ARMONK, NY —
IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced today a new line-up of
next-generation processor systems and blades, high speed connectivity and
coprocessor acceleration technology for the IBM System Cluster 1350.

With its improved ability to handle a broad range of application
environments and capability to scale up to 1,024 nodes, the System Cluster
1350 is a primary choice for building supercomputing solutions for a
variety of industries including financial services, industrial, petroleum
and life sciences.

“The IBM System Cluster 1350 provides clients with an arsenal of
technologies to tackle the challenges of high performance computing
environments, while reducing the complexity and risk of configuring,
deploying and managing Linux clusters,” said Wendy McGee, director, IBM
Cluster Solutions. “We’ve collaborated with leading-edge processor,
accelerator and networking companies to provide clients unprecedented
levels of speed, choice and flexibility with this offering.”

One higher education client, Indiana University (IU), recently flipped the
switch on the 23rd most powerful supercomputer in the world, “Big Red,” to
support research into new discoveries in the life sciences, astronomy,
informatics, computational physics and the humanities. IU’s new Cluster
1350 can perform more than 20.4 trillion numerical operations per second.

At the dedication ceremony for Big Red in August, IU Provost Michael A.
McRobbie said, “The first supercomputer IU acquired after my arrival in
1997 had a peak processing power of roughly 25 billion mathematical
operations per second. Just one of the 512 individual computing blades in
Big Red is capable of more computation than that entire supercomputer in
1997. In fact, Big Red is capable of nearly 1,000 times more computation.”

IU Associate Vice President for Information Technology Craig Stewart said,
“A critical element of Big Red’s value to the local and national scientific
communities is the integration of this computational power in IU’s local
cyberinfrastructure, which provides excellent support for data-centric
research, as well as the availability of Big Red to the national research
community via the TeraGrid.” Big Red will support a variety of research
applications, but will be targeted particularly toward support for the life
sciences.(For more information on how US researchers can obtain allocations
on Big Red, see www.teragrid.org.)

Biopharmaceutical company Telik has put its System Cluster 1350 to work to
find new cures for cancer. According to Telik, it has experienced a 5x
improvement in processing power utilizing the cluster technology for its
complex research.

“We’re dedicated to discovering, developing and bringing new treatments to
market as fast as possible. IBM’s System Cluster 1350 has allowed us to
complete calculations 50 times faster than our previous solutions, and
since our compute jobs can run for several months, the Linux operating
system offers reliability that is critical in our drug development,” said
Robert T. Lum, Ph.D., Vice President, Preclinical Development, Telik.

Product Details and Availability

IBM’s new System Cluster 1350 includes clustering technologies that provide
clients unprecedented levels of speed, choice and flexibility to create
hybrid supercomputers in a fully integrated, factory-built and tested
solution. Products available in the new IBM System Cluster 1350 portfolio
today* include:

--  AMD Opteron-based systems, including IBM System x3455, System x3655,
    System x3755, BladeCenter LS21 and BladeCenter LS41.
--  Intel Xeon-based systems, including IBM System x3550, System x3650 and
    BladeCenter HS21
--  IBM Power-based systems, including IBM System p5 505, System p5 505Q,
    System p5 510, System p5 510Q, System p5 550 and System p5 550Q and
    BladeCenter JS21*
--  IBM Cell Broadband Engine-based systems, including IBM BladeCenter
    QS20
    

IBM’s new System Cluster 1350 offers unmatched networking options,
including Ethernet, Infiniband, and Myrinet interconnects that enable
information flow among the systems. IBM is working with leading network
providers to bring the Autobahn to the System Cluster 1350. Some of these
new choices include:

--  HyperTransport (HTx): a high bandwidth, low-latency connection that
    can be leveraged with AMD Opteron-based systems.  System Cluster 1350 is
    one of the first in the industry to support the Qlogic/PathScale HTx
    adapters for the new servers. This capability, combined with the
    HyperTransport technology and other key technical features of these
    servers, makes them ideal for memory-intensive High Performance Computing
    and Business Performance Computing applications that have previously been
    constrained by processor-memory and I/O bandwidth performance.

--  Cisco high performance Ethernet and Infiniband networking and
    BladeCenter products, including the native 10Gbps BladeCenter H Infiniband
    switch blade, offer enhanced manageability, choice based on HPC application
    requirements and proven interoperability with IBM 1350 products.

--  Cluster 1350 broadens the Ethernet portfolio with the inclusion of
    switches from Force10 that allow for flexible designs in cluster systems.

--  Myri-10G (10Gbps) adapters and switches from Myricom for high speed
    and low latency networks. In Ethernet mode, the Myri-10G adapters can be
    used with commercial 10 Gbps Ethernet switches and perform at near wire
    rate speeds using TCP/IP and UDP/IP protocols.

--  Clients can now double the bandwidth of their communications from 10
    Gbps to 20 Gbps with the new Voltaire Infiniband products using Infiniband
    4x Double Data Rate adapters and switches.  A new innovation -- the
    Voltaire InfiniBand Pass-through Module for Blades can eliminate the need
    for intermediate switches and provides direct connections to large core
    switches that can be long distances from a BladeCenter without sacrificing
    performance.
    

IBM System Cluster 1350 will also offer ClearSpeed Advance™ accelerator
boards, which expands hybrid cluster architecture options. The PCI-X
adaptors are designed to improve the performance of many numerically
intensive workloads by routing math library routines to the ClearSpeed
accelerator board. This acceleration process is transparent to the end user
and the application, except for improved speed of calculation.

IBM System Cluster 1350 pricing will vary depending upon specific
configuration.

For more information about IBM, go to: www.ibm.com

*With the exception of IBM System p5 servers, which are expected to be
available in December.

IBM, System x and BladeCenter are trademarks of the International Business
Machines Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. For a
complete list of IBM Trademarks, see www.ibm.com/legal/copytrade.shtml.

All other products may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their
respective companies.

All customer examples cited or described in this presentation are presented
as illustrations of the manner in which some customers have used IBM
products and the results they may have achieved. Actual environmental costs
and performance characteristics will vary depending on individual customer
configurations and conditions.

All statements regarding IBM’s future direction and intent are subject to
change or withdrawal without notice, and represent goals and objectives
only.

Information about non-IBM products is obtained from the manufacturers of
those products or their published announcements. IBM has not tested those
products and cannot confirm the performance, compatibility, or any other
claims related to non-IBM products. Questions on the capabilities of
non-IBM products should be addressed to the suppliers of those products.

Any references in this information to non-IBM Web sites are provided for
convenience only and do not in any manner serve as an endorsement of those
Web sites. The materials at those Web sites are not part of the materials
for this IBM product and use of those Web sites is at your own risk.

Media contact:
Holly Parker-Coney
IBM Corporation
408-284-4700
hparkerc@us.ibm.com

SOURCE:  IBM

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