More POWER8 Announcement Details

Edit: Some links no longer work.

Originally posted April 29, 2014 on AIXchange

By now you’re probably aware of IBM’s announcement of POWER8 and new hardware models. Last week I examined the speeds and feeds. Here’s a look at some of the other coverage:

            *  ExtremeTech.com: IBM unveils Power8 and OpenPower pincer attack on Intel’s x86 server  monopoly

             *  New York Times: IBM Opens Chip Architecture, in Strategy of Sharing and Self-Interest

             *  Forbes: IBM Spends $2.4 Billion On New Power Servers And Partners With Google And Nvidia To Go After Intel

            *  DataCenterKnowledge.com: IBM Unveils New POWER8 Systems, Built for Big Data

            *  InformationWeek.com: IBM Unveils Power8 Chip As Open Hardware

           *  CrucialCIO.com: IBM Unveils Power 8 For Cloud, Big Data Crunching    

           *  ITJungle

  •  Additional resources:

             * OpenPOWER Foundation

            *  OpenPOWER roadmap

             * Video

            *  Redbooks

Of course there’s much more online (just search on POWER8 and OpenPOWER), and I’d encourage you to use Twitter search as well.

Naturally, I’m looking forward to getting my hands on the machines, but I’m especially excited to work on the machines with PowerKVM. You can be sure I’ll write more about this in the near future.

I was excited about POWER4 (which came out back in 2001), and was just as enthusiastic about POWER5, POWER6 and POWER7. I’m sure I’ll feel the same about the next big thing after POWER8. Trying out new hardware and new capabilities never gets old.