High-density racks are growing popular because organizations need more compute performance to run today's HPC applications. But for many institutions, labs and corporations, the "server sprawl" that resulted from years of cluster scale-outs can't continue
The Green Grid is a global consortium dedicated to advancing energy efficiency in data centers and business computing ecosystems. In furtherance of its mission, The Green Grid is focused on the following: defining meaningful, user-centric models and metr
For Fibre Channel switches, the recent E-port spec should allow you to uplink switches from different vendors to expand SANs. It should be noted, however, that the E-port spec is still not universally implemented by all of the switch vendors. We highly en
cosmos.tamu.edu is an SGI Altix 3700 supercomputer, which consists of 128 Itanium-2® processors, and 256 Gigabytes of main memory. It is based on a Distributed Shared Memory (DSM) architecture, where memory is physically distributed among 32 Computation-