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Why cores, memory and GPUs matter in an Artificial Intelligence (AI) world
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Why cores, memory and GPUs matter in an Artificial Intelligence (AI) world

Analysis, Cloud, POWER, Vendor Analysis

Why cores, memory and GPUs matter in an Artificial Intelligence (AI) world

By Ian Murphy|2017-12-14T13:12:18+01:008 December 2017|Analysis, Cloud, POWER, Vendor Analysis|

IBM delivered the first of its POWER9 units to the Oak Ridge National Laboratories back in July 2017. This is a deployment that will take several months to complete. It also began deploying units to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory at the end of October 2017. These two announcements mean that customers and that includes [...]

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Clash of the heavyweights: battle lines drawn between IBM and Intel processors
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Clash of the heavyweights: battle lines drawn between IBM and Intel processors

Analysis, IT operations and system management, POWER

Clash of the heavyweights: battle lines drawn between IBM and Intel processors

By Ian Murphy|2017-08-29T08:21:07+01:0029 August 2017|Analysis, IT operations and system management, POWER|

Building high performance computer systems is all about finding and removing bottlenecks. Unfortunately, this is a never ending game. As fast as you identify and deal with one bottleneck, another appears. For a while, the problem was the raw performance of the four key elements in a computer system; processor, memory, network and storage. Over [...]

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