Altera has unveiled new accelerators for Power chips and Nvidia is to introduce compilers to run x86 Linux apps on the processors more easily. Silicon Valley-based Altera makes field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) that are used to speed up processing (pictured). It announced support for IBM’s OpenPower Foundation in November, 2013, and is listed as a…

As well as landing a mega deal from the U.S. government, IBM and Nvidia have teamed up with Germany’s Jülich Supercomputing Centre. Together, they plan to set up the POWER Acceleration and Design Centre to “advance the creation and optimisation of research applications on GPU-accelerated OpenPower-compatible systems”. The Centre will bring experts together from the…

IBM’s OpenPower alliance with Nvidia has borne its first fruit in the form of a $325 million contract from the U.S. government’s Department of Energy to build two of the world’s fastest supercomputers. A huge Power9 processor-based machine codenamed Summit will be installed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee by 2017. It will…

Maxava is gearing up to introduce multi-threaded IFS replication to help firms back up their ever-increasing mountains of data faster. According to the HA specialist, IBM i replication solutions have generally only been able to run IFS replication in single-threaded mode until now. This, in effect, drip-feeds data replication – which can be a problem…

You’ll be able to catch some of the biggest names in the Power i industry around Europe in November. Dr Frank Soltis, father of the AS/400, Steve Will, IBM’s head of Power Systems and Trevor Perry, leading evangelist for the platform, all feature on this year’s iBelieve Common Europe Tour. The iBelieve roadshow will visit…

Major Power i reseller and managed service provider APSU has secured a £7 million investment from the UK’s Business Growth Fund (BGF). The Cirencester, Gloucestershire-headquartered firm aims to use the cash to recruit more tech staff to support a growing overseas customer-base. It also plans to expand operations to North America and is considering acquisitions.…

Call me biased, but isn’t one of the primary messages from IBM’s latest disappointing quarterly figures simply that it needs to sell more Power Systems? Big Blue certainly made no bones about fingering its Systems and Technology server and storage division for some of its failings in its earnings announcement on Monday. Revenues from Power…

British midrange specialist Proximity is to hold two consecutive events for IBM i users in November. The first, on Tuesday, November 25, will focus on apps modernisation and mobilisation. The second will concentrate on IBM i security on the following day. Both will be held at UK Power Systems’ distributor Avnet‘s new offices in Bracknell,…

IBM is to sell its processor manufacturing arm to GlobalFoundries. Big Blue announced today that it will pay GlobalFoundries $1.5 billion to take its chip factories in New York and Vermont off its hands. GlobalFoundries will be IBM’s exclusive provider for 22 nanometer, 14nm and 10nm processor chipsets for the next 10 years. Plus GlobalFoundries…

PowerWire.eu is backing a new survey of IBM i users and we urge all our readers to take part. PowerWire will share the European findings from HelpSystems’ new IBM i Marketplace Survey exclusively with our readers in early 2015. Our friends at IT Jungle will release the findings in the States. HelpSystems will then publish…

The first non-IBM Power processor-based servers will hit the streets later this month, courtesy of Taiwanese manufacturer Tyan. The announcement came yesterday despite rumours that such hardware, promised as a result of collaboration within IBM’s OpenPOWER Foundation industry consortium, would not appear until well into 2015. There were doubts in some quarters that it would…