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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Special Issue of the IBM Journal of Research and Development</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Over the years, IBM Power® systems have played key roles for both commercial enterprise computing and high-performance computing. Our latest special issue of the <a href="http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/" target="_blank">IBM Journal of Research and Development</a> 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. <a name="more"></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> </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>As noted in the Preface for this issue, generation after generation of Power processors have introduced advanced and highly effective techniques, such as large-scale non-directory-based symmetric multiprocessors (SMPs), ﬂexible and dynamic partitioning of resources among operating systemsexecuting in the same SMP, simultaneous multithreading (SMT) multiprocessor chips, and high-frequency processordesign. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">The POWER8 technology is the successor to POWER/POWER7+ technology, with a focus on improvedthread and core performance, SMT, reliability, larger caches, transactional memory, ﬁeld-programmable gate array support, vector processing, accelerators, increased parallelism throughadditional cores, and much more.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Clifford A. Pickover</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Editor-in-Chief</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">IBM Journal of Research and Development</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div>

Special Issue of the IBM Journal of Research and Development Over the years, IBM Power ® systems have played key roles for both commercial ...