Hardware

IBM's former systems and technology CTO explains when it makes sense to buy a mainframe and what the advantages are.

The solution, called Retpoline, was created by Google software engineer Paul Turner to mitigate the Spectre vulnerability without a loss to performance.

Intel cautioned against going too far with software techniques to fix the vulnerabilities, implying slowdowns might be the fault of overzealous coders. It praised Google’s fix while withholding any recommendation for Microsoft’s approach.

The administration says two new Dell systems being added to existing IBM and Cray clusters in Virginia and Florida data centers will boost its compute power by one third and storage by 60 percent, extending its visibility into future weather from...

The greatest noticeable impact will be on servers in corporate on-prem. data centers, Microsoft said, where even small deficits in performance can be magnified because those machines handle a large volume of actions that require talking to the...

Critical Thinking: Growing role of hyper-scale cloud platforms in enterprise IT raises big questions about the open source data center project’s long-term mission.

A change in software license agreement has drawn angry comments online, accusing the company of trying to steer users of GPUs for AI applications toward the expensive, high-end Tesla product line.

Powered by its latest Power9 chip and new bandwidth highways, the AC922 is IBM’s latest and most powerful hardware for HPC and AI.

Software giant releases a quantum programming language and simulator, but still has no working computer

Prasanna Sundararajan, founder and CEO of rENIAC, on using FPGAs to accelerate big data