Compute
Big Blue Should Start Believing In Big Iron Again
There isn’t really a systems business so much as a collection of them, all unique and all facing their own particular challenges. …
OpenPower
Compute
Big Blue Open Sources The Core Inside BlueGene/Q Supercomputers
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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. …