IBM SYSTEM & SERVER Blue Gene
Overview Press Featured topics Applications Literature The IBM® Blue Gene®/P Solution is a follow-on product to the successful Blue Gene/L Solution, and adheres to the original key design points set forth in the Blue Gene/L Solution. Specifically, the Blue Gene family of supercomputers has been designed to deliver ultrascale performance within a standard programming environment while delivering efficiencies in power, cooling and floor-space consumption. Blue Gene/P extends the performance through density and frequency bump, 4-way SMP enhanced functionality, scalability for petaflop performance, and aggressive power management for low power consumption first established with the Blue Gene Solution. Many universities and government research labs have deployed Blue Gene for computational studies in weapons research, radio astronomy, protein folding, climate research, cosmology, and drug development. Blue Gene customers note that time-to-solution for many applications has been reduced by orders of magnitude. Scientists can make new runs more often allowing them to explore alternative models and approaches to problems. Blue Gene is making a demonstrable change in the way science can be done. Blue Gene/P delivers more than ultrascalable performance. Because of unique design points that allow dense packaging of processors, memory and interconnects, Blue Gene/P offers efficiency in the areas of power, cooling, and floor space consumption. Available in configurations ranging from one to 256 racks, Blue Gene/P is the innovative new solution from IBM to further expand the limits of breakthrough science without sacrificing efficiency.