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At the IBM booth at SC07, visitors learned about IBM Deep Computing capabilities, saw IBM solutions in action and asked questions of IBM experts. The IBM booth featured 15 demonstrations, highlighting the extraordinary performance of IBM Deep Computing solutions and capabilities in collaboration, productivity and energy efficiency.
Demonstrations at the IBM booth included:
- POWER6 technology for high performance computing
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- IBM System Blue Gene/P Solution
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- System S “stream” processing from IBM Research
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- IBM BladeCenter QS21 with cell technology
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- IBM System Cluster 1350 and IBM BladeCenters with flexible choice and energy efficiency
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- Visualization using SPVN, RVN and DCV
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- “Scalable City” simulated and visualized on IBM cell Blades
- SURAgrid research collaborations
- Computational steering on IBM Blue Gene
- GPFS across heterogeneous platforms
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- GPFS/HPSS managing a billion file system
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- The recently announced IBM Storage DCS9550
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- Eclipse Parallel Tools Platform and the IBM HPC Toolkit
- A wide portfolio of applications on IBM Blue Gene
There were:
- Over 20 different presentations by invited guest speakers in the Booth Theater. Speakers included experts from LLNL, EPFL, ANL, Virginia Commonwealth University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia State University, RPI, CINECA and IBM. Presentations ran nearly every half hour during normal exhibit hours on Tuesday-Thursday.
- IBM Exhibitor Forum, Tony Befi spoke on "Innovation beyond
Imagination: The Road to PetaFLOPS Computing"
- Tutorial: "Application Development using Eclipse and the Parallel Tools Platform"; Beth Tibbits, Greg Watson et al
- Panel: "Fifty Years of FORTRAN" Thursday, 11/15, 10:30 AM-12:00 noon, A3/A4; Jose Moreira, IBM Research, session chair; Fran Allen, IBM Emeritus, panelist
- Panel: "How to Get a Better Job in Computing-and Keep it!"; Rebecca Austen, IBM, panelist
- Panel: "Supercomputing Operating System Kernels-A Weighty Issue"; Robert Wisniewski, IBM Research, session chair; Jim Sexton, IBM Research, panelist
- Panel: "Return of HPC Survivor - Outwit, Outlast, Outcompute"; Gautam Shah, panelist
- SPXXL Meeting - Monday, 11/12, 1:30-4:30 PM , Peppermill Hotel and Casino, ASPEN. For the first time, this SPXXL session was open to prospective new members as well as existing sites. Benefits of membership as seen by current members was highlighted.
- Numerous Poster sessions and a Birds of a Feather (BOF) session on Cell programming
- Blue Gene Consortium meeting; Current and prospective Blue Gene owners and users invited
- IBM Client Reception, Tuesday evening, BY INVITATION ONLY
For more information on SC07 visit the event web site.
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