Customer Experiences

Université de Sherbrooke Case Study: A Top500 and Green500 Supercomputer

Guest Blogger — Tue, 01 May 2012 16:01:14 +0000

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Located in the Province of Québec, Université de Sherbrooke is a French-speaking institution that offers an academic education that is recognized and valued around the world. With a diverse student population, Université de Sherbrooke employs innovative teaching methods along with cutting-edge research technology. This technology now includes the fastest supercomputer in Canada: the Mammouth supercomputing cluster based on SGI® Rackable™ 2100 Series standard-depth servers, powered by AMD Opteron™ 6100 Series processors.

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AMD Virtualization Case Study

AMD Customer Experiences — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:36:20 +0000

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AMD has long held a well-earned reputation for innovations with its industry changing processor technology. AMD Virtualization™ (AMD-V™) technology is a set of hardware extensions that optimize resource use, such as virtualization extensions to the x86 instruction set that enable software to more efficiently create virtual machines so that multiple operating systems and their applications can run simultaneously. And as the number of users grows, so does the need for memory; that’s why it is critical that AMD Opteron™ processors enable huge memory scalability and bandwidth.

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Scuderia Ferrari Case Study: AMD Opteron Processors Help Drive Scuderia Ferrari Further, Faster.

Guest Blogger — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 17:08:16 +0000

Excerpt: AMD’s sponsorship of Scuderia Ferrari has evolved into a true technology partnership, with both companies working to continually improve performance and to go further, faster—year after year.

“As a top team we have to take advantage of every available technology and our user experience has changed accordingly. It is important to underline the fact that AMD has always respected the roadmap of their technologies, which makes it possible for us to count on the timeliness of their products. So when they promise to come out with the next generation of multi-core technology, higher frequency CPUs, or energy efficient solutions, we are able to plan accordingly,” says Grossi.

But the relationship between Ferrari and AMD is about much more than sharing physical resources. Both companies embrace a commitment to excellence, a desire to push the boundaries of performance, and a culture of collaboration.

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Cray XT Case Study: Simulations Speed Design of Power and Propulsion Device

Guest Blogger — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 20:47:37 +0000

Excerpt: A team led by mechanical engineers Joseph Oefelein and Jacqueline Chen of Sandia National Laboratories (Sandia) simulates turbulent combustion at different scales. A burning flame can manifest chemical properties on small scales from billionths of a meter up to thousandths of a meter, whereas the motion of an engine valve can exert effects at large scales from hundredths of a meter down to millionths of a meter. This multiscale complexity is common across all combustion applications — internal combustion engines, rockets, turbines for airplanes and power plants, and industrial boilers and furnaces.

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CRAY XT Case Study: Boeing Uses ‘Jaguar’ to Improve Aerodynamics Codes

Guest Blogger — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 20:46:46 +0000

Excerpt: Boeing’s research was different from most of Jaguar’s allocations in that each simulation used only a small portion (fewer than 10,000) of Jaguar’s morethan 200,000 cores. However, each study solved approximately 10 different problems. Had each of these problems been solved simultaneously, said Bussoletti, the team could have used more than 50 percent of Jaguar’s two-plus petaflops of computing power.

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CRAY XT Case Study: Researchers Model Hurricanes Using ‘Jaguar’ and Airplanes

Guest Blogger — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 20:45:30 +0000

Excerpt: Like other natural processes, hurricane formation requires fuel. Tropical storms start at sea, gathering energy from heat released when oceanic water vapor condenses to liquid form.This water carries heat along with it upon vaporization. Heat builds during condensation asthe water particles collide and condense and ultimately gravitate toward what will becomethe hurricane’s eye wall, resulting in heat convection that fuels the storm.

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Wyse Technology Case Study

AMD Customer Experiences — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 18:56:26 +0000

Excerpt: “The combined efforts of AMD and Wyse, however, are revolutionizing cloud client computing. Wyse’s clients featuring single= and dual-core AMD Embedded G-Series APUs now provide enough processing and graphics throughput to enable HD video, unified communications with multiple video feeds, and an overall rich multi-media user experience.”

