Meet IBM Research

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Meet IBM Research

Dr. Matthias KaiserswerthDirector and Vice President, IBM Research - Zurich

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IBM Research - Zurich

Agenda

Introduction & Strategy

How an idea becomes an innovation at IBM

Dilemmas of Strategic Innovation Management

Questions & Discussion

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IBM Research: The World is Our Lab

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•World's largest information technology research organization

•Patent Leadership

•More than 3,000 scientists and engineers

•IBM spent $6.3B on R&D in 2011

•5 Nobel Prize Laureates

IBM Research: The World is Our Lab

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- Founded in 1956

- 45 Nationalities

- 25% students, pre- & post-docs, visiting scientists

- 90 Collaborations with Partners

- Two Nobel Prizes (1986 and 1987)

- Recently opened the Binnig and Rohrer Nanotechnology Center with ETH Zürich

IBM Research -Zürich

Math & Computational Sciences: Business Optimization,

Computational Sciences, Data Analytics

Systems: Server Technology, Accelerator Technology, I/O Link Technologies,

System Software, Energy Management

Science & Technology: Semiconductors, Systems, Beyond the Transistor, Nanotechnology, Biotechnology

Computer Science: Security and Privacy, Business Integration Technologies,

Distributed Computing, Systems Management

Storage: Tape Technologies, Heads and Actuators, Storage Systems,

Memory and Probe Technologies

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2012 and beyondLead

–IBM to new technologies/businesses–Stronger IBM/client collaborations–Deeper industry expertise

“The World is our Lab”–Enable our new labs to succeed–Focus on growth markets–Real world research

Even Bolder Leadership Agenda–Leadership offerings–A new era of computing –Far-reaching research and grand challenges

Expanded Goals for our 2nd Century

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IBM Research and DevelopmentIBM continues to make consistent and sizable investments in R&D

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$5.8B

2005 2011

~2950Patents

6% E/R 6% E/R

6180 Patents

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IBM Research: Supporting IBM’s Growth

GrowthInitiatives

40%

60%

BaseResearch

Growth Markets22% of IBM’s geographic revenue

Cloud3.8 times 2010 revenue

Business Analytics16% revenue increase from 2010

Smarter PlanetNearly 50% revenue increase from 2010

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IBM’s Growth Market ExpansionIn 2011 we opened nearly 100 new branch offices

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The World is Our Lab

WatsonAlmaden

Austin TokyoHaifa

Zurich

India

Dublin

Melbourne

Brazil

China

Kenya

IBM Research labs Labs added since 2010

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Africa: The Next Frontier for IBM Research Innovation

New lab in Kenya will conduct basic and applied research to solve East Africa’s problems, such as transportation congestion and to optimize the use, storage, safety and distribution of water.

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Agenda


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Business managementIdeas management

TechnologyTrends

IndustryTrends

SocialTrends

Idea

Prototype

Patents AcademicPapers

PilotDeployment /Productization

Experience Papers

Industry Solution Labs

Research Solution Centers

Trend Scan3-10 years out

Research

Acquisitions

Transfer

Licensing

Collaboration

FOAK

How an Idea Becomes an Innovation at IBM

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Trend Scans

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Global Innovation

Outlook

Dialog about innovation, business transformation and societal progress

Collaborate across a global ecosystem

GIO 4.0: security and society, water and oceans

Trend Scans

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Global Innovation

Outlook




jamJamming

Collaboration between companies, organizations and family members to yield first-of-a-kind opportunities

Trend Scans

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Global Technology

Outlook

Identify emerging technology trends significant to industry in the next 3 - 7 years

Has a direct influence on IBM’s technical strategy

Global Innovation

Outlook




jamJamming

Collaboration between companies, organizations and family members to yield first-of-a-kind opportunities

Trend Scans

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Managing Uncertain Data at Scale

Future of Analytics

The Future Watson

Systems of People

Outcome Based Business

Resilient Business and Services

2012 Global Technology Outlook



Ideas management

TechnologyTrends

IndustryTrends

SocialTrends

Idea

Prototype



Experience Papers




Research

Acquisitions

Transfer

Licensing

Collaboration

FOAK


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IBM Press Release

Intelligent use of heat emissions in data centers

of the future

Hannover, Germany, Rüschlikon, Switzerland, 3 March 2008 — At the CeBIT 2008 tradefair scientists from IBM's

(NYSE: IBM) Zurich Research Laboratory will present for the first time a pioneering concept of a zero carbon

emission data center achieved by the direct reuse of waste heat. The first prototype is not only extremely energy-

efficient, but allows three-quarters of the IT operating energy to be redirected to such uses as to heat buildings. This

is environmentally friendly and lowers overall operating costs. A powerful new kind of water cooling system

embedded on the chip is the basis of this innovation.

