Engineering and sciences

IBM System p™ and System Storage™ offerings provide an ideal server infrastructure to run Engineering and Sciences workloads including life sciences, computational chemistry, physics, weather, classified research, CAE, CFD, Reservoir Modeling, CAD and PLM. The basis for this claim is the excellent performance benchmarks for System p5™ servers including SPECfp_rate, LINPACK and SPEComp (see: ibm.com/systems/p/hardware/benchmarks/). In addition, IBM servers such as the BladeCenter® JS21 blade and the System p5™ 185 server include AltiVec™ technology, which provides high performance for applications performing parallel processing. Scalability is easily achieved by scaling out with Cluster 1600 or System Cluster 1350, as well as scaling up with additional processors as can be done with the System p5 575. Organizations implementing Engineering and Sciences workloads today can also significantly benefit from the other attributes of System p servers combined with System Storage offerings, which include virtualization and high availability, security and reliability features.

Highlights

Engineering and Sciences solutions for System p5 servers allow you to . . .

Improve employee productivity by getting quicker computational results due to the excellent System p5 performance
Improve computational turnaround time for parallel processing applications such as video
Lower total cost of ownership (TCO) for workstation applications running CAD or CAE
Improve operational efficiency leveraging System p5 and System Storage virtualization, meaning less LAN, SAN and server IT infrastructure
Access new scientific and engineering workloads with our expanding number of System p applications

Featured solution

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.

Solutions

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

ESIs PAM-CRASH 2G on IBM BladeCenter JS21 Solution (195kb)
ESI GROUPs PAM-CRASH 2G1 solution set on IBM BladeCenter JS21 blade server can be used to analyze, validate and optimize the robustness and performance of components and assemblies via high-performance computerized simulations at an affordable cost to model crash situations.

Agilent Technologies’ GeneSpring Workgroup for Linux on IBM POWER processor-based systems (184KB)
This solution allows clients to significantly shorten turnaround time, meeting the needs of systems biology data analysis with reliable and scalable solutions. This Agilent/IBM combination provides research organizations a high-performance, yet cost-effective platform for their high volume data needs.

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.
AMBER

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.

FIPER and iSIGHT-FD for AIX 5L on IBM POWER processor-based systems (192KB)
A services-oriented CAE analysis framework, FIPER and iSIGHT-FD from Engineous Software offers a reliable foundation for distributed and parallel processing enabling engineers to integrate and distribute design analyses and simulations, lowering design cycle duration and cost.

IBM BladeCenter JS21 HPC Cluster Solutions (74.5KB)
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 Solution for Bioinformatics
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 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.

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.
Iowa State University

Waters Protein Expression System for Linux on IBM System p5 550 Express and eServer OpenPower systems (152KB)
Waters® proteomics discovery systems and platforms use Linux on IBM System p5 Express and eServer OpenPower systems to transform the volumes of mass spectrometry (MS) data into meaningful biological information.

* IBM BladeCenter chassis supports a maximum of 14 blades in a 7U space, resulting in 1/2U per blade. 14 comparable 1U servers require 14U or 2x the density of a fully populated IBM BladeCenter chassis.