IBM Announces the Z17 Mainframe Powered by Telum II Processors
a year ago
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- IBM officially announced the z17 mainframe powered by Telum II processors.
- The z17 can process up to 24 trillion operations per second, emphasizing AI and security.
- Telum II processors feature eight cores at 5.5GHz, 360MB L3 cache, and 2.88GB L4 cache.
- New data processing unit and I/O advancements in Telum II aim to accelerate AI workloads.
- z17 supports IBM's z/OS and Linux distributions including RHEL, Ubuntu, and SUSE.
- IBM claims z17 is approximately 50% faster than the z16 from three years ago.
- General availability of the z17 mainframes is expected in the summer.