DOST Blue Gene/P

The Philippines' first supercomputer and Southeast Asia's first IBM Blue Gene deployment: an IBM Blue Gene/P system delivered to the Department of Science and Technology's National Computer Center at UP Diliman, Quezon City in the last quarter of 2013 under a May 2012 memorandum of agreement with IBM, and brought into operational service in April 2014 alongside the opening of the Philippine Genome Center's Core Facility for Bioinformatics. DOST's own announcement states a processing power of 13.9 teraFLOPS and an equipment value of over a million US dollars against a DOST shipment cost of about ten thousand dollars; Philstar independently confirms the IBM vendor, the DOST operator and the 2013-to-2014 delivery-to-operational timeline, though only DOST's own release gives the exact performance figure, so flops_basis is recorded as operator_stated and confidence stays at reported. The system supported weather and climate forecasting, extending forecast range from three to seven days, through PAGASA, and genomic research through the Philippine Genome Center. No source found gives a decommissioning date, core count or power draw for the machine, so status is recorded as operational as of the April 2014 sources, with those fields left blank rather than guessed.