Special Issue of the IBM Journal of Research and Development
Over
the years, IBM Power® systems have played key roles for both
commercial enterprise computing and high-performance computing. Our latest
special issue of the IBM Journal of Research and Development emphasizes new hardware and software approaches
that are foundational for the IBM POWER8 technology. This
technology provides a data-optimized design that is well-suited for analytics
and other Big Data problems of today, as well as cloud-based workloads across
multiple environments.
As
noted in the Preface for this issue, generation
after generation of Power processors have introduced advanced
and highly effective techniques, such as large-scale
non-directory-based symmetric multiprocessors (SMPs), flexible and dynamic partitioning of resources among operating systems
executing in the same SMP, simultaneous multithreading (SMT) multiprocessor chips, and high-frequency processor
design.
The POWER8 technology is the successor to POWER/POWER7+ technology, with a focus on improved
thread and core performance, SMT, reliability, larger caches, transactional memory, field-programmable gate array support, vector processing, accelerators, increased parallelism through
additional cores, and much more.
Clifford A. Pickover
Editor-in-Chief
IBM Journal of Research
and Development
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