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Case study: BASF IT Services boosts research capabilities with parallel processing power

Published November 2009

BASF IT Services offers its customers innovative solutions, consulting and support in the areas of business solutions and managed services.

The challenge was to improve the high-performance computing platform to deliver faster results without increasing power or space requirements.

Testing revealed a 60 percent performance improvement in a key application, reducing time-to-results from days to hours. New types of research are now possible in-house. Enhanced scalability means environment can be grown by factor of eight.

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