Blue Gene Powers IBM's Newest Supercomputer Center

**MIG-31** · Mar 11, 2005, 02:43 PM

IBM has opened its fourth Deep Computing Capacity on Demand Center, this one populated by its Blue Gene supercomputer.

Armed with more than 2,000 PowerPC processors, the Rochester, Minn., center is designed to give researchers and enterprises access to the supercomputing resources via a VPN (virtual private network), paying only for the compute power they use, said David Gilardi, vice president of IBM Deep Computing Capacity on Demand.

The new center joins three others—in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.; Houston; and Montpellier, France—that offer access on a pay-per-use basis to IBM systems running more than 5,200 processors from Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc., as well as IBM's own Power architecture.
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MIG-31 HardwareHeaven News Mod Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Nottingham,UK Posts: 56,843 Rep Power: 471 System Specs	Blue Gene Powers IBM's Newest Supercomputer Center IBM has opened its fourth Deep Computing Capacity on Demand Center, this one populated by its Blue Gene supercomputer. Armed with more than 2,000 PowerPC processors, the Rochester, Minn., center is designed to give researchers and enterprises access to the supercomputing resources via a VPN (virtual private network), paying only for the compute power they use, said David Gilardi, vice president of IBM Deep Computing Capacity on Demand. The new center joins three others—in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.; Houston; and Montpellier, France—that offer access on a pay-per-use basis to IBM systems running more than 5,200 processors from Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc., as well as IBM's own Power architecture. _______________ Read More: eweek __________________ Please Post Your News Submissions Here