一句话：综述 IBM Z 与 Power 企业系统的硅技术、微架构与系统设计，如何支撑八个九的可用性并适应 AI 负载。
这是一篇主题演讲摘要（Hillery Hunter，IBM Power 总经理兼 IBM 基础架构 CTO），而非具体技术论文。它指出大型机（IBM Z）与 IBM Power Systems 是银行、制造、医疗、保险、运输等关键行业背后的支撑平台，属于人们日常接触却“看不见”的基础设施。报告将从系统内部视角出发，介绍硅工艺技术、微架构与系统级构件如何协同，实现八个九（99.999999%）的系统级韧性，即几乎不可中断的持续可用性。同时讨论这些系统上所承载工作负载的变化，并分析 AI 用于欺诈检测、保险理赔处理以及 AI 驱动的系统运维等新驱动力，如何改变企业计算的处理器与平台需求。内容横跨从硅片到系统软件的跨栈优化视角。
Behind the scenes, mainframes (IBM Z) and IBM Power Systems fuel banking, manufacturing, healthcare, insurance, transportation, and many other critical industries. While we each touch multiple silicon-based systems daily, enterprise systems are the ones you never see, but always rely on. In this talk, we'll look inside these systems, discuss the silicon technology, microarchitecture, and system elements which come together to deliver eight nines of system-level resiliency (99.999999% uptime). We'll explore the changes in workloads on these systems, and discuss how new drivers like AI for fraud detection, AI for insurance claims processing, and AI-driven system operations are changing enterprise requirements. Bio: Hillery is the General Manager for IBM Power and serves as IBM Infrastructure CTO. In this role, she is focused on setting the global strategy for both Power and Infrastructure Platform in addition to driving cross-functional innovation and growth across IBM's Infrastructure portfolio which includes IBM zSystems, Power, Storage, TLS and IBM Cloud. In her previous roles as the GM, Industry Clouds and CTO of IBM Cloud, she led the business and technical strategy for IBM's industry-contextualized cloud offerings and was responsible for technical strategy for IBM's public cloud. Prior to this role, she served as Director of Accelerated Cognitive Infrastructure in IBM Research, leading a team doing cross-stack (hardware through software) optimization of AI workloads. Her technical interests have always been interdisciplinary, spanning from silicon technology through system software, and she has served in technical and leadership roles in memory technology, Systems for AI and other areas. Hillery was appointed as an IBM Fellow in 2017, and she is a BS, MS and PhD graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she also received the 2024 Alumni Award for Distinguished Service.
@inproceedings{Hunter26,
title = {Mission-Critical Enterprise Systems... What's a Mission? And What's Critical?: Processor and technology requirements for enterprise computing},
author = {Hillery Hunter},
booktitle = {ASPLOS},
year = {2026},
doi = {10.1145/3779212.3795613}
}