IBM on Thursday said it is now offering high-performance computing services to customers who want to get supercomputers up and running faster.
The company is offering services that include installation of supercomputers, training and porting of applications to high-performance systems, the company said. The services are being provided by IBM’s deep computing group, which is responsible for products like x86-based system clusters to supercomputers based on the company’s Power architecture.
Users of high-performance computers include researchers who need a lot of processing power for complex math calculations. Supercomputing sometimes calls for skills that some organizations might not have, and the services portfolio will make IBM’s HPC skills available to those customers, the company said.
HPC systems could be expensive to implement, and IBM could provide some expertise in implementing systems while minimizing risk for customers, said Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT.
“But it’s going to be a fairly narrow range of customers to begin with,” King said. HPC is useful for universities or companies in sectors like insurance or oil and gas that do a lot of research, he said. However, there could be a spike in demand for IBM’s HPC services as customers need more processing power to address more sophisticated computing requirements.
Offering assistance with HPC solutions should create further revenue and opportunities for IBM in the HPC sector and further help with their research, best practice and innovation of their platforms which has to be a good thing for the end user community and the HPC world. I wonder if they will be targetting their HPC solutions with a specific platform like blades or their System X iDataPlex solution? We’ll have to see.
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