ibm – Noise

On the NSA’s Supercomputer from the 1960s

Bruce Schneier — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 10:16:24 +0000

Really interesting story about Harvest, a specialized code breaking computer built in the 1960s by IBM for the NSA.

IBM Z and LinuxONE Dual-ISA Processor and AI Acceleration at Hot Chips 2026

Patrick Kennedy — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 16:47:50 +0000

At Hot Chips 2026, IBM showed a crazy new IBM Z CPU that will support IBM Z and Arm instruction sets natively. The post IBM Z and LinuxONE Dual-ISA Processor and AI Acceleration at Hot Chips 2026 appeared first on ServeTheHome.

IBM Expands z17 and LinuxONE 5 Mainframe Lineups With Single Frame and Rackmount Servers

Ryan Smith — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 13:00:32 +0000

IBM is expanding its mainframe lineups with new single-frame and rackmount z17 and LinuxONE 5 offerings for smaller customers. As well, the company is releasing an 18U LinuxONE box for new customers called the LinuxONE Express The post IBM Expands z17 ...

IBM Outlines Sub-1nm Nanostack Transistor Technology: Building the Next Gen By Going Up

Ryan Smith — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 10:00:36 +0000

Today IBM is unveiling their nanostack transistor architecture. Meant to drive chip construction in the sub-1nm era in the 2030s, nanostack aims for building better and smaller chips by building them taller via wafer stacking The post IBM Outlines Sub-...

New IBM Storage FlashSystem Gets an AI Infusion

Cliff Robinson — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:00:59 +0000

The new IBM Storage FlashSystem 5600, 7600, and 9600 series bring more capacity, more performance, and agentic AI to storage arrays The post New IBM Storage FlashSystem Gets an AI Infusion appeared first on ServeTheHome.

Modernization of real-time payment orchestration on AWS

Neeraj Kaushik — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 23:34:00 +0000

The global real-time payments market is experiencing significant growth. According to Fortune Business Insights, the market was valued at USD 24.91 billion in 2024 and is projected to grow to USD 284.49 billion by 2032, with a CAGR of 35.4%. Similarly, Grand View Research reports that the global mobile payment market, valued at USD 88.50 […]

IBM’s Power11 Processor Architecture at Hot Chips 2025

Ryan Smith — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 17:31:00 +0000

Third up on today’s CPU track is IBM. Big Blue is at the conference to talk about its latest generation Power architecture chip, the Power11. IBM starts off by recapping Power. Why it exists, and what IBM’s goals are for the processor and a...

IBM Power11 Launched with Up To 2048 Threads and DDIMM Support

Patrick Kennedy — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 18:23:27 +0000

The new IBM Power11 systems range from 2U dual socket edge servers to 16 socket 2048 thread servers with custom memory modules The post IBM Power11 Launched with Up To 2048 Threads and DDIMM Support appeared first on ServeTheHome.

Hot Chips 2025 Preliminary Schedule Released

Patrick Kennedy — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 16:00:27 +0000

The Hot Chips 2025 preliminary schedule is out with less than three months left until the annual conference The post Hot Chips 2025 Preliminary Schedule Released appeared first on ServeTheHome.

The New IBM z17 Telum II Processor Module Cut Open Down to Silicon

Patrick Kennedy — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 19:01:54 +0000

We get inside the new IBM z17 Telum II AI mainframe processor all the way into a cross-sectioned cutaway then down to the silicon atoms The post The New IBM z17 Telum II Processor Module Cut Open Down to Silicon appeared first on ServeTheHome.

The IBM z17 Mainframe Brings AI with Telum II and Spyre

Patrick Kennedy — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 00:31:41 +0000

The IBM z17 mainframe brings new AI capabilities with the Telum II processor and its built-in AI accelerator and the PCIe-based Spyre AI cards The post The IBM z17 Mainframe Brings AI with Telum II and Spyre appeared first on ServeTheHome.

IBM Telum II Processor and Spyre AI Updates at Hot Chips 2024

Patrick Kennedy — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 17:54:51 +0000

The new IBM Telum II is the company's next-gen IBM Z mainframe processor with built-in AI and DPU. The company also has a Spyre AI processor The post IBM Telum II Processor and Spyre AI Updates at Hot Chips 2024 appeared first on ServeTheHome.

IBM Sells Cybersecurity Group

Bruce Schneier — Mon, 20 May 2024 11:04:19 +0000

IBM is selling its QRadar product suite to Palo Alto Networks, for an undisclosed—but probably surprisingly small—sum.

I have a personal connection to this. In 2016, IBM bought Resilient Systems, the startup I was a part of. It became part if IBM’s cybersecurity offerings, mostly and weirdly subservient to QRadar.

That was what seemed to be the problem at IBM. QRadar was IBM’s first acquisition in the cybersecurity space, and it saw everything through the lens of that SIEM system. I left the company two years after the acquisition, and near as I could tell, it never managed to figure the space out...

IBM Red Hat Puts RHEL Source Behind Paywall

Patrick Kennedy — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 15:00:02 +0000

IBM Red Hat pushes non-paying customers further away in latest move. VMware users should take note as the Broadcom deal looms The post IBM Red Hat Puts RHEL Source Behind Paywall appeared first on ServeTheHome.

How Cloudflare and IBM partner to help build a better Internet

David McClure — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 13:00:00 +0000

Cloudflare Fraud Detection uses machine learning models to better protect businesses from fake account signups, account takeover attacks, and carding attacks to ensure businesses can operate online safely

Deploying IBM Cloud Pak for Data on Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS

Eduardo Monich Fronza — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 13:52:09 +0000

Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers who are looking for a more intuitive way to deploy and use IBM Cloud Pak for Data (CP4D) on the AWS Cloud, can now use the Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA). ROSA is a fully managed service, jointly supported by AWS and Red Hat. It is managed by […]

Breaking 256-bit Elliptic Curve Encryption with a Quantum Computer

Bruce Schneier — Wed, 09 Feb 2022 12:25:33 +0000

Researchers have calculated the quantum computer size necessary to break 256-bit elliptic curve public-key cryptography:

Finally, we calculate the number of physical qubits required to break the 256-bit elliptic curve encryption of keys in the Bitcoin network within the small available time frame in which it would actually pose a threat to do so. It would require 317 × 10⁶ physical qubits to break the encryption within one hour using the surface code, a code cycle time of 1 μs, a reaction time of 10 μs, and a physical gate error of 10^-3. To instead break the encryption within one day, it would require 13 × 10...

Remembering Intel 740 | Custom PC #218

Ben Hardwidge — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 06:19:42 +0000

With Intel attempting to get into 3D gaming graphics again, Custom PC’s Ben Hardwidge looks at the time it failed to take on 3dfx in the late 1990s. Back in the late 1990s, I worked at a computer shop in Derby, where we sold components over the counter, while pointing to a sign that said ‘components…

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40 years of the PC

Ashley Whittaker — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 07:19:11 +0000

Ben Hardwidge travels back to August 1981, when IBM released its Personal Computer 5150 and the PC was born. A big ape had only just started lobbing barrels at a pixelated Mario in Donkey Kong arcade machines, Duran Duran’s very first album had just rolled off the vinyl presses and Roger Federer was just four…

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