N1005 IBM Research: s/360

<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://asmarterplanet.com/files/2014/10/John-Kelly.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="141" src="http://asmarterplanet.com/files/2014/10/John-Kelly.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 328.3pt; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: " Arial";"></span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: " Arial";">by Dr. John E. Kelly III, Senior Vice President, Solutions Portfolio and Research</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 328.3pt; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 328.3pt; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: " Arial";">In December, I had the opportunity to take part in a tribute to one of the great architects of the IBM mainframe, Erich Bloch.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 328.3pt; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 328.3pt; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: " Arial";">In 1985, President Ronald Reagan presented Bloch and two of his IBM colleagues, Fred Brooks and Bob Evans, with the first U.S. National Medal of Technology and Innovation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The award cited "their contributions to the IBM System/360, a computer system and technologies that revolutionized the data processing industry."</span><br /><a name="more"></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 328.3pt; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 328.3pt; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: " Arial";">Jim Collins, author of <a href="http://www.jimcollins.com/article_topics/articles/good-to-great.html"><i>Good to Great</i></a>, ranks the S/360 as one of the all-time top three business accomplishments, along with Ford’s Model T and Boeing’s first jetliner, the 707. That’s pretty exclusive company.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 328.3pt; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 328.3pt; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: " Arial";">This S/360 evolved over time into what we know today as “z System,” now 50 years young. Today, IBM launched the latest, most powerful iteration of the mainframe: the z13.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This remarkable technology continues to power the platforms upon which entire industries and much of our global economy depend.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 328.3pt; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 328.3pt; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: " Arial";">What sets the z13 apart?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The same thing that differentiated its predecessors from the competition: the world-class IBM research and development inside every machine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is no greater font of innovation in our industry.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 328.3pt; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 328.3pt; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: " Arial";">That’s critical, because clients today require systems of insight. They must bring together massive amounts of data — customer data, enterprise data, mobile, social, streaming and genomic data — and analyze all of it to provide insights we’ve never had before. And they must do it securely.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 328.3pt; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 328.3pt; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: " Arial";">IBM Research contributed significantly to achieving these goals in the z13, especially in the architecture and design of the processor and memory-cache systems, optimizing the technology for performance gains.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: " Arial";">Research results also factored into the high-security crypto devices inside, strengthening hardware protection.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 328.3pt; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="266" mozallowfullscreen="mozallowfullscreen" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/W9uB748e0io?feature=player_embedded" webkitallowfullscreen="webkitallowfullscreen" width="500"></iframe></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 328.3pt; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: " Arial";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 328.3pt; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 328.3pt; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: " Arial";">We are now entering a new era of cognitive computing, in which computers will increasingly analyze problems in more human-like ways.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And so it’s fair to ask: will the mainframe still be relevant in this context?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 328.3pt; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 328.3pt; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: " Arial";">The answer is a resounding “yes.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact, it may be one of very few systems that can make this leap.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>The perfect combination to perform this task is mainframes and cloud, sometimes attached, sometimes one and the same where the mainframe is the cloud.</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: " Arial";"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 328.3pt; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 328.3pt; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: " Arial";">As part of this transformation, we are bringing the computation to the core data.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>z13 is designed to speed the mobile transaction experience by allowing organizations to conduct analytics on the mainframe without the need to offload data to other systems.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">z13 "native analytics" can handle billions of transactions per day while analyzing data in real-time. It delivers faster, more personalized services with new levels of fraud protection.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: " Arial";">This is a competitive differentiator made possible by IBMers in Research.</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helv;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 328.3pt; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 328.3pt; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: " Arial";">We’re already starting to infuse cognitive sensing technologies inside the machines. We’ll continue to embed our most advanced learning machine technology into the mainframe, not only to gain greater efficiencies, but also to extract better and deeper insights for our clients from the tremendous amounts of data they possess.</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: " Arial";"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 328.3pt; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: " Arial";"> </span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 328.3pt; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: " Arial";">All of this innovation is accelerating on z13.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In just the past year, IBM has received more than 500 patents on mainframe technology. There are companies that would be thrilled to have 500 patents in their entire portfolio.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 328.3pt; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 328.3pt; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: " Arial";">This is innovation with a purpose.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We listened to clients from retail to healthcare, from global finance to transportation, from energy to government.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>They told us what they needed to drive their industries forward and to serve their customers and constituents better. We took that feedback and brought together the brightest minds </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: " Arial";"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: " Arial";">—</span> thousands of IBMers who are passionate about solving the world’s greatest challenges </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: " Arial";"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: " Arial";">—</span> to design a system that is unmatched.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 328.3pt; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 0in;"><s><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: " Arial";"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><br /></span></span></s></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 328.3pt; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: " Arial";">Every new generation of the IBM mainframe is state-of-the-art technology that has the power to transform industries and society.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The z13 is the latest product of this remarkable legacy.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: " Arial";">The revolution continues.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Helv; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><br /><br /><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Helv; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Tune in to the <a href="https://engage.vevent.com/rt/ibm~mainframe-event"><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Livestream event</span></a> on </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Helv; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Wednesday, January 14, from 2 – 4:30 p.m. ET (US)<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">when IBM will share a whole new generation of IBM z Systems; and watch the new <a href="https://engage.vevent.com/rt/ibm~zSystems-Movie"><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">z Systems movie: New Possibilities</span></a></span> (beginning 11:30 a.m. ET on January 14)<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> to find out how today's IBM mainframe is built for the needs of today’s digital economy.</span></span></i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: " Arial";"></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: 328.3pt; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: " Arial";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt;"><br /></span></div>

by Dr. John E. Kelly III, Senior Vice President, Solutions Portfolio and Research In December, I had the opportunity to take part in a trib...