IBM said on the 28th that it will officially launch the Spyre Accelerator, an artificial intelligence (AI) accelerator that can be applied to its IBM z17 and IBM LinuxONE 5.
According to the company, the Spyre Accelerator combines innovation from the IBM Research AI Hardware Center with the development capabilities of the IBM Infrastructure business unit. After being developed as a prototype, its completeness was improved through cluster building at IBM's Yorktown Heights lab and collaboration with the Center for Emerging Artificial Intelligence Systems at the University at Albany.
According to the company, IBM customers can use the Spyre Accelerator to leverage fast, secure processing performance and in-house system-based AI acceleration. In particular, on IBM Z and LinuxONE systems, it is used with the Telum II processor to deliver security, low latency, and high transaction processing performance. This enables the application of multiple AI models to prediction-based tasks such as advanced fraud detection and distribution automation. On IBM Power-based servers, comprehensive AI utilization tailored to corporations' workflows is available through the AI service catalog.