- Industrial Simulation Firm Boosts Compute Speeds by 20 Percent with Cluster Upgrade
EURO/CFD, which provides digital simulation of fluid mechanics and heat transfer, recently expanded its computing infrastructure and upgraded to the Windows® HPC Server 2008 operating system for its 37-node cluster. EURO/CFD can now launch simulations on 20 server computers simultaneously. With the resulting 20-percent increase in computation speed, EURO/CFD has gained a competitive edge by delivering detailed, accurate information for customers.
- Bank Decreases Processing Time by 75 Percent with High-Performance Computing Solution
Banca IFIS wanted to speed up its batch processing to meet an increase in customer demand for services. The bank worked with its partner Teamlab to migrate its existing Electronic Credit Line Management application to the Windows® HPC Server 2008 operating system. Doing so helped the bank reduce its batch-processing times by 75 percent, ensure high availability, and avoid purchasing additional hardware to accommodate the heightened demand.
- Hospital Uses High-Performance Computing for Better Diagnosis of Voice Disorders
The Department of Phoniatrics and Pediatric Audiology at Erlangen University Hospital needed to increase its computing power to conduct meaningful analysis of vocal cord data. The department decided to use a Windows® HPC Server 2008 cluster at the Regional Computer Center in Erlangen to increase its pace of research. Computations that used to take two weeks are now complete in a few hours, resulting in more thorough research.
- Computer Center Improves Energy Efficiency with New Diskless Cluster
The High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS) provides computing resources to internal and external research and industry partners. The institute uses diskless boot technology for all of its 700 compute nodes to implement a compute cluster with Windows® HPC Server 2008. HLRS has found that using diskless boot technology in combination with the latest cluster technology leads to significant savings, thanks to the high energy efficiency.
- Researchers Choose Windows HPC Server for Real-World Computing Questions
When researchers at Rutgers wanted to explore massive computing scenarios with real-world significance for fields such as financial services and pharmaceuticals, they turned to Windows® HPC Server 2008. In one research project, the software proved at least 30 percent faster than Linux. The Windows HPC Server cluster was deployed in one day and works like the Windows operating system with which users and administrators are already familiar.
- University Physicists Reach New Research Horizons with High-Performance Computing
The Department of Physics at the University of Bologna needed to increase its computation speed for complex tomographic analysis of large works of art. After successful testing, it now conducts its calculations on a cluster that runs the Windows® HPC Server 2008 operating system. Doing so made it possible for university researchers to avoid rewriting code, reduce calculation times from 20 days to 6 hours, and expand into new areas of research.
- Research Institute Speeds Cancer Research with High-Performance Computing System
"Using Windows HPC Server 2008 for research enhances cancer detection and optimizes the pathology review process. We can now tackle research areas that we’ve never dreamed of tackling before.” - Dave Billiter, Director, Research Informatics Core Nationwide Children's Hospital
- University Finds Windows HPC Server 26% Faster than Linux, More Cost-Effective
“In Windows HPC Server 2008, we have a computing environment that provides significant elements of functionality needed for autonomic computing, so the effort to build out the computing environment is significantly less.” - Dr. Salim Hariri, Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Center for Autonomic Computing (CAC), University of Arizona
- Animators Save $200,000 in Production Costs with High-Performance Computing System
“We'll be able to release our movie up to four months earlier because of our switch to Windows HPC. That means we can take on more work that much sooner and be more profitable within the same time period.” - Andrew Evdokimov, Creative Director, Glukoza Production
- Engineering Firm Promotes Management and Analytics with High-Performance Computing
“Windows HPC Server 2008 promises to have high performance and a service-oriented, architecture-based scheduler. We are very much looking forward to this product.” - Yukinori Kuroda, Manager of Information Systems Group, NEWJEC
- Supercomputing Center Sees 46 Percent Performance Gain with HPC System
“The Cray CX1 supercomputer with Windows HPC Server 2008 will help a wider audience take advantage of HPC capabilities.” - Joseph Lombardo, Director, National Supercomputing Center for Energy and the Environment
- University Speeds Research with HPC Cluster, Sees Faster Performance, Lower Cost
“We’re giving our researchers a premium high-end computing environment where they now can run larger and more realistic test cases and importantly, we are also focusing on getting an enhanced ROI through increased usage.” - Dr. Sadiq M. Sait, Chief Information Officer, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals
- CCP Games leading game publisher selects Windows HPC Server to scale to one million players.
“We’re basically talking about changing the wheels on a racecar while it’s speeding around the track, rather than waiting for a pit stop. Windows HPC Server will help us to do that.” - Jon-Carlos Mayes, IT Director, CCP Games
- AI Solutions aerospace firm speeds analysis time from months to days with high-performance solution.
“Our tests of Windows HPC Server are everything we could have hoped for,” says Rand. “In a couple of days, we can run problems that we just couldn’t run before. That’s tremendous.” - David Rand, Systems Engineer, A.I. Solutions.
