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IBM System Blue Gene/P Solution - Expanding the limits of breakthrough science
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The IBM® Blue Gene®/P Solution is a follow-on product to the successful Blue Gene/L Solution, and adheres to the original key design points set forth in the Blue Gene/L Solution. Specifically, the Blue Gene family of supercomputers has been designed to deliver ultrascale performance within a standard programming environment while delivering efficiencies in power, cooling and floor-space consumption. Blue Gene/P extends the performance through density and frequency bump, 4-way SMP enhanced functionality, scalability for petaflop performance, and aggressive power management for low power consumption first established with the Blue Gene Solution.

Many universities and government research labs have deployed Blue Gene for computational studies in weapons research, radio astronomy, protein folding, climate research, cosmology, and drug development.

Blue Gene customers note that time-to-solution for many applications has been reduced by orders of magnitude. Scientists can make new runs more often allowing them to explore alternative models and approaches to problems. Blue Gene is making a demonstrable change in the way science can be done.

Blue Gene/P delivers more than ultrascalable performance. Because of unique design points that allow dense packaging of processors, memory and interconnects, Blue Gene/P offers efficiency in the areas of power, cooling, and floor space consumption.

Available in configurations ranging from one to 256 racks, Blue Gene/P is the innovative new solution from IBM to further expand the limits of breakthrough science without sacrificing efficiency.

Top 10 reasons you need Blue Gene/P
  1. Ultra-scalability for breakthrough science
    • (Up to 1,048,576 cores (262,144 nodes) vs. typical 512-1024 node cluster)
  2. One of the top capability machines in the world (top500.org)
  3. Reliable, competitive MTBF/TF (10-100X)*, low maintenance staff
  4. Low power (~4-10X) – (green500.org), small footprint, low TCO**
  5. Broad range of scientific applicability at competitive cost/performance
  6. High interprocessor communication bandwidth (7.5X greater)
  7. Multiple low latency networks
  8. Familiar programming models: MPI, OpenMP, POSIX I/O
  9. Reproducible, deterministic runs allowing easily trace errors and performance tuning
  10. Vast total memory bandwidth for data intensive applications such as search
 *Compared to typical cluster
**Total Cost of Ownership

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