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| The power of the RS/6000 SP, as exemplified in ASCI White, is supporting complex and dynamic computing needs in business and academic fields. This power of technology allows organizations to solve pressing business and research issues, reduce costs, and increase their speed to solution. To find out more about how this technology can help your organization, please
contact IBM. The majority of supercomputers are in commercial environments supporting dynamic business needs in the ever changing e-business market.
There are now more than 5,000 IBM RS/6000 SP systems—of which ASCI White is one—installed around the world. Ranked No. 1 on the
TOP500 Supercomputer list as of June 8 of this year, the RS/6000 SP has fast gained popularity for its flexible, multiprocessor architecture, dense packaging, and cluster-management capabilities that have enabled firms and institutions to increase productivity while reducing overhead costs by consolidating servers.
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Made up of building blocks called
nodes, the SP frame is prized by users for its scalability: Depending on their needs, customers can order frames consisting of just one or two nodes or systems with as many as 512 nodes, like ASCI White. Machines designed for commercial use can range from a $30,000 entry-level Web server to a fully implemented RS/6000 SP capable of processing more than 100,000 Web requests a minute, to ASCI-strength—capable of handling a web-transaction for every person on the planet, in one minute.
Following are just some of the areas in which businesses and institutions have successfully integrated IBM RS/6000 SP systems into their operations:
Entertainment media
Telesis Technologies Inc.'s Media Analysis & Reporting System (MARS) uses an IBM RS/6000 Model S80 server to power its data-warehousing and -mining capabilities, which enable researchers to better track and report on television viewership among a multitude of demographic groups.
Automobile design
Since installing, and later upscaling, an IBM RS/6000 SP to aid in stamping simulations of the 300 auto parts it manufactures, Volvo's Car Components unit has been able to shorten production time, reduce the costs associated with verifying parts, and build stronger parts. With the SP, Volvo can virtually verify a part at one-tenth of the expense of a verification in the tool shop, for example, and it can run a simulation of a body side panel in a mere 15 hours, a small fraction of the time this task used to take. The end result is that Volvo can get new cars to market faster and more often.
Education
The Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education is using a network of IBM RS/6000r computers to link faculty and students dispersed among 27 campuses across Mexico, as well as virtual classrooms in Mexico, Central America, and South America.
Environmental science The Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is using a 512-node IBM RS/6000 SP in its research of such critical environmental problems as cleaning up polluted sites and safely treating and storing hazardous waste. The lab's scientists are using the SP to model conditions within and surrounding the underground storage tanks holding most of the nation's nuclear waste, and to model the migration of contaminants below ground, on the earth's surface, and in the air.
Oilfield management
IBM RS/6000 servers and workstations are being used for oil reservoir simulation, on land and at sea. By providing a single architecture to support the wide range of computational demands involved in reservoir simulation modeling, and thereby enabling more accurate modeling, RS/6000 systems ultimately provide oilfield managers with a means to reduce operating costs while increasing production and ensuring the maximum possible recovery of oil.
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