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Five trends for 2022 and beyond …
The road to post-COVID recovery is long, and for many, the journey will be uphill. Global inflation is rising. The talent market is tightening and supply chain disruption abounds ... Source : IBM ...
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 ...
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...
Here’s to you, Steve Jobs …
The truth is, when we're talking about Steve Jobs, we only need one word : Amazing !- Barack Obama -
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...
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...
POWER chip is implemented into tops of most powerful computers in the World !
The TOP500 project ranks and details the 500 most powerful non-distributed computer systems in the world. The project was started in 1993 and publishes an updated list of the supercomputers twice a year. The first of these updates always coincides with the...
Martian rover “Perseverance” is driven by a (ruggedized) POWER microprocessor !
The rover's computer uses a temperature and radiation hardened single board computer based on a ruggedized PowerPC G3 microprocessor (PowerPC 750). The computer contains 128 megabytes of volatile DRAM, and runs at 133 MHz. The flight software runs on an Operating...