Challenges in the IT industry

Energy is an indispensable yet increasingly precious resource. At the same time, it poses a challenge to the IT industry.

According to Gartner Group analysts, the information and communications industry accounts for about 2% of global

carbon dioxide emissions, which is equal to that generated by air traffic the world over. The US-based Lawrence Berkeley

National Laboratory confirms that the worldwide energy consumption of data centers amounts to some 120 billion KWh,

roughly equivalent to 14 typical power plants of 1000 megawatts each. This energy is used to operate the data centers

around the world that constitute the backbone of our service economy.

And the energy consumption of data centers is increasing. Companies currently spend between 25 and 50% of their total

IT budget on data center operations. Indeed, data centers have developed into oversized electrical heating systems. But

until now, it has not been possible to channel this energy to serve as a direct supply of heat. Instead, this waste heat is

simply dissipated into the environment, meaning that huge potential savings are not being realized.

Technological solution from IBM Research - Zurich

Scientists at the IBM Research Laboratory in Zurich now want to change this. At the CeBIT 2008 tradefair in Hannover,

Germany, they will present for the first time the pioneering concept of a highly energy-efficient data center that achieves a

zero carbon footprint by directly reusing its waste heat. The researchers have designed an innovative energy and cooling

circuit, the basis of which is a new kind of water-cooling system that is applied where cooling is needed the most —

directly on the chip.

The goal of the zero-emission data center model is to reuse heat generated by the chip for heating buildings, swimming

pools etc. or simply for conducting the heat into a municipal heating network. However, the most important requirement for

the direct use of heat is that the temperature of the waste heat be above a certain threshold, which, for modern municipal

heating networks, is about 50 °C.

To accomplish this, IBM researchers used water, which can conduct heat 4000 times better than air. This alone has an

enormous energy-saving potential. But integrating water cooling on the chip, researchers were able to improve the cooling

efficiency by several orders of magnitude.

Idea/Concept

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IBM Press Release

IBM and ETH Zurich unveil plan to build new kind

of water-cooled supercomputer

Direct reuse of waste heat. Aims to cut energy consumption by 40% and carbon-dioxide emissions by up to 85%

Zurich, Switzerland, June 23, 2009—In an effort to achieve energy-aware computing, the Swiss Federal Institute of

Technology Zurich (ETH), and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced plans to build a first-of-a-kind water-cooled

supercomputer that will directly repurpose excess heat for the university buildings. The innovative system, dubbed

Aquasar, is expected to decrease the carbon footprint of the system by up to 85% and estimated to save up to 30 tons

of CO2 per year, compared to a similar system using today’s cooling technologies.1

Making computing systems and data centers energy-efficient is a staggering undertaking. In fact, up to 50% percent of an

average air-cooled data center’s carbon footprint or energy consumption today is not caused by computing but by powering

the necessary cooling systems to keep the processors from overheating—a situation that is far from optimal when looking

at energy efficiency from a holistic perspective.

“Energy is arguably the number one challenge humanity will be facing in the 21st century. We cannot afford anymore to

design computer systems based on the criterion of computational speed and performance alone,” explains Prof. Dr.

Poulikakos of ETH Zurich, head of the Laboratory of Thermodynamics in Emerging Technologies and lead investigator of

this interdisciplinary project. “The new target must be high performance and low net power consumption supercomputers

and data centers. This means liquid cooling.”

With an innovative water-cooling system and direct heat reuse, Aquasar—the new supercomputer, which will be located at

the ETH Zurich and is planned to start operation in 2010, will reduce overall energy consumption by 40%. The system is

based on long-term joint research collaboration of ETH and IBM scientists in the field of chip-level water-cooling, as well

as on a concept for “water-cooled data centers with direct energy re-use” advanced by scientists at IBM’s Zurich Lab.

The water-cooled supercomputer will consist of two IBM BladeCenter® servers in one rack and will have a peak

performance of about 10 Teraflops.2

Each of the blades will be equipped with a microscale high-performance liquid cooler per processor, as well as input and

output pipeline networks and connections, which allow each blade to be connected and disconnected easily to the entire

system (see image).

Water as a coolant has the ability to capture heat about 4,000 times more efficiently than air, and its heat-transporting

properties are also far superior. Chip-level cooling with a water temperature of approximately 60°C is sufficient to keep the

chip at operating temperatures well below the maximally allowed 85°C. The high input temperature of the coolant results

in an even higher-grade heat as an output, which in this case will be about 65°C.

