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The University of Oslo shapes the future of high-performance computing with an HP Integrity Superdome based on Intel® Itanium® 2 processors

"Research applications that used to take days to run now run in a few hours. It's fair to say our users are very satisfied with the Performance of the HP Integrity Superdome system."

-- Lars Oftedal, Assistant IT Director, University of Oslo's Center for Information Technology

Founded in 1811, the University of Oslo is Norway's largest and oldest institution of higher education. It is also one of the country’s most important research centers. Like many other universities, however, it faces increasing competition for the best students and researchers.

Challenges

Attract and retain the best people Meet researchers' needs for high-performance computing Provide secure data archival Contribute ultra-fast machine to NOTUR

Solution

Replace HP Superdome system with HP Integrity Superdome HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array Service, support, and training from HP

Results

Threefold increase in average performance Easy transition with minimal porting effort Support for the powerful applications used in research Success in attracting new research groups Ability to contribute fastest single-CPU computer to NOTUR

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