We are very pleased that our latest X3297v3 server has been delivered to the College of Technological Studies (CTS) in Kuwait, and installed in the Public Authority for Applied Education and Training, PAAET's data center. This is the most powerful machine we have built, yet. The performance advantage over the best computing instances one can get on the Amazon EC2 is clearly shown in the chart below.
* E+ Benchmark set comprising relatively simple models in E+ v8.0 was used in this comparison. The performance of the AWS EC2 C3.Large and Micro instances are variable due to their shared resources.
The X3297v3 provides ample computing power for energy simulations to an active research group or a class of students learning building modelling and optimisation. It is 25% more powerful than the AWS EC2 C4.8xLarge, whereas the purchase cost is less than 1 year of hire of the cloud instance (at the standard rate). Moreover, everything is set up for you on delivery. You can start using it as soon as it is plugged in and connected to the network.
According to Dr Ali Al-ajmi, Head of the Department of Mechanical Power and Refrigeration at CTS, and the PI of the research grant, "... since the delivery of the X3297v3 simulation server, all the constraints on running large amount of building simulations have been lifted. The pre-installed and configured JESS server software and the jEPlus tools work perfectly together for the set up of our research problems. We consider the budget is well spent, and the new capability will help us a long way in our current and future research."
