IBM Power10: Where Productivity and Sustainability Meet

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Back in 1990, I was a 26-year-old professional who was developing enterprise software for industrial companies and retailers. Outside of my nine-to-five, for my future growth, I set up a small IT company and partnered with IBM — a decision that vastly expanded my knowledge base and enabled me to tap into exciting new business collaborations.

Prior to joining IBM, I had worked on x86 systems that ran an early version of UNIX on PCs (what we now know as Linux). In those days, it was almost impossible to program in UNIX outside of academia, let alone code enterprise software in COBOL.

As it turns out, the same year that I partnered with IBM they released their first UNIX environment: AIX on RS/6000. In hindsight, I think that’s what actually convinced me to join the network. By migrating my application to AIX, I knew that I could enrich their portfolio of solutions and help them to reach a larger client base.

Moments after I signed the contract, I began porting my management software to the new machine. Even though I was amazed by how quickly my software could execute tasks on IBMs POWER microprocessor, I was even more eager to deepen its architectural differences with the processors of the time.

At this point, it’s worth noting that, in order to execute a single instruction, processors have to perform a lot of elementary operations. Because they operate with just two values, zero and one, the…