BlueGene and Business Optimization
William Pulleyblank, IBM Business
Consulting Services
February 18, 2005
Abstract
BlueGene is a family of massively parallel supercomputers capable
of performing unprecedented amounts of computation. We describe
this system, its characteristics, and some early application successes.
Exploiting this capability presents a broad range of challenges.
Last fall, we announced the formation of a new business unit,
called the Center for Business Optimization. We also discuss some
of the challenges and opportunities that this will present in
bringing optimization and business analytics capability to market
as well as exploiting BlueGene level computational power.