The company's first release is planned for November 2010 and will provide performance optimizations for SoCs based on the ARM Cortex(TM)-A processor family.

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Thirdly, converged infrastructures for cloud could get a boost through tighter integration between the hardware and OS, thanks to performance optimizations, better resource automation, and fault management throughout the stack.

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Meanwhile, GLBench recorded decent optimizations in overall graphics performance -- of the series of 28 tests, ICS bested Gingerbread in 25 and lost only once.

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Building on a decade of ORNL and DDN optimizations for the Lustre file system, the DDN system will be configured with Lustre performance of over one terabyte per second to meet the demands of Titan's 299, 008 CPU cores.

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