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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "helvneue light for ibm" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Special Issue of the <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">IBM Journal of Research and Development</span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvkcCE6wqRx1XsY1KAaK8qDZtgJjPlaxo8yaAF7vO0DoMGZQPLJVL1C5xVdKgOz_YbSrG8OXDDvK6CmOgzrvFguMYuKC5GhfzsmdMjMV7cYg9tIBPPBAjyufwAgivat4fdxg1TSayq6hyphenhyphenZ/s1600/jrd_frontcover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvkcCE6wqRx1XsY1KAaK8qDZtgJjPlaxo8yaAF7vO0DoMGZQPLJVL1C5xVdKgOz_YbSrG8OXDDvK6CmOgzrvFguMYuKC5GhfzsmdMjMV7cYg9tIBPPBAjyufwAgivat4fdxg1TSayq6hyphenhyphenZ/s320/jrd_frontcover.jpg" width="249" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/" target="_blank">Current issue of IBM Journal of R&D</a></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "helvneue light for ibm" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt;">Large amounts of data are transforming industries, and this has a particularly important and significant effect in the energy domain. Energy stands at the nexus of areas relating to the environment, economic development, and national security. This crucial industry is also positioned at the tipping point of multiple disruptive trends. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "helvneue light for ibm" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt;">As noted by our guest editors IBM Fellow Chandu Visweswariah, director of the IBM <a href="http://www.research.ibm.com/client-programs/seri/">Smarter Energy Research Institute</a>, and Brad Gammons, Jr.,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>general manager of IBM’s Global Energy and Utilities Industry, we also face an unprecedented amount of uncertainty in planning, managing, and orchestrating energy systems. For example, consider weather uncertainty, uncertainty in supply and demand, intermittency due to renewable energy adoption, an uncertain regulatory environment, and uncertainty in energy prices.</span><br /><a name="more"></a><br /><span style="font-family: "helvneue light for ibm" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt;">At the same time, we are drowning in data from SCADA (Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition) instrumentation, PMUs (Phasor Measurement Units), and smart meters—along with exogenous data like weather characteristics, energy usage, customer needs, vegetation characteristics, soil data, and so on. When curated and mined with the appropriate analytics, this data will help the industry to transition to clean energy, increase customer awareness and participation, and improve the resilience and efficiency of our energy systems.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "helvneue light for ibm" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt;"><a href="http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/" target="_blank">This issue</a> is devoted to the innovative application of cutting-edge analytics in the energy domain. A collection of 11 papers represent state-of-the-art tools that are delivering significant value in utilities around the world. This body of work demonstrates the importance of such topics to IBM as well the importance of analytics in the energy sector. IBM Research, in all its global labs, has embraced deep domain knowledge and industry eminence in the energy space, leading to innovations that are not just useful in the “back office,” but that will prove essential to the day-to-day operations of energy companies.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://twitter.com/pickover" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "helvneue light for ibm" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt;">Clifford A. Pickover</span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "helvneue light for ibm" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt;">Editor-in-Chief</span><span style="font-family: "helvneue light for ibm" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "helvneue light for ibm" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt;">IBM Journal of Research and Development</span></i></div>

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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Special Issue of the <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">IBM Journal of Research and Development</span></span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Over the years, IBM Power<sup>®</sup> systems have played key roles for both commercial enterprise computing and high-performance computing. Our latest special issue of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/" target="_blank">IBM Journal of Research and Development</a> </i>emphasizes new hardware and software approaches that are foundational for the IBM POWER8 technology. This technology provides a data-optimized design that is well-suited for analytics and other Big Data problems of today, as well as cloud-based workloads across multiple environments.