Collaboration and (Working) Prototype

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IBM Press Release

Hot-Water Cooled SuperMUC

Named Europe’s Fastest Supercomputer

German supercomputing center gets massive three petaflops system

while consuming 40% less energy

HAMBURG, Germany, June 18, 2012: Today, SuperMUC, an IBM hot-water cooled supercomputer built for the

Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) in Garching, Germany, has been named the most powerful system in

Europe. Incredibly, the system can maintain a peak performance of three petaflops (three quadrillion calculations per

second) while consuming 40 percent less energy than a comparable air-cooled machine due to its innovative on chip hot-

water cooled design.

The official results were reported today during the International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg, Germany.

Designed and developed by IBM scientists in Boeblingen, Germany and Zurich, Switzerland, SuperMUC gets its power

from an IBM System x® iDataPlex with 18,576 Intel Xeon processors -- equivalent to the work of more than XXX,000

PCs. Each processor is cooled with up to 60 degree Celsius water (140F), which is then repurposed to provide

campus heating.

“This year all of the electricity consumed by state-funded institutions across Germany are required to purchase 100%

sustainable energy. SuperMUC will help us keep our commitment, while giving the scientific community a best in class

system to test theories, design experiments and predict outcomes as never before,” Prof. Dr. Arndt Bode, Chairman of the

Board of Directors of LRZ.

Innovative water-cooling system

Up to 50 percent of an average air-cooled data center's energy consumption and carbon footprint today is not caused by

computing, but by powering the necessary cooling systems. To address this challenge, IBM scientists choose a radical, but

not new concept - water cooling, an ideal candidate because it removes heat 4,000 times more efficiently then air.

SuperMUC's innovative cooling system is based on bio-inspired micro-channel liquid coolers which are attached directly to

the processors, where most heat is generated.

The high temperature of the transported water results in an even higher-grade heat at the output, which in this case is up to

65 degrees Celsius (149 F).

Deployment

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Ideas management

TechnologyTrends

IndustryTrends

SocialTrends

Idea

Prototype



Experience Papers




Research

Acquisitions

Licensing

Collaboration

FOAK


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Ideas management

TechnologyTrends

IndustryTrends

SocialTrends

Idea

Prototype



Experience Papers




Research

Acquisitions

Licensing

Collaboration

FOAK


Transfer

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IBM Press Release

IBM Research creates

world’s smallest 3D map

New 3D microscopic technique improves development of nanoscale structures and

devices

Zurich, Switzerland, and San Jose, CA, 22 April 2010—IBM (NYSE: IBM) scientists have created a 3D map of the earth

so small that 1,000 of them could fit on one grain of salt.1 The scientists accomplished this by means of a new,

breakthrough technique that uses a tiny, silicon tip with a sharp apex — 100,000 times smaller than a sharpened pencil —

to create patterns and structures as small as 15 nanometers at greatly reduced cost and complexity. This patterning

technique opens new prospects for developing nanosized objects in fields such as electronics, future chip technology,

medicine, life sciences, and opto-electronics.

To demonstrate the technique’s unique capability, the team created several 3D and 2D patterns, using different materials for

each one as reported in the scientific journals Science and Advanced Materials:

• A 25-nanometer-high 3D replica of the Matterhorn, a famous Alpine mountain that soars 4,478 m (14,692 ft) high, was

created in molecular glass, representing a scale of 1:5 billion.2

• Complete 3D map of the world measuring only 22 by 11 micrometers was “written” on a polymer. At this size, 1000

world maps could fit on a grain of salt. In the relief, one thousand meters of altitude correspond to roughly eight

nanometers (nm). It is composed of 500,000 pixels, each measuring 20 nm2, and was created in only 2 minutes and 23

seconds.• 2D nano-sized IBM logo was etched 400-nm-deep into silicon, demonstrating the viability of the technique for typical

nanofabrication applications.

The science behind the technique

The core component of the new technique, which was developed by a team of IBM scientists, is a tiny, very sharp silicon

tip measuring 500 nanometers in length and only a few nanometers at its apex.

“Advances in nanotechnology are intimately linked to the existence of high-quality methods and tools for producing

nanoscale patterns and objects on surfaces,” explains physicist Dr. Armin Knoll of IBM Research – Zurich. “With its broad

functionality and unique 3D patterning capability, this nanotip-based patterning methodology is a powerful tool for

generating very small structures.”

The tip, similar to the kind used in atomic force microscopes, is attached to a bendable cantilever that controllably scans the

surface of the substrate material with the accuracy of one nanometer—a millionth of a millimeter. By applying heat and

force, the nano-sized tip can remove substrate material based on predefined patterns, thus operating like a “nanomilling”

machine with ultra-high precision.

