High performance computing (HPC) solutions can help address your most challenging and complex problems, driving innovation with breakthrough results and improving critical technical and business decisions. IBM delivers affordable, robust, high-performance x86 systems and solutions that are environmentally responsible, competitively priced, and backed by world-class support, giving you a balance of performance and cost. From specialized compute clusters to GPU computing – IBM System x® and BladeCenter® systems and solutions provide extreme computing performance without the extreme cost.
Benefits
IBM x86 HPC systems and solutions are:
- High performance: Processor, networking and storage technology designed to support your most demanding applications.
- Energy efficient: Whether you need racks, blades or the iDataPlex platform, energy efficiency is built into the design.
- Space efficient: High density solutions to conserve your valuable floor space while improving thermal efficiency.
- Easy to deploy and manage: IBM can deliver a pre-configured, fully integrated and tested System x HPC solution that is ready to plug into the data center.
- Scalable: solutions can range from departmental-sized clusters up to large supercomputing clusters
Learn more about optimized systems
IBM Intelligent Cluster is a comprehensive solution that can help simplify and expedite deployment of a Linux or Windows HPC cluster. IBM combines all hardware, software, services and support into a single integrated product offering, providing you with the benefit of a single point-of-contact for the entire cluster rather than dealing with multiple vendors for individual components. The Intelligent Cluster provides an ideal solution for a broad range of application environments, including industrial design and manufacturing, financial services, life sciences, government and education. The solution is also an excellent choice for applications that require horizontal scaling capabilities, such as web serving and collaboration.
IBM System x iDataPlex™ is an integrated data center solution comprised of modular, highly dense systems, designed around a flexible architecture, for companies running large scale-out data centers that need energy efficiency, optimized cooling, extreme scalability, high density at the data center level and high performance at an affordable price. iDataPlex solutions can help cost-effectively scale processing power to meet even the most demanding Web 2.0 and high-performance computing workloads.
Learn more about GPU computing
IBM offers expansion options featuring Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) computing modules. GPUs are now available for intensive, highly parallel, floating point processing tasks. These tasks – similar to pure graphics processing – can take full advantage of the compute architecture of the GPU. And because these options can be added to your existing systems, you can protect your current investment and lower your TCO while getting the additional performance you need for your demanding applications.
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East Carolina University evolves its computing capabilities With an IBM Intelligent Cluster solution based on IBM BladeCenter technologies
Working with Datatrend, ECU deployed an IBM® Intelligent Cluster™ solution with 96 compute cores (Intel® Xeon® 5650 processors) in IBM BladeCenter® HS22 servers, and remote management from Gridcore.
Durham University gains new insight into the evolution of the universe building an eco-friendly high-performance computing cluster for cosmology research with IBM System x iDataPlex
Working with OCF and IBM, the Institute designed and deployed COSMA4, a 25 teraflop cluster based on water-cooled IBM System x iDataPlex servers with 2,640 Intel Xeon cores. IBM System Storage DS3500 hardware provides 610 TB of storage capacity, which is managed by the IBM General Parallel File System and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager.
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