President Obama recognized IBM and its Blue Gene family of supercomputers with the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the country's most prestigious award given to leading innovators for technological achievement.
Blue Gene's speed and expandability have enabled business and science to address a wide range of complex problems and make more informed decisions -- not just in the life sciences, but also in astronomy, climate, simulations, modeling and many other areas.
Blue Gene also reflects breakthroughs in energy efficiency. With the creation of Blue Gene, IBM dramatically shrank the physical size and energy needs of a computing system whose processing speed would have required a dedicated power plant capable of generating power to thousands of homes.
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President Obama recognizes IBM with the National Medal of Technology and Innovation
Date added: 07 Oct 2009
President Obama recognizes IBM with the 2008 National Medal of Technology and Innovation for the IBM Blue Gene family of supercomputers. The National Medal of Technology and Innovation is the United States' most prestigious award given to leading innovators for technological achievement. IBM CEO Sam Palmisano is shown here accepting the award on IBM's behalf on Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2009, in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC. IBM Blue Gene is one of the world's fastest, most energy-efficient computers -- one that is helping to solve humanity's most stubborn challenges in science, medicine, mathematics, astronomy, defense, finance, and other crucial disciplines.
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President Obama Honors IBM's Blue Gene Supercomputer with National Medal Of Technology and Innovation
Date added: 18 Sep 2009
President Obama recognized IBM and its Blue Gene family of supercomputers with the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the country's most prestigious award given to leading innovators for technological achievement. Blue Gene's speed and expandability have enabled business and science to address a wide range of complex problems and make more informed decisions -- not just in the life sciences, but also in astronomy, climate, simulations, modeling and many other areas.
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Top 500
Date added: 12 Nov 2007
Technicians at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California install the world's most powerful computer, an IBM Blue Gene/L supercomputer. The machine is 50,000 times more powerful than a home PC. (photo credit Livermore National Laboratory).
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IBM® System Blue Gene®
Date added: 11 May 2007
Dr. Mark Seager of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory inspects the world's fastest supercomputer, a 64-rack Blue Gene complex.
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IBM® System Blue Gene®
Date added: 11 May 2007
The unique packaging of Blue Gene allows four racks to be closely assembled into a system with high floor-space efficiency.
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IBM Blue Gene Installation at The Hormel Institute
Date added: 06 Feb 2008
Dr. Zigang Dong, M.D., Dr. P.H., executive director of The Hormel Institute and Mike Good, Blue Gene program manager for IBM in Minnesota collaborate to install the first Blue Gene supercomputer in the state of Minnesota at The Hormel Institute, a medical research unit of the University of Minnesota, in Austin, Minn.
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IBM Blue Gene Installation at The Hormel Institute.
Date added: 06 Feb 2008
IBM and The Hormel Institute collaborate to install the first Blue Gene supercomputer in the state of Minnesota .
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Blue Gene/P
Date added: 26 Jun 2007
IBM researcher Shawn Hall inspects a new Blue Gene/P supercomputer. The IBM system will be capable of up to three thousand trillion calculations per second.
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IBM® System Blue Gene®
Date added: 23 Jul 2006
Each Blue Gene node board contains 32 dual-processor PowerPC nodes, and 32 boards are delivered in a single Blue Gene rack.
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IBM® System Blue Gene®
Date added: 23 Jul 2006
IBM® System Blue Gene® solution. Close-up of system detail.
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IBM Blue Gene/L chip
Date added: 29 Jun 2006
The chip that powers IBM's Blue Gene/L supercomputer
Contact(s) for the Press kit
Jennifer Galitz McTighe
IBM Media Relations
914-945-1016
galitz@us.ibm.com