Technology Transfer

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Technology Transfer

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Dilemma #1Bottom Up and Top Down

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Dilemma #1Bottom Up and Top Down

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vs.

Dilemma #2Long-term research and short-term success

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Dilemma #3Promotion of intellectual property

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How do you confront these dilemmas?Here is a snapshot from IBM Research.

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For Dilemma #1High Reputation

ReputationManagement of Corporate R&D Centers

Phase 2: Reputation Ranking

• Data normalized to top-ranking FHG, n=1138/25

Reputation Management of Corporate R&D Centers, Universität St. Gallen, 2009

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For Dilemma #1Strategy Management System

Strategist Area Strategist Sub-Strategist

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Lab Director/VP Direct Report* Senior Manager

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zu Dilemma #1 & #2Research with Market Success

For Dilemma #1, #2IBM Research - Zurich

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www.rsc.org/loc

Volume 9 | Number 23 | 7 December 2009 | Pages 3313– 3452

ISSN 1473-0197

Miniaturisation for chemistry, physics, biology, & bioengineering

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One-step immunodiagnostics

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DemirciAutomated cell quanti!cation for HIV 1473-0197(2

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As featured in:

See Huang et al., Lab Chip,

2009, 9, 3354–3359.

www.rsc.orgRegistered Charity Number 207890

‘‘Acoustic tweezers’’ enable on-chip continuous particle separation

through standing surface acoustic wave (SSAW)-induced acoustophoresis

in a micro!uidic channel.

Title: Continuous particle separation in a micro!uidic channel via standing

surface acoustic waves (SSAW)

Featuring work from the group of Professor T. J. Huang in

the Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, The

Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA Volum

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Pages 2253–2408

www.rsc.org/loc

Volume 9 | Number 23 | 7 December 2009 | Pages 3313– 3452

ISSN 1473-0197

Miniaturisation for chemistry, physics, biology, & bioengineering

Delamarche

One-step immunodiagnostics

LuPressure measurement

LeeLabel-free detection with SERS

DemirciAutomated cell quanti!cation for HIV 1473-0197(2

009)9:23;1-U

Volum

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ber 23 | 2009

Lab on a Chip

Pages 3313–3452

TOTAL SYNTHESIS

Four of a kind

OXYGEN REDUCTION REACTION

Better through blocking

WATER-OXIDATION CATALYSIS

Nanotubes provide stability

Single-molecule mug shot

OCTOBER 2010 VOL 2 NO 10

www.nature.com/naturechem

istry

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7/9/10 13:52:16

European Research Council Advanced Grant 2011

Robert-Wichard-Pohl-Preis 2011

ACM SIGSAC Outstanding Innovation Award 2010

R&D Magazine Top 100 in 2010

Best Innovation European Identity Award 2010

Gerhard-Ertl-Preis for Young Scientists in 2010

For Dilemma #1 & #2Balanced Research Agenda

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Venture Capitalists ISVs Business

Partners

Universities

CommunityLeaders

CompetitorsEmployees

Regulatory Bodies

Investors

IT AnalystsAlumni

StandardsBodies

Policy-makers

ClientsInnovation Ecosystem

For Dilemma #3Open Innovation

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For Dilemma #3Open Innovation

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10% of our Pre/Post Docs are from EPFL

13 CDAs/JDAs with EPFL IBM Research Prize (computational

sciences) 30 EU FP Collaborations in the past

five years

EU Flagship Collaborations

April 2012 | The HBP Report | 1

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The Human Brain ProjectA Report to the European Commission

2011 Prize was awarded to Dr. Alessandro Marinoni (right)

For Dilemma #3Innovating with Partners

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Increase electronic device efficiency by 10× and eliminate power consumption of devices in standby mode Expertise and research to tunnel field effect transistors (TFETs) and semiconducting nanowires to improve the efficient use of energy in electronics

Based on silicon (Si), silicon-germanium (SiGe) and III-V semiconducting nanowires

For Dilemma #3Project STEEPER

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Dishes of the Square Kilometer Array will produce 10 times the global internet traffic.

The SKA computer system will have the processing power of about one hundred million PCs.

The technology to handle the SKA doesn’t exist on the market today

For Dilemma #3Big Bang Meets Big Data

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Green supercomputing: 3-D chip stacks,

high-performance storage systems

Nanophotonics and optical interconnect technologies to optimize large data transfers

Storage and Memory: Phase change materials and advanced tape

Five Year, Public Private Partnership with Dutch government

Open Platform for Additional Partners

For Dilemma #3Technology Roadmap with ASTRON

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