IBM’s Power 775 wins recent HPC Challenge

Starting out as a
government project 10 years ago, IBM Research’s high performance computing
project, PERCS (pronounced “perks”), led to one of the world’s most
powerful supercomputers, the Power 775. This July, the Power 775 continued to
prove its power by earning the top spot in a series of benchmark components of the HPC Challenge suite.



IBM Research
scientist Ram Rajamony, who was the

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Blue Gene/Q delivers a smarter planet in record speed

Editor’s note: This
article was written by Michael
Rosenfield, IBM Research’s director of Deep Computing Systems.



IBM’s Blue Gene/Q supercomputer,
Sequoia, at the Lawrence Livermore National Lab took the number one ranking in
the TOP500
list of the world’s fastest machines. And 21 other Blue Gene/Q configurations
also earned spots on the list – including four in the top 10. Quite an

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Research & Development in Europe

This article by Rich Hume, General Manager of IBM Europe, originally appeared on the IBM Smarter Planet blog.

In an ever more globally integrated economy, Europe has headlined one of its key competitive differentiators: Research and Development.

A fact acknowledged by Horizon 2020, the European Union’s ambitious € 80 billion program for research and innovation.

Part of the drive to create new

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Big Data University

Rutgers and IBM team on a new High Performance Computing Center. 



Soon to be armed with a new IBMBlue Gene/P high performance computing center,
Rutgers University
will crunch big data from the life sciences to finance, and even do some climate
modeling.




Partnering
for analytics



RDI2
will be one of only eight of the nation’s 62 scientific computation centers
with an

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The Payoff from the IBM-Google University Research Cloud

Scientists love it when their work has a direct impact on society, so Naphtali Rishe, director of Florida International University’s High Performance Database Research Center, is thrilled that much of his lab’s data is used by real estate professionals and urban planners. Check out one of his Web sites, which shows detailed maps of Miami-Dade County real estate sales data. Anybody who wants to

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