IBM Provides Access to Blue Gene On Demand

neutron_p writes "IBM's world renowned Blue Gene supercomputing system, the most powerful supercomputer, is now available at new Deep Computing Capacity on Demand Center in Rochester, MN. The new Center will allow customers and partners, for the first time ever, to remotely access the Blue Gene system through a highly secure and dedicated Virtual Private Network and pay only for the amount of capacity reserved. Deep Computing Capacity on Demand will service new commercial markets, such as drug discovery and product design, simulation and animation, financial and weather modeling and also a number of customers in market segments that have traditionally not been able to effectively access a supercomputer at a price within their budgets. The system enables customers to obtain a peak performance of 5.7 teraflops."

Comments

Re:5.7 teraflops

[Roguelazer]

And F@H has 187 TeraFLOPS. However, random companies cannot use SETI@Home or Folding@Home for drug research, can they? :P

Re:5.7 teraflops

[hobobeaver]

Blue Gene actaully runs at 70.72 teraflops (http://www.top500.org/lists/2004/11/), and not 5.7.

Re:Gotta love IBM

[Nine Tenths of The W]

People like "Dr." Richard Paley makes me proud to be an atheist, and the humor of IBM's and Apple's developers only keeps reminding me about it.

The joke's on you. The website is a parody.

Re:just curious

[Monx]

BlueGene runs Linux