Annapolis’ IBM Blade product roadmap commitment will allow next generation FPGAs and Multicore technologies to be employed on today’s WILDSTAR 5 IBM Blade baseboard. Other processing technologies might include Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), General Purpose or Application Specific Processors (ASPs). No other platform available today provides this flexibility.

As described by the application examples cited, customers today can leverage the BladeCenter's high speed midplane to integrate the WILDSTAR 5 for IBM BladeCenter with other products in the IBM BladeCenter ecosystem, creating a powerful and well orchestrated heterogeneous processing platform suited to today's most challenging computational tasks.