The high ground in the server market used to be large-scale SMP and NUMA machines with 16, 32, 64, or 128 sockets all lashed together to make a big shared memory machine. But that was back in the days ...
Just two days after jettisoning its last x86-oriented division to Lenovo, IBM has unveiled the first servers based on the new Power8 CPU architecture. Somewhat unusually, IBM's press release for the ...
When it comes to high performance computing, IBM is in a phase change that will take it several years to complete with its key OpenPower infrastructure partners, Nvidia and Mellanox Technologies. As ...
IBM hopes to spawn third-party Power servers by opening up its 12-core Power8 chip design to licensees, and now the company has to convince component makers to make parts for the servers. With Power8, ...
IBM has taken the wraps off the first servers that are powered by its monstrously powerful Power8 CPUs. With more than 4 billion transistors, packed into a stupidly large 650-square-millimeter die ...
Watch out Intel, here comes IBM's Power8. IBM Tuesday began shipping four flavors of it Power8-based Power System servers optimized for big data workloads and aimed squarely at giving Intel-class Xeon ...
Pro This tiny chip could single-handedly solve the RAM shortage by allowing hyperscalers to reuse old DDR4 memory via CXL — and it comes with an extraordinary feature Pro Dell reportedly preparing ...
IBM on Thursday rolled out its latest Power8 processor, which is designed to move data faster, and new servers with OpenPower features. For IBM, the OpenPower Foundation community is critical for its ...
IBM has introduced the next generation of its Power Systems architecture and servers for crunching unstructured big data from sensors and mobile devices. Power8, the code name for the new family ...
The first third-party servers licensed to use IBM’s Power architecture will be on the market early next year. IBM last year started licensing the architecture so other companies could build Power ...
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