Opportunities at IBM Austin
IBM Austin has approximately 6,500 full-time employees and is a Research and Development facility with more than 20 IBM divisions represented on site.
The 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 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 Austin's Server Group has prime responsibility for developing IBM eServer pSeries servers, along with the UNIX software to run on them. The group produces advanced microprocessor designs, such as our leading-edge POWER4 gigahertz chip, which turbocharges our next generation IBM eServer p and iSeries servers, beginning with the awesome p690. These game-changing UNIX 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, Server Group is the focal point for development of the AIX operating system, IBM's award-winning version of UNIX software, and the enabling open-source Linux on POWER4-based platforms.
The Austin Research Laboratory, one of eight IBM research laboratories worldwide, is located at the IBM Austin site. The ARL is responsible for developing IBM's future generations of high performance and low power processors and systems. The lab targets several areas of research. The current focus includes: advanced circuits for high performance systems, energy-efficient system design and prototyping, design tools for power analysis and management, high-bandwidth data communications, thermoelectric cooling for high-performance and low-noise applications, CAD tools for design and verification, system architecture and software for multiprocessors, performance evaluation tools, high-performance Web serving, dense computing, systems management, and high-performance middleware.
IBM Global Services is the worlds largest information technology services provider, with approximately 150,000 professionals serving customers in 160 countries and annual revenue of about $35 billion (2001). IBM Global Services integrates IBM's broad range of capabilities -- services, hardware, software and research -- to help companies of all sizes realize the full value of information technology. For more information, visit: www.ibm.com/services.
IBM Austin's 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 alliance between Sony, Toshiba and IBM based in Austin focuses on shared microprocessor development and technology.
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