Powered by Power8, IBM will accelerate Open Innovation

IBM power system has always been a representative of the enterprise-level infrastructure platform. Now, while ensuring its innovative technology, secure and reliable enterprise-level advantages, through comprehensive openness and the construction of a new ecosystem and tailored system solutions for specific needs, it will undoubtedly help itself open up broader emerging market fields. After the launch of the powerlinux platform and the openpower open alliance, the significance of IBM Power8 has been completely different. In the past, power systems were based on IBM's chips, platforms, and operating systems, however, this situation has undergone tremendous changes.

In April 28, IBM officially launched the Power8 system platform and launched a series of brand new power systems servers. As the power system becomes increasingly open, IBM hopes to build a new Power8 ecosystem, work with partners to create more power-based solutions.

Respond to emerging application Loads

In the Internet era, cloud computing and big data applications have brought about changes to traditional IT delivery methods and architecture systems, reshaping it delivery methods and leveraging better infrastructure to help transform your business into new opportunities, IBM Power8 is opening up a new era of IBM hardware business.

Ms. Carolyn Jones, executive director of the IBM Systems and Technology Department Power Systems scale-out system business line, told reporters that IBM had fully considered new features and new load requirements as early as the design of Power8.

This design concept has been embodied in product development, and some new features and functions have been designed, for example, the Power8 processor chip has memory transactional memory, Java hardware assistant hardware helper, KVM micro-thread technology, and so on, so as to better cope with big data, cloud computing, and Java applications.

The significance of creating the openpower foundation for IBM is to strengthen close cooperation with the industry, including cooperation between enterprises in China and around the world, and introduce the latest innovative technologies in the industry into the power system, while improving the performance of power systems, it further accelerates innovation. An important feature of the Power8 processor is the innovation of the openpower Foundation. The architecture is completely based on the open concept design, from the hardware processor, system, firmware to the Linux operating system, covering each layer of the architecture.

Horizontal scaling is no longer a unique advantage of x86

The so-called scale out server does not mean that the previous IBM power system could not be scaled horizontally. The significance of this change is that in the traditional enterprise impression, IBM provides high-end servers, in the X86 server field that IBM powerlinux is about to enter, users pay great attention to the performance of massive horizontal scaling. IBM hopes to express its determination through name changes, at the same time, IBM also has a scale-out architecture.

The Power8 system is born for emerging workloads and open platforms. The naming rules based on the Power8 processor system are also brand new. It uses uppercase s to represent scale out, which is suitable for horizontal scaling, two Linux-running machines are the power systems s812l and s822l servers. The other three products are power systems s814, s822, and s824, which support multiple operating systems, including Linux, Aix, and IBM I.

According to third-party analysis data, the data throughput of the new power systems is twice that of the X86 server, and the space occupied by the data center is halved. The new Power8 system has a built-in encryption engine technology, with breakthrough security capabilities, key applications and data can be securely stored on the cloud.

As we all know, IBM Watson is a very good platform for artificial intelligence to analyze a large amount of data. IBM will use Power8 in the Watson System for higher-end analysis, in addition, IBM will migrate the Watson application system to the public cloud softlayer to provide external services.

Fully open to accelerate local innovation

Power8 is not only the first compatible system of openpower alliance, but also the first product that makes full use of openpower's innovative achievements. IBM has made relevant technologies available to the industry through the openpower Foundation, and Detailed techniques and instruction sets of the Power8 processor.

That is to say, in the future, power systems at different levels will flourish. For example, power systems can use IBM-produced power processors, similar to the main boards produced by suppliers such as tai'an, and the operating systems provided by other vendors, or even power processors produced by chip developers outside of IBM, IBM wants to help chip vendors design and develop independently, build an important technical foundation for independent, secure, and controllable IT industry chains for Chinese enterprises.

Based on the inherent ras and security features of the power system, the power system will continue to be well established in traditional key application fields. Based on the openpower Foundation and comprehensive open strategies, the IBM power system will undoubtedly open up some new application fields. The new Power8 processor data analysis speed is 50 times faster than the latest x86 system, and can achieve massive scaling, therefore, in the computing platform competitions in the big data, cloud computing, mobile and Social age, Power8 is undoubtedly a strong competitor.

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