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The next generation Intel® Xeon® Processors 5400 Series, 45nm Intel® Core™ microarchitecture is here. With twice the density of Intel® 65nm technology, Intel's 45nm packs about double the number of transistors into the same silicon space. That's more than 400 million transistors for dual-core processors and more than 800 million for quad-core. Intel's 45nm technology enables great performance leaps, up to 50-percent larger L2 cache, and new levels of breakthrough energy efficiency.

The traditional HPC cluster normally has two single-core processors per computing node. The nodes are connected to other nodes via a high speed interconnect. Programs written to use clusters typical employ multiple nodes to work on a single program (or problem). Clusters have reshaped the HPC landscape and are almost always the preferred platform on which to achieve the best price to performance in a given application domain. This white paper provides a first look at utilizing multi-core processors within HPC clusters and contains recommendations for achieving good performance on multi-core systems.

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