Telum II at Hot Chips 2024: Mainframe with a Unique Caching Strategy

Mainframes still play a vital role in today, providing extremely high uptime and low latency for financial transactions.

Chips and Cheese
IBM Announces The z17 Mainframe Powered By Telum II Processors

Following IBM engineers doing a lot of open-source compiler work around a new 'arch15' that we suspected to be IBM z17 with Telum II processors, this morning IBM officially announced their next-generation mainframe hardware.

Future of #BigIron: #TelumII and #Spyre
#IBM’s big #mainframe props up almost every key industry world-wide due to features such as 9x9 (99.999999%) uptime, security, and hardware focused on database and transaction processing.
#Telum became centerpiece of 4th gen #LinuxOne – a series of #Linux systems purely for z architecture. Another big focus, for #z15 and LinuxOne, was built-in #AI engine with every chip, allowing focused models to run alongside critical workloads.
https://morethanmoore.substack.com/p/the-future-of-big-iron-telum-ii-and
#IBM starts renting cloudy bare metal #Linux almost-#mainframes
The #inuxONE #servers use the same #Telum processor IBM packs into its #z16 #mainframe but are designed solely to run Linux – Big Blue’s own #zOS is not allowed.
https://www.theregister.com/2023/04/21/linuxone_bare_metal_ibm_cloud/
IBM starts renting cloudy bare metal Linux almost-mainframes

LinuxONE servers come to the Big Blue cloud

The Register

The latest #IBM #ZXplore #TipTuesday with Deanna Berger, IBM Senior Technical Staff Member & one of the Lead Designers of the #IBM #Telum Processor, was a great overview and the recording is now available here: https://ibm.biz/zxpTipTuesday4

She's a hardware architect focused on caching & the AI accelerator and gets into the geeky hardware details ✨

If you want to learn more about the Telum processor cache design, this is a great article: https://www.anandtech.com/show/16924/did-ibm-just-preview-the-future-of-caches

#zxpTipTuesday - The Telum Processor! - Crowdcast

Register now for IBM zSkills's event on Crowdcast, scheduled to go live on Tuesday December 06, 2022 at 3:30 pm BRST.

Crowdcast

I like reuse of technology to fuel innovation.
The already proven #AI accelerator built into #IBM #z16 #Telum chip now inspire the 32 cores in the IBM AIU :
An entire chip dedicated to AI. You can find the full article on the IBM research blog:

https://research.ibm.com/blog/ibm-artificial-intelligence-unit-aiu?social_post=7961326683&linkId=186565631

IBM's new AIU artificial intelligence chip | IBM Research Blog

It’s our first complete system-on-chip designed to run and train deep learning models faster and more efficiently than a general-purpose CPU.

IBM Research Blog
Im Interview wirft Dr. Christian Jacobi einen exklusiven Blick aufs Design des neuen Telum-Prozessors. Er ist das Herz des neuen IBM-Mainframes z16.
Neuer Prozessor für den Mainframe: IBMs Chefarchitekt erklärt das Telum-Design
Neuer Prozessor für den Mainframe: IBMs Chefarchitekt erklärt das Telum-Design

Im Interview wirft Dr. Christian Jacobi einen exklusiven Blick aufs Design des neuen Telum-Prozessors. Er ist das Herz des neuen IBM-Mainframes z16.

heise online
Auf zwei neue Funktionen setzt IBMs z16: Der neue Mainframe soll per KI Transaktionen in Echtzeit überprüfen können und ein quantensicheres Computing bieten.
IBMs neuer Mainframe z16: Betrugserkennung in Echtzeit und im großen Stil
IBMs neuer Mainframe z16: Betrugserkennung in Echtzeit und im großen Stil

Auf zwei neue Funktionen setzt IBMs z16: Der neue Mainframe soll per KI Transaktionen in Echtzeit überprüfen können und ein quantensicheres Computing bieten.

heise online