IBM to Provide Access to Blue Gene Supercomputer on Demand

IBM (www.ibm.com) today announced the availability of its world renowned Blue Gene supercomputing system, the most powerful supercomputer, at its newest Deep Computing Capacity on Demand Center in Rochester, MN.

"IBM has been reaching out and working with a number of our key business partners to port applications to build the Blue Gene ecosystem," said David Gelardi, vice president, IBM Deep Computing Capacity on Demand.

The new Center will allow customers and partners, for the first time ever, to remotely access the Blue Gene system through a highly secure and dedicated Virtual Private Network and pay only for the amount of capacity reserved.

While some of the most ambitious supercomputing work still takes place in government labs, the potential for Deep Computing breakthroughs in new commercial markets, such as drug discovery and product design, simulation and animation, financial and weather modeling, is growing rapidly.

IBM eServer Blue Gene Solution provides customers with the capability to advance science and business with unprecedented speed, ultrascale performance and extreme efficiency.

IBM, working with its business partners, is making Blue Gene applicable for workloads across a variety of disciplines. Many national lab and university members are enabling a growing list of HPC applications in areas of life sciences, hydrodynamics, quantum chemistry, molecular dynamics, astronomy and space research, and climate modeling.

Many key software vendors such as Novell-SuSe, LSTC and Allinea have specified an interest in enabling their applications on Blue Gene. Etnus is already in the process of enabling their TotalView parallel debugger to Blue Gene.