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Big Blue Should Start Believing In Big Iron Again

July 24, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

There isn’t really a systems business so much as a collection of them, all unique and all facing their own particular challenges. …

Compute

Big Blue Open Sources The Core Inside BlueGene/Q Supercomputers

June 30, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan 3

Earlier this month, we were talking to the James Kulina, the new executive director of the OpenPower Foundation, which is the organization created by IBM and Google back in the summer of 2013 to create a community around the Power architecture. …

Compute

OpenPower Puts Open Source Software Guru In Charge

June 1, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan 6

If you want to build a successful hardware ecosystem around a chip architecture that has recently been open sourced, as the Power chip instruction set was last August, then it probably makes a lot of sense to put someone at the helm of the project who has deep and broad experience participating in the open source software ecosystem. …

HPC

Bending The Supercomputing Cost Curve Down

December 2, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

One of the recurring themes at the recent HPC Day event that we hosted ahead of the SC19 supercomputing conference in Denver was that capability class supercomputers are getting more and more expensive. …

Compute

The Potential Of Red Hat Plus Power Is Larger Than Exascale

October 17, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

Red Hat is coming onto IBM’s books at just the right time, and to be honest, it might have been better for Big Blue if the deal to acquire the world’s largest supplier of support and packaging services for open source software had closed maybe one or two quarters ago. …

Compute

Big Blue Open Sources Power Chip Instruction Set

August 20, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan 10

It has been a long time coming, and it might have been better if this had been done a decade ago. …

AI

OpenPower At The Inflection Point

March 24, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan 4

When IBM launched the OpenPower initiative publicly five years ago, to many it seemed like a classic case of too little, too late. …

AI

IBM Highlights PowerAI, OpenPower System Scalability

August 9, 2017 Nicole Hemsoth 0

The golden grail of deep learning has two handles. On the one hand, developing and scaling systems that can train ever-growing model sizes is one concern. …

Cloud

A Snapshot Of Big Blue’s Systems Business

October 17, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

It is the job of the chief financial officer and the rest of the top brass of every public company in the world to present the financial results of their firms in the best possible light every thirteen weeks when the numbers are compiled and presented to Wall Street for grading. …

Compute

Power9 Will Bring Competition To Datacenter Compute

April 18, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan 6

The Power9 processor that IBM is working on in conjunction with hyperscale and HPC customers could be the most important chip that Big Blue has brought to market since the Power4 processor back in 2001. …

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