"The hardware was announced earlier this year alongside the z17, IBM's latest mainframe incarnation. It is a PCIe card based on a custom chip with 32 individual accelerator cores, understood to be a similar architecture to the AI accelerator hardware embedded in the Telum II processors that power the z17."
"Its intended purpose is to allow AI processing to scale to meet whatever requirements the customer may have for one of IBM's enterprise systems, which typically includes fraud detection checks against financial transactions, but generative AI and large language models (LLMs) may now be a feature in the workload mix."
"With the Spyre Accelerator, we're extending the capabilities of our systems to support multi-model AI - including generative and agentic AI. This innovation positions clients to scale their AI-enabled mission-critical workloads with uncompromising security, resilience, and efficiency, while unlocking the value of their enterprise data."
The Spyre Accelerator is a PCIe card built on a custom chip with 32 individual accelerator cores, sharing architecture similarities with Telum II AI hardware. Spyre will be generally available on October 28 for IBM z17 and LinuxONE 5 systems, and in early December for Power11 servers. Configurations can scale to clusters of up to 48 cards on IBM Z or LinuxONE and up to 16 cards on Power systems. The accelerator is intended to scale AI processing across enterprise workloads, supporting use cases from fraud detection to generative AI and large language models while emphasizing security, resilience, and efficiency.
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