Comments on: IBM Lays Its GenAI Foundation With Software And Services https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/07/26/ibm-lays-its-genai-foundation-with-software-and-services/ In-depth coverage of high-end computing at large enterprises, supercomputing centers, hyperscale data centers, and public clouds. Fri, 02 Aug 2024 13:43:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 By: Slim Albert https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/07/26/ibm-lays-its-genai-foundation-with-software-and-services/#comment-229769 Mon, 29 Jul 2024 09:54:28 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144454#comment-229769 Compared to IBM’s 2021 Power10, about which interesting articles could be written as early as 2018 ( https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/12/20/ibm-bets-on-samsung-fabs-for-power10-chips/ ), it seems that the 2025 Power11 SpinalTap CPU is much more hush-hush at this stage. Granted that Power11 may be more “evolutionary” than Power10’s SerDes revolution (with OpenCAPI ushering in CXL) and a 2.5-3.0x perf/Watt improvement over Power9, but still, I think we should know more at this stage about what enhancements and innovations to expect from Power11 (dense matrix-math acceleration?), and what process it will be etched on (eg. Samsung 5nm, 3nm?), among others.

Really, in which computational tasks should we expect Power11 to “Shred the competition” ( https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/09/07/ibm-power10-shreds-ice-lake-xeons-for-transaction-processing/ ) ? “Inquisition Minds” …

]]> By: Timothy Prickett Morgan https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/07/26/ibm-lays-its-genai-foundation-with-software-and-services/#comment-229753 Mon, 29 Jul 2024 02:10:49 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144454#comment-229753 In reply to Anju Babu.

True!

]]> By: Anju Babu https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/07/26/ibm-lays-its-genai-foundation-with-software-and-services/#comment-229575 Fri, 26 Jul 2024 22:03:22 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144454#comment-229575 Not to nitpick, but granite and sandstone are not metamorphic rocks. While slate is a metamorphic rock, granite is an igneous rock and sandstone is a sedimentary rock. [Nerd alert: I might be into cloud hardware now, but I took my middle school geography lessons quite seriously.]

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