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When you deliberation of mainframes, you astir apt deliberation of spinning portion drives, reams of machine cards, and text-only, green-on-black 3270 terminals. IBM's latest mainframe, the LinuxONE Emperor 5, is not your grandpa's mainframe
The 5th procreation of its flagship LinuxONE platform, the IBM LinuxONE Emperor 5, is engineered to present unprecedented levels of security, cost-efficiency, and AI acceleration for mission-critical endeavor workloads. Powered by the caller IBM Telum II processor, the strategy is acceptable to alteration however organizations attack Linux, data, and AI successful the hybrid unreality era.
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The Telum II is the bosom of this 21st-century mainframe. Manufactured utilizing Samsung's 5 nm process technology, Telum II features 8 high-performance cores moving astatine 5.5GHz, a 40% summation successful on-chip cache capableness (with virtual L3 and L4 caches expanded to 360MB and 2.88GB, respectively), and a dedicated, next-generation on-chip AI accelerator susceptible of up to 24 trillion operations per 2nd (TOPS)-four times the compute powerfulness of its predecessor.
Looking ahead, for AI users who privation the most, the caller mainframe besides supports the IBM Spyre Accelerator. It contains 32 AI accelerator cores that volition stock a akin architecture to the AI accelerator integrated into the Telum II chip. Multiple IBM Spyre Accelerators tin beryllium connected to the I/O Subsystem of IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE via PCIe. The Spyre is expected to commencement shipping successful 2025's past quarter.
Of course, you request bundle to marque each this work. The updated AI Toolkit for IBM LinuxONE, optimized for Telum II, streamlines developer productivity and AI deployment. A exertion preview of Red Hat OpenShift AI and OpenShift Virtualization connected LinuxONE 5 is present available, allowing clients to negociate some accepted VMs and containerized workloads done a unified interface connected OpenShift Container Platform.
The IBM LinuxONE 5 besides comes with precocious information features tailored for the evolving menace landscape. The level extends IBM's end-to-end cybersecurity approach. For example, it comes with confidential computing. With this, adjacent erstwhile your information is successful memory, it's encrypted. It besides comes with NIST-standardized post-quantum cryptographic algorithms.
On apical of that, it comes with a cutting-edge hardware information module and enactment for confidential containers, integrated with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform to guarantee delicate AI models and information stay protected, adjacent successful the look of harvest-now, decrypt-later attacks anticipated successful the post-quantum era. Integration with IBM Vault Self-Managed further strengthens secrets absorption crossed hybrid environments.
With a absorption connected operational efficiency, IBM LinuxONE 5 enables organizations to consolidate workloads from aggregate servers onto a azygous high-capacity system. This consolidation tin reduce, IBM claims, the full outgo of ownership by up to 44% implicit 5 years compared to x86 alternatives. The strategy is designed to present up to 99.999999% availability, supporting concern continuity and hazard simplification portion addressing the demands of data-intensive, AI-enabled businesses.
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In short, arsenic Tina Tarquinio, Chief Product Officer, IBM Z and LinuxONE, said, "With this launch, we're delivering a level that not lone meets today's information and ratio challenges but is acceptable for the adjacent question of AI-driven innovation."
Oh last, but ne'er least, the LinuxOne Emperor 5 will, similar the sanction says, tally Linux. Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) for LinuxOne, to beryllium exact.
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