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IBM Research
IBM Austin Center for Advanced Studies
IBM Austin has 6,300 full-time employees and is a Research and Development facility with more than 30 IBM business units represented on a site known for its innovative products and technologies.
Receiving 580 U.S. Patents in 2003, IBM Austin inventors accounted for one of every six patents of the 3,415 awarded to IBM. The Austin site ranked first among all IBM locations with 580 issued patents for 2003. IBM has led all other companies for 11 consecutive years, 1993-2003, and during that period received more patents than the total received by its ten nearest competitors. IBM's top inventor for the past 11 years is an IBM Fellow in Austin’s IBM Systems Group, and several other inventors rank in IBM's top ten list.
The Austin site’s greatest asset, of course, is its employees. Eighty-four percent have one or more degrees (more than 200 have doctorates), and almost 40 percent have been with IBM fewer than 5 years. Very current skills are both prized and required for IBM to hold and extend its leadership in providing superior solutions to its customers.
All of IBM's major business units in Austin are putting their energies into advanced technologies key to on demand computing, grid computing, self-healing hardware and software -- all designed to solve our customers' needs and to enable them to move forward increase their competitiveness and better focus on their business priorities.
Major IBM organizations on the Austin campus include:
IBM Austin Research Laboratory (ARL) is one of eight IBM research laboratories worldwide. The lab's original focus centered heavily on high-speed microprocessors, with emphasis on very fast circuit families and computer-aided design tools to support complex and high-performance microarchitectures. The ARL not only has maintained its edge in these areas, but also has broadened its concentration to include software and hardware systems. Current focus areas of ARL include high-performance/low-power VLSI design and tools, system-level power analysis, and new system architectures. A wide range of low(er) power and energy efficiency activities is underway throughout the multiple IBM Research laboratories and the various IBM product and services divisions. In addition to its own ongoing power-related research, ARL, as part of IBM's Low Power Initiative, is helping to coordinate low power and energy efficiency activities and bring people together throughout IBM who are working in these important areas.
IBM Global Services is the world’s largest information technology services provider, with more than 175,000 professionals serving customers in 160 countries and annual revenue of more than $36 billion in 2003. IBM Global Services, which accounts for more IBM revenue than any other IBM business unit, integrates IBM's broad range of capabilities in business consulting, integrated technology strategic outsourcing, e-business hosting, and application management services to help companies of all sizes realize the full value of information technology.
IBM Microelectronics Division develops high-speed microprocessors which contributes significantly to the Information Technology and the Embedded Computer spaces. IBM Austin's Microelectronics Division jointly developed the first microprocessor in Copper technology and the first microprocessor using Silicon on Insulator technology. The Microelectronics Division develops, manufactures and markets state-of-the-art semiconductor and packaging/interconnect products, technology, services, and solutions to customers worldwide. Their focus is on the server, storage, wired communications, wireless communications, pervasive computing and interconnect products marketplace segments. An Austin-based alliance between Sony, Toshiba and IBM focuses on shared microprocessor development and technology.
IBM Software Group in Austin is a part of an all-software development organization in IBM that is, in fact, the world's largest software provider. The Group provides products and services that give customers the flexibility to use software in many operating environments, focusing on e-business solutions. Key projects include developing networking software, operating systems and enablement services, mobile and pervasive computing technology, security offerings, middleware products like WebSphere (the industry's single most comprehensive e-business platform), Java technologies, Tivoli Systems software to manage networks, systems, middleware, and applications, developing customer and partner relationships, and contributing key technologies to the Linux open source community. Lotus Software is also part of the IBM Software Group with employees in Austin.
IBM Systems Group in Austin has primary responsibility for developing IBM eServer pSeries servers and the UNIX software to run on them and also for helping develop IBM eServer iSeries, xSeries and zSeries products. The group produces advanced microprocessor designs, such as our leading-edge POWER4 chip in the IBM eServer pSeries Model 690 and iSeries Model 890 and will announce POWER5 machines in 2004. These game-changing servers are being used by customers in key markets such as supercomputing for government defense research and genomic studies to improve and extend life, server consolidation in all sizes of organizations seeking cost efficiencies, and telecommunications infrastructures to make voice, data and video available everywhere. Finally, Systems Group is the focal point for development of the AIX operating system, IBM's award-winning version of UNIX software.
As part of the Systems Group, the Linux Technology Center (LTC) uses IBM's world-class programming resources and best-of-breed software technology to exploit the rapidly growing Linux market. The LTC focuses on scalability, serviceability, OS security, network security, networking, file systems, volume management, performance, directory services, standards, documentation, accessibility, test, security certification, systems management, cluster management, high availability, storage & I/O, PowerPC support, power management, reliability, internationalization, and other projects required to make Linux a fully mature UNIX ready for mission-critical workloads.
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