IBM Research Collaboration

IBM and SARA have a joint research collaboration focused on petascale computing. This collaboration allows for joint research in a number of areas to enable applications to run on the next generation petaflop supercomputers.

The currently deployed Huygens supercomputer with IBM POWER 575 technology and an IBM POWER 755 test system are being used as major platforms to support the research. Areas of research include scaling key applications in the Dutch research community to support a large number of cores, new programming tools, Linux system performance and tuning and energy efficient technologies - all essential for petaflop systems.