Mercator Ocean, the French oceanic analyzing and forecasting centre, increases six fold the capacity of its local high performance computing infrastructure
Business need
Mercator Ocean wanted an R&D computing system that would allow it to conduct high resolution simulations of the physical state of the world’s oceans, while reducing costs and enhancing performance.
Solution
The organization deployed Dell™ PowerEdge™ servers to deliver the highest performance for codes emulating the complexities of the physical state of the world’s oceans.
Benefits
• Performance boosted by around 600 percent due to increased server density and enhanced processing power
• Total cost of ownership reduced due to lower power and coding costs
• Fast, accurate decision making thanks to professional pre-sales support
• Business-critical application continuity ensured by fast, responsive support
Solution areas
• HPC
• Server Solutions
• Support Services
To meet all these needs, forecasting models of the state of the ocean require a lot of processing power and, consequently, a large power consumption. When the company’s 232 Gflops system came to the end of its lifecycle, the organization decided to replace this infrastructure with a HPC cluster based on Dell PowerEdge* C6100 rack servers with Intel® Xeon® processors. Bertrand Ferret, Head of IT at Mercator Ocean, says: “With the Dell HPC solution, we’ve greatly increased processing power and performance, while significantly reducing power and cooling costs.”
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Mercator Ocean, the French oceanic analyzing and forecasting centre, increases six fold the capacity of its local high performance computing infrastructure
Business need
Mercator Ocean wanted an R&D computing system that would allow it to conduct high resolution simulations of the physical state of the world’s oceans, while reducing costs and enhancing performance.
Solution
The organization deployed Dell™ PowerEdge™ servers to deliver the highest performance for codes emulating the complexities of the physical state of the world’s oceans.
Benefits
• Performance boosted by around 600 percent due to increased server density and enhanced processing power
• Total cost of ownership reduced due to lower power and coding costs
• Fast, accurate decision making thanks to professional pre-sales support
• Business-critical application continuity ensured by fast, responsive support
Solution areas
• HPC
• Server Solutions
• Support Services
To meet all these needs, forecasting models of the state of the ocean require a lot of processing power and, consequently, a large power consumption. When the company’s 232 Gflops system came to the end of its lifecycle, the organization decided to replace this infrastructure with a HPC cluster based on Dell PowerEdge* C6100 rack servers with Intel® Xeon® processors. Bertrand Ferret, Head of IT at Mercator Ocean, says: “With the Dell HPC solution, we’ve greatly increased processing power and performance, while significantly reducing power and cooling costs.”
