AI Inference Partition
A separate supported operating-system partition used to execute an AI model while an IBM i partition may remain the production application and data source.
IBM's July 2026 Power S1112 announcement included a customer example of Linux partitions running alongside IBM i to explore AI. A partition boundary lets the inference runtime be sized and governed separately from the production IBM i workload. It does not by itself establish model compatibility, accelerator support, or secure access to Db2 for i data; those need a workload-specific pilot.
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AI Workload Placement
The decision about which system, operating environment, and partition executes an AI model or agent, separately from the IBM i application supplying its data.
IBM i
IBM's operating system for Power servers running traditional AS/400-lineage business applications, with Db2 for i built directly into the OS.
Matrix Math Acceleration (MMA)
An on-chip acceleration feature in IBM Power10 and Power11 processors that speeds up the matrix math operations used in AI inferencing, without requiring a separate GPU.