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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. …

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Oil And Gas Upstart Has No Reserves About GPUs

July 24, 2017 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

The oil and gas industry has been on the cutting edge of many waves of computing over the several decades that supercomputers have been used to model oil reservoirs in both the planning of the development of an oil field and in quantifying the stored reserves of a field and therefore the future possible revenue stream of the company. …

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IBM Shows Off AI And HPC Oomph On Power8 Tesla Hybrids

November 14, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan 9

While the machine learning applications created by hyperscalers and the simulations and models run by HPC centers are very different animals, the kinds of hardware that help accelerate the performance for one is also helping to boost the other in many cases. …

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IBM Overclocks Power8 To Take On “Broadwell” Xeon E7

October 18, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan 5

In the absence of Power8+ processor upgrades this year, and with sales of midrange systems taking a bit of a hit in the third quarter, IBM has to do something to push its iron against Xeon E7 and Sparc M7 systems between now and when the Power9 machines are available in the second half of 2017. …

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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. …

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Pushing Database Scalability Up And Out With GPUs

September 22, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan 9

What is good for the simulation and the machine learning is, as it turns out, also good for the database. …

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IBM Builds A Bridge Between Private And Public Power Clouds

September 21, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

Two years ago, when Big Blue put a stake through the heart of its impartial attitude about the X86 server business, it was also putting a stake in the ground for its Power systems business. …

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Refreshed IBM Power Linux Systems Add NVLink

September 8, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan 9

The very first systems that allow for GPUs to be hooked directly to CPUs using Nvidia’s NVLink high-speed interconnect are coming to market now that Big Blue is updating its Power Systems LC line of Linux-based systems with the help of hardware partners in the OpenPower Foundation collective. …

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IBM Unfolds Power Chip Roadmap Out Past 2020

April 7, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

There are two things that underdogs have to do to take a big bite out of a market. …

Compute

China Lays The Chip Foundation For Its Next Platform

February 17, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan 4

It would be far beyond the purview of The Next Platform to have deep insight to the complexity, scope, and scale of the Chinese economy. …

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