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IBM Systems  > Deep Computing  >  Press releases     Press releases Industry Linux Analyst remarks Visual Numerics® Announces HPC Application Development Support for IBM® Blue Gene®/P 26 Jun 2007 Visual Numerics, Inc., a leading producer of advanced numerical analysis and visualization software, today announced support for IBM's Blue Gene/P, the second generation of the world's most powerful supercomputer. IBM Unveils World's Fastest On-Chip Dynamic Memory Technology By Glen Brandow, IBM Press room, 14 February, 2007 This new technology, designed using IBM's Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI) for high-performance at low power, vastly improves microprocessor performance in multi-core designs and speeds the movement of graphics in gaming, networking, and other image intensive, multi-media applications. The technology is expected to be a key feature of IBM's 45nm (nanometer) microprocessor roadmap and will become available beginning in 2008. IBM and Financial Network Services Deliver World's Largest Core Banking Benchmark By Colin HB Lee, Trevor Builder & Sean Tetpon, IBM Press room, February 08, 2007 IBM and Financial Network Services (FNS), a subsidiary of Tata Consultancy Services, today announced the world's largest core banking benchmark result delivering a record 9,445 business transactions per second (tps) in real-time based on more than 380 million accounts with three billion transaction histories. San Diego Supercomputer Center Triples Blue Gene Power While Achieving Record Storage Capacity Based on Newly Introduced IBM Technology By Cary Barbour, IBM Press room, February 08, 2007 SDSC has tripled its total Blue Gene computing power to 17 teraflops and is one of the first organizations in the world to incorporate a powerful new IBM tape storage solution that is expected to give SDSC access to more storage capacity than any other educational institution globally. Cutting-edge projects awarded computing time on Blue Gene/L By Eleanor Taylor & Michael Corrado, IBM Press room, February 01, 2007 Nine computing projects ranging from predicting protein structure to simulating the formation of foams have been awarded large amounts of time on IBM Blue Gene/L computer systems at the U. S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory and IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, N.Y. The computer time is available to researchers through the Department of Energy's INCITE program – Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment. Made in IBM Labs: IBM Helps HDFC Bank Extract Information Insight to Enhance Customer Care By Holli Haswell, IBM Press room, December 06, 2006 Using the new software developed by IBM Research Laboratory, India, the bank will be able to make full use of the customer feedback received from emails and phone calls from among its 535 branches in 300 cities. This feedback will be analyzed so business insight can be extracted, enabling the bank to better respond to customer complaints and suggestions spread across the company's computer systems. Supercomputers crunching potato chips, proteins and nuclear bombs Peggy Mihelich, CNN, December 5, 2006 "The amount of data that some of these supercomputers [produce] would be, maybe as much as 100,000 times more data than what you can put on a hard drive on a normal PC," Turek said. The world's top supercomputers can produce data at a rate equal to putting out one Library of Congress every few seconds, said Bruce Goodwin, associate director for defense and nuclear technologies at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. Do the Math: IBM Wins Motley Fool, November 22, 2006 I am convinced that IBM is going to be the best blue chip of 2007, but not just because it is a leader in the development and creation of supercomputers. Rather, it is because I believe that IBM's Global Consulting business, working in conjunction with its Center for Business Optimization (whose small staff specializes in applying advanced mathematics to business problems), will be able to first help businesses harness the power of these powerful computers to crunch data and then translate that data into meaningful -- and profitable -- insights. Defense Agency Aims For Supercomputers That Can Predict Climate Change By Paul McDougall, InformationWeek, November 22, 2006 IBM and Cray won contracts worth $244 million and $250 million, respectively, to build the next generation of supercomputers for Darpa. The U.S. Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency has tapped IBM and Cray Inc. to build the next generation of supercomputers that could be used to accurately predict changes in earth's climate, model entire biological systems, and perform other tasks that are beyond current, state-of-the-art machines. IBM says it will use the funds to build commercially practical supercomputers that cross the petascale barrier -- a measure of compute performance that's equal to a thousand trillion calculations per second. Sun knocked out of DARPA supercomputer project Michael Kanellos, CNET, Nov 21 2006 The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will continue to fund petaflop-class supercomputer projects at Cray and IBM, but Sun Microsystems is out of the running. DARPA, which funds computing and technological projects for the military, will give $250 million to Cray and $244 million to IBM, the companies said Tuesday. The funding will help them complete supercomputers capable of churning 10 quadrillion floating-point operations per second, or 10 petaflops. These computers will be used to simulate global climate changes or the spread of hypothetical epidemics. IBM Holds Lead on Top500 Supercomputers List Computerworld, November 14, 2006 IBM Corp. has maintained its lead, and its bragging rights, over rivals in the number of supercomputer systems it operates throughout the world. IBM holds a 47.8 percent share of the biannual Top500 Supercomputers list. The Top500 list, compiled by university researchers in the U.S. and Germany, ranks supercomputer systems by performance as measured by teraflops, or trillions of computer calculations per second. IBM claims the number one spot on the 500 list with its IBM BlueGene/L system, installed at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in California. It operates at a maximum processing speed of 280.6 T flops/s (teraflops per second). Supercomputing capabilities have been growing faster than Moore's Law, said Jack Dongarra, a distinguished professor in the Innovative Computing Laboratory at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, another one of the list creators. Moore's Law holds that computer processing power doubles every 18 months, but the supercomputing sector's has been doubling every 14 months. Supercomputing Shakeup: Ailing Cray nabs No. 2 on list of world's fastest computers, topped by IBM. By Eydie Cubarrubia, Red Herring, November 13, 2006 The news was a boon for Cray, which has suffered enough woes to render the former giant—which dominated the space in the 1980s—close to extinction status, along with SGI (see Cray Stays Listed For Now, SGI Files For Bankruptcy). That's in part because non-supercomputing specialists like IBM and Hewlett-Packard have conquered the industry. Indeed, IBM remained No. 1 with its Blue Gene L at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, with a speed of 280.6 teraflops, and also owned 47.8 percent of all 500 systems on the list. HP had 31.2 percent. Then again, IBM held bragged rights with four computers in the TOP 10—down from five a year ago though the same as last summer's list (see Sun, Bull Gain On Blue Gene, Fastest Supercomputers Named). IBM again heads list of fastest computers By Therese Poletti, San Jose Mercury News, November 13, 2006 IBM, the world's largest computer maker, is also the world's fastest computer maker. The company's famous Blue Gene/L, at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, again topped the list of 500 of the world's fastest supercomputers. This is the Blue Gene system's fifth appearance on the twice-yearly Top 500 list, which measures the speed and performance of all the supercomputers in the world. Blue Gene/L topped the list with a sustained performance of 280.6 teraflops, or trillions of floating point calculations, per second. Blue Gene/L is used as part of a national program to simulate the testing of the nuclear weapons stockpile in the United States, without doing underground testing. The massive system has 131,072 IBM Power processors. Intel Unveils Dual-Core Xeon Server Processor By Alexander Wolfe, TechWeb News, October 10, 2005 At the Monday press conference, Intel also reiterated its aggressive deployment plans for dual-core technology. "Over the first half of 2006, we'll continue the deployment of dual core server processors," Smith said. "[In the] second half of 2006, we have a refresh of the platform, based on our next generation micro-architecture."