Leveraging Blue Gene for commercial applications

Summary form only given. Blue Gene is recognized as a world leader in the HPC marketplace. Many of the characteristics that have contributed to this success are valuable for financial service customers. Blue Genepsilas low power per computation ratio, ultra-reliability, small footprint, and low cost-of-ownership, are valuable to commercial customers. However, programming environments on blue gene have traditionally been geared to the HPC space instead of traditional commercial customers. Currently, several teams in IBM Research are investigating programming models suitable for using blue gene in a commercial environment. Notable among them is an engagement with TD bank for streaming financial applications. In this talk I will describe the different areas of ongoing research and describe the effectiveness of bringing Blue Gene technology to bear on these commercial problems.