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High-Performance Computing

The biggest, toughest computing challenges in the world are tackled and very often solved through High-Performance Computing (HPC). Such diverse and life-essential research areas like meteorological modeling, automotive crash test simulations, human genome mapping, and nuclear blast modeling are all part of HPC. Solutions built on open standards-based Intel® platforms provide supercomputing capabilities at significant cost savings for cutting-edge scientific research, industry, and enterprise HPC applications. And recent industry standard technical computing benchmarks show Intel® Itanium® 2-based platforms outperform RISC-based systems.

Intel-based building blocks — architectures, processors, platforms, interconnects, software, and services form comprehensive HPC solutions that optimize network management, security, and reliability. And as the industry's leading supplier of technology building blocks for HPC solutions, Intel is at the center of a worldwide community of equipment manufacturers, software developers, system integrators, and service providers that build best-in-class solutions on open standards-based architecture.

Clusters and Grids

Using networked, commercial-off-the-shelf technologies, Intel-based HPC clusters deliver superior performance and business value for technical computing. Intel products extend the notion of these open standards-based cluster platforms to grids, enabling coordination among any connected computing devices potentially anywhere in the world. Intel offers a full suite of building blocks for these solutions including a complete range of platform options for high-performance clusters and grids, with 64-bit and 32-bit architectures, dual- and multi-processor node configurations, and floating-point execution capabilities for the most demanding applications. Use our guides to planning and building high performance computing clusters with Intel® architecture to select the most effective platforms for your applications.

Intel architecture was at the foundation of the earliest High-Performance Computing clusters and now, more than a decade later, Intel is the industry's leading supplier of standards-based building blocks for HPC solutions. Intel products extend the notion of these open standards-based cluster platforms to grids, enabling computing devices of all kinds to talk to each other, creating a virtual worldwide network of grid computing power.

User Segmentation

Creating IT Business Value A transition occurring in corporations throughout the world is the imperative for Information Technology (IT) to provide clear business value to the functional groups or business units that IT supports. This requires a strong understanding of how different business units work and where they are headed, and where the productivity barriers lie for IT users as they grow and change. One of the ways Intel IT is gaining that understanding is through "user segmentation. Intel believes that what they have done will benefit other companies' business environments.

Intel's IT organization defines "user" as a consumer of IT products and services across all our business units and support groups. They apply a classical marketing approach called "segmentation" to understand the real differences among Intel employees who use IT products and services, so they can better meet their needs and increase overall productivity.

Intel's initial efforts in user segmentation at Intel IT resulted in some important benefits, including:

The overreaching goal of employee segmentation is to understand the users, so that they can provide solutions that better meet their needs and increase their productivity. Intel are finding segmentation an effective tool for achieving that goal.

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