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WWF's Earth Hour Join Quadrics, and vote with your light switch at 8.30pm on 28 March. Image courtesy of Earth Hour UK http://earthhour.wwf.org.uk/how_you_can_help/earthhourcorporate/WWF' s?>http://earthhour.wwf.org.uk/?utm_source=sites&utm_medium=noscript&utm_campaign=ls">WWF's Earth Hour var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-482049-4"); pageTracker._trackPageview();

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Getting more computational work done for fewer watts of energyEvolution of Information Technology and the increasing energy demands that go with higher computational power have historically been an obstacle to sustainability. Recent IDC research shows that over the past ten years the average cost to power and cool an installed base of servers has doubled . A project run by the University of

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HPC Asia is the HPC conference for APAC, it occurs every 18 months in a different country of the region and it is currently being held at the Grand Hi-Lai Hotel, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.It's always good to see familiar faces and Quadrics customers among the speakers invited, to name just a few: Jack Dongarra from the University of Tennessee, Peter Arzberger from the University of California, San Diego,

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Check out this SlideShare Presentation: QsNetIII, An HPC Interconnect For Peta Scale SystemsView more presentations from federicapisani. (tags: quadrics qsnet)

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Given the complexity of parallel programs, developers often must rely on performance analysis tools to help them improve the performance of their code.Parallel Performance Wizard (PPW) is a performance analysis tool designed by the University of Florida High-performance Computing and Simulation (HCS) Research Laboratory for UPC and SHMEM programs. Sharing best practice: HCS Research Laboratory

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There are a wide variety of Operating Systems, Kernels, and Hardware Platforms in use by Quadrics' customers in the field.The page from this link describes the configurations that are officially supported by Quadrics.Quadrics supports the currently shipping release of both Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES). As of January 2009, these are RHEL 5 and SLES

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Quadrics goal is to improve customer productivity by providing trusted performant technology. Hardware and software that makes more efficient use of a cluster of nodes will lower the electrical power required to solve a given problem. Quadrics integrate environmental considerations into business strategy because this results in better products. Quadrics customers increasingly value environmental

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Electromagnetic, high power pulses, such as lightning, electrostatic discharge and electromagnetic pulse (EMP) represent the nature's most severe electromagnetic threats to aircraft.A new Quadrics cluster has recently been deployed by BAE Systems for the computational processing required for high-fidelity whole vehicle simulations of the effects of lightning on aircraft.

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var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-482049-4");pageTracker._trackPageview();2008/9/16 Greg Lindahl wrote: I have a bunch of 1gig switches with CX4 10gig uplinks (and empty X2> ports) and it's time to buy a 10gig switch. Has anyone done a recent> survey of the market? I don't need any layer-3 features, just layer-2.>> Have a look at the Quadrics switches.The smaller TG201 switch would fit the

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http://www.quadrics.com/Quadrics Websitehttp://quadrics.dphoto.com/Quadrics PhotoGalleryhttp://web1.quadrics.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/WebHomeQuadrics FAQ wikihttp://quadrics.bttradespace.com/Quadrics space on BT Tradespacehttp://www.top500.org/Top500 website

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Quadrics has joined alliances that promote technical developments and partnerships that promote HPC technology both within Europe and across the world.PROSPECT is a European HPC alliance formed in 2007 and joined by companies like Intel, IBM, Quadrics and ParTec, HPC facilities like Barcelona Supercomputing Centre, Cambridge Scientific Computing Centre, the Deutsche Wetterdienst, Jülich

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Quadrics has joined alliances that promote technical developments and partnerships that promote HPC technology both within Europe and across the world.ControlPoint Developer Alliance (CDA).Announced on Apr 30, 2008, the ControlPoint Developer Alliance is a community of ControlPoint software developers, integrators, and users who are committed to, and collectively benefit from, ongoing

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Now, the premier name in HPC interconnect known for its reliability, flexibility and performance is even more cost-effective. The Quadrics TG201, 24-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet Switch leads the market in ultra low-latency intelligent switching, delivering cut-through latency as low as 200ns. With its robust layer-2 switching capabilities and the ubiquity of Ethernet, the Quadrics 10 Gigabit Ethernet

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var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-482049-4");pageTracker._trackPageview();10 Gigabit Ethernet Going MainstreamThe upshot, Infonetics reported, is that the 10 GigE segment should "thrive for many years to come," even as customers are starting to pursue 40 GigE adoption plans. For what it's worth, 100 GigE looks to be a long way from mainstream. According to Infonetics, it should begin to take

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Quadrics' Scalable 10 GigE Solutions offer high-performance 10 Gigabit Ethernet switches for customers who want to take advantage of the increase in bandwidth that 10 Gigabit Ethernet offers together with significant reductions in price from a new generation of switches. If your organizations is looking to consolidate its application and storage networks, if you need fast, reliable and affordable

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10 Gigabit Ethernet is the natural evolution of the well-established IEEE 802.3 standard in speed and distance. It extends Ethernet's proven value set and economics to metropolitan and wide area networks by providing:Potentially lowest total cost of ownership (infrastructure/operational/human capital) Straightforward migration to higher performance levels Proven multi-vendor and installed base

