Education and Research

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HPC Solution for Academic Research

High-performance computing clusters support academic research.
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A Cost-Effective Way to Innovate

Innovative research depends heavily on simulation and computational analysis techniques and many of these analyses require a large capacity of raw computing power. Education and research institutions have long been at the forefront of creating and adopting new research tools and techniques.  The proliferation of “X86 architecture” has enabled computational resources for research to be delivered using  high-performance computing (HPC) clusters. A scalable, high-performance network is the foundation of a HPC cluster. Application scalability is directly affected by latency and bandwidth characteristics of the cluster network interconnect.

Cisco offers a broad portfolio of HPC solutions that deliver high speeds, low latencies, open standards, and high system availability, enabling financial services customers to deploy the right infrastructure for their applications.

Key Challenges

The main challenges for education and research are:

• Improving time to research
• Finding cost-effective computing (where price matches performance)
• Solving complex data problems with large data sets