- Dawning Information Industry Company chooses Windows HPC Server 2008 over Linux.
“We chose Windows HPC Server 2008 because it makes high-performance computing available to more users and offers excellent performance. In fact, its performance surpassed our expectations.” - Cao Zhennan, Technical Center Manager, Dawning Information Industry Company
- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven - By expanding users’ choices for HPC, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven is fulfilling its goal of supporting research at the highest possible level.
“Expanding HPC to a greater number of users—those who have no Linux experience or are uncomfortable using it—will extend the quantity and quality of faculty publications… which is good for the university.” - Samuel Xavier-de-Souza, HPC Analyst, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
- Beijing Planetarium has increased management efficiency by using Windows HPC Server 2008, which translates into cost savings and, ultimately, greater revenue because the organization will be able to produce more shows each year.
“It has been absolutely beneficial for us to upgrade to Windows HPC Server 2008. We can spend less time managing our system and devote more time to strategic rendering work.” - Steven Song, Director of the Digital Studio, Beijing Planetarium
- Beijing Software & QA Center has increased its computing speed, enhanced its system monitoring capabilities, and added greater value for its customers with Windows HPC Server 2008.
“We’re adding value for our customers … we’re better able to invest our time in resolving more complicated issues for them because Windows HPC Server 2008 can do more in less time.” - Xie Hao, IT Manager, Beijing Software Testing & QA Center
- Western & Southern Financial Group took steps to better support its actuaries, who now can be more productive and return more valuable results for smarter company decision making.
“By adopting a solution based on Milliman and Microsoft HPC technologies, we’re able to deliver an appropriately priced product far more quickly and with a greater degree of accuracy and confidence.” - Nora Moushey, Senior Vice President and Chief Actuary, Western & Southern Financial Group
- IHA Consulting reduced risk through augmented risk pricing, reduced financial reporting time, and smooth integration of forecasting—all of which make it possible to run an agile business.
“By building our solutions on Microsoft HPC products…we’re giving our insurance customers familiar tools that they can use to be more competitive and do more in less time.” - Mark Zanecki, President, IHA Consultants
- BMO Capital Markets gains competitive advantage through IT productivity: lower cost of ownership, simplified development and management with Windows HPC
”The quality of integration on the Windows platform is far better than for any other operating system,” says Sorin Manta, Manager, Windows Server Infrastructure, BMO Capital Markets. “That was important to our choice. In addition, when we looked at the quick setup, the integration, the monitoring, and the management, the choice was easy.”
- Windows HPC Server 2008 and SIMULIA Case Study Video—Case Study Video
SIMULIA delivers simulation solutions faster with Windows HPC Server 2008, and sees the advanced programming tool set as a critical asset.
- Italian Computing Center (CASPUR) Reaches New Commercial Markets with Windows-Based HPC
"Financial analysts in Europe mainly use Windows systems. As such, the deployment of a Windows HPC Server 2008 cluster renders our HPC services extremely attractive to a large potential user base," says Dr. M. Rosati, Manager of the Computational Materials Science and Finance Group, CASPUR. "Windows HPC Server 2008 is an efficient and extremely easy-to-use HPC solution that gives us the tools to significantly extend our HPC services to the entire field of quantitative finance."
- Biomedical Institute Speeds Researcher Productivity 600 Percent for Faster Insight
“This is high-performance computing that doesn’t require any specialized tools or training. If you know Windows, you know Windows HPC Server.” - Josh Kunken, System Developer, The Scripps Research Institute
- NCSA Abe cluster ranks at 23 for TOP 500 supercomputers with Windows HPC Server—Case Study Video
- HPC Center North at Umeå University Sets New Benchmark Record with Windows HPC Server 2008
The Umeå cluster achieved a LINPACK score of 46.04 teraflops and 85.6 percent efficiency, making their system the second-largest Windows cluster ever deployed and the fastest academic cluster in Sweden.
- Institute Expects Increased Performance and Productivity with Windows HPC Server 2008
The Korea Institute of Industrial Technology (KITECH) provides high-performance computing (HPC) services and simulation technologies to small and medium-sized manufacturing businesses in Korea. KITECH plans to upgrade its clusters from Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 to Windows HPC Server 2008. It expects to improve overall cluster performance, save a great deal of development and management time, and offer enhanced customer service.
- Institute of Geology China Earthquake Administration IGCEA: Chinese Earthquake Researchers Boost Efficiency with Dual-Boot HPC Cluster
The Institute of Geology, China Earthquake Administration (IGCEA), needed a high-performance computing environment that supported easy application development and management—unlike its existing Linux-based cluster. IGCEA deployed Windows HPC Server 2008 on a 128-node cluster with a dual boot of the operating systems. As a result, IGCEA simplified management, boosted cluster deployment by 60 percent, and increased IT productivity by 50 percent.
