In use for three years, the RISC-based servers at the AUDI AG data centre in Ingolstadt (used to calculate airflows in the vehicle interior and the dynamic behaviour of bodyworks) were at the bottom end of the performance spectrum. In the CAE area, however, performance is key, and equates to a competitive advantage for the company. AUDI was therefore on the lookout for exceptionally high-performance servers that also offer an outstanding price/performance ratio, are reliable, and can easily be expanded in a cluster arrangement. As a first step, in May 2003 AUDI switched the servers used for the airflow simulations to HP Integrity servers with dual Intel Itanium 2 processors running HP-UX 11i v2 with its robust, mission-critical operating system with superior performance. In October 2003, these four servers were expanded to support eight dual Itanium 2 processors.
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