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Nor-Tech’s HPC solution keeps EcoMotors’ engineers firing on all cylinders
Download this case study as a PDF Having outgrown the performance available in a single workstation, EcoMotors® engineering upgraded their internal computing capacity to meet the modeling challenges presented by EcoMotors’® revolutionary opposed-piston, opposed-cylinder internal combustion engine. To meet these...
Nor-Tech HPC-Appliance Helps Design New Internal Combustion Engine
Download this case study as a PDF The challenge Today’s global market has increased the need to shrink development time for products; especially for companies offering radical new designs to old market products. Successful companies have embraced computer aided engineering...
Nor-Tech HPC-Appliance Helps Design New Internal Combustion Engine
Download this case study as a PDF The challenge Today’s global market has increased the need to shrink development time for products; especially for companies offering radical new designs to old market products. Successful companies have embraced computer aided engineering...
nVidia-based Fermi/CUDA Cluster for LIGO researchers at SU boasts 88,000 GPU cores
Download this document as a PDF Nor-Tech recently developed a supercomputer to help power the search for gravitational waves from distant objects throughout the universe. As a computing resource for scientists involved with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), the...
Engineers at aerospace and defense corporation utilize Nor-Tech clusters in efforts to reduce airplane noise
Download this case study as a PDF Nor-Tech created a scalable, low-cost data processing system to assist in testing the effectiveness of designs for reducing commercial jetliner noise during takeoff, landing, and sustained flight. A handful of companies worldwide are...
Nor-Tech deploys GPU cluster to Ireland for micromagnetic modeling
Download this document as a PDF Nor-Tech has developed a 7168-core GPU cluster to be used for micromagnetic modeling by a well-known technology company in Europe. Each node of the GPU cluster features two nVidia Tesla Fermi M2070 cards. The...
Lustre-based storage solution outshines expectations for NFS
As commodity clusters continue to grow in performance and more applications adopt parallel I/O, traditional file systems such as NFS, NAS, SAN and DAS are failing to keep up with the HPC I/O demand. The Lustre parallel filesystem is gaining...
FAA research for commercial space travel made possible by sealed cluster from Nor-Tech
Download this case study as a PDF FAA research for commercial space travel was made possible by a groundbreaking sealed cluster from Nor-Tech. And the cluster had a second chapter…. The Challenge As commercial aviation companies prepare to usher in...
Beowulf Clusters for Computation and Visualization
University of Minnesota Geology Department University of Minnesota Geology Department Dr Martin Saar, Assistant Professor and Gibson Chair of Hydrogeology & Geofluids, uses the embarrassingly parallel functionality of the cluster and his modeling needs to speed up this simulation work...
SAFL Cluster pumps new life into heart research
Download this case study as a PDF. High-performance clusters aid in Bioinformatics, a field of Computational Biology which applies algorithms and statistical techniques to biological datasets, typically consisting of large numbers of DNA, RNA, or protein sequences. The Challenge Scientists...