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Once upon a time : Deep(er) Blue

Deep Blue was a chess-playing expert system run on a unique purpose-built IBM supercomputer. It was the first computer to win a game, and the first to win a match, against a reigning world champion under regular time controls. Development began in 1985 at Carnegie...

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What is hybrid cloud ?

Hybrid cloud integrates public cloud services, private cloud services and on-premises infrastructure and provides orchestration, management and application portability across all three. The result is a single, unified and flexible distributed computing environment...

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Once upon a time : IBM System/3

The IBM System/3 was an IBM midrange computer introduced in 1969, and marketed until 1985. It was produced by IBM Rochester in Minnesota as a low-end business computer aimed at smaller organizations that still used IBM 1400 series computers or unit record equipment....

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What is Power ISA ?

Power ISA is a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) instruction set architecture (ISA) currently developed by the OpenPOWER Foundation, led by IBM. It was originally developed by IBM and the now-defunct Power.org industry group. Power ISA is an evolution of the...

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Quantum Computing ?

The 127-qubit Eagle processor takes us into uncharted computational territory. This device embodies several important advances in our approach to hardware design, and marks a crucial stage in our climb toward quantum advantage. Source : IBM ...

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Top IBM Power Systems myths

It’s not surprising that there’s a perception in the marketplace that the IBM i operating system on IBM Power Systems is a legacy platform that’s no longer relevant. How could a technology like IBM i, introduced more than 30 years ago, still be relevant today, when...

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A brief history of Power

The first POWER processor was designed at the end of the 1980’s and made its appearance in the RS6000 and AS/400 servers. The RS/6000 was running AIX, IBM´s Unix version, and the AS/400 was designed for OS/400 (now called IBM i). These servers were designed to allow a...

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Soon … The new POWER !

POWER10 designates a proposed superscalar, multithreading, symmetric multiprocessor family, based on the open source POWER ISA, and announced in August 2020 at the Hot Chips Conference ... Firsts (high-end) systems with POWER10 CPUs are intended to reach customers in...

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