IBM BladeCenter solutions

IBM BladeCenter® offerings based on POWER processors are excellent platforms for a wide variety of solutions. These solutions include applications that support workloads in the areas of Life Sciences, High Performance Computing, Grid, Manufacturing, Research and many more. IBM leadership performance, unique virtualization technologies and RAS features along with IBM System Storage™ offerings are designed to reduce costs, quickly respond to specific processing needs and enable high system availability for these applications.

• Superior energy efficiency: helps contain the impact of rising energy costs
• Excellent performance: enables consolidation of multiple servers and applications on a fewer number of servers
• Superior scalability: The modular design of the BladeCenter is ideal for high-throughput workloads and for handling mixed job streams and application workloads
• Advanced POWER Virtualization (APV): Can help substantially reduce the cost of system ownership
• Attractive TCA: Solution platforms are priced competitively to deliver excellent value
• AIX 5L™ and Linux® solutions stacks: IBM BladeCenter JS21 servers support a premier Unix implementation, as well as two world-class Linux distributions

AMBER
AMBER (Assisted Model Building with Energy Refinement) is the collective name for a suite of programs that allow users to carry out molecular dynamics simulations; particularly on biomolecules delivers exceptional performance on the IBM BladeCenter JS21.

CGG Geocluster for IBM BladeCenter JS21
A powerful seismic processing solution which combines the IBM BladeCenter and JS21 Blade server with the CGG Geocluster application software, that delivers high-throughput performance and competitive pricing to meet the current demands in oil and gas exploration.

CPMD
CPMD, a popular ab-initio molecular dynamics application delivers exceptional performance on IBM System p5 505, OpenPower, BladeCenter and pSeries servers.

Dot C Software RenderDotC for IBM BladeCenter JS21 solution
Dot C Software RenderDotC and IBM BladeCenter® JS21 blade server with AltiVec™ technology is attractively priced with outstanding rendering performance to help reduce movie production schedules and provides significant savings* on floor space and consumes less energy when compared to typical 1U server render farms.

GAMESS
GAMESS, a popular general ab initio quantum chemistry application maintained at Iowa State University, delivers exceptional performance on IBM System p5 505, OpenPower and BladeCenter servers.

IBM BladeCenter JS21 for Web serving farms
When delivered with a Web serving solution of Linux, Apache and PHP scripting tools, the IBM BladeCenter JS21 is an affordable alternative to less flexible, rack-based x86 servers. The JS21 blade is designed to provide a scalable and energy efficient response for businesses of all sizes facing the challenges of datacenter power, floor space constraints, remote management and performance. It effectively balances the requirement to lower total cost of ownership while still remaining responsive to client needs.

IBM BladeCenter JS21 HPC Cluster Solutions (274.5KB)
HPC customers are demanding high performance at an affordable price. IBM's BladeCenter JS21 meets this need by providing scalable and flexible systems based on the PowerPC architecture and the AltiVec vector processor, designed to meet the rapidly growing demands of the HPC world.

IBM BladeCenter JS21 Solution for Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) (390KB)
Companies relying upon CAE are requiring greater value in their IT investment. Cost-optimized IBM BladeCenter JS21 cluster computing helps reduce design and analysis cycle time, enhance flexibility and improve efficiency.

IBM BladeCenter Solution for Bioinformatics: (146KB)
The IBM BladeCenter Solution for Bioinformatics offers a critical mass of popular bioinformatics open source applications and tools, optimized on a reliable, low-cost infrastructure that is easy to deploy and maintain, easy to manage and easy to scale up.

IBM Grid and Grow™ Express
This solution utilizes best-of-breed Grid technology and IBM BladeCenter servers to speed up business application processing and make it easier to share data across your organization with an easy to deploy, integrated solution for customers interested in beginning the grid journey.

IBM JS20 BladeCenter and Thermo Electron SEQUEST Application
The SEQUEST cluster protein identification solution from IBM and Thermo Electron offer a complete, integrated protein identification solution that helps scientists compute large volumes of data.