BMW Group is a worldwide manufacturer of premium automobiles and motorcycles
Challenge
The challenge was to lower total cost of ownership (TCO): IT hardware, energy and software licence costs, while increasing high-performance computing (HPC) capacity and throughput to enable new HPC use cases with cost-efficient IT solutions
Results
When compared to the Intel® Xeon® processor 5100 series with two cores, the Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series with four cores multiplies capacity by a factor of 2 worst case scenario and up to a factor of 5 best case scenario
Impact
The new server infrastructure based on the Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series significantly increases the capabilities of the organisation’s HPC clusters for a lower TCO and enables new application use cases
Next steps
BMW Group is deploying Dell PowerEdge* servers powered by the Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series, which will replace a RISC-based infrastructure that has much higher costs, lower performance and less flexibility
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