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IBM announces preconfigured analytics servers
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IBM on Wednesday introduced mainframe and Power-based systems for analytics in an effort to compete with Oracle's Exadata.
IBM's Smart Analytics System servers are bundled with hardware and software for analytics, business intelligence, and transaction processing workloads, IBM said. IBM also introduced an entry-level business analytics appliance that can analyze data on the fly as transactions are processed in the cloud.
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IBM is moving in the direction of offering servers designed to work with specific workloads such as databases and business process management. The new Smart Analytics server...
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IBM Is Now More Valuable Than Microsoft
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For the first time since 1996, IBM's market value now exceeds that of Microsoft. IBM jumped past Microsoft to become the world's second most valuable tech company behind #1 Apple.
IBM's stocks are blazing hot this year, spiking 22 percent to $179.17. This increase has raised the company's market value to $214 billion. Microsoft, however, has seen its stock slip 8 percent to $25.45 and its market value fall to $213 billion.
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Google grabs 1,023 patents from IBM
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Google has snapped up a new patent haul, buying over a thousand from IBM in what’s believed to be another attempt to shore up Android’s defenses against Apple and others. The 1,023 transferred patents were detailed by the US Patent and Trademark Office, with Google subsequently confirming the deal had taken place. It’s not the first such transaction we’ve seen; back in July, Google bought a different 1,030 patents from IBM.
Neither company is saying exactly how much Google paid for the IP, though it’s unlikely to have come cheap. Although CEO Larry Page has previously insisted that the Android patent situation is “not critical” - and that the company would rather concentrate on developing it...
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IBM's new transactional memory: make-or-break time for multithreaded revolution
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At Hot Chips last week, IBM talked about BlueGene/Q, the processor powering the 20 petaflops Sequoia supercomputer. Designed for power-efficient floating point processing, the processor has one notable and highly unusual feature: support for transactional memory. Transactional memory could revolutionize multithreaded programming, but until now has depended on slow software implementations, making it little more than an experimental toy. BlueGene/Q's hardware version could tell us if this promising technique can deliver everything that's hoped for.
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IBM Building 120 Petabyte Drive
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IBM is working on a 120 petabyte storage unit, that's 200,000 HDDs used. That's a lot of storage !
Steve Conway, a vice president of research with the analyst firm IDC who specializes in high-performance computing (HPC), says IBM's repository is significantly bigger than previous storage systems. "A 120-petabye storage array would easily be the largest I've encountered," he says. The largest arrays available today are about 15 petabytes in size. Supercomputing problems that could benefit from more data storage include weather forecasts, seismic processing in the petroleum industry, and molecular studies of genomes or proteins, says Conway.
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IBM developing largest data drive ever, with 120 petabytes of bliss
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So, this is pretty... big. At this very moment, researchers at IBM are building the largest data drive ever -- a 120 petabyte beast comprised of some 200,000 normal HDDs working in concert. To put that into perspective, 120 petabytes is the equivalent of 120 million gigabytes, (or enough space to hold about 24 billion, average-sized MP3's), and significantly more spacious than the 15 petabyte capacity found in the biggest arrays currently in use. To achieve this, IBM aligned individual drives in horizontal drawers, as in most data centers, but made these spaces even wider, in order to accommodate more disks within smaller confines.
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IBM's Processors Will Think Like Brains
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It's been just over 30 years since IBM released its first PC and shook the whole world up. Hoping to do some more world-shaking, they've built two chips that function more similarly to our brains than normal chips do.
Yes people, this could be the day we all look back upon with sheer horror, as The Robots chase us from our houses and onto the streets.
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IBM Sinks Blue Waters Supercomputer Project
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Quick, someone assemble an eight-man band like the one that played during the Titanic's final moments above water. The National Center for Supercomputing Applications' Blue Waters project is sinking fast now that IBM has abandoned ship, leaving NCSA on its own to build a sustained petascale supercomputer. IBM and NCSA didn't have any kind of falling out, it just turned out to be more expensive than either side anticipated.
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IBM rig doesn't look like much, scans 10 billion files in 43 minutes
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Someone ought to gift these IBM researchers a better camera, because their latest General Parallel File System is a back-slapping 37 times faster than their last effort back in 2007. The rig combines ten IBM System xSeries servers with Violin Memory SSDs that hold 6.5 terabytes of metadata relating to 10 billion separate files. Every single one of those files can be analyzed and managed using policy-guided rules in under three quarters of an hour. That kind of performance might seem like overkill, but it's only just barely in step with what IBM's Doug Balog describes as a "rapidly growing, multi-zettabyte world." No prizes for guessing who their top customer is likely to be. Full details in ...
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Meet IBM's new $75,000 mainframe
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IBM never talks about the cost of its high-end mainframes, but when it comes to its low-end mainframe, price is a major focal point.
IBM is today announcing the latest successor to what it has called its "business-class" system, the zEnterprise 114, with a starting price of $75,000 -- 25 percent lower than the previous system in this category.
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That earlier system, the z10 Business Class, was released in 2008. This new mainframe has 25 percent more performance than the earlier system, said IBM, but also includes some of the same capabilities of its top end mainframe, the zEnterprise 196, which...
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IBM announces computer memory breakthrough
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IBM Thursday announced a breakthrough in computer memory technology, which may lead to the development of solid-state chips that can store as much data as NAND flash technology but with 100 times the performance and vastly greater lifespan.
Currently, NAND flash memory products, such as SSDs, have write rates as high as 2Gbps.
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IBM said it has produced phase-change memory (PCM) chips that can store two bits of data per cell without data corruption problems, something that has plagued PCM development from the start.
Like NAND flash memory, which is used in solid state drives (SSDs) and is embed...
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IBM develops 'instantaneous' memory, 100x faster than flash
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You've got to hand it to IBM's engineers. They drag themselves into work after their company's 100th birthday party, pop a few Alka-Seltzers and then promptly announce yet another seismic invention. This time it's a new kind of phase change memory (PCM) that reads and writes 100 times faster than flash, stays reliable for millions of write-cycles (as opposed to just thousands with flash), and is cheap enough to be used in anything from enterprise-level servers all the way down to mobile phones. PCM is based on a special alloy that can be nudged into different physical states, or phases, by controlled bursts of electricity. In the past, the technology suffered from the tendency of one of the ...
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IBM's new future: Quantum computing
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IBM is marking its 100th anniversary by celebrating its record in technology innovation. It created DRAM, the disk drive and the magnetic strips used on credit cards, among many other inventions. It is one of the most inventive companies in the world.
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IBM pioneers graphene-based integrated circuits
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IBM has made what it claims is the first graphene-based integrated circuit, using many of the same techniques now used to produce silicon circuits. The technique could one day be used to produce super...
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IBM Takes Pi to the Billionth Decimal Digit
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Blue Gene/P, an IBM supercomputer designed to continuously run at 1petaFLOPS, has found the billionth decimal digit in pi, according to a report by The Australian IT.
The calculation has long been con...
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