The past year has seen a steady stream of announcements about alliances and Open Source project participation and announcements about support of Linux on its servers. Centers are in Tokyo, Shanghai, Beijing, Taipei, Seoul, Bangalore, and Sydney. What's more, IBM's weight around Linux includes Linux clustering,with the offer of prepackaged Linux cluster solutions for high-performance computing, Web serving, and other work areas. The Linux cluster series uses Netfinity servers and software, Open Source components, and third-party products. Deep Computing is actually our effort to take people away from an esoteric view of supercomputing, and to understand the performance of complex calculations on massive amounts of data in order to support business decisions.
Problems are complex in all walks of life.
Deep computing, from petroleum companies to financial institutions, refers to a corporate ability to use technologies to solve their diverse problems. Our strategy is not to build separate computers, but to have a robust architecture for solving problems, and we think clusters are especially appropriate for that. So this is not just about scientific stuff, but about businesses with terabytes of data to mine, to discover such things as credit risks. Clustering is in full evidence in the commercial space. The approach is being used for server consolidation, Web serving, standard database applications, and data mining.