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IBM Roadmap Extends Power Chips To 2020 And Beyond
The cadence of server processor launches by the remaining companies that still etch their chips has slowed in recent years, starting first with the low-volume players like IBM, Oracle, and Fujitsu and now possibly spreading to Intel with its Xeon line and already baked in with its Xeon Phi line with a roughly three year span between generations. …
Compute
Future Systems: Pitting Fewer Fat Nodes Against Many Skinny Ones
Lining up the architectures of future supercomputers is interesting because it gives us a glimpse of what may be in the corporate datacenter many more years out. …
Cloud
Inside IBM’s Real Systems Business
IBM made no bones about it. After divesting itself of its System x server business, which it sold off to Lenovo Group, and its Microelectronics chip making division, which Big Blue paid Globalfoundries to take, the company said that 2015 would be a year of transition on many fronts. …
Compute
IBM Readies Power8+ For OpenPower Push
When it comes to high performance computing, IBM is in a phase change that will take it several years to complete with its key OpenPower infrastructure partners, Nvidia and Mellanox Technologies. …
Compute
IBM’s Power Roadmap Extended By Chip Breakthrough
Hot on the heels of the closing of the deal that divests its semiconductor business and places it in the hands of Globalfoundries, the former chip making business of AMD that is controlled by the government of Abu Dhabi, IBM and its academic and chip industry partners have announced that they have successfully etched chips with transistors that are 7 nanometers in size – significantly smaller than current processes and extending the Moore’s Law curve one more step. …
Cloud
IBM Opens Its EDA Platform To Startup Chipmakers
From its mainframes to the modern Power architectures, few companies have pushed investments into chip designs with the gusto IBM has over the years. …
AI
Move Over Hadoop, IBM Has a New Spark
Although Spark has garnered a reputation as being a real-time analytics engine that is married to Hadoop, its life before being glued to that framework offers a different story. …
AI
We Need Only Three Hadoops, And Maybe Three Systems
Enterprises like choices, they abhor vendor lock in, and they like the options that open source gives. …
Control
An Old Platform Finds New Life Outside IBM Walls
William Lu was witness to one of the most successful business and technology stories in modern supercomputing from his long-term position as one of the first developers of the Load Sharing Facility (LSF) software from Platform Computing. …