Universiti Brunei Darussalam and IBM Drive Smarter Energy Research Initiatives


“Effective energy policies and planning are vital. This includes ensuring that the financial, technical capability, infrastructure and skills are made available, and all this takes time to establish. Research and development needs to be part and parcel of this growth potential,” said YB Pehin Dato Hj Mohd Yasmin Hj Umar, Minister of Energy, Brunei

The collaboration builds upon the ongoing relationship between IBM Research and UBD which has seen the two partners engaged in integrated, high resolution, national-scale modeling research involving weather modeling, climate modeling, flood forecasting, crop modeling, and renewable energy modeling in the region.

“Our collaboration with UBD has already witnessed significant progress in identifying some of Brunei’s natural resource modeling challenges, and we expect the relationship to continue to develop new insights into how Brunei can use energy more efficiently. We are glad to partner with UBD in this new research engagement,” said Ramesh Gopinath, Director, IBM Research – India. "By combining education and innovation, UBD can help strengthen the local infrastructure, maintain a sustainable economy and improve quality of life."

The UBD IBM Centre has been instituted to serve as a catalyst to help UBD to be amongst the Top 50 ranked universities in Asia by 2015. To support this research, a Blue Gene/P supercomputer (the first in the ASEAN region) has been installed in UBD and actively used by UBD IBM Centre researchers.

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