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IBM Provides Access to Blue Gene On Demand

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the rent-a-frame dept.

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."

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  1. /.ed by DaoudaW · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Too bad they don't use a bit a bit of it themselves... Of course if history is any indicator they probably thought the demand would only be about four customers world-wide. ;-)

  2. How about a Beowulf cluster of these... by DaoudaW · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I know let's take my 5.7 TeraFlops, your 5.7 TeraFlops, and his 5.7 TeraFlops and run a Beowulf cluster...