Posted on: 20/02/14
It is no secret that POWER systems servers run your mission-critical business. And you may even know that in excess of sixteen thousand applications can run on POWER7.
But did you know? …
But did you know? …
1.0 POWER Explores Space
If you think your system is out of this world, you would be spot-on. POWER technology is a regular traveller to Mars. Processors built on POWER know-how are used on board many space craft such as the ‘Curiosity’,’ Pathfinder’, ‘Opportunity’, ‘Spirit’ and ‘Phoenix Mars Lander’ probes.
A radiation-hardened RAD6000 computer manufactured by BAE Systems is centred on the POWER chip and acts as the brains of the spacecraft, processing navigational data and driving key systems in space and on the Red Planet’s surface.
Vic Scuderi, Space Product Manager for BAE Systems says: “Surviving windstorms with speeds of up to 80 mph and temperatures of -199 degrees fahrenheit, radiation-hardened POWER has become the de facto standard for space-qualified processors.”
Click here to read 'IBM Power Architecture Heads to Unexplored Region of Mars'
2.0 POWER Manages Three Operating Systems
POWER systems servers have been built to be the open platform for choice, offering flexibility for enterprises of all sizes to run the Operating System that best suits their business needs. Whether you want to administer AIX, IBM i or Linux (both Red Hat and SUSE), these world class Operating Systems run on POWER systems hardware.
This mix allows you to increase your options for quicker and efficient technology development and IT integration with existing resources and ecosystem technologies. Today’s resonant multimedia, big-data and multi device world requires flexible options and industry compatibility so that you can integrate what you have now with what is emerging tomorrow.
Click here to read 'The Power to choose: Linux, AIX, IBMi'
3.0 POWER Takes to the Road
POWER Architecture expertise is exploited in many automotive applications, including engine management, body control, gateway, safety, chassis and driver information applications.
Freescale Semiconductor Inc., a global leader in the design and manufacture of embedded semiconductors, is using POWER technology in its MPC56xx family of 32-bit microcontrollers. These little marvels provide vehicle engineers with sophisticated electronics applications that react to drivers and passenger simple requests, such as lowering a window or adjusting a seat, as well as the complex safety, emissions and communications tasks that motor vehicles handle these days. Used in half of today’s motor vehicles, you are likely to be driving along with POWER technology.
Click here to read about the MPC56XX Family
4.0 POWER in Your Mobile Phone
Do you have an Android phone in your pocket? If you do, you are carrying POWER equipment. power.org – the open, collaborative organisation that enables, develops and promotes POWER Architecture technology, joined forces with VeriSilicon and Mentor Graphics to make the Android Operating System 2.3 (A.K.A. Gingerbread) available to developers as open source code.
With the same open spirit, IBM also worked together with Google, Mellanox, NVIDA and Tyan to form the OpenPOWER Consortium. The OpenPOWER Consortium is an open development alliance, centred on IBMs POWER Architecture technology. The move makes POWER hardware and software available to open development for the first time, as well as making POWER IP licensable to others, greatly expanding the ecosystem of innovators on the platform. With this level of openness, you may start to see many other POWER Architecture-inspired technologies around - just as common as your mobile phone.
5.0 POWER is Finding Cures for Cancer
Watson is going to work and its first stop is healthcare – and the immense task of helping researchers to find a cure for cancer. The Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center are working with IBM and Watson technology running on POWER systems servers to eradicate cancer.
Both cancer centers are combining Watson’s computational power and natural language processing capability with their own clinical knowledge, case histories and genomic data to create outcome – and evidence based decisions systems.
“This comprehensive, evidence based approach will profoundly enhance cancer care by accelerating the dissemination of practice changing research at an unprecedented pace...” says Dr. Mark G Kris, Chief, Thoracic Oncology Service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering.
Should you require any further information regarding POWER or have any more interesting facts to add... please do not hesitate to contact us.
Chris Lang, Technical Consultant, Celerity Limited
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