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OpenPOWER Shows Strength at First European Summit

In a show of strength in Europe before heading to SC16 next month, IBM and the OpenPOWER Foundation today unveiled several new European initiatives and European-developed solutions at the ...Full Article

Power8 with NVLink Coming to the Nimbix Cloud

Starting later this month, HPC professionals and data scientists wishing to try out NVLink’d Nvidia Pascal P100 GPUs won’t have to spend upwards of $100,000 on NVIDIA’s DGX-1 server ...Full Article

IBM Unveils Power8 Linux Servers

Not long after revealing more details about its next-gen Power9 chip due in 2017, IBM has rolled out three new Power8-based Linux servers and a new version of its ...Full Article

IBM Targets In-Memory Databases With Power8

IBM and SAP have joined forces to add the HANA database to IBM's Power platform upgraded specifically to run in-memory analytics. The partners said SAP HANA would run across ...Full Article

OpenPower Systems Coming In Mid-2015

The ecosystem for Power Systems machines is building faster than many might be expecting, and it looks like a bunch of new machines will be coming to market by ...Full Article

Inside IBM’s “Hollow Core”

Like any other seller of processors and systems in the datacenter, IBM is in an uphill battle with Intel, whose Xeon processors have become the de facto standard in ...Full Article

Tyan Ships First Non-IBM Power8 Server

The opening up of the Power chip architecture by IBM through the OpenPower Foundation has produced its first tangible, practical result, with Taiwanese motherboard and system maker Tyan getting ...Full Article

IBM Takes On Big Workloads With Power8 Enterprise Systems

Customers running big workloads on IBM's largest Power Systems servers got a preview this week of the high-end Power8 machines that the company will be rolling out over the ...Full Article

IBM Accelerates Power8 Clusters With GPUs, FPGAs, And Flash

It is perhaps a lucky stroke of timing or perhaps by design that only days after Big Blue sold off its System x X86 server business to Lenovo Group ...Full Article

SoftLayer To Outflank Rivals With Bare Metal, InfiniBand, And Power8

There are many ways for IBM to get to the $7 billion revenue run rate it has promised Wall Street it can hit as it exits 2015. One way ...Full Article