This study reveals excellent scaling, independent of architecture, is found for HP clusters (tested up to 128 processors), effectively reducing the overall computational time. For DFT calculations, clusters of Intel® Itanium® 2 servers, such as HP Cluster Platform 6000, have a distinct performance advantage over similar clusters based on Intel® Xeon® processors, which in turn […]
HP Clusters in Computational Chemistry
September 14th, 2008 · No Comments
IBM x3755 AMD Opteron Server CPU Performance and Xcelerated Memory
September 5th, 2008 · No Comments
The IBM System x3755 out performed the HP DL585 G2 by 10.4% using SPECjbb2005 with identical CPU and Memory configurations. This exemplifies the Xcelerated Memory Technology™ and its ability to deliver a performance advantage.
The IBM System x3755 when configured with three processors and IBM’s CPU Pass Thru card out performed the HP DL585 G2 configured […]
IBM eServer X3 Architecture: Application Server Performance Gains
August 31st, 2008 · No Comments
The ability of application servers to deliver high performance varies greatly, depending on the specifics of any given customer’s workload. IBM raises the bar for scalable, high-performance application servers with the introduction of IBM eServer X3 Architecturethe ground-breaking third-generation of the IBM Enterprise X-Architecture XA-64e™ chipset. Incorporating this new chipset, the IBM eServer xSeries 366 […]
