data management tasks. The document promotes a 50% storage savings guarantee when using NetApp solutions for virtualization.
The document discusses Hewlett-Packard's (HP) new innovations in converged infrastructure for cloud computing. It introduces HP's new ProLiant Gen 7 servers, including scale-up servers, FlexFabric networking solutions, and intelligent power supplies. The document also discusses how HP's converged infrastructure solutions help customers transition to cloud computing models in a more evolutionary manner.
HP Converged Infrastructure provides a blueprint for integrating computing, storage, networking and management resources into shared pools. It aims to simplify IT infrastructure, improve flexibility to respond to business needs, and reduce costs and risks. The approach provides modular building blocks that can be implemented over time to deliver resources on-demand through a common management platform and intelligent energy management.
This document provides an overview of the Advanced ACE Tutorial presented by Douglas C. Schmidt. It discusses key object-oriented (OO) concepts like patterns, frameworks, and components that help address the inherent and accidental complexities of developing concurrent and distributed applications. The Adaptive Communication Environment (ACE) is presented as an example of an OO framework that incorporates many patterns to provide reusable middleware services for building networked and multithreaded applications.
This document provides an accessories guide for Cambium Networks' point-to-multipoint wireless network solutions. It describes accessories for access points like the Cluster Management Module (CMM) for network synchronization and management, as well as power supplies. Mounting kits and antennas are also covered to help operators design networks to meet their needs.
EMC SAN provides benefits such as high availability and manageability, improved application performance through dedicated storage networks, fast scalability through centralized storage, and better data replication and recovery options. Case studies show that EMC SAN solutions can help businesses reduce costs through storage consolidation, improve business continuity through centralized data management, and increase business flexibility to support growth. EMC SAN migration services help ensure business impact through detailed planning and elimination of downtime during implementation.
1) ASPIDER M2M provides a global 1-SIM solution for M2M connectivity using GSM and UMTS networks in over 60 countries.
2) Their solution is operator independent as they operate their own core mobile network, allowing connectivity to multiple networks per country.
3) Advanced billing solutions are provided, including prepaid SIMs, automated provisioning based on usage, and third party service billing capabilities.
This presentation provides an overview of engineering simulation and cloud computing. It discusses how the cloud can help address obstacles to wider adoption of engineering simulation by reducing costs and allowing on-demand access. The presentation defines key cloud concepts and models. It outlines the current status of engineering simulation software vendors in the cloud, noting a variety of cloud strategies. The presentation aims to help engineering end users navigate cloud opportunities from their perspective.
Target environments for this software include applications that require large memory footprints, multiple processors and shared memory. Typical end-user applications are in the areas of energy, manufacturing, life sciences, computational structural mechanics, computational fluid dynamics, and finance. The software aims to simplify cluster complexities for applications that use significant computing resources.
Essential things that should always be in your carEason Chan
A driver can bail out of a lot of sticky situations if he plans ahead. More often than not, things go south on you when you think nothing could go wrong. So it pays to hope for the best and plan for the worst, especially on the road. Here are some things that should always be kept in your car for all those just in case moments.
What happens when the digital tools and platforms we make and use for communication and entertainment are hijacked for terrorism, violence against the vulnerable and nefarious transactions? What role do designers and developers play? Are we complicit as creators of these technologies and products? Should we police them or fight back? As Portfolio Lead for Northern Lab, Northern Trust's internal innovation startup focused on client and partner experience, Antonio will share a mix of provocative scenarios torn from today's headlines and compelling stories where activism and technology facilitated peace—and war.
As a call-to-action for designers and developers to engage in projects capable of transformational change, he'll explore the question: How might technology foster new experiences to better accelerate social activism and make the world a smarter, safer place?
Shoppers are expected to spend more on back-to-school shopping this year, with an average of $488 anticipated to be spent. Most shoppers will do the majority of their shopping in physical stores, though technology purchases are more likely to be made online. Research is done digitally before purchases are made in stores. Spending is heaviest on traditional items like clothing, shoes, and school supplies, though those buying computers or gadgets will spend the most overall. Early shopping and following school-recommended lists influences higher spending.
This document provides information about QBit Systems India Ltd., an ISO 9001:2000 certified company that offers offshore outsourcing and custom application development services. It lists the types of solutions and applications they develop, including enterprise portals, mobile applications, and ecommerce websites. Examples are provided of projects developed for clients in oil, shipping, and other industries. QBit Systems aims to enable businesses worldwide through cutting-edge technology solutions.
This document describes XRM, an event-based resource management framework for XCP. XRM uses a feedback control loop model to automatically allocate resources across VMs and physical machines to meet application goals while maximizing utilization and performance. It addresses challenges in coordinating resource management across multiple layers and efficiently combining scaling primitives. XRM is implemented in Python on XCP and allows pluggable algorithms to handle different events and take actions like migrating VMs or powering off machines. Preliminary results show XRM using different allocation algorithms on a testbed with 5 hosts and random workload requests.
Fy09 Sask Tel Learn It System Centre Garth Jonessim100
Garth Jones presented on Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) and System Center products. Some key capabilities of MDOP include application virtualization, system management, data protection, and lowering desktop TCO. System Center includes capabilities for virtual machine management, configuration management, operations management, and capacity planning. Garth discussed how Enhansoft develops products and services to extend System Center capabilities.
