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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and IBM unveil the world's first IBM Quantum System One on a university campus

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Friday, April 5, 2024
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TROY, N.Y., April 5, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and IBM (NYSE: IBM) officially unveiled the world's first-ever IBM quantum computer on a university campus. Building on RPI's bicentennial celebration of 200 years of firsts, IBM Quantum System One will significantly enhance educational and research opportunities for the university, as well as with other academic institutions and organizations across the New York region that wish to partner with RPI. Faculty, researchers, students, and collaborators accessing the system will aim to advance quantum computing research, including the search for quantum algorithms that could lead to quantum advantage, while also actively building the next generation of the quantum workforce alongside IBM.

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  • Now online, the IBM quantum system will expand the longstanding RPI and IBM partnership to accelerate quantum computing research, workforce development, and education in New York
    TROY, N.Y., April 5, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and IBM (NYSE: IBM ) officially unveiled the world's first-ever IBM quantum computer on a university campus.
  • Located in the university's historic Voorhees Computing Center Chapel, the IBM Quantum System One, along with endowed faculty positions, is the focal point of the Curtis R. Priem Constellation.
  • The new IBM Quantum System One at RPI is powered by a 127-qubit IBM Quantum 'Eagle' processor, to offer RPI's network of researchers, students and partners dedicated access to a utility-scale quantum computer.
  • As the first university in the world to house an IBM Quantum System One on its campus, RPI has a unique opportunity to develop new quantum curriculum and educational programs aimed at upskilling the quantum workforce.

Secure Open-Source Systems Leader Raptor Computing Systems Partners with Lattice Showcasing Soft BMC for Server Management and Solid Silicon for Upcoming POWER ISA 3.1-Compliant Server Systems

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Friday, October 20, 2023
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In addition, Raptor Computing Systems announced it has partnered with US-based Solid Silicon Corporation as its future CPU provider for continued secure, fully open systems and servers, including new OCP and industry- standard form factor offerings with HPC potential.

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  • In addition, Raptor Computing Systems announced it has partnered with US-based Solid Silicon Corporation as its future CPU provider for continued secure, fully open systems and servers, including new OCP and industry- standard form factor offerings with HPC potential.
  • Raptor Computing Systems will be using Solid Silicon S1 CPUs with embedded POWER ISA 3.1-compliant, server class cores as the fully owner-controlled, blob-free successor to its IBM POWER9-powered solutions, with expected availability of systems by late 2024.
  • The Solid Silicon S1 CPU contains an embedded X-class BMC, providing a fully owner-controlled active Root of Trust and BMC stack for all Raptor Computing Systems products using the S1.
  • Raptor Computing Systems is the world’s leading ODM in the field of fully open, fully owner-controlled, blob-free hardware.

IBM Reveals Next-Generation IBM POWER10 Processor

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Monday, August 17, 2020
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ARMONK, N.Y., Aug. 17, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM ) today revealed the next generation of its IBM POWER central processing unit (CPU) family: IBM POWER10.

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  • ARMONK, N.Y., Aug. 17, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM ) today revealed the next generation of its IBM POWER central processing unit (CPU) family: IBM POWER10.
  • New Processor Core Architectures in the IBM POWER10 processor with an embedded Matrix Math Accelerator which is extrapolated to provide 10x, 15x and 20x faster AI inference for FP32, BFloat16 and INT8 calculations per socket respectively than the IBM POWER9 processor to infuse AI into business applications and drive greater insights.
  • "With IBM POWER10 we've designed the premier processor for enterprise hybrid cloud, delivering the performance and security that clients expect from IBM.
  • In a breakthrough new technology called Memory Inception, the IBM POWER10 processor is designed to allow any of the IBM POWER10 processor-based systems in a cluster to access and share each other's memory, creating multi-Petabyte sized memory clusters.

CINECA Chooses IBM POWER9 with NVIDIA GPUs and InfiniBand Network for Marconi100 Accelerated Cluster

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Tuesday, July 7, 2020
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With Marconi100, CINECA reaffirms its mission as a leading supercomputing research center with a new Tier0 supercomputer, the highest-performing classification for European systems.

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  • With Marconi100, CINECA reaffirms its mission as a leading supercomputing research center with a new Tier0 supercomputer, the highest-performing classification for European systems.
  • In particular, one of the first projects for Marconi100 is research around COVID-19 therapies that are able to reduce the pathogenic aggressiveness of the virus.
  • Similar to these two systems, the architecture of Marconi100 uses IBM POWER9 processors and NVIDIA V100 Tensor Core GPUs as well as high-performance NVIDIA Mellanox InfiniBand interconnect in a high-performance, high-scalability Dragonfly+ topology.
  • Marconi100 also benefits from eight petabytes of IBM Elastic Storage Server with IBM Spectrum Scale to sustain high-performance IO throughput and offer a balanced computational and IO architecture.

IBM Demonstrates Commitment to Open Hardware Movement

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Wednesday, August 21, 2019
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SAN DIEGO, Aug. 21, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM ) announced today at The Linux Foundation Open Source Summit that it will be contributing implementation rights to key technologies to the open community, further building upon IBM's long legacy of open source development.

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  • SAN DIEGO, Aug. 21, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM ) announced today at The Linux Foundation Open Source Summit that it will be contributing implementation rights to key technologies to the open community, further building upon IBM's long legacy of open source development.
  • IBM is opening the POWER Instruction Set Architecture (ISA), which is critical to how hardware and software work together on POWER.
  • "With today's announcement IBM is taking another significant step in driving innovation across the industry through open technology and open source," said IBM's OpenPOWER General Manager Ken King.
  • "The Linux Foundation itself has seen rising interest in open hardware communities and working with OpenPOWER Foundation will continue to make the OpenPOWER and open hardware technologies available to a growing, global audience."

