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IBM and Unix speed past HP and Windows

...new IBM computer has won the crown back for Unix. IBM's p690 Turbo Unix server, newly overhauled with faster processors and other components, posted... Read more

12 May, 2003 by Stephen Shankland

IBM builds on-demand power into new hardware

...it was shipping its new mainframe and servers, including its top-end p690 Unix server, a system the company claims will be 65 percent faster... Read more

19 June, 2003 by Staff

IBM edges out HP in server speed test

...the end of March. By doubling the memory in its 32-processor p690 "Regatta" server from 256GB to 512GB, IBM increased its speed measurement from... Read more

3 January, 2003 by Stephen Shankland

UK academics get £53m supercomputer

...IBM will build the supercomputer, which will comprise a cluster of its P690 servers. Each P690 can be configured with up to 32 Power4 chips... Read more

17 July, 2002 by Matt Loney

Unix server battle heats up

...processor, which was previously available only in the high-end, 32-processor p690 "Regatta" system that went on sale in late 2001. The p670 will... Read more

16 April, 2002 by Stephen Shankland

Big Blue to let Squadron fly at Sun and HP

...expensive than the current systems using the Power4+ processors. "Compared to the p690, the 590 is roughly 45 percent faster and 40 percent cheaper," Freund... Read more

15 October, 2004 by Stephen Shankland

IBM goes on the Power5 offensive

Big Blue is set to announce new P5 Unix servers as it takes on Sun and HP and unveils its Unix road map Read more

13 July, 2004 by Stephen Shankland

Virtualisation will power utility computing

...as many as 64 processors, twice that of today's top-end p690, and each processor will be able to run two instruction sequences, or... Read more

29 April, 2004 by Stephen Shankland

IBM spreads Linux across more servers

...and will bring faster 1.9GHz Power4+ chips to the top-end p690 model. Until now, Big Blue has offered Linux only on a handful... Read more

24 February, 2004 by Stephen Shankland

IBM delivers Europe's biggest supercomputer

...a 1,312-processor cluster based on 41 of the company's p690 servers, to Germany's Research Centre Juelich, one of Europe's leading... Read more

19 February, 2004 by Matt Loney

IBM claims server-speed victory over Intel

...an Intel processor conference. A $5.6m (£2.94m) 32-processor IBM p690 was able to perform 1.025 million transactions per minute on the... Read more

18 February, 2004 by Stephen Shankland

IBM supercomputers to simulate climate change

...eight p655 machines, each with eight 1.5GHz Power4+ processors, and one p690 with 32 1.7GHz Power4+ processors, according to IBM and the university... Read more

11 February, 2004 by Stephen Shankland

IBM brings speed to the low end

...second.) The new switch can join as many as 16 top-end p690 or midrange p655 Unix servers, and by mid-2004 will support as... Read more

20 October, 2003 by Stephen Shankland

IBM conserves power with new chip

...have 128 processors, Sinharoy said. That compares with Big Blue's current P690 "Regatta" system, which has 16 dual-core Power4 chips that function as... Read more

15 October, 2003 by Stephen Shankland

IBM server takes aim at Intel's patch

...No. 2 Hewlett-Packard. The Power4, which debuted in the 32-processor p690 "Regatta" in late 2001, will be succeeded next year by the more... Read more

28 May, 2003 by Stephen Shankland

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