IBM Undertakes Massive Compute Power Expansion for High Performance Computing on Demand

which may give them acompetitive edge for short term or fluctuating needs for immense computingpower."

DCCOD can help a broad spectrum of companies that have peaks and valleys intheir need for supercomputing power. Commercial industries that havebenefited from supercomputing power on demand are digital animationstudios, bioinformatic research companies, financial servicesorganizations, government agencies, petroleum, automotive, aerospace andnational research laboratories that use high performance computing on aninconsistent basis.

Support Grows Among Corporate Clients and Solution Providers

Adding to a list of successful engagements through DCCOD, including ExaCorporation, QuamtumBio and others, Platform Computing and MSC Softwarehave recently turned to DCCOD to test, market and/or deliver leading highperformance computing applications to corporate clients.

"MSC.Software Corp is excited to be first to market with an on demandenterprise simulation solution in partnership with IBM®," said AndyMeyer, vice president of corporate marketing at MSC. "When MD on Demand iscombined with DCCOD and IBM System p5 POWER 5+ servers, customers will beable to unleash "MD on Demand's" full virtual simulation capabilities,deliver cost savings and flexibility demanded by customers through thisinnovative on demand delivery model."

"When Platform decided to do scalability testing with our next generationSymphony 3 software, we realized the need for a large, secure testinginfrastructure. The obvious solution was the IBM Deep Computing Capacityon Demand (DCCOD) environment," said Jingwen Wang, Vice President ofProducts, Platform Computing. "Being able to access a High-PerformanceComputing IBM BladeCenter cluster of 500 nodes or more than 1000 CPUs whenwe needed it, not only met our technical needs, but made business sense aswell. Furthermore, their operations team demonstrates deep skills and astrong commitment to helping us perform testing as efficiently aspossible."

IBM Deep Computing Capacity on Demand can help enable customers to:

-- Rapidly respond to their new and changing business opportunities-- Compete at a scale that may not previously been possible for them-- Easily tap into massive amounts of supercomputing power that could be otherwise unaffordable-- Rapidly deploy supercomputing capacity in response to urgent business opportunities-- Pay for supercomputing capacity on a variable cost basis, which may help avoid large up-front capital outlays and long term fixed IT cost commitments-- Lower overall supercomputing ownership and operating costs-- Take advantage of a scalable, highly secure and highly resilient on demand operating environment-- Improve price/performance for compute-intensive applications and processing of massive amounts of data-- Access a variety of technology to optimally serve the needs of diverse applications For more information on IBM, please visit www.ibm.com.

(1) - Deep Computing Capacity on Demand upgrades noted above to beavailable starting August 2006

(2) - Blue Gene at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is ranked #1worldwide on the November TOP500 list of supercomputers, available atwww.top500.org.

Contact:Kevin AcocellaIBM Corporation646-598-5551kma@us.ibm.com

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