Power8
IBM Forging Bigger Power8 Systems, Adding FPGA Acceleration
IBM launched its first servers based on the Power8 processors back in April, and the initial machines were aimed at scale-out clusters as well as at customers needing a ...Full Article
Big Blue Chases Clouds, Big Data With Power8 Systems
IT "infrastructure matters in the new era of computing," IBM managers argued in the formal launching of its Power Systems servers based on its Power8 processor, taking aim at ...Full Article
IBM, Google Show Off Power8 Systems And OpenPower Efforts
IBM was planning to do the announcement of the first bunch of Power8-based servers at next week's Impact2014 event in Las Vegas, but the Power Systems division at Big ...Full Article
IBM Throws Power8 Gauntlet At The Feet Of X86
The systems business at IBM continued to stall in the first quarter thanks to product transitions in the Power Systems line, the System x business being sold off to ...Full Article
Power, ARM Become X86 Peers In Ubuntu Linux
If number two in any market tries harder, then number three has to really work it to get traction. And that is precisely what Canonical, the corporate entity behind ...Full Article
Red Hat Focuses RHEL 7 On Virtualization, File Systems
It isn't called Enterprise Linux for nothing. Eleven years ago, when Red Hat decided to get serious about the corporate market, it killed off its hobbyist Linux and created ...Full Article
Wall Street Wants Tech To Trade Smarter And Faster
The HPC Linux on Wall Street conference was held in New York City this week, and a lot of the talk at the event was on high frequency trading ...Full Article
IBM Chip Suitors Rumored To Narrow To GlobalFoundries
GlobalFoundries has reportedly emerged as the leading candidate to acquire IBM's remaining semiconductor manufacturing facilities. The Wall Street Journal reported on April 3 that Intel and foundry giant Taiwan ...Full Article
IBM Power8 Rollout To Start With Scale Out Clusters
Officially, IBM has said that would be launching its twelve-core Power8 processors in new Power Systems servers and PureSystems converged systems sometime around the middle of the year. But ...Full Article
Is IBM Prepping Power8 For Late April Launch?
IBM has been telling Wall Street and customers to expect its Power8 processor and the initial systems using them to launch sometime around the middle of this year, but ...Full Article
