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code,  some applications date back 20 years or more yet handle about 30 billion basic business 

transactions every day.  

IBM announces one of the world's first comprehensive intrusion detection services designed to 

help customers protect against security breaches on wireless local area networks.  

Alliances

AMD and IBM agree to jointly develop chip making technologies for use in future high 

performance products.  

deCODE  genetics and IBM form an alliance to deliver a set of integrated applications, 

technologies and services for analyzing, managing and storing genetic, genealogical and clinical 

data.  

Raytheon Company and IBM announce plans to work together to design custom semiconductors 

and systems for customers in the aerospace and defense industry.  

Science & Technology

IBM earns 3,415 U.S. patents in 2003, breaking the record for patents received in a single year 

and extending its run as the world s most innovative company to eleven consecutive years. Led 

by growth in patents that fuel the company s latest on demand computing and services offerings, 

IBM eclipses the nearest company by more than 1,400 patents. During the past eleven years, 

IBM innovations have generated more than 25,000 U.S. patents    nearly triple the total of any 

U.S. IT competitor during this time and surpassing the combined totals for Hewlett Packard, 

Dell, Microsoft, Sun, Oracle, Intel, Apple, EMC, Accenture and EDS.  IBM is the only company 

to receive 3,000 patents from the United States Patent and Trademark Office in a single year, 

passing that milestone each of the past three years.  

IBM says it will provide the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center with a powerful new 

supercomputer that will help researchers gain new understanding of the complex environmental 

relationships that support marine life in the Gulf of Alaska. The supercomputer    dubbed 

 Iceberg     will contain 92 IBM eServer p655 systems, each with eight POWER4 

microprocessors, and two IBM eServer p690 systems, each with 32 POWER4 microprocessors, 

running AIX, IBM's UNIX operating system.  

The U.S. National Weather Service activates its most powerful, weather forecasting 

supercomputer ever. The first phase of the installation consists of a cluster of 44 IBM eServer 

p690 servers supported by 42 terabytes of IBM TotalStorage FAStT500 Storage Server disk 

storage    doubles the Service's computing power. IBM will expand the system to reach a peak 

speed well in excess of 100 teraflops by 2009. It would take one person with a calculator more 

than 80 million years to tabulate the number of calculations a 100 teraflop supercomputer can 

handle in a single second.  

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