UK universities are first to take IBM's POWER9 to further academic research

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New servers will be used to advance research into data analysis, modelling and prediction, as well as being used for AI workloads

Two of the UK's higher education institutions have become the first in the world to employ IBM's new POWER9 servers for high-performance computing (HPC). Queen Mary and Newcastle Universities wi...

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