VMUG ISRAEL November 2012, EMC session by Itzik ReichItzik Reich
The document discusses emerging trends in data center architecture such as software-defined networking and storage. It highlights how VMware is the market leader in virtualization and how EMC integrates with VMware solutions. The rest of the document demonstrates various EMC products that optimize storage and networking in virtual environments, including solutions for monitoring, protection, tiering, and building private clouds. It also briefly discusses new technologies like all-flash arrays and server-side flash caching that are changing data center infrastructure.
The document discusses the history and usage of virtualization technology, provides an overview of CPU, memory, and I/O virtualization, compares the Xen and KVM virtualization architectures, and describes some Intel work to support virtualization in OpenStack including the Open Attestation service.
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virtualization tutorial at ACM bangalore Compute 2009ACMBangalore
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EMBI provides business intelligence tools for emergency departments. They faced challenges with limited IT resources and needing scalability. By deploying SAP Business Objects BI solutions on AWS, with help from Decision First Technologies, EMBI can leverage industry-leading tools, focus on their core competency of healthcare analytics, and manage costs as variable operating expenses rather than large capital expenditures. This allows EMBI to provide greater value to their customers in the healthcare industry.
1. Powering high-end x86 systems
vSMP Foundation 2.0 Announcement
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2. vSMP Foundation – Background
NEW SERVER VIRTUALIZATION PARADIGM
ENTERPRISE APPLICATIONS HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING
Applications requiring fraction Applications requiring superset
of the physical server resources of the physical server resources
Existing: Partitioning New: Aggregation
Virtual Machines Virtual Machine
App App App App
OS OS OS OS
Hypervisor or VMM
Hypervisor Hypervisor Hypervisor Hypervisor
or VMM or VMM or VMM or VMM
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3. vSMP Foundation – Background
THE NEED FOR AGGREGATION - TYPICAL USE CASES
vSMP Foundation
Virtual Machine
App
OS
Cluster Management SMP Replacement
Hypervisor or Hypervisor or Hypervisor or Hypervisor or
VMM VMM VMM VMM
• Requirements driven by IT to simplify • Requirements driven by the end
cluster deployment: users per application characteristics:
• • Large memory
Single OS
• • High core-count
InfiniBand complexity removal
• • IT simplification is a plus
Simplified I/O: faster scratch storage
• • CAPEX savings
Large memory is a plus Capabilities:
• OPEX savings Up to 16 nodes:
• 32 processors (128 cores)
• 4 TB RAM
More at: http://www.scalemp.com/spec
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4. vSMP Foundation 2.0
Enhanced performance and enterprise-class features
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6. vSMP Foundation 2.0 – Details
• 2 InfiniBand switches (dual-rail) in an
active-active configuration Server A Server B Server C
• Automatic failover on link errors (cable)
or switch failure Automatic failover and load-balancing
• Improved performance with switch load- InfiniBand Switch 1 InfiniBand Switch 2
balancing (both switches used in parallel)
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7. vSMP Foundation 2.0 – Details
• Create isolated hardware-level
partitions, each can run different OS
• Up to 8 partitions, minimum 2
Multiple Partitions
servers per partition
• Requires add-on license
Single Partition
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8. vSMP Foundation 2.0 – Details
• Up to 2 Emulex LightPulse® Fibre-
Channel (FC) HBAs per server
• Up to 32 HBAs for virtual machine
• Significantly improves cluster IO
capabilities, while keeping cost low
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9. vSMP Foundation 2.0 – Details
• Serial console for all vSMP Foundation
control and monitoring operations
• Augments existing VGA-based control
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10. vSMP Foundation 2.0 – Details
• Full stack profiler allows identification of code
scalability inefficiencies
• Zoom to line of code, providing insight about cross-
node memory usage, I/O access and interrupts
• Open API, allowing integration with 3rd party tools
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11. vSMP Foundation 2.0
MODULAR LICENSING STRUCTURE
Add-on Modules
Large memory Partitioning Profiling
Future Module…
Future Module…
– Up to 4 TB RAM – Up to 8 partitions – Profiling tools
Pricing structure: per- Pricing structure: one Pricing structure: free
TB license starting the license per each 16 for academic customers
2nd TB (first TB is part of nodes
the base product)
Up to 16 systems
vSMP Foundation Enterprise vSMP Foundation Lite
– Up to 1 TB RAM, unlimited processor speed – For platforms with entry level processors
(2.66GHz (core2) or 2.4GHz (corei7)) and maximum
– Extensible platform: support for add-on
of 4GB RAM per core
modules
– Add-on modules not available
Pricing structure: per-node license starting the 2nd Pricing structure: per-node reduced-cost license
starting the 2nd node, minimum 8-node configuration
node.
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12. Target Environments and Applications
Target Environments Typical end-user applications
• Users seeking to simplify Energy
Manufacturing Life Sciences
cluster complexities Schlumberger ECLIPSE
CSM (Computational Gaussian
Paradigm GeoDepth
Structural Mechanics) VASP
ABAQUS/Explicit 3DGEO 3DPSDM
AMBER
• Applications that use large ABAQUS/Standard Norsar 3D
Schrödinger Jaguar
ANSYS Mechanical Schrödinger Glide
memory footprint (even with LSTC LS-DYNA NAMD EDA
ALTAIR Radioss
one processor) DOCK
Mentor
GAMESS
CFD (Computational Fluid Cadence
GOLD
Dynamics)
• Applications that need mpiBLAST
FLUENT
Finance
GROMACS
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