RENCI Case Study: Delivering a Sunny Outlook
The Intel® Xeon® processor helps RENCI make weather forecasting faster and more reliable.
Seeking a flexible supercomputer to support a variety of research, North Carolina’s Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) selected an Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series-based Dell PowerEdge M610* blade server. It was a smart choice. Now jobs that used to take weeks or months are finished in hours or days—and RENCI scientists have demonstrated the viability of new weather modeling techniques with the potential to save millions of dollars the next time a hurricane threatens the state.
Solution
• Performance technologies from Dell and Intel. After evaluating competitive offerings, RENCI installed an 8-chassis Dell PowerEdge M610* cluster with 128 dual-socket Intel® Xeon® processors 5560, and both InfiniBand* and Gigabit Ethernet connectivity.
Impact
• Application breakthroughs. Applications run faster by an order of magnitude or more than on RENCI’s Intel® Xeon® processor 5150-based cluster, enabling scientists to explore more alternatives and study problems in greater detail.
• Data center savings. The new system is just one-fourth the size of the older one, saving valuable floor space and delivering much more performance per unit of power consumed.
• Institution flexibility. With industry-standard hardware and dual-boot support for both Linux* and Windows* operating systems, the system is an easily managed workhorse supporting a broad array of workloads.
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RENCI Case Study: Delivering a Sunny Outlook
The Intel® Xeon® processor helps RENCI make weather forecasting faster and more reliable.
Seeking a flexible supercomputer to support a variety of research, North Carolina’s Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) selected an Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series-based Dell PowerEdge M610* blade server. It was a smart choice. Now jobs that used to take weeks or months are finished in hours or days—and RENCI scientists have demonstrated the viability of new weather modeling techniques with the potential to save millions of dollars the next time a hurricane threatens the state.
Solution
• Performance technologies from Dell and Intel. After evaluating competitive offerings, RENCI installed an 8-chassis Dell PowerEdge M610* cluster with 128 dual-socket Intel® Xeon® processors 5560, and both InfiniBand* and Gigabit Ethernet connectivity.
Impact
• Application breakthroughs. Applications run faster by an order of magnitude or more than on RENCI’s Intel® Xeon® processor 5150-based cluster, enabling scientists to explore more alternatives and study problems in greater detail.
• Data center savings. The new system is just one-fourth the size of the older one, saving valuable floor space and delivering much more performance per unit of power consumed.
• Institution flexibility. With industry-standard hardware and dual-boot support for both Linux* and Windows* operating systems, the system is an easily managed workhorse supporting a broad array of workloads.
Read the full RENCI Case Study Delivering a Sunny Outlook Case Study.
