IBM
opens its first deep computing on demand center in Europe
Posted: 31 May 2004
New center in Montpellier, France will meet growing demand
for supercomputing power on tap
IBM announced the opening of the first Deep Computing Capacity
on Demand center in Europe. The new facility, located in Montpellier,
France, is the second of its kind in the world, and will provide
customers access via the Internet, to immensely powerful, highly
secure supercomputers.
The Montpelier On Demand center joins IBM's Deep Computing Capacity
On Demand center in Poughkeepsie, New York, as the only two facilities
in the world to offer supercomputing power on tap to companies in
industries such as petroleum, life sciences, digital animation and
financial services.
Mentor Graphics, an Oregon based technology leader in electronic
design automation (EDA), will be one of the first to utilize IBM's
new computing center, tapping into super computing power from IBM's
eServer pSeries 690 systems in Montpellier, as well as eServer xSeries
systems based in Poughkeepsie. Mentor is also testing it's Calibre
design to silicon software platform on AMD Opteron processor based
IBM eServer systems located in the Poughkeepsie facility.
"Massively parallel computing with high speed clusters is
a key enabler for minimizing cycle time in preparing IC designs
for manufacturing," said Charlie Albertalli, director of marketing
for Calibre RET & MDP products at Mentor Graphics. "The
IBM computing centers provide us with virtually unlimited parallel
computing capacity to characterize and test our Calibre multi-threaded,
distributed processing performance on hundreds of cpus on an as
needed basis at a reasonable cost."
"Deep Computing Capacity on Demand centers enable companies
to tap IBM supercomputing power without the costs and management
responsibility of owning their own supercomputer, said David Turek,
vice president, IBM Deep Computing. The Centers are an extremely
attractive solution to a broad spectrum of companies that have peaks
and valleys in their need for supercomputing power. We expect the
new Montpellier facility to extend the same opportunities to businesses
and researchers in Europe."
The Montpellier center will offer customers access to IBM eServer
pSeries AIX or Linux servers and xSeries systems running Linux or
Microsoft Windows with related disk storage. In order to meet the
ever increasing demand to this type of computing power, IBM recently
expanded its Poughkeepsie center to include more than 2,300 IBM
xSeries Intel Xeon processor, eServer AMD Opteron processor, and
BladeCenter systems.
IBM also plans to implement grid technologies to enable resource
sharing within and across the two Deep Computing Capacity on demand
centers. Grids are expected to enable a new alternative pay-for
use model to complement
the existing reservation model, allowing clients even more convenience
and flexibility in accessing and paying for supercomputing power.
IBM Deep Computing Capacity on Demand enables customers to:
easily tap into massive amounts of supercomputing power that could
be otherwise unaffordable rapidly deploy supercomputing capacity
in response to urgent business opportunities pay for supercomputing
capacity on a variable cost basis, avoiding large up-front capital
outlays and long term fixed IT lower overall supercomputing ownership
and operating costs take advantage of a scalable, highly secure
and highly resilient on demand operating environment improve price/performance
for compute-intensive applications and processing of massive amounts
of data
About Mentor Graphics
Mentor Graphics Corporation (Nasdaq: MENT) is a world leader in
electronic hardware and software design solutions, providing products,
consulting services and award-winning support for the world's most
successful electronics and semiconductor companies. Established
in 1981, the company reported revenues over the last 12 months of
about $675 million and employs approximately 3,700 people worldwide.
For more information about Mentor Graphics, visit www.mentor.com
About IBM
IBM is the world's largest information technology company, with
80 years of leadership in helping businesses innovate. Drawing on
resources from across IBM and key Business Partners, IBM offers
a wide range of services, solutions and technologies that enable
customers, large and small, to take full advantage of the new era
of e-business.
For more information about IBM, visit www.ibm.com
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