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How a million trillion calculations per second will change the world

On June 19, 2009, IBM announced its intent to achieve the next 'moon-shot' in the evolution of the world's most powerful computers – an 'exaflop' system with nearly unimaginable power.

The IBM Roadrunner system at Los Alamos National Lab again holds the No. 1 position as the world’s most powerful system, according to the latest TOP500 list of supercomputers.

IBM's leadership on the TOP500 list includes:

We have been extending this website to include the possibility to publish content easily on social bookmarking sites like Technorati, Facebook, Digg This! and del.icio.us.

Today we extend this ever further by providing you with a link to be able to publish it on Twitter.

IBM® System x® and BladeCenter® tools each have their own bootable CD. Using IBM ToolsCenter Bootable Media Creator, you can create a single bootable image on supported media (such as CD, DVD, ISO image, USB flash drive, or set of PXE files) that bundles multiple IBM System x and BladeCenter updates from UpdateXpress System Packs, which contain Windows and Linux firmware and device driver updates.

Available for Windows, SLES 9, SLES 10, RHEL 3, RHEL 4 and RHEL 5

Source:  IBM Support - Boot Media Creator, IBM ToolsCenter

IBM has been creating IBM BladeCenter at-a-glance pages for some time now and as new adapters are being announced this info can be very handy. For instance these new converged network adapters..... what are they and what do they look like.

Now you can find out @ the IBM Redbooks website with in this case the QLogic 2-port 10Gb Converged Network Adapter (CFFh) for IBM BladeCenter.

Source: IBM Redbooks - BladeCenter at-a-glance - QLogic 2-port 10Gb Converged Network Adapter (CFFh) for IBM BladeCenter

The IBM System Storage N series and IBM TotalStorage NAS Interoperability matrices are a source of information for customers to help select the best combination of integrated storage technologies to reduce expenses, increase efficiency and expedite storage infrastructure implementation.

The information in the matrices is intended to aid in the design of high quality solutions for leading storage platforms. These matrixes are updated regularly.

Source: IBM System Storage Interoperability Matrix

Earlier this week Intel held a press conference to advise the market of their intention to deliver a multiprocessor version of Nehalem. This is essentially a "vitality" announcement to ensure that the market, including investors, are aware that Intel has the next generation of high value processor in the works.
To prove their point, Intel wanted to show a system up and running with the new parts. IBM provided an "eX5" based system. The audience was able to see the screen with 64 cores and 128 threads up and running. It was a great opportunity for IBM to show the market again that they are the leaders in multiprocessor x86 and are Intel's best partner in the MP space.

Source: The Inquirer - finally... a solution for the 64 core 4tb ram market, Intel press room