Jan 9, 2003 : IBM Delivers Supercomputing on Demand

📅 January 9, 2003 - IT service provider IBM (IBM.com) announced on Thursday that it has introduced a new option for companies that want access to supercomputing power without the fixed costs and operational responsibilities associated with owning a supercomputer.

IBM customers, says the company, now have the option to either buy POWER or Intel processor-based supercomputer clusters or access these systems on demand, paying for processing power by capacity and duration of use.
According to IBM, industry sectors like petroleum, digital media and life sciences, require the power of supercomputers, but only at certain times during their product development cycles. At other times, servers owned by such companies sit idle or underused.
The first company to access IBM's supercomputing power on demand is PGS Data Processing, a division of Petrolium Geo-Services, for an advanced seismic imaging project in the deep water of the Gulf of Mexico.
"Customers in some sectors want access to large scale computing power in short bursts," says David Turek, vice president, IBM Linux clusters and Grid solutions. "This supercomputing offering will change how business is done. The ability to buy computing power on demand allows customers to save on server maintenance, management, and to scale their infrastructure rapidly, in response to business demands."
IBM says it will create large POWER and Intel processor-based supercomputer grids to support the new on-demand offerings. The initial IBM supercomputing hosting facility will be based in Poughkeepsie, NY, with other national and international facilities to follow.

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