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The AS/400 hardware initially used IBM’s CISC-based processors but later moved to PowerPC-based RISC technology for improved performance. Its high- …

Great News… Current update of SAP Note 2947579 shows again the granularity available for HANA instances on IBM Power Virtual Server e.g. you can very flexibly choose your LPAR / VM size from 16 to 30.5 TB in 1 TB steps and with 1.254.000 SAPS each.

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We will stop building the Fedora Atomic Desktops for the PowerPC 64 LE architecture. As such, it makes sense for Fedora to stop building Atomic desktops for this architecture.

Learn to deploy x86 microservices on IBM Power using OpenShift in this hands-on lab featuring the classic Sock Shop demo. 90-minute tutorial.

Bargav Balakrishnan, vice president of product management at IBM Power, explains the recently announced advances The post IBM Power Enhancements Focus on AI and Modern Workloads appeared first on TechChannel.

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Back on November 4, we told you about a price increase that IBM instituted across its Power Systems, storage hardware and storage software, and Software Maintenance services. These price increases were supposedly announced on September 3, but IBM’s system did not notify us of them until October 29, and we told you about it in the subsequent edition of this newsletter. The delay didn’t matter much because the price changes are not effective until January 1, 2025. And now, the rest of the world is going to get an extra taste of inflation, as you will see in announcement letter … The post IBM Boosts Prices Even Further Outside The United States appeared first on IT Jungle.

It looks like IBM and sometime rival Dell Technologies are having a tiff over the licensing of technology that allows disk arrays descended from the venerable Symmetrix arrays created by EMC more than three decades ago to link to descendants of the AS/400 platform and OS/400 operating systems created three and a half decades ago. The fallout from what we presume is that a technology licensing fee agreement between Dell and IBM is similar, we think, to the one between IBM and the company that owns Information Builders. In October 2023, out of the blue, IBM announced that it was … The post Dell And Big Blue Call It Quits On Storage Driver Support For IBM i appeared first on IT Jungle.

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Rob McNelly shares what piques his interest about the new processor The post IBM Provides a Power11 Update appeared first on TechChannel.

Professor Simon McIntosh-Smith, Director of the Bristol Centre for Supercomputing, emphasized the transition to cutting-edge research with Isambard 3, supporting collaborations worldwide. Now, with Isambard 3 online, researchers across the UK and internationally can maximize technology access, tapping its potential to heighten performance and energy efficiency.

A central challenge to understanding airborne transmission has been the inability of experimental science to reliably probe the structure and dynamics of viruses once they are inside respiratory aerosol particles. “Medical dogma has long focused on droplets as the main transmission route for respiratory viruses, but airborne transmission via aerosols also plays a significant role in spreading disease, as evidenced by super-spreader events,” said Rommie Amaro, endowed chair and professor in the Department of Molecular Biology at the University of California San Diego.

Scaling is key :-)) ! Now really large OLTP S/4HANA implementations are supported:up to 128 TB (Scale-Out 4 nodes with each 32 TB) – on premand up to 4 nodes with 30.5 TB each on Power Virtual Server! For details please have a look into SAP Note 2188482:https://me.sap.com/notes/2188482

Just to mention it…:-))“Classic” SAP Applications on Power AIX with “AnyDB” (Db2 LUW or Oracle DB) will be supported at least until YE 2030 ! (from a database support point of view…) For details please seeDB6 – Db2 LUW on Power AIXSource: SAP Note 1168456 (29.11.2024)https://me.sap.com/notes/1168456 Oracle DB – on Power AIXSource: SAP Note 2606828

Last week, we went over the roadmaps for the future Power11 processor from IBM and its follow-on, the Power Next chip that we presume will be called Power 12 because, you know, history. This week we want to take a little bit of a deeper dive into the Power11 strategy and what this might mean for the systems that Big Blue will be building in the future. If IBM’s change in strategy with Power Systems since the Power9 generation has not been obvious to you, it perhaps bears pointing out. In the Power8 and Power9 generations, IBM was trying to … The post Power11 Takes Memory Bandwidth Up To, Well, Eleven appeared first on IT Jungle.

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In collaboration with IBM, the system now integrates laboratory workflows, image scanning systems, and centralised data processing, establishing a cohesive approach for pathological cancer diagnosis and laying the foundation for SiPH’s future advancements in cancer diagnostics. “Today’s success in transforming our pathology workflows and enhancing diagnostic quality will ultimately lead to more accurate cancer diagnostics, benefiting patients across Thailand and ASEAN,” said Pornsuk Cheunsuchon, director of Digital Pathology Center at SiPH.

This is a practical demonstration showing how to build and deploy private LLM and RAG applications using OpenShift, LLama-cpp, Streamlit, Milvus vector Database, Minio and Etcd on IBM Power. Includes LLama-cpp, Streamlit, Milvus Vector Database, Minio & etcd, OpenShift & Power10 for Enterprise AI with secure data privacy.

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