Unisys and Cornell demo Windows-based Unisys ES7000 for scale-up high-performance computing.

Federal Computer Market Report, October, 2002

Unisys recently announced plans to collaborate with the Cornell Theory Center (CTC) to demonstrate the value of the Unisys Enterprise Server ES7000 as a platform for use in high-performance computing (HPC) environments.

As part of the CTC TechExchange Consortium, Unisys will work with CTC to optimize the performance of HPC solutions for key industry markets using ES7000 servers based on both Intel Itanium 2 (IA-64) and Xeon MP (IA-32) processors. Performance test results and other findings will demonstrate the capabilities of industry-standard Windows- and Intel-based platforms in an area traditionally dominated by clusters of UNIX computers and proprietary vector supercomputers.

The Unisys ES7000 family of Orion servers will be used to demonstrate...

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