IBM’s Power processors have a storied history; they were notably used in the Watson supercomputer that outsmarted humans in the game of Jeopardy in 2011. The latest chip in the family, called the ...

IBM has many goals with its upcoming Power9 chip, and one is to challenge the dominance of Intel’s x86 chips in the data center. The company wants chips based on Power architecture to take a ...

IBM’s Power processors have a storied history; they were notably used in the Watson supercomputer that outsmarted humans in the game of Jeopardy in 2011. The latest chip in the family, called the ...

IBM is a company that I follow very closely, in particular its System Division, Red Hat and corporate. It has been particularly interesting to watch IBM Systems over the last several years as it has ...

Like the large enterprises they sell gear to, the big OEMs are a conservative lot and they take a paced, methodical approach to introducing new technologies into the datacenter. It takes a while for ...

The POWER9 is a brand-new processor constructed with one intention in mind: being faster than Intel when working with AI. In IBM’s new AC922 server, two POWER9 chips are combined with up to six NVIDIA ...

The latest IBM POWER9 servers are built with an enhanced core and chip architecture for next gen workloads. These servers are built for the most demanding, data-intensive, computing on earth. They are ...

Sometimes, a workload needs more memory, more compute, or more I/O than is available in the two socket server that has been the standard pretty much since the dot-com boom two decades ago. While there ...

Intel's x86 architecture dominates the server space, but don't count Power9 out altogether. IBM's CPU family is picking up design wins from companies working in AI and data centers. Share on Facebook ...

IBM will launch the first major update to its i operating system for Power CPU-based servers in three years. The enhancements are largely hardware-oriented, supporting both the older Power9 and the ...

I’ve spent the last several years extensively covering the multi-phase rollout of IBM’s POWER9 processors, built from the ground up for big data, AI and ML. Thanks to the chipset’s high thread count, ...

Today SQream announced that its GPU-powered SQream DB software now includes optimized support for the IBM POWER9 multi-core architecture. The powerful trinity of SQream DB, IBM POWER9 and NVIDIA GPUs ...