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A Test and Research Environment for Innovation

DICE is the community's source for independent, third-party product and technology testing, data management research and advisory services. Working with data centers and vendors, DICE serves as a collaborative bridge bringing insight and perspective to the entire community. It is the only test and evaluation environment of its kind. DICE is becoming a trusted source of independent, credible and representative information about data intensive computing and efficiency challenges, demands and issues.

It is a genesis of a vision by government, industry and academia to create collaboration that initiates HPC (high-performance computing) and IT (information technology) innovation. More...

Customers Want Trusted Evidence

In reality, end-users want verified evidence that products and technologies meet promised standards and specifications. Products must function correctly and consistently to ensure success in the marketplace, while enhancing business value for the customer. Independent testing in a vendor-neutral, realistic test environment is a cost-effective and credible way to ensure the part, component and system solution work.

Whether you are a data center trying to maximize technology investments or a manufacturer trying to accelerate time-to-market, it is critical that products function as specified. With diverse technologies - both hardware and software - being used in data centers geographically dispersed across dissimilar architectures, realistic testing is even more critical.

This is where DICE can step in.

DICE News & Events

The DICE Program uses Compilers from the Portland Group to Successfully Complete Parallel File System Comparison Project
Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Avetec’s Data Intensive Computing Environment (DICE) program is announcing their continued success using compilers from the Portland Group (PGI).

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The DICE Program Releases Report on the Evaluation of eXludus MCOPt Multicore Manager Technology
December 5, 2011

Avetec’s Data Intensive Computing Environment (DICE) program recently conducted an in-depth investigation of the eXludus MCOPt Multicore Manager technology.

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The DICE Program Releases SCinet Report Featuring Research Sandbox Results
May 10, 2011

Today, Avetec’s DICE program, along with their partners including NASA Goddard and Obsidian Strategics, Inc., is releasing the results of the DICE-SCinet Research Sandbox conducted at the SC10 conference.

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The Network Based Computing Lab Uses DICE Test Bed to Successfully Complete Performance Evaluation of Obsidian Longbow Routers
April 6, 2011

Avetec’s DICE program, along with their partners at the Network Based Computing Lab at the Ohio State University and Obsidian Strategics, Inc., has successfully completed a study on the effectiveness and efficiency of Longbow E100 devices.

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DICE Program Announces Success using Compilers from the Portland Group
February 24, 2011

Avetec’s DICE program is announcing their success using compilers from the Portland Group (PGI), an independent supplier of high-performance scalar and parallel compilers and tools for workstations, servers, and high-performance computing systems.

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DICE Program Validates Bright Computing's Cluster Management Solution
January 7, 2011

The Data Intensive Computing Environment (DICE) program, the HPC research division of the non-profit research corporation Avetec, performed an in-depth investigation of the Bright Computing Cluster Manager™ 5.1 software.

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