IBM Develops World's Most Powerful Commercial Supercomputer for Total

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Tuesday, June 18, 2019
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PARIS, June 18, 2019 /PRNewswire/ --IBM (NYSE: IBM ) today announced it has built Pangea III, the world's most powerful commercial supercomputer for Total, a supermajor global energy company operating in more than 130 countries.

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  • PARIS, June 18, 2019 /PRNewswire/ --IBM (NYSE: IBM ) today announced it has built Pangea III, the world's most powerful commercial supercomputer for Total, a supermajor global energy company operating in more than 130 countries.
  • The new IBM POWER9-based supercomputer will help Total more accurately locate new resources and better assess the potential associated revenue opportunities.
  • In addition, according to Total Pangea III requires 1.5 Megawatts, compared to 4.5 MW for its predecessor system.
  • In a competitive bidding process, Total selected IBM due to an industry-leading approach to GPU-accelerated computing.

IBM-Powered Supercomputers Lead Semi-Annual Rankings

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Tuesday, June 18, 2019
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This includes the US Dept of Energy's Summit and Sierra supercomputers, the overall number one and number two most powerful supercomputers in the world, along with the Lassen Supercomputer built for Lawrence Livermore National Labs.

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  • This includes the US Dept of Energy's Summit and Sierra supercomputers, the overall number one and number two most powerful supercomputers in the world, along with the Lassen Supercomputer built for Lawrence Livermore National Labs.
  • IBM also teamed with Total, a global oil producer, for the world's most powerful commercial supercomputer that debuted on the Top500 list at #11.
  • "Our systems appearing in the top ranks for both performance and energy efficiency is a testament to our efforts.
  • Pangea III is being built using the same IBM POWER9, high-performance architecture as used in the U.S. Department of Energy's Summit and Sierra supercomputers, the world's smartest supercomputers.

IBM POWER9 on IBM Cloud to Help Accelerate Adoption of Hybrid Cloud

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Monday, June 17, 2019
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ARMONK, N.Y., June 17, 2019 /PRNewswire/ --IBM (NYSE: IBM ) today announced that IBM POWER9-based IBM Power Systems Virtual Servers are now available in the IBM Cloud.

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  • ARMONK, N.Y., June 17, 2019 /PRNewswire/ --IBM (NYSE: IBM ) today announced that IBM POWER9-based IBM Power Systems Virtual Servers are now available in the IBM Cloud.
  • Clients now have access to IBM Power Systems Virtual Servers in North America via the IBM Cloud catalog to provide powerful scaleup compute for AIX and IBM i workloads for hybrid cloud.
  • The launch of IBM Power Systems Virtual Servers builds on the broad portfolio of POWER-based solutions in the IBM Cloud including GPU-accelerated servers on IBM Cloud, SAP HANA on Power Systems on IBM Cloud, and IBM Cloud for Skytap Solutions.
  • IBM Power Systems Virtual Servers in the IBM Cloud were designed so clients will be able to:
    Quickly and economically provision IBM Power Systems Virtual Servers on IBM Cloud within minutes, on-demand to facilitate scaling up and out.

IBM and NVIDIA Collaborate to Expand Open Source Machine Learning Tools for Data Scientists

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Wednesday, October 10, 2018
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With IBM's vast portfolio of deep learning and machine learning solutions, it is best positioned to bring this open-source technology to data scientists regardless of their preferred deployment model.

Key Points: 
  • With IBM's vast portfolio of deep learning and machine learning solutions, it is best positioned to bring this open-source technology to data scientists regardless of their preferred deployment model.
  • "IBM has a long collaboration with NVIDIA that has shown demonstrable performance increases leveraging IBM technology, like the IBM POWER9 processor, in combination with NVIDIA GPUs," said Bob Picciano, Senior Vice President of IBM Cognitive Systems.
  • RAPIDS will help bring GPU acceleration capabilities to IBM offerings that take advantage of open source machine learning software including Apache Arrow, Pandas and scikit-learn.
  • IBM is planning to bring RAPIDS to key areas across on-premises, public, hybrid, and multicloud environments, includingi:
    PowerAI on IBM POWER9, to leverage RAPIDS to expand the options available to data scientists with new open source machine learning and analytics libraries.

GPU-accelerated Data Warehouse SQream DB Boosts Query Performance by Up to 150% for IBM POWER9 Users

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Wednesday, October 3, 2018
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SQream , developer of SQream DB, the GPU-accelerated data warehouse for rapidly analyzing massive data stores at a fraction of the cost, announced today at the OpenPOWER Foundation Summit in Europe, that SQream DB now includes optimized support for the IBM POWER9 multi-core architecture.

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  • SQream , developer of SQream DB, the GPU-accelerated data warehouse for rapidly analyzing massive data stores at a fraction of the cost, announced today at the OpenPOWER Foundation Summit in Europe, that SQream DB now includes optimized support for the IBM POWER9 multi-core architecture.
  • The powerful trinity of SQream DB, IBM POWER9 and NVIDIA GPUs results in advanced performance, with SQL query performance improvements of up to 150% versus GPU-equipped x86 servers, with reduced cost and systems complexity.
  • "The announcement of SQream on the IBM POWER9 platform takes this concept to another level of performance, as the POWER9 CPU with embedded NVIDIA NVLink interface to NVIDIA's GPUs allows SQream to enable even faster processing of data on POWER9 servers."
  • The integration of SQream DB with IBM Power Systems is the latest in a series of collaborations between SQream and IBM, which started with SQream DB on IBM's Bluemix service.