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October 31, 2005
Industries Tap IBM's Deep Computing Capacity on Demand
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Through IBM's Deep Computing Capacity on Demand (DCCoD) offering, four new commercial applications are leveraging Blue Gene and additional HPC cluster systems to solve problems in supply chain, digital animation, life sciences and automotive design. SmartOps Corp., RenderRocket LLC, QuantumBio Inc. and Exa Corp. are partnering with IBM to spur development and drive innovation in their respective industries.
IBM's DCCoD is a utility computing service that provides clients with access to IBM supercomputing infrastructure. It enables modest-sized organizations or those with peak computing demands to buy capacity on IBM's HPC resources.
"We are giving customers access to supercomputing power once available only to the corporations with the deepest pockets," said David Gelardi, vice president of Deep Computing Capacity on Demand at IBM. "Clients who need the analytic capability of super-high performance computers can now simply rent time on Blue Gene to run these specialized applications and achieve results never before attainable."
Examples of the work taking place at the IBM Deep Computing Capacity on Demand centers include:
- Supply chain management
SmartOps, a provider of enterprise-class supply chain optimization solutions for the manufacturing and distribution industries, is using IBM's Blue Gene DCCoD Center to provide customers with flexibility and scalability for deploying supply chain optimization solutions.
SmartOps Multistage Inventory Planning and Optimization solution allows their customers, like Caterpillar and Deere in manufacturing, and Cardinal Health in distribution, to improve their order fulfillment and inventory asset management. By accessing IBM's Blue Gene, SmartOps reduces processing time from hours to seconds. It also allows SmartOps to enable large-scale customers to run dozens of optimization scenarios on real production data in minutes, allowing a sense-and-respond capability in supply chain management.
"Our selection of IBM's DCCoD was based on a commitment to provide our customers with choices that offer the greatest value, from ease of implementation to industry leading scalability," said Sridhar Tayur, CEO of SmartOps. "IBM's range of computing platforms including servers, clusters, and Blue Gene On Demand provides an unparalleled level of choice and service and enables our customers to have confidence in the reliability and scalability of their supply chain systems. We are confident in IBM's products and services."
- Animation rendering
RenderRocket, a remote 3-D rendering services company, now enables their customers to have access to rendering power, available 24 hours a day over the Internet. By combining DCCoD computing power and RenderRocket's render job launching and monitoring tools, customers can have access to the 3-D computing power.
Customers have the ability to tap into remote rendering power without tying up local workstations or building expensive local server farms that may only be used a small fraction of the time. IBM's DCCoD enables the company to provide an advanced rendering platform. For example, a minute and a half animation for television render may take up to 10 days to render on a company's local rendering servers. With RenderRocket, that same job can be turned around in a few hours, leaving plenty of time for revisions, enabling the creative process.
- Life sciences
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