IBM accelerates productivity with SMAC technologies

BANGALORE, INDIA: IBM revealed its latest innovations designed to help organizations drive growth and productivity using cloud, analytics, mobile and social technologies.

According to IBM IBV study titled Innovating India - In pursuit of global leadership, the path forward to sustained success lies with those organizations that pursue innovation—embracing innovative processes, encouraging innovative behaviors and creating sustained innovation. Innovation affords a way for India to sustain and expand its growth success.

Featuring methodologies and best practices from IBM’s customer engagements around the world, new innovations include:

Response in an Emergency

An Analytical Solution Framework for Emergency Management comprising of Predictive Models, helping in optimum allocation of resources.

Personalized Learning on Cloud

IBM Personalized Learning on Cloud enables personalized learning and an exceptional student experience, aligning students to career pathways and fostering economic vitality.

Digital Locker

The Digital Locker will provide dedicated personal storage space, linked to each resident’s Aadhaar number.

Auto Dx

AutoDX, a business-to-business (B2B) cloud-based network which accelerates the movement of data and reducing transaction costs by up to 80 percent.

Accelerating Enterprise in the Cloud -- the OpenPOWER Platform

The OpenPOWER Consortium is an industry body formed with the goal to create an open ecosystem and enable data centers to rethink their approach to technology. Through "collaborative innovation", they leverage every partner’s complementary technical strengths to revolutionize the product portfolio across the entire hardware and software stack. Some of the OpenPOWER innovations are:

CAPI :

CAPI shows how having a coherent accelerator attached to a high end processor can boost application throughput and yet make programming simpler for an end user.

Espresso Demo :

IBM in partnership with NVIDIA released its first Open Power Server System S824L with 2 Tesla K40 GPU cards for heterogeneous computing. These systems can accelerate the performance of big data/HPC workloads in the order of 8-10X. This demo would cover Power8 & GPU acceleration on a popular machine learning algorithm used in big data analytics.