</span><br /><a name="more"></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWGet32icNlkSJUSigkiLOfdRc5uUbroIQJwH2cKWJKJNrCjZH4IOtP5vvekmSW03crPmAiWoBGrl2pZAsyLUxWT6Mc3dgwsR2cXTzeYfgxnDXt7GXiJpykyb2As3yJkJ__5g93pyyKt7V/s1600/blog-image.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWGet32icNlkSJUSigkiLOfdRc5uUbroIQJwH2cKWJKJNrCjZH4IOtP5vvekmSW03crPmAiWoBGrl2pZAsyLUxWT6Mc3dgwsR2cXTzeYfgxnDXt7GXiJpykyb2As3yJkJ__5g93pyyKt7V/s1600/blog-image.jpg" width="247" /></a><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">As noted in the Preface for this issue, <span style="mso-font-width: 102%;">generation </span>after<span style="letter-spacing: .7pt;"> </span>generation<span style="letter-spacing: 1.35pt;"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing: .75pt;"> </span>Power<span style="letter-spacing: 1.0pt;"> </span>processors<span style="letter-spacing: 1.35pt;"> </span>have<span style="letter-spacing: .95pt;"> i</span>ntroduced<span style="letter-spacing: 1.45pt;"> </span><span style="mso-font-width: 102%;">advanced </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .9pt;"> </span>highly<span style="letter-spacing: 1.0pt;"> </span>e<span style="letter-spacing: -.45pt;">f</span>fective<span style="letter-spacing: .85pt;"> </span>techniques,<span style="letter-spacing: 1.4pt;"> </span>such<span style="letter-spacing: .9pt;"> </span>as<span style="letter-spacing: .65pt;"> </span><span style="mso-font-width: 101%;">large-scale </span>non-directory-based<span style="letter-spacing: 2.05pt;"> </span>symmetric<span style="letter-spacing: 1.35pt;"> </span>multiprocessors<span style="letter-spacing: 1.8pt;"> </span><span style="mso-font-width: 102%;">(SMPs), </span>ﬂexible<span style="letter-spacing: 1.1pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .95pt;"> </span>dynamic<span style="letter-spacing: 1.15pt;"> </span>partitioning<span style="letter-spacing: 1.45pt;"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing: .65pt;"> </span>resources<span style="letter-spacing: 1.25pt;"> </span><span style="mso-font-width: 102%;">among </span>operating<span style="letter-spacing: 1.25pt;"> </span>systems<span style="letter-spacing: 1.1pt;"></span>executing<span style="letter-spacing: 1.3pt;"> </span>in<span style="letter-spacing: .7pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: .75pt;"> </span>same<span style="letter-spacing: .95pt;"> </span><span style="mso-font-width: 103%;">SMP, </span>simultaneous<span style="letter-spacing: 1.55pt;"> </span>multithreading<span style="letter-spacing: 1.65pt;"> </span>(SMT)<span style="letter-spacing: 1.05pt;"> </span><span style="mso-font-width: 102%;">multiprocessor </span>chips,<span style="letter-spacing: .95pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .95pt;"> </span>high-frequency<span style="letter-spacing: 1.7pt;"> </span>processor<span style="letter-spacing: 1.3pt;"></span>design.<span style="letter-spacing: 1.05pt;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The POWER8 technology<span style="letter-spacing: 1.35pt;"> </span>is<span style="letter-spacing: .6pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: .75pt;"> </span>successor to POWER/POWER7+ technology,<span style="letter-spacing: 1.45pt;"> </span>with<span style="letter-spacing: .9pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: .6pt;"> </span>focus<span style="letter-spacing: .95pt;"> </span>on<span style="letter-spacing: .8pt;"> </span>improved<span style="letter-spacing: 1.25pt;"></span><span style="mso-font-width: 102%;">thread </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: .9pt;"> </span>core<span style="letter-spacing: .9pt;"> </span>performance,<span style="letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> </span>SMT,<span style="letter-spacing: .95pt;"> </span>reliability,<span style="letter-spacing: .95pt;"> </span>larger<span style="letter-spacing: .8pt;"> </span><span style="mso-font-width: 102%;">caches, </span>transactional<span style="letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> </span>memory,<span style="letter-spacing: 1.2pt;"> </span>ﬁeld-programmable<span style="letter-spacing: 2.05pt;"> </span>gate<span style="letter-spacing: .85pt;"> </span><span style="mso-font-width: 101%;">array </span>support,<span style="letter-spacing: 1.15pt;"> </span>vector<span style="letter-spacing: 1.0pt;"> </span>processing,<span style="letter-spacing: 1.4pt;"> </span>accelerators,<span style="letter-spacing: 1.0pt;"> </span>increased<span style="letter-spacing: 1.25pt;"> </span>parallelism<span style="letter-spacing: 1.0pt;"> </span>through<span style="letter-spacing: 1.1pt;"></span>additional<span style="letter-spacing: 1.3pt;"> </span><span style="mso-font-width: 102%;">cores, and much more.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; 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Pickover</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-font-width: 102%;">Editor-in-Chief</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-font-width: 102%;">IBM Journal of Research and Development</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div>

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