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IBM Selected by DOE to Develop Next Generation Systems
- 1. IBM Selected byDOE to Develop Next Generation Systems Last Friday, the Department of Energy announced IBM has been awarded a $325 million contract to design and build two supercomputing systems, at Lawrence Livermore and Oak Ridge National Labs, validating IBM's OpenPOWER strategy. As part of the announcement, Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz and Sen. Lamar Alexander (R- Tenn.) hosted a press briefing at the US Capitol Building with John Kelly in attendance, along with multiple government leaders. Reporters from NBC, ABC and Politico were among those in attendance. To amplify the news, we hosted a press teleconference that included executives from the labs and OpenPOWER partners NVIDIA and Mellanox. Reporters ranging from the San Francisco Chronicle to International Business Times attended. We anticipate additional coverage this week. Wire photo: (from left) Dr. Thom Mason, director, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Dr. John E. Kelly III, Senior Vice President & director of IBM Research; Dr. Bill Goldstein, director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. (Rich Riggins/Feature Photo Service for IBM) The news was promoted internally through numerous blogs and in the seller community to reinforce that the systems we are delivering to the labs are building blocks that are available today.
- 2. Notable Quotes Computer designersare grappling with an explosion in the amount of data that users want to sift through. Much of the computation conducted to locate underground oil deposits, for example, is in preparing data for analysis rather than the analysis itself. To solve it, IBM added computing power to components— including data storage and networking devices—that usually carry a light burden of calculation. That way, the supercomputer can delegate heavier computing tasks to those components and reduce the amount of data that must be transferred and processed by central processing units . -- Wall Street Journal Both systems will be based on next-generation IBM POWER servers with NVIDIA's GPU accelerators and Mellanox's Interconnected technologies "to advance key research initiatives for national nuclear deterrence, technology advancement and scientific discovery," the DOE said. -- Business Standard Dubbed Sierra and Summit, the two GPU-accelerated supercomputers will rely on IBM's OpenPOWER chips -- ZDNet Sierra and Summit will employ a new “data-centric” technique, which allows the computers to decentralize the processing of data. Rather than sending data to and from a central processor chip, IBM says, the two supercomputers will be able to interconnect thousands of different chips to mine data across a network. -- Christian Science Monitor John Kelly, senior vice president at IBM and director of IBM research, told VentureBeat that the new machines will put the U.S. at the top of the heap in having the world’s most powerful supercomputers. And, because of the unique architecture, which puts the processors near the data, the U.S. will likely have a lead in access to Big Data. He said that IBM refers to data as “the world’s next natural resource." http://venturebeat.com/2014/11/14/ibm-and-nvidia-win-425m-to-build-two-monstrous- supercomputers-for-the-department-of-energy/-- VentureBeat "The beauty of the systems being developed for Lawrence Livermore and Oak Ridge is that the core technologies are available today to organizations of many sizes across many industries," says Rosamilia. -- International Business Times Earned Coverage Highlights
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- 4. Analyst Outreach Highlights Briefings: IDC- Matt Eastwood, Earl Joseph Intersect360 - Addison Snell: The movement of data across a system has become the gating factor. What IBM is proposing with its data-centric architecture is to intelligently locate computational elements throughout the system -- integrated with storage components or networking components where the data resides -- in order to optimize the workflow of a system on an ongoing basis.-- EE Times Cabot Partners - Srini Chari, Ajay Nair Analyst Email Flash - Distributed to 1063 analysts worldwide Analyst Pieces: Tech Guru Daily.com: NVIDIA and IBM Aim to Power the US into Supercomputer Leadership - Rob Enderle, Enderle Group Internal Resources Doug Balog blog: U.S. Department of Energy selects POWER's data-centric design Ken King blog: OpenPOWER momentum continues Stephen Leonard blog: A milestone for OpenPOWER technology Daniel Pelino blog: IBM Tapped by U.S. Department of Energy for Breakthrough ‘Data Centric’ Systems Anne Altman blog: U.S. Department of Energy Selects IBM to Build the World's First ‘Data Centric’ Systems Sales resources blog Owned Coverage Research Blog: Data-Centric Systems -- A New Paradigm For Computing Infographic: A New Vision for Big Data Computing Smarter Planet blog: Kelly: It’s Time to Shift to Data-Centric Computing YouTube Video: The National Labs and the Rise of Data-Centric Computing