Gridcore server offerings

X86-64 servers

Gridcore has wide experience of the configuration and deployment of the IBM System X portfolio. This ranges from rack mounted servers and Bladecenters utilizing a wide array of processor, memory and storage configurations.

Contact Gridcore for more information about IBM System X or browse the IBM System X page. 

IBM Power architecture and IBM CELL Broadband Engine

IBM Power Architecture® provides seamless possibilities for high end applications including virtualization. Using Power architecture under AIX you may exploit all possibilities of the Power 6 architecture.

IBM Bladecenter portfolio

IBM Bladcenter portfolio is one of the most comprehensive and complete offerings available. With a open design, clear road map and large choice of architectures (you can mix x86-64, Power, CELL in the same chassis), switches and add on modules combined with management tools and design for reliability, the IBM Bladcenter is the right choice for almost any compute task.

 
Contact Gridcore for more information about IBM Bladecenter portfolio or browse the IBM Bladcenter page.

IBM Blue Gene Supercomputer solution

The IBM Blue Gene is a concept for building scalable cluster based 
supercomputers, ranging from 2048 CPU cores to hundreds of thousands of 
cores. By utilizing energy efficient PowerPC processors clocked at 
moderate frequencies, a highly modular and dense physical arrangement can 
be achieved (1024 CPUs per rack, which for Blue Gene/L means 2048 cores 
per rack and for Blue Gene/P 4096 cores per rack). The maximum size of a 
Blue Gene/L is 64 racks, i.e. 131072 cores, and of a Blue Gene/P 72 racks, 
i.e. 294912 cores. 

Programming languages supported in the Blue Gene environment are Fortran 
and C/C++ (using IBM XL compilers and the GNU compilers). Parallelization 
is by means of MPI (the Blue Gene/P also supports up to 4-way SMP 
internally on the compute cards, with MPI between compute cards). The 
front end node, which is used for compilation and job submission, and the 
I/O nodes run Linux, while the compute nodes run a special lightweight 
kernel. Consequently, codes already running in a Linux cluster environment 
utilizing MPI are readily portable to the Blue Gene environment. 

Contact Gridcore for more information about the Blue Gene or browse the IBM Blue Gene pages.