IBM Extends Grid Leadership With New Solutions and Customers

IBM Extends Grid Leadership With New Solutions and Customers

GridWorld — Further extending its leadership in the Grid computing market, IBM announced today that Higo Bank and UniCredit are the newest businesses to deploy Grid computing solutions based on IBM technology. In addition to the financial institutions, IBM announced an expansion of the IBM Grid and Grow offering, with participation by SAS and Absoft Corporation, as well as the introduction of a new Ready for Grid Computing program. The Grid and Grow offering is a powerful solution designed to help companies in key industries, including industrial, public sector and financial, get started with Grid computing. SAS is the newest major ISV to deliver an application on top of the Grid and Grow offering, while Absoft Corporation has designed its High-Performance Computing Software Development Kit (HPC SDK) to deliver compelling performance tools for the IBM Grid and Grow offering.

The announcements were made at GridWorld in Boston.
Today’s announcements accelerate IBM’s commitment to expand industry adoption of Grid computing, which allows organizations to dynamically share information and computer resources. By implementing Grid computing solutions, IBM is helping customers solve problems that they couldn’t solve previously. IBM currently has major, ongoing Grid computing projects around the world that enable customers to analyze the value of an investment portfolio in minutes rather than hours, unite global research teams to take advantage of the most up-to-date information, significantly accelerate drug discovery process, cut the design time of product, reduce the instances of defects, and scale businesses to meet cyclical demand.

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