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Featured Content from Silicon Graphics, Inc.
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- The Cluster Computing Revolution: Bringing More Computer Power to a Greater Number of Companies
Companies that have turned to High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster solutions cite better price and performance, greater system throughput and increased capabilities to handle new science as top drivers. As the trend toward cluster computing grows, however, users are also identifying areas of concern. Technical problems have included disappointing processing capacity, high power and cooling requirements and the prohibitive cost of third party software.
- Case Study: Real-Time Casino Management
Running 24/7 without a break, slot machine systems track every carded and uncarded game play, process millions of transactions, and constantly update every gamer’s data trail.
Only the Konami Casino Management System (KCMS) can do this in real time. And the heartbeat of the Konami system is SGI
compute and storage technology running an embedded Oracle database.
- Case Study: Tata Motors reduces costs and accelerates time-to-market
Tata Motors was using a product lifecycle management (PLM) tool on a RISC- based platform that had problems. The bill of material module was not tightly integrated with the design data and visualization was not available across the organization, creating bottlenecks and the need to physically travel to the design center to view designs. Tata Motors needed to
work in a collaborative environment and adding these two functionalities meant a huge increase in computer resources.
- Solutions Brief: SGI High Performance Enterprise Solutions
How would your business change if applications could access, capture and update information many times faster than before? You can have the power to attract and retain more customers, sense and respond to business-critical events as they happen, and deliver new services that are otherwise impossible – using standard relational database technology and familiar programming interfaces.
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