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Supercomputing is part of the corporate arsenal to beat rivals by staying one step ahead of the innovation curve. It allows companies to design products and analyze data in ways once unimaginable.http://www.compete.org/publications/detail/557/the-new-secret-weapon1/var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-482049-4");pageTracker._trackPageview();

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Acknowledgements: this article was posted in Enterprise on 6th October 2008.French server maker and reseller Bull has just become prime contractor for a 200-teraflops cluster called Juropa being installed at Forschungszentrum Jülich. This is a government-sponsored research center located in the German city of Jülich, where some of the most powerful HPC iron in the world warms feet.The cluster at

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For a limited time Quadrics is offering substantial discounts to customers who are willing to case study the Quadrics 10 Gigabit Ethernet TG201 products. For a fully developed case study (approx. 1000 words, with photos and graphics, illustrating how Quadrics 10 Gigabit Ethernet TG201 met your business challenges) we will offer you up to USD 4,000 off the cost of your next purchased 24 ports 10

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QsTenG TG201 Price ListSwitchesTG201-CA 24 Port 10GbE CX4 ports managed switch$14,400TG201-XA 24 Port 10GbE, 12 CX4 and 12 XFP managed switch$16,200Optical transceiver modulesQS-QM688-LR Module XFP Transceiver LR (1300nm)$900QS-QM688-SR Module XFP Transceiver SR (850nm)$500

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Visit the Quadrics online gallery to view, search and download photos of Quadrics products, systems using Quadrics interconnect, simulations and applications typically run on HPC system, and images of events, including Quadrics' stand for the upcoming SC08.To access it either click on the image on the right, or bookmark http://quadrics.dphoto.com

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Industry's lowest latency - 10 Gigabit Ethernet Switch with flexible interfaces, copper CX4 and fiber XFP LR/SR.Industry's lowest latency - 10Gb Ethernet Switch with flexible interfaces, CX4 and XFP LR/SRThe Quadrics TG201, 24-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet Switch leads the market in ultra low-latency intelligent switching, delivering cut-through latency as low as 200ns. With its robust layer-2

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HPCCommunity.org is a technical community for High Performance Computing (HPC) sponsored by Platform Computing Corporation and dedicated to supporting both Platform Computing and non-Platform technologies. Within HPCCommunity you'll find Kusu, an open source cluster toolkit. It is the foundation of Platform Computing's Open Cluster Stack (OCS5) and Red Hat HPC Solution and has an interesting

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Below is an extract from an interesting article on the Register by Timothy Prickett Morgan regarding Liquid Computing and their decision to embrace 10 Gigabit Ethernet: "It is a testament to the architecture that you can switch out the communications system and not touch the architecture," says Miller. And like many others, Miller sees 10 Gigabit Ethernet moving ahead "at a breakneck pace" and

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The new BMW Sauber supercomputer, Albert3, again with Quadrics interconnect, will have 4,224 processor cores and 50.7 Teraflops computing power.For more information please visit: bmw-sauber-f1 .The BMW Sauber F1 Team presented its supercomputer Albert2 in December 2006. The 21-tonne facility for CFD calculations was already based on Intel technology (consisting of processors, the motherboard,

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Acknowledgements: This conversation with the BMW Sauber F1 Team Albert2 took place in September 2007.The BMW Sauber F1 Team has a worker of superhuman diligence within its ranks. His name? Albert2. Based in Hinwil and powered by Intel technology, this supercomputer makes a significant contribution to the team's success on the race track. Albert2 is a mathematical genius of literally huge

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"Albert2" in January 2007 was the fastest Supercomputer in Europe and the third-fastest worldwide used in industry - to the BMW Sauber F1 Team for their demanding work in aerodynamics, with over 12 Tflop/s peak performanceThe compute power will be used primarily for Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) calculations, using the ANSYS-Fluent software package, which is becoming increasingly important

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HPC (High Performance Computing) is the use of high-end computing resources (computers, storage, networking and visualization) to help solve highly complex problems, perform business critical analyses, or to run computationally intensive workloads that are in scale far beyond the tasks that could be achieved on today's leading desktop systems.Acknowledgements: from sharcnet website.

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Quadrics launches the new generation of QsNet interconnect at SC08.If you are interested in meeting Quadrics' technical experts and business development managers, please fill in your details below.Meeting point, unless you specify otherwise in the form, will be the Quadrics stand, number 313.Book a meeting with Quadrics at SC08

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Quadrics' new generation of interconnect is called "QsNet three", and when written it appears like this: "QsNetIII" but for podcast users in this blog I'll use QsNet3.

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Quadrics is a leading developer and supplier of interconnect technology for High Performance Computing.Quadrics products form an integral part of some of the world's largest computers, allowing many thousands of processors to be used as a single system, and have been selected by the world's leading vendors and integrators as well as major supercomputing centres.Quadrics' third generation of

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Quadrics is attending Supercomputing, this year the most important HPC event will take place in Austin, Texas, from November 15th to November 22nd.At the show, Quadrics will be launching its third generation of interconnect product. QsNetIII is a multi-stage or 'fat tree' switch network connecting commodity servers. It has been specifically designed to maximise the performance of large HPC

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