IBM BladeCenter QS22

For high performance computing (HPC) applications requiring massive amounts of computing power, the new IBM® BladeCenter® QS22 blade server provides extreme performance for accelerating compute-intensive workloads efficiently.

For years, organizations relied on performance gains from increasing clock speeds of "traditional" microprocessor architectures. However, this approach has lead to issues in power consumption, heat dissipation and memory latencies–resulting in diminishing returns on performance.

Based on the innovative multi-core IBM PowerXCell™ 8i processor, a new generation processor based on the Cell Broadband Engine (Cell/B.E.) Architecture, the QS22 blade server offers extraordinary double precision floating point processing power for high performance computing applications such as digital content creation, electronic design automation, image and signal processing, financial algorithms, scientific research and seismic processing.

Part of the BladeCenter family of products, the QS22 high-performance blade server extends and deepens the IBM HPC solution portfolio by providing a new level of parallelism and performance to targeted workloads. It allows companies to create and run applications that require extreme stream computation and bandwidth, providing information faster and helping to facilitate important business decisions to organizations in:
* Aerospace and defense
* Health care and life sciences
* Petroleum exploration
* Financial markets
* Digital media
* Electronics
* Government