IBM Power Systems For AI and Big Data: Aimed at the Enterprise

IBM today made a major announcement about new products and services aimed at helping alleviate the roadblocks to AI (artificial intelligence) adoption in the enterprise. It is only a beginning, but it's very interesting in the breadth and comprehensiveness of IBM's plan. On the infrastructure front, they announced enhancements to the AC922 Server, primarily be improved integration of NVIDIA V100 GPUs and NVLink for faster system communications. This server is for the heavy lifting, training of AI models and processing in HPC (High Performance Computing) systems. They also announced the LC921 and LC922 servers aimed at data intensive applications.