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Data Analytics Can Be The Next HPC For IBM Power
In the next few months, Big Blue will launch its entry and midrange Power10 servers, and to be blunt, we are not sure what the HPC and AI angle is going to be for these systems. …
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For IBM, AI Inference Is The Most Important HPC
All of the commercial platform creators in the world, since the dawn of time, which arguably started in the enterprise in April 1964 with the advent of the System/360 mainframe, wants the same things. …
Compute
Big Iron Will Always Drive Big Spending
Starting way back in the late 1980s, when Sun Microsystems was on the rise in the datacenter and Hewlett Packard was its main rival in Unix-based systems, market forces compelled IBM to finally and forcefully field its own open systems machines to combat Sun, HP, and others behind the Unix movement. …
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This Is What The Most Powerful Server In The World Looks Like
While we are big fans of distributed computing systems here at The Next Platform, we never forget our heritage in big iron. …
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The Power Of Power10’s Memory Inception Clustering
Scanning through Power10’s detailed announcement material, I’ve seen a lot architecturally that intrigues an avid reader of The Next Platform like myself, but one item – one that IBM calls “Memory Inception” and IBM-based techie material calls enablement for a “memory cluster” – really caught my eye. …
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Why IBM Is Suing GlobalFoundries Over Chip Roadmap Failures
The tight linkage between chip designs and chip manufacturing processes has caused its share of havoc in the IT sector, and it is getting worse as Moore’s Law has slowed and Dennard scaling died a decade ago. …
Compute
Ladies And Gentlemen, Start Your Compute Engines
We have a bad case of the silicon shakes and a worsening deficiency in iron here at The Next Platform, but the good news is that new CPU processors from AMD and Intel are imminent, and more processors are expected later this year from IBM and Ampere Computing, too. …
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The Memory Area Network At The Heart Of IBM’s Power10
It must have been something in the cosmic ether.
Apopros of nothing except the need to fill a blank page with something interesting back when we were analyzing IBM’s second quarter financials and considering the options that Big Blue has with the “Cirrus” Power10 systems it will be launching about a year from now, we did a thought experiment about what it would mean if IBM started to believe in big iron machines again. …
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IBM Brings An Architecture Gun To A Chip Knife Fight
For the past several years here at The Next Platform, as we have been pondering what IBM might do with the future Power10 processor, we have been feinting here and there with our analytical pen, trying to suss out precisely what Big Blue might be up to, particularly with the unique memory architecture that it has been working on for more than a decade. …
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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. …