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From the News Desk
Thursday, 15. May 2008
IBM Reveals Supercomputers for the Enterprise
Recently, IBM expanded its High Performance Computing (HPC) product line with the release of the IBM BladeCenter QS22, which is aimed at financial services, digital media creation, and medical imaging.
IBM's new Bladecenter QS22 server blades each mount a pair of 3.2Ghz PowerXCell 8i microprocessors and up to 32GB of RAM. IBM claims that the chip is five times faster than the original Cell/B.E. chip and can handle workloads that previously required dozens of servers.
The PowerXCell 8i chips are the latest of the Cell microprocessor architecture that was developed jointly by IBM, Sony and Toshiba, and which has provided CPUs for a wide variety of computing devices as disparate as gaming consoles, laptop PCs and high-density data center servers.
The new blade runs Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the primary operating system and includes the open source development environment Eclipse. IBM has released an upgrade of its software development kit for Multicore Acceleration v3, which includes templates to help customers utilize the features of the QS22.
"The QS22 is a technological leap over the physical limitations of traditional processors that often dampen the ability of organizations to reach their goals," said Jim Comfort, vice president, IBM Systems and Technology Group, in a statement.
A 42U rack will hold up 56 QS22 blade servers capable of delivering up to 25.8 teraflops of computing torque. IBM plans to start shipping QS22 Bladecenter units in early June.
IBM's new Bladecenter QS22 server blades each mount a pair of 3.2Ghz PowerXCell 8i microprocessors and up to 32GB of RAM. IBM claims that the chip is five times faster than the original Cell/B.E. chip and can handle workloads that previously required dozens of servers.
The PowerXCell 8i chips are the latest of the Cell microprocessor architecture that was developed jointly by IBM, Sony and Toshiba, and which has provided CPUs for a wide variety of computing devices as disparate as gaming consoles, laptop PCs and high-density data center servers.
The new blade runs Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the primary operating system and includes the open source development environment Eclipse. IBM has released an upgrade of its software development kit for Multicore Acceleration v3, which includes templates to help customers utilize the features of the QS22.
"The QS22 is a technological leap over the physical limitations of traditional processors that often dampen the ability of organizations to reach their goals," said Jim Comfort, vice president, IBM Systems and Technology Group, in a statement.
A 42U rack will hold up 56 QS22 blade servers capable of delivering up to 25.8 teraflops of computing torque. IBM plans to start shipping QS22 Bladecenter units in early June.
