"San Francisco (InfoWorld) - At the SC2004 conference last week, IBM unveiled plans to build a commercial version of its Blue Gene supercomputer intended for businesses and for a number of scientific and research markets.
The IBM eServer Blue Gene is a Power-based system that uses a mix of cooling and clustering technologies to achieve a performance level of
5.7 teraflops. With a footprint of less than one square meter, system pricing starts at $1.5 million. Company officials also announced last week that for the first-time users can rent the system from one of IBM’s Deep Computing On Demand centers in the United States or Europe.
“We think this system will allow us to introduce a new class of high-performance computing capability to industry-specific businesses,” said Colin Parris, vice president of eServer product management at IBM.
IBM also gave show attendees a peek at a “prerelease” of its Power5-based p5 575, a system that is similar to a thin blade server, which essentially replaces IBM’s eServer p655 model and features a new design. In concert, IBM unveiled its eServer BladeCenter, which the company claims is the first blade with an open design specification, providing high-speed interconnect capabilities aimed at on-demand environments."
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