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MotionDSP Case Study

AMD Customer Experiences — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 15:00:37 +0000

“There are really two advantages to AMD. One is on the high-end, where AMD is getting us easily 30 to 60% better performance over a competitor’s products. On the low end, AMD lets us do sophisticated image processing with significantly less power — 30 to 50% less. And that’s really important when you want to embed our capability directly on a UAV, which has strict requirements for heat, weight, and power.”

— Sean Varah, founder and CEO of MotionDSP.

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CRAY XT Case Study

AMD Customer Experiences — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 17:37:04 +0000

HP and MICROS-Fidelio Case Study

AMD Customer Experiences — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 00:25:00 +0000

HP and Valero Energy Corporation Case Study

AMD Customer Experiences — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 00:07:01 +0000

Dell and aixit Case Study

AMD Customer Experiences — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 23:41:53 +0000

HP BladeSystem and Concur Technologies Case Study

AMD Customer Experiences — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 23:30:06 +0000

Microsoft Bing Maps and Dell Case Study

AMD Customer Experiences — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 23:16:34 +0000

International Computer Concepts (ICC) and eHealth Nigeria Case Study

AMD Customer Experiences — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 17:23:19 +0000

AMD Changing the Game Case Study

AMD Customer Experiences — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 17:22:15 +0000

Customer Experiences: Sharcnet

AMD Customer Experiences — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 17:14:43 +0000

Customer Experiences: AMD Cloud Computing

AMD Customer Experiences — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 00:09:59 +0000

Customer Experiences: Supercomputer Explores Next-Gen DNA Analysis and Delivers Personalized Medicine

AMD Customer Experiences — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 00:03:43 +0000

The Migration to Greater Efficiencies

AMD Customer Experiences — Wed, 18 May 2011 21:02:29 +0000

By upgrading to AMD-powered HP computers, Palm State Beach College gained more powerful technology, higher energy efficiency, easier IT management and worked out a better financial deal overall.

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AMD Technology Contributing To An Energy-Efficient World

AMD Customer Experiences — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 21:36:36 +0000

By powering high performance supercomputers, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) technologies are helping to find solutions to the world’s energy and environmental challenges.

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Woodforest National Bank

AMD Customer Experiences — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 19:06:16 +0000

The business needs of Woodforest National Bank—a 24 x 7 operation—led the IT leadership to deploy a virtualized environment (utilizing HP ProLiant G7 Servers, powered by the AMD Opteron™ 6000 Series platform) to help confidently manage the risk of hurricanes and other natural disasters.

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Georgia Institute of Technology

AMD Customer Experiences — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 17:24:43 +0000

Universities have a long history of using high-performance computing (HPC) for research and analysis in engineering, physics and mathematics. Dr. Jeffrey Skolnick, Director for the Center for the Study of Systems Biology, came to Georgia Tech in 2006 to conduct compute-intensive research with the assistance of HPC in the field of drug discovery. With the existing cluster reaching the end of a lifecycle, the university faced several challenges including limited space and a fixed power and cooling budget. GTI ultimately chose an HPC solution designed by Penguin Computing, featuring Six-Core AMD Opteron™ processors for their research.

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National Autonomous University of Mexico

AMD Customer Experiences — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 17:39:16 +0000

Cray solutions helping to predict the impact of large magnitude earthquakes: Using the Cray Xt4™ system “HECToR” (the UK’s national supercommuting service) National Autonomous University of Mexico researchers are creating 3D models of how seismic waves move through the earth’s crust. This simulation technology will provide access to vital earthquake motion data – a resource that will enable nations to access the potential impact of extreme magnitude earthquakes in their own regions.

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Collegiate Housing Services

AMD Customer Experiences — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 16:26:27 +0000

Collegiate Housing Services (CHS) is a full-service student housing company that coordinates a variety of housing needs for colleges, universities and other post-secondary learning institutions through a full suite of online services. Under the pressure of a successful business model, an expanding customer base and increasing workload demands, CHS’s existing IT foundation started showing a few cracks.

To stay productive and continue growing, they chose AMD, Microsoft and HP to address the limitations of both their server and client infrastructures.

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