Compute
Building The Perfect Memory Bandwidth Beast
If memory bandwidth is holding back the performance of some of your applications, and there is something that you can do about it other than to just suffer. …
Power10
Compute
IBM Power10 Shreds Ice Lake Xeons For Transaction Processing
Here is a simple algebraic equation that describes the relative computing oomph of two different CPU architectures over the past two decades: If Intel an X86 core is X, then an IBM Power core equals 2X. …
Compute
IBM Uses Power10 CPU As An I/O Switch
Back in early July, we covered the launch of IBM’s entry and midrange Power10 systems and mused about how Big Blue could use these systems to reinvigorate an HPC business rather than just satisfy the needs of the enterprise customers who run transaction processing systems and are looking to add AI inference to their applications through matrix math units on the Power10 chip. …
Compute
Big Blue Turns In A Solid Quarter For Systems
By all accounts, Big Blue had a pretty good quarter ending in June, with sales of its System z16 mainframes skyrocketing upwards as they do every couple of years at the beginning of a new cycle and sales of its high-end Power10 machines also getting some traction. …
Compute
Can IBM Get Back Into HPC With Power10?
The “Cirrus” Power10 processor from IBM, which we codenamed for Big Blue because it refused to do it publicly and because we understand the value of a synonym here at The Next Platform, shipped last September in the “Denali” Power E1080 big iron NUMA machine. …
AI
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. …
Compute
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. …
Compute
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. …
Store
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. …