A sound investment: Clustering the power of desktop PCs can bring the benefits of finite element analysis and much more to designers
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A project aims to use commodity machines based on Intel processors to create high performance computing (HPC) networks. A high end machine may operate a power-intensive software such as finite element analysis (FEA), but may only be needed intermittently. Many engineering companies have several Pentium based PCs, which are often underused. High Performance Computing Centre (HPCC) is currently investigating commodity supercomputing, and has developed an 8-processor DEC Alpha cluster with 2Gbyte total Ram connected by 100MBit switched Ethernet, as a highly cost effective HPC facility running Windows NT.
Publication Name: Engineering
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0013-7782
Year: 1999
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Raising fortunes
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North Sea technologies have enabled mining companies De Beers Marine and Namibian Minerals Corp to increase their undersea diamond recovery rates. De Beers uses a drillship and crawler for vertical and horizontal mining, respectively, which has led to annual recovery rates of over 47,000 carats. On the other hand, Namibian Minerals adopted a new machine by SubSea Offshore leading to the recovery of 7,000 carats during the first three weeks of use.
Publication Name: Engineering
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0013-7782
Year: 1998
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