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Power Couple: IBM Joins PowerAI Hardware with Watson; Launches Multi-Hybrid AI Services
As IBM kicked off its annual Think conference, a high-production extravaganza this week in San Francisco, the company this morning made a series of AI-related announcements, including the merging ...Full Article
IBM Talks Power’s Future at Hot Chips
With processor, memory and networking technologies all racing to fill in for an ailing Moore’s law, the era of the heterogeneous datacenter is well underway, and IBM is positioning ...Full Article
Sweden Cuts Tax on Datacenter Power
As the data continues to pile up, so too does the stiffening competition to store and manage it. The latest gambit comes from energy-efficient Sweden, where the Scandinavian nation's ...Full Article
Early NVLink Tests Show GPU Speed Burst
Crunching data is not as big of a problem as moving it around so it can be crunched. The PCI-Express bus that links CPU processors to peripheral accelerators has ...Full Article
Chip Designs Might Be On Table In IBM-Glofo Talks
IBM may again be moving closer to a long-anticipated exit from the semiconductor manufacturing business. According to a report in Bloomberg, IBM and Globalfoundries have resumed talks that broke ...Full Article
IBM’s Power8 Enterprise Systems Loom
Back in July, as EnterpriseTech has previously reported, IBM's chief financial officer, Martin Schroeter, said that Big Blue was working on fleshing out the midrange and high-end of the ...Full Article
IBM DOME Microserver Could Appeal To Enterprises
An experimental microserver system developed by IBM in conjunction with the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy has the potential to end up in commercial systems running massively parallel workloads. ...Full Article
Future Datacenters Will Divvy Up Computing, Storage
The datacenter ecosystem of the next decade is likely to resemble an expanded version of the hyperscale facilities currently being built out by today's Internet giants, cloud providers, and ...Full Article
IBM Juices Hadoop With Java On Tesla GPUs
Commercial applications written in Java have plenty of parallel tasks that can be accelerated through the use of GPU coprocessors. IBM is very keen on leveraging the combination of ...Full Article
Stacking Up Xeon E7 v2 Chips Against The Competition
Since Intel entered the server market formally in 1993, it has used its prowess in manufacturing and its ever-expanding sophistication in chip design to knock countless competitive chips out ...Full Article